Health Care
Commentary
GOP’s Health Care Subsidies Are No Cause For Controversy
The Affordable Care Act’s (also known as Obamacare) days are numbered. Last week, both the Senate and House approved a budget resolution over the objections of the chamber’s Democrats ordering several congressional committees to draw up legislation repealing much of the law. “Put this irresponsible and rushed repeal plan aside,” ...
Health Care
Medicaid Expansion Helps Foil Plans To Quickly Repeal Obamacare
WASHINGTON – The Republican promise to repeal and replace Obamacare leaves New York State with two choices, neither of them easy: Either stand by and watch as 1.9 people lose their their health insurance or ask state taxpayers to pay another $3.7 billion a year. Thirty other states face a ...
Commentary
Charting A Path To Repeal And Replace
Today’s confirmation of Dr. Tom Price as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services is an important victory in the fight to repeal and replace Obamacare. A former orthopedic surgeon from Georgia, Price has been one of Obamacare’s most thoughtful and effective critics. And his “Empowering Patients First ...
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The ‘Repeal and Replace’ debate is all about choice
To understand Democrats’ and Republicans’ conflicting visions of healthcare reform, look no further than Obamacare’s “Essential Health Benefits” rule. This provision is a clear example of the kind of top-down federal control that has led to so many of Obamacare’s worst consequences. According to the health law, all plans sold ...
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Fears Of GOP Plan To ‘Repeal And Replace’ Obamacare Are Unfounded
If President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress succeed in repealing and replacing Obamacare, 20 million Americans will lose their health insurance — or so the conventional wisdom goes. Of course, predictions about Trump have tended to be wrong. This one is no different. In fact, repealing Obamacare and replacing ...
Commentary
Broker: Interstate Sales Of Health Plans? Forget About It.
President Trump’s pick for HHS secretary says consumers would benefit if health insurance policies could be sold across state lines. At least one broker says that position misses a key fact of selling health insurance. The plan outlined for reforming the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act by President Trump’s ...
Commentary
The Doctor’s Computer Will See You Now
If you have visited the doctor recently, you probably noticed a new instrument in the examination room. It is a computer running an electronic medical records system, or EMR, that has been lauded by federal agencies as bringing a revolution to health care. But to patients, the computer has proven ...
Commentary
GOP Shouldn’t Take Democrats’ Bait On Repeal And Replace
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., says he’s willing to support a GOP replacement for Obamacare — “so long as it covers as many people as the ACA.” How magnanimous. But his remarks are politically clever. He’s trying to dictate that the success or failure of the GOP’s health reform ...
Health Care
Health Insurers Want Obamacare Faster than Obama Does
While everyone else in the country is trying to figure out how to avoid Obamacare’s avalanche of mandates, taxes, and general red tape, one group is actually accelerating implementation. America’s health insurers are undertaking some of the law’s mandates well before they are required. Over a week ago, UnitedHealth Group ...
Commentary
‘Universal Coverage’ Puts Lives In Danger
Days before assuming office, President Trump commented that his as-yet-undisclosed replacement for ObamaCare — which he says will be released following the confirmation of Dr. Tom Price as Secretary of Health and Human Services — would provide “insurance for everybody.” It’s no mystery why. Who could oppose universal insurance coverage? Unfortunately, the ...
GOP’s Health Care Subsidies Are No Cause For Controversy
The Affordable Care Act’s (also known as Obamacare) days are numbered. Last week, both the Senate and House approved a budget resolution over the objections of the chamber’s Democrats ordering several congressional committees to draw up legislation repealing much of the law. “Put this irresponsible and rushed repeal plan aside,” ...
Medicaid Expansion Helps Foil Plans To Quickly Repeal Obamacare
WASHINGTON – The Republican promise to repeal and replace Obamacare leaves New York State with two choices, neither of them easy: Either stand by and watch as 1.9 people lose their their health insurance or ask state taxpayers to pay another $3.7 billion a year. Thirty other states face a ...
Charting A Path To Repeal And Replace
Today’s confirmation of Dr. Tom Price as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services is an important victory in the fight to repeal and replace Obamacare. A former orthopedic surgeon from Georgia, Price has been one of Obamacare’s most thoughtful and effective critics. And his “Empowering Patients First ...
The ‘Repeal and Replace’ debate is all about choice
To understand Democrats’ and Republicans’ conflicting visions of healthcare reform, look no further than Obamacare’s “Essential Health Benefits” rule. This provision is a clear example of the kind of top-down federal control that has led to so many of Obamacare’s worst consequences. According to the health law, all plans sold ...
Fears Of GOP Plan To ‘Repeal And Replace’ Obamacare Are Unfounded
If President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress succeed in repealing and replacing Obamacare, 20 million Americans will lose their health insurance — or so the conventional wisdom goes. Of course, predictions about Trump have tended to be wrong. This one is no different. In fact, repealing Obamacare and replacing ...
Broker: Interstate Sales Of Health Plans? Forget About It.
President Trump’s pick for HHS secretary says consumers would benefit if health insurance policies could be sold across state lines. At least one broker says that position misses a key fact of selling health insurance. The plan outlined for reforming the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act by President Trump’s ...
The Doctor’s Computer Will See You Now
If you have visited the doctor recently, you probably noticed a new instrument in the examination room. It is a computer running an electronic medical records system, or EMR, that has been lauded by federal agencies as bringing a revolution to health care. But to patients, the computer has proven ...
GOP Shouldn’t Take Democrats’ Bait On Repeal And Replace
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., says he’s willing to support a GOP replacement for Obamacare — “so long as it covers as many people as the ACA.” How magnanimous. But his remarks are politically clever. He’s trying to dictate that the success or failure of the GOP’s health reform ...
Health Insurers Want Obamacare Faster than Obama Does
While everyone else in the country is trying to figure out how to avoid Obamacare’s avalanche of mandates, taxes, and general red tape, one group is actually accelerating implementation. America’s health insurers are undertaking some of the law’s mandates well before they are required. Over a week ago, UnitedHealth Group ...
‘Universal Coverage’ Puts Lives In Danger
Days before assuming office, President Trump commented that his as-yet-undisclosed replacement for ObamaCare — which he says will be released following the confirmation of Dr. Tom Price as Secretary of Health and Human Services — would provide “insurance for everybody.” It’s no mystery why. Who could oppose universal insurance coverage? Unfortunately, the ...
