Health Care
Commentary
New Health Care Law Cripples State Budgets
America’s fiscal crisis is about to explode. In 2010 state budget deficits reached an all-time high of $191 billion. Former New York Lt. Gov. Richard Ravitch has predicted that state deficits could reach a staggering $500 billion this year when the stimulus funds propping up state budgets run out in ...
Commentary
Politicians can’t control health care costs
California legislators are considering Assembly Bill 52, which would give the executive branch in Sacramento 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 ...
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 ...
New Health Care Law Cripples State Budgets
America’s fiscal crisis is about to explode. In 2010 state budget deficits reached an all-time high of $191 billion. Former New York Lt. Gov. Richard Ravitch has predicted that state deficits could reach a staggering $500 billion this year when the stimulus funds propping up state budgets run out in ...
Politicians can’t control health care costs
California legislators are considering Assembly Bill 52, which would give the executive branch in Sacramento 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 ...
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 ...
