Obamacare
Commentary
Big Pharma Accomplishes Big Things, Yet Obama Is Suffocating The Industry
Whats the most research-intensive industry in America? If you guessed Silicon Valley or the energy sector, guess again. In fact, its the drug industry. The 31 pharmaceutical companies comprising its main trade group spent $48.5 billion on research and development last year. All told, the pharmaceutical sector has spent $550 ...
Commentary
Obamacare To Slash Hundreds Of Billions From Medicare Advantage Over Next 10 Years
Earlier this month, officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced that theyd increase payments in the market-based Medicare Advantage program by 3.3 percent next year. The decision is remarkable, as CMS hinted just two months ago that it would reduce payments by 2.2 percent in 2014. The ...
Commentary
Fed Up With Obamacare, Doctors Increasingly Prefer Cash For Care
Obamacares most intrusive changes to the healthcare marketplace including the individual mandate whereby Americans must secure health insurance or pay a fine and its massive expansion of Medicaid are less than a year from taking effect. Many doctors have decided that theyre not interested in seeing how those ...
Health Care
Myths and Realities of Obamacare
Introduction Three years ago on March 23, 2010, the Patient Protection and Affordability Act (Obamacare) was signed into law. With the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on June 28, 2012 that the individual mandate is constitutional under Congress power to tax and the November 6 election results, the law is in ...
Commentary
The More Businesses Learn About Obamacare, The More Reluctant They Are To Hire
Wondering why the unemployment rate has been near or above 8 percent for nearly four years? The Federal Reserve has an answer for you: Obamacare. Earlier this month, the Fed released its latest beige book a monthly report on economic conditions across the country. The book noted that employers ...
Commentary
Mandating Inefficiency in the Health Care Industry
Despite 50 years of failure, faith that the federal government can cure what ails the health care industry endures. That enduring faith drives a seemingly never-ending call for plans, both grandiose and modest, that attempt to address the failings of this sector. Grand redesigns of the health care system began ...
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Obamacare may put end to doctor-patient relationship
Are the days of the traditional family doctor coming to an end? In the almost three years since Obamacare became the law of the land, more and more physicians have expressed concern about the future of their profession. Consequently, they’ve been leaving private practice and opting instead for the likes ...
Commentary
ObamaCare’s False Starts A Blessing
It’s not often that you’d call government ineptitude a blessing. But that could be the case with ObamaCare. The feds missed their own deadline late last year for issuing all the rules for states on how their insurance exchanges are to operate. They haven’t yet finished the “data hub” states ...
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Obamacare’s not-so-universal coverage
Nearly 10 percent of U.S. will remain uninsured under Obamacare. Federal regulators just issued rules governing the individual coverage mandate within President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, which, starting in 2014, will require all Americans to secure health insurance or pay a penalty of $95 or 1 percent of their income, ...
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Obamacare’s Health Exchanges Are Customer Free Zones
Last month, the CEO of the nations largest health insurance company warned that he and his peers may balk at participating in Obamacares insurance exchanges online, government-run portals where consumers and small businesses without conventional employer-sponsored coverage may shop for policies starting next year. We will only participate in ...
Big Pharma Accomplishes Big Things, Yet Obama Is Suffocating The Industry
Whats the most research-intensive industry in America? If you guessed Silicon Valley or the energy sector, guess again. In fact, its the drug industry. The 31 pharmaceutical companies comprising its main trade group spent $48.5 billion on research and development last year. All told, the pharmaceutical sector has spent $550 ...
Obamacare To Slash Hundreds Of Billions From Medicare Advantage Over Next 10 Years
Earlier this month, officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced that theyd increase payments in the market-based Medicare Advantage program by 3.3 percent next year. The decision is remarkable, as CMS hinted just two months ago that it would reduce payments by 2.2 percent in 2014. The ...
Fed Up With Obamacare, Doctors Increasingly Prefer Cash For Care
Obamacares most intrusive changes to the healthcare marketplace including the individual mandate whereby Americans must secure health insurance or pay a fine and its massive expansion of Medicaid are less than a year from taking effect. Many doctors have decided that theyre not interested in seeing how those ...
Myths and Realities of Obamacare
Introduction Three years ago on March 23, 2010, the Patient Protection and Affordability Act (Obamacare) was signed into law. With the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on June 28, 2012 that the individual mandate is constitutional under Congress power to tax and the November 6 election results, the law is in ...
The More Businesses Learn About Obamacare, The More Reluctant They Are To Hire
Wondering why the unemployment rate has been near or above 8 percent for nearly four years? The Federal Reserve has an answer for you: Obamacare. Earlier this month, the Fed released its latest beige book a monthly report on economic conditions across the country. The book noted that employers ...
Mandating Inefficiency in the Health Care Industry
Despite 50 years of failure, faith that the federal government can cure what ails the health care industry endures. That enduring faith drives a seemingly never-ending call for plans, both grandiose and modest, that attempt to address the failings of this sector. Grand redesigns of the health care system began ...
Obamacare may put end to doctor-patient relationship
Are the days of the traditional family doctor coming to an end? In the almost three years since Obamacare became the law of the land, more and more physicians have expressed concern about the future of their profession. Consequently, they’ve been leaving private practice and opting instead for the likes ...
ObamaCare’s False Starts A Blessing
It’s not often that you’d call government ineptitude a blessing. But that could be the case with ObamaCare. The feds missed their own deadline late last year for issuing all the rules for states on how their insurance exchanges are to operate. They haven’t yet finished the “data hub” states ...
Obamacare’s not-so-universal coverage
Nearly 10 percent of U.S. will remain uninsured under Obamacare. Federal regulators just issued rules governing the individual coverage mandate within President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, which, starting in 2014, will require all Americans to secure health insurance or pay a penalty of $95 or 1 percent of their income, ...
Obamacare’s Health Exchanges Are Customer Free Zones
Last month, the CEO of the nations largest health insurance company warned that he and his peers may balk at participating in Obamacares insurance exchanges online, government-run portals where consumers and small businesses without conventional employer-sponsored coverage may shop for policies starting next year. We will only participate in ...
