Health Care
Commentary
In California, efforts to reduce health disparities raise privacy concerns
Californias health insurance exchange wants to collect and use data on a raft of sensitive customer information, from race and ethnicity to sexual orientation and gender identity. How officials will tackle the task without running afoul of privacy laws remains an open question. A policy on collecting demographic characteristics ...
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Obamacare Is In Serious Trouble, And Obama’s Subsidies Are Worth Refusing
President Obama and his signature legislative accomplishment Obamacare are in deep trouble. The health insurance exchanges established by the law arent working properly; it now appears that the federally operated HealthCare.gov will not be fixed by November 30, as the president promised. Millions of Americans are irate that ...
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Here come more Obamacare lawsuits
The Obamacare rollout has been a debacle, with delays in the implementation of mandates, technical glitches in the exchanges, cancelled individual policies and more. It’s about to get worse. The federal judiciary is currently hearing four cases challenging decisions made by the Internal Revenue Service that could soon deliver more ...
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How Obamacare costs full-time employees
Some 60 percent of Americans nearly 160 million people get insurance through their jobs. Thanks to Obamacare, that number is about to nosedive. The presidents signature law is hiking the cost of health insurance for American businesses of all sizes. Theyre responding by dumping coverage for workers, spouses, ...
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President Obama Actually Meant, ‘If You Like Your Insurance Plan, Too Bad’
He didnt say it just once. No, the president said it at least twenty-three separate times over a four-year period: If you like your insurance plan, you will keep it. No one will be able to take that away from you. Liar, liar, pants on fire. Hundreds of thousands of ...
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The indispensable man revisited
We are in San Francisco visiting daughter number two, who is working here for a start-up. We picked this weekend to visit so that we could attend the gala annual dinner held by the Pacific Research Institute. This years dinner honored George Shultz. Charles Krauthammer was the featured speaker and, ...
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Obamacare’s problem isn’t just growing pains
The reviews are in for HealthCare.gov, Obamacares much-ballyhooed online health insurance marketplace, which launched earlier this month. The government-run exchange is a disaster, really bad, a failure, terrible and an absolute train wreck of a website. Thats just what the laws supporters are saying. Dont panic, though, say Obamacares defenders: ...
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Move to save Medicaid money endangers lives
A particularly brutal kind of medical rationing is coming to Oregon. As of Oct. 1, Oregons Medicaid program stopped covering major medical interventions for patients assessed as having two years or less to live. Not only is the move immoral, its likely illegal. This coverage restriction comes courtesy of the ...
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The News Is The Declining Incentives For Medical Innovation
The federal health exchange Healthcare.gov, one of the centerpieces of the Affordable Care Act (ACA or ObamaCare), is gasping for life. This is not the important story, however. The U.S. health care system has flaws. And, these flaws should have been the focus of the health care reforms back in ...
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ObamaCare Unraveling And It Only Gets Worse In 2014
With ObamaCare’s health insurance exchanges unraveling especially HealthCare.gov, the federally run portal for the 36 states that decided not to set up their own exchanges it’s safe to say that the president’s effort to expand coverage isn’t going well. It’s about to get worse. Once the calendar flips ...
In California, efforts to reduce health disparities raise privacy concerns
Californias health insurance exchange wants to collect and use data on a raft of sensitive customer information, from race and ethnicity to sexual orientation and gender identity. How officials will tackle the task without running afoul of privacy laws remains an open question. A policy on collecting demographic characteristics ...
Obamacare Is In Serious Trouble, And Obama’s Subsidies Are Worth Refusing
President Obama and his signature legislative accomplishment Obamacare are in deep trouble. The health insurance exchanges established by the law arent working properly; it now appears that the federally operated HealthCare.gov will not be fixed by November 30, as the president promised. Millions of Americans are irate that ...
Here come more Obamacare lawsuits
The Obamacare rollout has been a debacle, with delays in the implementation of mandates, technical glitches in the exchanges, cancelled individual policies and more. It’s about to get worse. The federal judiciary is currently hearing four cases challenging decisions made by the Internal Revenue Service that could soon deliver more ...
How Obamacare costs full-time employees
Some 60 percent of Americans nearly 160 million people get insurance through their jobs. Thanks to Obamacare, that number is about to nosedive. The presidents signature law is hiking the cost of health insurance for American businesses of all sizes. Theyre responding by dumping coverage for workers, spouses, ...
President Obama Actually Meant, ‘If You Like Your Insurance Plan, Too Bad’
He didnt say it just once. No, the president said it at least twenty-three separate times over a four-year period: If you like your insurance plan, you will keep it. No one will be able to take that away from you. Liar, liar, pants on fire. Hundreds of thousands of ...
The indispensable man revisited
We are in San Francisco visiting daughter number two, who is working here for a start-up. We picked this weekend to visit so that we could attend the gala annual dinner held by the Pacific Research Institute. This years dinner honored George Shultz. Charles Krauthammer was the featured speaker and, ...
Obamacare’s problem isn’t just growing pains
The reviews are in for HealthCare.gov, Obamacares much-ballyhooed online health insurance marketplace, which launched earlier this month. The government-run exchange is a disaster, really bad, a failure, terrible and an absolute train wreck of a website. Thats just what the laws supporters are saying. Dont panic, though, say Obamacares defenders: ...
Move to save Medicaid money endangers lives
A particularly brutal kind of medical rationing is coming to Oregon. As of Oct. 1, Oregons Medicaid program stopped covering major medical interventions for patients assessed as having two years or less to live. Not only is the move immoral, its likely illegal. This coverage restriction comes courtesy of the ...
The News Is The Declining Incentives For Medical Innovation
The federal health exchange Healthcare.gov, one of the centerpieces of the Affordable Care Act (ACA or ObamaCare), is gasping for life. This is not the important story, however. The U.S. health care system has flaws. And, these flaws should have been the focus of the health care reforms back in ...
ObamaCare Unraveling And It Only Gets Worse In 2014
With ObamaCare’s health insurance exchanges unraveling especially HealthCare.gov, the federally run portal for the 36 states that decided not to set up their own exchanges it’s safe to say that the president’s effort to expand coverage isn’t going well. It’s about to get worse. Once the calendar flips ...
