Health Care
Commentary
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 ...
Commentary
Nobody wins when bureaucrats make health care decisions instead of patients
What is called “health insurance” in the U.S. is not insurance. People buy insurance to protect themselves against unlikely but costly risks, like having a car accident. The purpose of purchasing automobile insurance is not to pay for routine maintenance costs; the purpose is to pay the huge costs that ...
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ObamaCare Making Doctor Shortage Crisis Even Worse
America’s 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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Abuse of Drug Discount Program: Corrosive Crony Capitalism
Federal lawmakers are constantly tinkering with the health care market. Often, these invasions have perverse consequences. Indeed, one federal initiative designed to provide poor Americans with discounted drugs has morphed into an ungainly operation fattening the bottom lines of pharmacies and hospitals. Enacted in 1992, the 340B program requires drug ...
Commentary
Expanding Medicaid: A foolish way to improve healthcare access
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius recently said, “If you want a healthier population, looking at the opportunity to expand Medicaid has got to be a piece of the puzzle.” Expansion of Medicaid — the jointly run federal-state health plan for low-income Americans — has long been an ...
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India’s War On Intellectual Property Rights May Bring With It A Body Count
Last month, drug maker Roche withdrew its patents for the breast-cancer drug Herceptin in India and thus gave tacit approval to other companies to make low-cost generic versions of the drug. But the withdrawal of those patents was not completely voluntary. If the Swiss pharmaceutical firm had not relinquished ...
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As Obamacare’s ‘Compassionate’ Reality Sets In, Companies ‘Cruelly’ Cut Health Benefits
Employees of shipping giant United Parcel Service recently got an unexpected delivery. The company announced that it would stop offering health coverage to the spouses of 15,000 workers. UPSs workers and their families can thank Obamacare for this special delivery. And UPS isnt alone. American businesses are discovering each and ...
Commentary
Health Care Program Has Become An Arbitrage Operation
Federal lawmakers are constantly tinkering with the health care market. Often, these invasions have perverse consequences. Indeed, one federal initiative designed to provide poor Americans with discounted drugs has morphed into an ungainly operation fattening the bottom lines of pharmacies and hospitals. Enacted in 1992, the “340B” program requires drug ...
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 ...
Nobody wins when bureaucrats make health care decisions instead of patients
What is called “health insurance” in the U.S. is not insurance. People buy insurance to protect themselves against unlikely but costly risks, like having a car accident. The purpose of purchasing automobile insurance is not to pay for routine maintenance costs; the purpose is to pay the huge costs that ...
ObamaCare Making Doctor Shortage Crisis Even Worse
America’s 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 ...
Abuse of Drug Discount Program: Corrosive Crony Capitalism
Federal lawmakers are constantly tinkering with the health care market. Often, these invasions have perverse consequences. Indeed, one federal initiative designed to provide poor Americans with discounted drugs has morphed into an ungainly operation fattening the bottom lines of pharmacies and hospitals. Enacted in 1992, the 340B program requires drug ...
Expanding Medicaid: A foolish way to improve healthcare access
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius recently said, “If you want a healthier population, looking at the opportunity to expand Medicaid has got to be a piece of the puzzle.” Expansion of Medicaid — the jointly run federal-state health plan for low-income Americans — has long been an ...
India’s War On Intellectual Property Rights May Bring With It A Body Count
Last month, drug maker Roche withdrew its patents for the breast-cancer drug Herceptin in India and thus gave tacit approval to other companies to make low-cost generic versions of the drug. But the withdrawal of those patents was not completely voluntary. If the Swiss pharmaceutical firm had not relinquished ...
As Obamacare’s ‘Compassionate’ Reality Sets In, Companies ‘Cruelly’ Cut Health Benefits
Employees of shipping giant United Parcel Service recently got an unexpected delivery. The company announced that it would stop offering health coverage to the spouses of 15,000 workers. UPSs workers and their families can thank Obamacare for this special delivery. And UPS isnt alone. American businesses are discovering each and ...
Health Care Program Has Become An Arbitrage Operation
Federal lawmakers are constantly tinkering with the health care market. Often, these invasions have perverse consequences. Indeed, one federal initiative designed to provide poor Americans with discounted drugs has morphed into an ungainly operation fattening the bottom lines of pharmacies and hospitals. Enacted in 1992, the “340B” program requires drug ...
