Health Care
California
Shooting the Messenger: California’s Proposal to Control Health Plans’ Rate Increases
California legislators are considering a bill, AB 52, that would give the executive branch the power to decide whether health plans should be allowed to increase their premiums at rates that keep pace with medical costs. Health plans may be a politically attractive target, but giving politicians the power to ...
Commentary
A Plan That Leads Health Care To Nowhere
President Obama recently offered up his plan for cutting the federal budget deficit by $4 trillion over 12 years. A big chunk of those proposed savings–$480 billion, or more than 10%–is supposed to come from federal health care programs. Unfortunately, the president plans to achieve those savings through heavy-handed rationing. ...
Health Care
The Mess of Massachusetts’ Health-Care
FOX Business: Pacific Research Institute CEO Sally Pipes on how Massachusetts’; health-care, pushed by Mitt Romey, shows what the federal government’s health-care reform will do to the country.
Commentary
Canada Still Working Towards Universal Health Care
Or, it would be if government planners could bring about such outcomes. In fact, five million Canadians have no access to a primary care physician. (That’s about 15 percent of the population.) Remarkably, the Canadian people’s response to this astounding government failure is to support government-run health care by a ...
Health Care
The Ryan Republican Medicare Reforms: What They Are, What They’re Not, and What They Might Become
Key Points The Medicare part of the Ryan budget is superior to Obamacare but needs more definition. The current proposal would limit future Medicare beneficiaries choices to those selected from a federal exchange. Medicare beneficiaries would benefit more from Republicans clear commitment to restore Medicare Advantage, a popular alternative to ...
Commentary
R.I.’s Medicaid waiver’s big influence
Rhode Island may be small, but when it comes to keeping costs down and resisting federal control of health care, the Ocean State punches way out of its weight class. Medicaid, the health program for low-income residents, is a strain on every states budget. A fundamental problem with Medicaid is ...
Commentary
Piping Up: Medical Innovation Critical To Bringing Down Health Care Costs
By the end of this decade, national health care spending is projected to amount to one-fifth of the country’s GDP. That’s more than four times military expenditures–and five times the amount spent each year on education. And that’s a conservative estimate. In a recent study, consulting firm Deloitte revealed that ...
Commentary
Obamacare mandate much like status quo
The legal wrangling over President Barack Obama’s health care law is heating up. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta recently announced that it would expedite its consideration of one constitutional challenge to the law. The case centers on the law’s individual mandate the requirement that all ...
Commentary
Colorado Republicans for Obamacare?
The bill was rolling happily along a couple of weeks ago, when the state’s liberty groups caught wind of it and convinced Stephens to “test” whether or not this was actually an Obamacare-enabling exchange, by offering an amendment that the exchange could only start up if the state got a ...
Commentary
Death Trap Democrats
Despite November’s New Deal magnitude political earthquake, surviving House Democrats just laughed off their historic 63 seat loss and reelected ultra-left San Francisco Democrat Nancy Pelosi as House Minority Leader, a position she will now apparently hold for life. Somehow Democrats are convinced that the American people will come to ...
Shooting the Messenger: California’s Proposal to Control Health Plans’ Rate Increases
California legislators are considering a bill, AB 52, that would give the executive branch the power to decide whether health plans should be allowed to increase their premiums at rates that keep pace with medical costs. Health plans may be a politically attractive target, but giving politicians the power to ...
A Plan That Leads Health Care To Nowhere
President Obama recently offered up his plan for cutting the federal budget deficit by $4 trillion over 12 years. A big chunk of those proposed savings–$480 billion, or more than 10%–is supposed to come from federal health care programs. Unfortunately, the president plans to achieve those savings through heavy-handed rationing. ...
The Mess of Massachusetts’ Health-Care
FOX Business: Pacific Research Institute CEO Sally Pipes on how Massachusetts’; health-care, pushed by Mitt Romey, shows what the federal government’s health-care reform will do to the country.
Canada Still Working Towards Universal Health Care
Or, it would be if government planners could bring about such outcomes. In fact, five million Canadians have no access to a primary care physician. (That’s about 15 percent of the population.) Remarkably, the Canadian people’s response to this astounding government failure is to support government-run health care by a ...
The Ryan Republican Medicare Reforms: What They Are, What They’re Not, and What They Might Become
Key Points The Medicare part of the Ryan budget is superior to Obamacare but needs more definition. The current proposal would limit future Medicare beneficiaries choices to those selected from a federal exchange. Medicare beneficiaries would benefit more from Republicans clear commitment to restore Medicare Advantage, a popular alternative to ...
R.I.’s Medicaid waiver’s big influence
Rhode Island may be small, but when it comes to keeping costs down and resisting federal control of health care, the Ocean State punches way out of its weight class. Medicaid, the health program for low-income residents, is a strain on every states budget. A fundamental problem with Medicaid is ...
Piping Up: Medical Innovation Critical To Bringing Down Health Care Costs
By the end of this decade, national health care spending is projected to amount to one-fifth of the country’s GDP. That’s more than four times military expenditures–and five times the amount spent each year on education. And that’s a conservative estimate. In a recent study, consulting firm Deloitte revealed that ...
Obamacare mandate much like status quo
The legal wrangling over President Barack Obama’s health care law is heating up. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta recently announced that it would expedite its consideration of one constitutional challenge to the law. The case centers on the law’s individual mandate the requirement that all ...
Colorado Republicans for Obamacare?
The bill was rolling happily along a couple of weeks ago, when the state’s liberty groups caught wind of it and convinced Stephens to “test” whether or not this was actually an Obamacare-enabling exchange, by offering an amendment that the exchange could only start up if the state got a ...
Death Trap Democrats
Despite November’s New Deal magnitude political earthquake, surviving House Democrats just laughed off their historic 63 seat loss and reelected ultra-left San Francisco Democrat Nancy Pelosi as House Minority Leader, a position she will now apparently hold for life. Somehow Democrats are convinced that the American people will come to ...
