Health Care
Health Care
They Still Don’t Have the Votes
In turn, Pelosi either decided that by accepting the language, she would lose more votes in the House than she would gain, or else knew that Democratic senators, with their strong preference for taxpayer-funded abortion, would never go along with this concession to the views of the vast majority of ...
Commentary
CNBC Video: Paying for Health Care
Discussing whether Dems are relying too much on higher taxes to pay for health care reform, with Gov. Howard Dean, former Democratic National Committee chairman; Sally Pipes, Pacific Research and CNBC’s Hampton Pearson.
Health Care
Taxing Health Insurance: How Much Do States Earn?
Nevada, Hawaii, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Georgia will see significant reductions in dollars available to fund Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Programs Taxing Health Insurance: How Much Do States Earn? presents a first-of-its-kind report on the potential cost of increased federal control of health insurance. This report, written ...
Health Care
New PRI Sudy Shows that Increased Federal Control of Health Insurance Plans Will Reduce States’ Tax Revenue
Nevada, Hawaii, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Georgia will see significant reductions in dollars available to fund Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Programs San Francisco, March 17, 2010 – Today the Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a free-market think tank based in California, released a first-of-its-kind report on the potential ...
Commentary
High-Risk Pools v. Community Rating and the Individual Mandate
Here’s a little intra-mural squabble that I haven’t gotten into much on this site: Is support for an individual insurance mandate compatible with consumer-driven health care? I’ve periodically linked to Who Killed Health Care?, a book by Regina Herzlinger, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and professor at the Harvard ...
Commentary
Higher taxes ahead
The Obama administration continues to push for health care reform and other measures that will require higher taxes. But is such activism largely to blame for the prolonged economic slump? Robert Miller says the government can create jobs by throwing money at but the question is where do those resources ...
Commentary
Massachusetts’ ‘reform’ mess
Federal lawmakers pondering how to vote on Obama-Care this week should notice that Massachusetts is back asking Washington for hundreds of millions more to bail out its universal health-coverage system. When it became law in 2006, the Bay State’s plan was supposed to fix everything — with much the same ...
Commentary
ObamaCare vs The 57
With perhaps a third of practicing physicians threatening to “Go Galt” should ObamaCare pass, it’s easy to overlook another potentially devastating effect of this monstrosity: ” Nevada, Hawaii, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Georgia will see significant reductions in dollars available to fund Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Programs.” ...
Commentary
Health Care Subject Matter Experts Part 2 Sally C. Pipes
A few weeks ago, my Leadership Program of the Rockies class heard Sally C. Pipes speak on the American health care system. Who is Sally Pipes, you ask? (It’s okay, I didn’t know either!) She is author of The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care: A Citizen’s Guide, and ...
Commentary
Dem And Voter Differences Are Irreconcilable
Investor’s Business Daily, March 8, 2010 During his 35th speech on health care at the White House last Wednesday, President Obama called on Congress to give his reform package an “up-or-down vote” before the Easter recess, with or without Republican support. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry ...
They Still Don’t Have the Votes
In turn, Pelosi either decided that by accepting the language, she would lose more votes in the House than she would gain, or else knew that Democratic senators, with their strong preference for taxpayer-funded abortion, would never go along with this concession to the views of the vast majority of ...
CNBC Video: Paying for Health Care
Discussing whether Dems are relying too much on higher taxes to pay for health care reform, with Gov. Howard Dean, former Democratic National Committee chairman; Sally Pipes, Pacific Research and CNBC’s Hampton Pearson.
Taxing Health Insurance: How Much Do States Earn?
Nevada, Hawaii, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Georgia will see significant reductions in dollars available to fund Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Programs Taxing Health Insurance: How Much Do States Earn? presents a first-of-its-kind report on the potential cost of increased federal control of health insurance. This report, written ...
New PRI Sudy Shows that Increased Federal Control of Health Insurance Plans Will Reduce States’ Tax Revenue
Nevada, Hawaii, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Georgia will see significant reductions in dollars available to fund Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Programs San Francisco, March 17, 2010 – Today the Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a free-market think tank based in California, released a first-of-its-kind report on the potential ...
High-Risk Pools v. Community Rating and the Individual Mandate
Here’s a little intra-mural squabble that I haven’t gotten into much on this site: Is support for an individual insurance mandate compatible with consumer-driven health care? I’ve periodically linked to Who Killed Health Care?, a book by Regina Herzlinger, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and professor at the Harvard ...
Higher taxes ahead
The Obama administration continues to push for health care reform and other measures that will require higher taxes. But is such activism largely to blame for the prolonged economic slump? Robert Miller says the government can create jobs by throwing money at but the question is where do those resources ...
Massachusetts’ ‘reform’ mess
Federal lawmakers pondering how to vote on Obama-Care this week should notice that Massachusetts is back asking Washington for hundreds of millions more to bail out its universal health-coverage system. When it became law in 2006, the Bay State’s plan was supposed to fix everything — with much the same ...
ObamaCare vs The 57
With perhaps a third of practicing physicians threatening to “Go Galt” should ObamaCare pass, it’s easy to overlook another potentially devastating effect of this monstrosity: ” Nevada, Hawaii, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Georgia will see significant reductions in dollars available to fund Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Programs.” ...
Health Care Subject Matter Experts Part 2 Sally C. Pipes
A few weeks ago, my Leadership Program of the Rockies class heard Sally C. Pipes speak on the American health care system. Who is Sally Pipes, you ask? (It’s okay, I didn’t know either!) She is author of The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care: A Citizen’s Guide, and ...
Dem And Voter Differences Are Irreconcilable
Investor’s Business Daily, March 8, 2010 During his 35th speech on health care at the White House last Wednesday, President Obama called on Congress to give his reform package an “up-or-down vote” before the Easter recess, with or without Republican support. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry ...
