Health Care
Commentary
If Obamacare is Unconstitutional, Why Aren’t Medicare & Medicaid?
Legally, the difference is that the latter two programs are government operations, whereas the individual mandate would have compelled people to buy a private product. Helvering v. Davis (1937) was the famous (or infamous) case wherein the U.S. Supreme Court found that the Social Security Act was constitutional. For a ...
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Obamacare Ruled Constitutional; Americans Favor Repeal Almost 2 to 1
A federal district judge in Virginia ruled on Monday that the keystone provision in the Obama health care law is unconstitutional, becoming the first court in the country to invalidate any part of the sprawling act…. The individual mandate – the requirement that Americans buy federally approved health insurance whether ...
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On Sebelius’ & Holder’s Defense of Obamacare
The economic argument for a mandate is unfounded. As a class, the uninsured pay their way, because there are enough high-earning uninsured who pay extra taxes (by taking cash remuneration instead of health benefits) to cover the cost of uncompensated care. If Congress eliminated the employer-based monopoly on health benefits, ...
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Blue-Sky Thinking on Health Reform: An Interstate Compact for Health Insurance
Key Points Health insurance is the only line of insurance regulated by the federal government, but federal control has created and deepened the health crisis. Obamacare attempts to conscript states to do the dirty work of limiting peoples choice of health benefits. States have ensured portability and competition in other ...
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More on the Insanity of the Medicare Payment System
The first example is a Bulgarian woman living in Greece, who is about to deliver a baby from an anonymous European egg donor, whose father is Italian. The mother who raises the baby will be the Italian man’s infertile Italian wife. The man who brought it all together is a ...
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Reflections on the Insanity of the Medicare Payment System
Suppose that in 1965, the federal government observed that great advances were taking place in aircraft design and manufacturing. In order to ensure that Americans were able to take advantage of this, the government legislated “Aircare.” Flash forward to 2010: “Aircare” pays for our ariplane tickets. It pays the airlines ...
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U.S. competitive without medical monopoly
The November election made a bull’s-eye out of Obamacare, which some Republicans want to repeal. Obamacare is a worthy target because it is a significant lurch toward so-called “universal” health care. The lack of such a government monopoly system, some charge, harms American competitiveness. But that argument fails to hold ...
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FDA’s Decision On Avastin Will Set the Standard
Later this month, the Food and Drug Administration will issue a ruling that will be a major test of the credibility of promises the Obama administration has made about the future of Medicare under health reform. At a Senate Finance Committee hearing in November, the new chief of Medicare and ...
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Obamacare Unintended Consequence of the Day: Higher Drug Prices for Kids’ Hospitals
One anonymous politician who voted to impose Obamacare on the nation told the reporter that this results from “an honest mistake in drafting.” Sick kids will lose access to medicines because of politicians’ incompetence, but they don’t even bother to defend their not reading or understanding the legislation anymore. Indeed, ...
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Pipes to speak on economic impact of health care bill
COTATI – The Economic Prosperity Institute will host an event titled, “The Truth about ObamaCare” at Sonoma State University on Dec. 9 at 11:45 a.m. Sally Pipes, president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute, will discuss the research and insights in her book of the same title. Ms. Pipes ...
If Obamacare is Unconstitutional, Why Aren’t Medicare & Medicaid?
Legally, the difference is that the latter two programs are government operations, whereas the individual mandate would have compelled people to buy a private product. Helvering v. Davis (1937) was the famous (or infamous) case wherein the U.S. Supreme Court found that the Social Security Act was constitutional. For a ...
Obamacare Ruled Constitutional; Americans Favor Repeal Almost 2 to 1
A federal district judge in Virginia ruled on Monday that the keystone provision in the Obama health care law is unconstitutional, becoming the first court in the country to invalidate any part of the sprawling act…. The individual mandate – the requirement that Americans buy federally approved health insurance whether ...
On Sebelius’ & Holder’s Defense of Obamacare
The economic argument for a mandate is unfounded. As a class, the uninsured pay their way, because there are enough high-earning uninsured who pay extra taxes (by taking cash remuneration instead of health benefits) to cover the cost of uncompensated care. If Congress eliminated the employer-based monopoly on health benefits, ...
Blue-Sky Thinking on Health Reform: An Interstate Compact for Health Insurance
Key Points Health insurance is the only line of insurance regulated by the federal government, but federal control has created and deepened the health crisis. Obamacare attempts to conscript states to do the dirty work of limiting peoples choice of health benefits. States have ensured portability and competition in other ...
More on the Insanity of the Medicare Payment System
The first example is a Bulgarian woman living in Greece, who is about to deliver a baby from an anonymous European egg donor, whose father is Italian. The mother who raises the baby will be the Italian man’s infertile Italian wife. The man who brought it all together is a ...
Reflections on the Insanity of the Medicare Payment System
Suppose that in 1965, the federal government observed that great advances were taking place in aircraft design and manufacturing. In order to ensure that Americans were able to take advantage of this, the government legislated “Aircare.” Flash forward to 2010: “Aircare” pays for our ariplane tickets. It pays the airlines ...
U.S. competitive without medical monopoly
The November election made a bull’s-eye out of Obamacare, which some Republicans want to repeal. Obamacare is a worthy target because it is a significant lurch toward so-called “universal” health care. The lack of such a government monopoly system, some charge, harms American competitiveness. But that argument fails to hold ...
FDA’s Decision On Avastin Will Set the Standard
Later this month, the Food and Drug Administration will issue a ruling that will be a major test of the credibility of promises the Obama administration has made about the future of Medicare under health reform. At a Senate Finance Committee hearing in November, the new chief of Medicare and ...
Obamacare Unintended Consequence of the Day: Higher Drug Prices for Kids’ Hospitals
One anonymous politician who voted to impose Obamacare on the nation told the reporter that this results from “an honest mistake in drafting.” Sick kids will lose access to medicines because of politicians’ incompetence, but they don’t even bother to defend their not reading or understanding the legislation anymore. Indeed, ...
Pipes to speak on economic impact of health care bill
COTATI – The Economic Prosperity Institute will host an event titled, “The Truth about ObamaCare” at Sonoma State University on Dec. 9 at 11:45 a.m. Sally Pipes, president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute, will discuss the research and insights in her book of the same title. Ms. Pipes ...
