Health Care
Commentary
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
