Health Care
Commentary
Someone Please tell the President: It’s Been Illegal to Drop Coverage Since 1997
In fact, these protections have existed in federal law since 1997. Title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations (45 CFR § 148.122) is about “guaranteed renewability of individual health insurance coverage.” Paragraphs (a) and (b) read as follows: (a) Applicability. This section applies to all health insurance coverage in ...
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Jesse Jackson on Health Reform!
According to Mr. Jackson, Medicare, the U.S. government’s single-payer system for seniors is the most popular health plan in the U.S. Well, if I was able to get taxpayers to pay 53% of my medical claims, I suppose I’d be satisfied too. Even so, 90% of Medicare beneficiaries have some ...
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Paving the Road with Moderation
Without the individual mandate, insurance “reform” — no constraints on coverage created by pre-existing medical conditions, and a necessary corollary, price controls in health coverage — would be hugely popular politically. But those two policies would yield a rapid destruction of the private insurance market (for nonemployer policies) because of ...
Health Care
Senate Bill Would Tax Those Who Heal
Investor’s Business Daily, September 14, 2009 National Center for Policy Analysis, September 16, 2009 For several months now, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., has been drafting a health reform bill with a bipartisan group of three Republicans and three Democrats designed to garner support from both parties. Just ...
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Will the Chickens Roost in the CO-OP? Max Baucus’ Health Reform Proposal.
Someone has leaked a document from Senator Max Baucus, titled a Framework for Comprehensive Health Reform, which purports to be the basis for discussion by the “Gang of Six” Senators on the Senate Finance Committee upon whose quivering shoulders rests the fate of the proposed federal take-over of Americans’ access ...
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Another Reason to Make Health Insurance the Property of the People
Readers also learned that non-profit organizations are rebelling at the tax reforms proposed as a part of the federal government take-over of Americans’ access to medical services, expecially the tax credit to small businesses to subsidise their employees’ coverage. Because non-profits don’t pay income tax, they would not get the ...
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The Best Health Care Plan You’ve Never Heard Of
Real Clear Politics, September 13, 2009 Washington is in the midst of yet another scandal — but not the kind you’d read about in a gossip rag. Congressional dilettantes are willfully ignoring health-care reform ideas that would cut costs and provide high-quality care to all. Sound nuts? It shouldn’t. By ...
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Republicans Offer Solutions on Health Care
Tort Reform a Point of Bipartisan Agreement Raleigh, N.C. – The debate about health care reform continues as President Obama addresses a joint session of Congress last night to once again attempt to explain the details of his health care plan. At one point in his speech, the President raised ...
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The predictable outcome of electing an economic dunderhead president
It is a very special world our president and his equally clueless advisors inhabit. It is one where market forces have been repealed, common sense is outlawed, and up is down, black is white, and it don’t rain in Indianapolis in the summertime. Other than that, we’re lucky to have ...
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Interesting Moments from the President’s Speech
Also interesting was President Obama’s claim that he wouldn’t support any bill that would raise our deficits by “one dime.” (Six trillion dimes is apparently another matter, just not “one.” To be fair, he didn’t say “even.”) Also, as a supporter of the House health bill, which the Congressional Budget ...
Someone Please tell the President: It’s Been Illegal to Drop Coverage Since 1997
In fact, these protections have existed in federal law since 1997. Title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations (45 CFR § 148.122) is about “guaranteed renewability of individual health insurance coverage.” Paragraphs (a) and (b) read as follows: (a) Applicability. This section applies to all health insurance coverage in ...
Jesse Jackson on Health Reform!
According to Mr. Jackson, Medicare, the U.S. government’s single-payer system for seniors is the most popular health plan in the U.S. Well, if I was able to get taxpayers to pay 53% of my medical claims, I suppose I’d be satisfied too. Even so, 90% of Medicare beneficiaries have some ...
Paving the Road with Moderation
Without the individual mandate, insurance “reform” — no constraints on coverage created by pre-existing medical conditions, and a necessary corollary, price controls in health coverage — would be hugely popular politically. But those two policies would yield a rapid destruction of the private insurance market (for nonemployer policies) because of ...
Senate Bill Would Tax Those Who Heal
Investor’s Business Daily, September 14, 2009 National Center for Policy Analysis, September 16, 2009 For several months now, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., has been drafting a health reform bill with a bipartisan group of three Republicans and three Democrats designed to garner support from both parties. Just ...
Will the Chickens Roost in the CO-OP? Max Baucus’ Health Reform Proposal.
Someone has leaked a document from Senator Max Baucus, titled a Framework for Comprehensive Health Reform, which purports to be the basis for discussion by the “Gang of Six” Senators on the Senate Finance Committee upon whose quivering shoulders rests the fate of the proposed federal take-over of Americans’ access ...
Another Reason to Make Health Insurance the Property of the People
Readers also learned that non-profit organizations are rebelling at the tax reforms proposed as a part of the federal government take-over of Americans’ access to medical services, expecially the tax credit to small businesses to subsidise their employees’ coverage. Because non-profits don’t pay income tax, they would not get the ...
The Best Health Care Plan You’ve Never Heard Of
Real Clear Politics, September 13, 2009 Washington is in the midst of yet another scandal — but not the kind you’d read about in a gossip rag. Congressional dilettantes are willfully ignoring health-care reform ideas that would cut costs and provide high-quality care to all. Sound nuts? It shouldn’t. By ...
Republicans Offer Solutions on Health Care
Tort Reform a Point of Bipartisan Agreement Raleigh, N.C. – The debate about health care reform continues as President Obama addresses a joint session of Congress last night to once again attempt to explain the details of his health care plan. At one point in his speech, the President raised ...
The predictable outcome of electing an economic dunderhead president
It is a very special world our president and his equally clueless advisors inhabit. It is one where market forces have been repealed, common sense is outlawed, and up is down, black is white, and it don’t rain in Indianapolis in the summertime. Other than that, we’re lucky to have ...
Interesting Moments from the President’s Speech
Also interesting was President Obama’s claim that he wouldn’t support any bill that would raise our deficits by “one dime.” (Six trillion dimes is apparently another matter, just not “one.” To be fair, he didn’t say “even.”) Also, as a supporter of the House health bill, which the Congressional Budget ...
