Health Care
Commentary
The Obamacare Exchanges: Nowhere Near As Competent As The Post Office
What was the worst product launch in history? New Coke, perhaps? How about Colgates Dinner Entrees, the frozen food packages with a label mimicking that companys brand of toothpaste? The Santa Dreidel? Theyre all marketing masterpieces compared to the rollout of Obamacares health insurance exchanges particularly those accessible through ...
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Congress needs Rx for med-device tax
Congress has struck a deal to re-open the government and raise the debt ceiling at least temporarily. Yet for some reason, lawmakers have excluded from the final agreement a policy prescription supported by Democrats and Republicans alike that was part of an earlier version of the deal repeal ...
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Seven steps to replace Obamacare with something that works
Excerpted from “The Cure for Obamacare” (Encounter Broadsides, summer 2013) President Obama took a shot at opponents of his health care reform law recently, saying, “there’s not even a pretense now that they’re going to replace it with something better.” Au contraire. Ideas for “something better” abound but the ...
Commentary
Obamacare’s unnecesarry ‘navigators’
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently gifted Obamacare’s “navigator” program an additional $13 million in funding. Navigators are supposed to help Americans purchase health coverage through the new, state-level insurance exchanges. This $13 million is on top of $54 million already allocated to the program. But both ...
Commentary
The ominous Obamacare exchange rollout
One thousand two hundred and eighty-nine days. Thats how long the Obama Administration had to set up the 36 online health insurance exchanges its operating wholly or in partnership with states. Surely 3.5 years is enough time to establish websites with at least basic functionality, right? Not so much. Obamacares ...
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Obamacare Will Wreck U.S. Taxpayers, So Here’s Another Plan
The government shutdown has entered its second week, and House Republicans have remained steadfast in their insistence that changes to the presidents signature healthcare reform law accompany any deal to re-open the government. But the GOP isnt talking about what it would put in Obamacares place. And thats a shame, ...
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Budget realities, research prioritization at CDC
The CDC Director Thomas Frieden sounded the alarm recently at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., where he linked budget cuts at the CDC to an increased health risk for Americans. The risks from diseases are real and growing. And in light of that threat, perhaps more money should ...
Commentary
It’s Hard out There for a Doctor
Americas doctor shortage is quickly becoming a crisis. No less than 14 states have introduced legislation or created new programs to deal with the problem. The Association of American Medical Colleges reports that the country is currently short 20,000 doctors. Over the next decade, that number could quintuple. And Obamacare ...
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What If They Created An Obamacare Market And Nobody Showed Up?
In early September, Aetna subsidiary Carelink/Coventry Health Care decided to pull out of the new insurance exchange established by Obamacare in West Virginia. Just one company will sell policies on the Mountaineer States exchange, which is set to open October 1. About the same time, the non-profit FirstCarolinaCare Insurance did ...
The Obamacare Exchanges: Nowhere Near As Competent As The Post Office
What was the worst product launch in history? New Coke, perhaps? How about Colgates Dinner Entrees, the frozen food packages with a label mimicking that companys brand of toothpaste? The Santa Dreidel? Theyre all marketing masterpieces compared to the rollout of Obamacares health insurance exchanges particularly those accessible through ...
Congress needs Rx for med-device tax
Congress has struck a deal to re-open the government and raise the debt ceiling at least temporarily. Yet for some reason, lawmakers have excluded from the final agreement a policy prescription supported by Democrats and Republicans alike that was part of an earlier version of the deal repeal ...
Seven steps to replace Obamacare with something that works
Excerpted from “The Cure for Obamacare” (Encounter Broadsides, summer 2013) President Obama took a shot at opponents of his health care reform law recently, saying, “there’s not even a pretense now that they’re going to replace it with something better.” Au contraire. Ideas for “something better” abound but the ...
Obamacare’s unnecesarry ‘navigators’
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently gifted Obamacare’s “navigator” program an additional $13 million in funding. Navigators are supposed to help Americans purchase health coverage through the new, state-level insurance exchanges. This $13 million is on top of $54 million already allocated to the program. But both ...
The ominous Obamacare exchange rollout
One thousand two hundred and eighty-nine days. Thats how long the Obama Administration had to set up the 36 online health insurance exchanges its operating wholly or in partnership with states. Surely 3.5 years is enough time to establish websites with at least basic functionality, right? Not so much. Obamacares ...
Obamacare Will Wreck U.S. Taxpayers, So Here’s Another Plan
The government shutdown has entered its second week, and House Republicans have remained steadfast in their insistence that changes to the presidents signature healthcare reform law accompany any deal to re-open the government. But the GOP isnt talking about what it would put in Obamacares place. And thats a shame, ...
Budget realities, research prioritization at CDC
The CDC Director Thomas Frieden sounded the alarm recently at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., where he linked budget cuts at the CDC to an increased health risk for Americans. The risks from diseases are real and growing. And in light of that threat, perhaps more money should ...
It’s Hard out There for a Doctor
Americas doctor shortage is quickly becoming a crisis. No less than 14 states have introduced legislation or created new programs to deal with the problem. The Association of American Medical Colleges reports that the country is currently short 20,000 doctors. Over the next decade, that number could quintuple. And Obamacare ...
What If They Created An Obamacare Market And Nobody Showed Up?
In early September, Aetna subsidiary Carelink/Coventry Health Care decided to pull out of the new insurance exchange established by Obamacare in West Virginia. Just one company will sell policies on the Mountaineer States exchange, which is set to open October 1. About the same time, the non-profit FirstCarolinaCare Insurance did ...
