Health Care
Commentary
Pro & Con: Should states block formation of health insurance exchanges?
In January, U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson ruled in favor of Georgia and 25 other states that the federal health reform law was unconstitutional. Last December, U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson made a similar decision in a lawsuit brought by Virginia. The elected branches also are doing their part to ...
Health Care
No Medi-Cal help on long-term care
On July 1, the federal funds that have propped up California’s troubled Medi-Cal system will disappear. That is only one of the reasons why baby boomers, now retiring in droves, will find Medi-Cal a bust for the long-term care many will need. Long-term care (LTC) is the medical or custodial ...
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ObamaCare Is Starting To Bleed Insurers Dry
Nearly three weeks after U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson ruled the president’s health care overhaul unconstitutional in a lawsuit brought by 26 states and the National Federation of Independent Business, confusion is plaguing the American health care system. Some states are preparing to enforce the law while others have adopted ...
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Obama misrepresents the state of U.S. health care
In his recent State of the Union speech, the president didn’t spend much time defending his controversial health reform law. But he did relate the stories of two individuals who have supposedly benefited from his overhaul of American health care. They might be the only ones, as both profited from ...
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The Fight for Health Freedom Loses a Champion: Jack Calfee, RIP
When I got into health policy in 2000, my first projects focused on government intervention in prescription drugs: Patent law, the regulatory bureaucracy, restrictions on free speech (Direct-to-Consumer advertising, detailing physicians, et cetera). Jack Calfee was the giant in this field: His thorough, accurate, and diligent research demolished any legitimate ...
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Obamacare Will Destroy Utah’s Health Exchange
None of this is surprising. What is surprising is that many people continue to believe that the Utah Health Exchange, launched in 2009 to increase small businesses’ health-insurance choices, can morph into some kind of foundation upon which a consumer-driven Obamacare can be built. Like many conservative health-policy analysts, I ...
Health Care
There Is No Real Difference Between an “Individual Mandate” to Buy Health Insurance and the Health Benefits We Have Today
Key Points Opponents of the federal government takeover of peoples access to health care have focused on the unconstitutionality of the so-called individual mandate. Two federal judges have recently determined that Obamacares mandate violates the U.S. Constitution, which rightly encourages hope that the Supreme Court will invalidate Obamacare. Economically, the ...
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Don’t start a state health exchange
Last December, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli struck a significant blow against the federal government’s attempted takeover of our access to medical care. Virginians should be pleased, but the state needs to follow through or Cuccinelli’s effort will be wasted. Federal Judge Henry Hudson accepted Cuccinelli’s argument that the so-called ...
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A crummy Canadian import
A federal judge recently ruled President Obama’s health care law unconstitutional. The U.S. Supreme Court no doubt will have to settle the matter, but several of the reform package’s worst offenses have taken root already. A new “medicine cabinet tax” prevents 40 million Americans from using their Health Savings Accounts ...
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Repealing Obamacare: State Governors Respond to Judge Vinson’s Ruling
Soon after the new Congress convened last month, one of the first actions by the House of Representatives was a vote to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, (un)popularly known as Obamacare. The repeal action passed with a significant majority in the House and came to a vote ...
Pro & Con: Should states block formation of health insurance exchanges?
In January, U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson ruled in favor of Georgia and 25 other states that the federal health reform law was unconstitutional. Last December, U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson made a similar decision in a lawsuit brought by Virginia. The elected branches also are doing their part to ...
No Medi-Cal help on long-term care
On July 1, the federal funds that have propped up California’s troubled Medi-Cal system will disappear. That is only one of the reasons why baby boomers, now retiring in droves, will find Medi-Cal a bust for the long-term care many will need. Long-term care (LTC) is the medical or custodial ...
ObamaCare Is Starting To Bleed Insurers Dry
Nearly three weeks after U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson ruled the president’s health care overhaul unconstitutional in a lawsuit brought by 26 states and the National Federation of Independent Business, confusion is plaguing the American health care system. Some states are preparing to enforce the law while others have adopted ...
Obama misrepresents the state of U.S. health care
In his recent State of the Union speech, the president didn’t spend much time defending his controversial health reform law. But he did relate the stories of two individuals who have supposedly benefited from his overhaul of American health care. They might be the only ones, as both profited from ...
The Fight for Health Freedom Loses a Champion: Jack Calfee, RIP
When I got into health policy in 2000, my first projects focused on government intervention in prescription drugs: Patent law, the regulatory bureaucracy, restrictions on free speech (Direct-to-Consumer advertising, detailing physicians, et cetera). Jack Calfee was the giant in this field: His thorough, accurate, and diligent research demolished any legitimate ...
Obamacare Will Destroy Utah’s Health Exchange
None of this is surprising. What is surprising is that many people continue to believe that the Utah Health Exchange, launched in 2009 to increase small businesses’ health-insurance choices, can morph into some kind of foundation upon which a consumer-driven Obamacare can be built. Like many conservative health-policy analysts, I ...
There Is No Real Difference Between an “Individual Mandate” to Buy Health Insurance and the Health Benefits We Have Today
Key Points Opponents of the federal government takeover of peoples access to health care have focused on the unconstitutionality of the so-called individual mandate. Two federal judges have recently determined that Obamacares mandate violates the U.S. Constitution, which rightly encourages hope that the Supreme Court will invalidate Obamacare. Economically, the ...
Don’t start a state health exchange
Last December, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli struck a significant blow against the federal government’s attempted takeover of our access to medical care. Virginians should be pleased, but the state needs to follow through or Cuccinelli’s effort will be wasted. Federal Judge Henry Hudson accepted Cuccinelli’s argument that the so-called ...
A crummy Canadian import
A federal judge recently ruled President Obama’s health care law unconstitutional. The U.S. Supreme Court no doubt will have to settle the matter, but several of the reform package’s worst offenses have taken root already. A new “medicine cabinet tax” prevents 40 million Americans from using their Health Savings Accounts ...
Repealing Obamacare: State Governors Respond to Judge Vinson’s Ruling
Soon after the new Congress convened last month, one of the first actions by the House of Representatives was a vote to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, (un)popularly known as Obamacare. The repeal action passed with a significant majority in the House and came to a vote ...
