Health Care
Business & Economics
Businesses Threatened By Raft Of New ObamaCare Taxes
As 2014 dawns, ObamaCare’s most disruptive changes to the health care system are just now getting under way. For American businesses, that means a raft of new taxes that will pose devastating consequences for their employees and the broader economy. Paramount among them is a new tax on health insurers ...
Commentary
The Many Failures of Single Payer
Vermonts incumbent governor, Peter Shumlin, wants his state to become the first to launch a government takeover of its health-care system. But the results of last months election could give him pause. He was unable to secure a majority of votes this November after winning 58 percent of the ...
Commentary
Killing with caution: Feds fumble on meningitis
Princeton University and UC-Santa Barbara are both reeling from outbreaks of bacterial meningitis. The strain afflicting the two campuses cant be prevented by the vaccine that college freshmen typically get before heading to school. But a new vaccine can stop the spread of this particular strain if the government ...
California
California’s consumer hotline won’t cure Obamacare ills
Nationwide, many (including New York Times columnist Paul Krugman) seem to think that California got Obamacare right. Given the fiasco of the Obamacare launch in other states, that’s a low bar. At least, the Covered California website works. And so it should. Whereas development of the federally operated insurance exchange, ...
Commentary
Don’t Be Fooled By Kathleen Sebelius’s Healthcare.gov ‘Progress’ Report
This month, Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius trudged up to Capitol Hill for her second public grilling over the flaws with the Obamacare healthcare exchanges. Sebelius was insistent that HealthCare.gov has vastly improved since its October launch, noting that about a quarter of a million new people signed up in November. ...
Commentary
Flash: Obamacare Dangerous To Health of Poor
Well, Halleluiah. The Obamacare website is up and running. Of course, at only half a million applications processed so far
and accounting for the ones that the system garbled or couldnt verify or seems to have lost
and anticipating the tens of millions of Americans predicted to lose coverage once ...
Commentary
It’s Not Just Healthcare.gov: Obamacare Has A Serious Age Discrimination Problem
The Obama Administration is desperate to get young people to sign up for health insurance under the federal healthcare reform law. So theyve enlisted a team of almost universally trusted spokespeople to lobby the youth of America their mothers. One ad from the Obama-allied group Organizing for Action encourages ...
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 ...
Commentary
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 ...
Commentary
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 ...
Businesses Threatened By Raft Of New ObamaCare Taxes
As 2014 dawns, ObamaCare’s most disruptive changes to the health care system are just now getting under way. For American businesses, that means a raft of new taxes that will pose devastating consequences for their employees and the broader economy. Paramount among them is a new tax on health insurers ...
The Many Failures of Single Payer
Vermonts incumbent governor, Peter Shumlin, wants his state to become the first to launch a government takeover of its health-care system. But the results of last months election could give him pause. He was unable to secure a majority of votes this November after winning 58 percent of the ...
Killing with caution: Feds fumble on meningitis
Princeton University and UC-Santa Barbara are both reeling from outbreaks of bacterial meningitis. The strain afflicting the two campuses cant be prevented by the vaccine that college freshmen typically get before heading to school. But a new vaccine can stop the spread of this particular strain if the government ...
California’s consumer hotline won’t cure Obamacare ills
Nationwide, many (including New York Times columnist Paul Krugman) seem to think that California got Obamacare right. Given the fiasco of the Obamacare launch in other states, that’s a low bar. At least, the Covered California website works. And so it should. Whereas development of the federally operated insurance exchange, ...
Don’t Be Fooled By Kathleen Sebelius’s Healthcare.gov ‘Progress’ Report
This month, Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius trudged up to Capitol Hill for her second public grilling over the flaws with the Obamacare healthcare exchanges. Sebelius was insistent that HealthCare.gov has vastly improved since its October launch, noting that about a quarter of a million new people signed up in November. ...
Flash: Obamacare Dangerous To Health of Poor
Well, Halleluiah. The Obamacare website is up and running. Of course, at only half a million applications processed so far
and accounting for the ones that the system garbled or couldnt verify or seems to have lost
and anticipating the tens of millions of Americans predicted to lose coverage once ...
It’s Not Just Healthcare.gov: Obamacare Has A Serious Age Discrimination Problem
The Obama Administration is desperate to get young people to sign up for health insurance under the federal healthcare reform law. So theyve enlisted a team of almost universally trusted spokespeople to lobby the youth of America their mothers. One ad from the Obama-allied group Organizing for Action encourages ...
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 ...
