Health Care
Health Care
Higher Health Insurance Premiums This Year? Blame ObamaCare
Most Americans saw their insurance bills jump this year, according to a new study from the Kaiser Family Foundation. The average employer-based premium for a family increased a startling 9% in 2011. Over the next decade, rates are expected to double. The Kaiser report is only the latest piece of ...
Business & Economics
Comparative effectiveness reviews mean fewer cures
Elected officials have powerful incentives to spend, and the administrators of government agencies — always seeking to increase their budgets — are happy to oblige. But the federal budget is finite. There are equally-powerful incentives to create more programs, as politicians are driven to make more citizens dependent upon government. ...
Government Spending
The deficit ‘super committee’ and health care
The federal debt-reduction super committee recently held its third meeting to explore changes in the tax code. The 12-member bipartisan panel must find $1.5 trillion in federal savings by Thanksgiving. Committee members have gone to great lengths to emphasize their differences, but there is still room for agreement. The committee ...
Health Care
An ObamaCare Reform Law that Is a CLASS in Fiscal Irresponsibility
An internal Obama administration e-mail recently leaked to the press appeared to reveal that officials would shut down a controversial component of the health reform law the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports, or CLASS Act. Long championed by the late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), CLASS would establish a ...
California
California workers could suffer under Obamacare
A coalition of 26 states filed a petition recently asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of President Barack Obama’s health care reform law. California should have been the 27th. That’s because no state stands to take a bigger economic hit when and if Obamacare ...
Health Care
Doctors and AMA Split Over Contentious Issue of ObamaCare
For more than 160 years, the American Medical Association has served as the self-appointed chief lobbying group for doctors. But the AMAs lofty status has been under threat over the last several years and is under attack today. In fact, the AMA now only counts about 17% of doctors ...
Health Care
The Census, ObamaCare and the Uninsured
The Wall Street Journal The U.S. Census Bureau has released its latest estimates on poverty, income and health-insurance coverage. Strikingly, the official poverty rate is the highest it’s been in 50 years. As one might expect, the number of Americans without health insurance also roseto 49.9 million, an increase of ...
Commentary
Two New Ventures Simplify Consumer-Driven Health Care
A friend of mine who made a lot of money use to tease me when I (constantly) expressed shock at how simple so many successful business ideas are. All great businesses are simple, he said. Here are two in the healthcare space: Bloom Health and ZocDoc. Although disrupting different parts ...
Government Spending
Rick Perry’s Texas: It’s Better to Create More Jobs Than More Medicaid Dependents
Key Points: Texas has a significantly higher rate of uninsured residents, and a somewhat less expensive Medicaid program, than the national average. These conditions have not resulted in poor outcomes: In both health-system outputs and causes of mortality, Texas generally performs as well as other states. Therefore, throwing more money ...
Health Care
The Best Jobs Program? Full Repeal of ObamaCare
President Barack Obama is currently barnstorming around the country to drum up support for his $447-billion plan to put unemployed Americans back to work. But Congress need not hand him a check for half a trillion dollars in order to jump start the economy. If lawmakers are really serious about ...
Higher Health Insurance Premiums This Year? Blame ObamaCare
Most Americans saw their insurance bills jump this year, according to a new study from the Kaiser Family Foundation. The average employer-based premium for a family increased a startling 9% in 2011. Over the next decade, rates are expected to double. The Kaiser report is only the latest piece of ...
Comparative effectiveness reviews mean fewer cures
Elected officials have powerful incentives to spend, and the administrators of government agencies — always seeking to increase their budgets — are happy to oblige. But the federal budget is finite. There are equally-powerful incentives to create more programs, as politicians are driven to make more citizens dependent upon government. ...
The deficit ‘super committee’ and health care
The federal debt-reduction super committee recently held its third meeting to explore changes in the tax code. The 12-member bipartisan panel must find $1.5 trillion in federal savings by Thanksgiving. Committee members have gone to great lengths to emphasize their differences, but there is still room for agreement. The committee ...
An ObamaCare Reform Law that Is a CLASS in Fiscal Irresponsibility
An internal Obama administration e-mail recently leaked to the press appeared to reveal that officials would shut down a controversial component of the health reform law the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports, or CLASS Act. Long championed by the late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), CLASS would establish a ...
California workers could suffer under Obamacare
A coalition of 26 states filed a petition recently asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of President Barack Obama’s health care reform law. California should have been the 27th. That’s because no state stands to take a bigger economic hit when and if Obamacare ...
Doctors and AMA Split Over Contentious Issue of ObamaCare
For more than 160 years, the American Medical Association has served as the self-appointed chief lobbying group for doctors. But the AMAs lofty status has been under threat over the last several years and is under attack today. In fact, the AMA now only counts about 17% of doctors ...
The Census, ObamaCare and the Uninsured
The Wall Street Journal The U.S. Census Bureau has released its latest estimates on poverty, income and health-insurance coverage. Strikingly, the official poverty rate is the highest it’s been in 50 years. As one might expect, the number of Americans without health insurance also roseto 49.9 million, an increase of ...
Two New Ventures Simplify Consumer-Driven Health Care
A friend of mine who made a lot of money use to tease me when I (constantly) expressed shock at how simple so many successful business ideas are. All great businesses are simple, he said. Here are two in the healthcare space: Bloom Health and ZocDoc. Although disrupting different parts ...
Rick Perry’s Texas: It’s Better to Create More Jobs Than More Medicaid Dependents
Key Points: Texas has a significantly higher rate of uninsured residents, and a somewhat less expensive Medicaid program, than the national average. These conditions have not resulted in poor outcomes: In both health-system outputs and causes of mortality, Texas generally performs as well as other states. Therefore, throwing more money ...
The Best Jobs Program? Full Repeal of ObamaCare
President Barack Obama is currently barnstorming around the country to drum up support for his $447-billion plan to put unemployed Americans back to work. But Congress need not hand him a check for half a trillion dollars in order to jump start the economy. If lawmakers are really serious about ...
