Health Care
Commentary
Why the Senate Bill Must Be Rejected
The president met with fellow Democrats at the White House on Tuesday afternoon and reiterated his position that failing to pass any reform was not acceptable. He campaigned on this promise in 2008 and has stuck to his commitment in his many speeches to the nation. In his remarks on ...
Commentary
Sensible Alternatives for Fixing Health Care
Congressional Democrats claim that their health reform effort will deliver higher quality care at lower cost to more people. But their legislative prescription, which relies almost entirely on greater government involvement in the delivery of health care, would fail to accomplish these objectives. Fortunately, there is a better way. With ...
Commentary
Reform Plans Could Increase Government Agencies’ Power, Size
Legislative proposals under consideration in Washington, DC could dramatically expand the size and authority of government agencies, and not merely those traditionally focused on health care. While the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) would expand significantly under any of the federal health care reforms currently under consideration, a ...
Commentary
‘Reform’ still stinks
Yesterday, the Senate’s Democratic leadership blinked first in its showdown with Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.). Desperate for the crucial 60th vote needed to pass their health-reform package, Senate leaders capitulated to Lieberman’s demands that the bill drop both the public option and a provision to let those aged 55 to ...
Commentary
Obama’s forgotten health-care promises
The Baltimore Sun, December 16, 2009 The more details that emerge from health care reform plans coalescing and colliding on Capitol Hill, the more one wonders how President Barack Obama could possibly justify supporting any of them – much less signing one into law. Congressional Democrats are threatening to serve ...
Education
New Study Finds that Medicare Advantage Relieves the “Hidden Tax” On Privately Insured Americans
San Francisco The Pacific Research Institute, a free-market think tank based in San Francisco, today released its new report, Medicare Advantage or Medicare Monopoly: Protecting Seniors Choices and Taxpayers Wallets in the Federal Governments Largest Entitlement Program, by Health Care Studies Director John R. Graham. The report examines the ...
Commentary
What Really Happened in 1994
When seeking reelection, the more conservative Democrats usually fare far worse than other Democrats, for the simple reason that they generally run against legitimate Republican opposition in states or districts that can, and do, swing either way. In stark contrast, over the last 20 years, the most liberal third of ...
Commentary
Obamacare’s Winners and Losers
So, let’s tally the results: Winners: the federal government (more control) and health insurers (more government-mandated business, in exchange for losing most of their autonomy and ceasing to be private businesses in any meaningful sense), the minority of low-to-middle income Americans who don’t have employer-provided insurance and would henceforth receive ...
Commentary
The Loneliest Voice in the Wilderness: The Council of Economic Advisers
Yesterday’s report trucks out, yet again, claims which few find credible anymore. There’s the ever-present argument that the government can shave off some dollars by focusing on “waste, fraud, and abuse.” Okay: What’s stopping them from doing that right now? Health-information technology comes in for a boost, even though recent ...
Why the Senate Bill Must Be Rejected
The president met with fellow Democrats at the White House on Tuesday afternoon and reiterated his position that failing to pass any reform was not acceptable. He campaigned on this promise in 2008 and has stuck to his commitment in his many speeches to the nation. In his remarks on ...
Sensible Alternatives for Fixing Health Care
Congressional Democrats claim that their health reform effort will deliver higher quality care at lower cost to more people. But their legislative prescription, which relies almost entirely on greater government involvement in the delivery of health care, would fail to accomplish these objectives. Fortunately, there is a better way. With ...
Reform Plans Could Increase Government Agencies’ Power, Size
Legislative proposals under consideration in Washington, DC could dramatically expand the size and authority of government agencies, and not merely those traditionally focused on health care. While the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) would expand significantly under any of the federal health care reforms currently under consideration, a ...
‘Reform’ still stinks
Yesterday, the Senate’s Democratic leadership blinked first in its showdown with Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.). Desperate for the crucial 60th vote needed to pass their health-reform package, Senate leaders capitulated to Lieberman’s demands that the bill drop both the public option and a provision to let those aged 55 to ...
Obama’s forgotten health-care promises
The Baltimore Sun, December 16, 2009 The more details that emerge from health care reform plans coalescing and colliding on Capitol Hill, the more one wonders how President Barack Obama could possibly justify supporting any of them – much less signing one into law. Congressional Democrats are threatening to serve ...
New Study Finds that Medicare Advantage Relieves the “Hidden Tax” On Privately Insured Americans
San Francisco The Pacific Research Institute, a free-market think tank based in San Francisco, today released its new report, Medicare Advantage or Medicare Monopoly: Protecting Seniors Choices and Taxpayers Wallets in the Federal Governments Largest Entitlement Program, by Health Care Studies Director John R. Graham. The report examines the ...
What Really Happened in 1994
When seeking reelection, the more conservative Democrats usually fare far worse than other Democrats, for the simple reason that they generally run against legitimate Republican opposition in states or districts that can, and do, swing either way. In stark contrast, over the last 20 years, the most liberal third of ...
Obamacare’s Winners and Losers
So, let’s tally the results: Winners: the federal government (more control) and health insurers (more government-mandated business, in exchange for losing most of their autonomy and ceasing to be private businesses in any meaningful sense), the minority of low-to-middle income Americans who don’t have employer-provided insurance and would henceforth receive ...
The Loneliest Voice in the Wilderness: The Council of Economic Advisers
Yesterday’s report trucks out, yet again, claims which few find credible anymore. There’s the ever-present argument that the government can shave off some dollars by focusing on “waste, fraud, and abuse.” Okay: What’s stopping them from doing that right now? Health-information technology comes in for a boost, even though recent ...
