Obamacare
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Chart Focus: Will Americans Ever Control As Many Of Our Own Health Dollars as the Swiss, the Swedes, or the Canadians?
Key Points: Americans control a smaller share of our health spending than do residents of most other developed countries. In the late 1980s, the United States allowed patients to control more health spending than any other country, except Switzerland. In the twenty years to 2008, the share of U.S. health ...
Health Care
Obamacare faces Supreme test
The Supreme Court on Monday begins hearing what could be one of the most important cases in our country’s history. The nine justices are set to determine the constitutionality of the “individual mandate” included in the president’s health care bill, passed two years ago this month. The mandate requires that ...
Health Care
ObamaCare Individual Mandate Shifts Costs To Others
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments next week on the constitutionality of President Obama’s health reform law. One of the issues the high court will consider is whether Congress can require virtually every American to buy health insurance. The law’s defenders claim that forcing the uninsured to buy ...
Commentary
Obamacare drives up health care costs for everyone
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently released their annual report on health care spending in America. And surprise, surprise – spending continues to grow. It amounted to 17.9 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product in 2010, or $2.6 trillion. But the annual rate of growth was lower ...
Commentary
Health spending slows but premiums still rising
A funny thing happened as a result of Obamacare, signed in March 2010: Although the cost of health care has increased at a slower rate than in previous years, premiums for health insurance and the share of premiums used for purposes other than paying claims has been increasing faster than ...
Commentary
Kill the CLASS Act Before It Kills Taxpayers
The House of Representatives just voted to wipe a major part of President Obamas healthcare law from the books the Community Living Assistance Service and Supports Act. This CLASS Act wouldve established a federally run long-term-care insurance program. The Senate should continue the Houses work and repeal CLASS right ...
Commentary
President Obama’s Medical Board: A Backdoor Path to Health Rationing
Last week, a House of Representatives subpanel overwhelmingly approved a measure to repeal a key component of President Obamas 2010 health reform bill. By a bipartisan 17-5 margin, the Energy and Commerce Committees Health Subcommittee agreed to get rid of Sections 3403 and 10320 of the Patient Protection and Affordable ...
Health Care
Just Say No to ACOs
Say hello to Obamacare’s latest technocratic gimmick — the Accountable Care Organization (ACO). The first of these federally-chartered Pioneer ACO groups of healthcare providers just launched. Proponents of ACOs claim that the new entities will help doctors and hospitals better coordinate care in order to improve the health of Medicare ...
Commentary
How ObamaCare is already failing
A key technocratic gimmick of ObamaCare, the Accountable Care Organization, is rolling out now but the wheels are already starting to come off. ACOs are federally chartered health-care providers which, were told, will help doctors and hospitals better coordinate care to improve the health of Medicare patients and reduce ...
Commentary
Congenital American Impatience Points to Obamacare’s Failure
Healthcare spending grew at the second-lowest rate on record in 2010, according to recent data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services(CMS). Still, the $2.6 trillion the United States spent represented a 3.9-percent increase over the previous year. All told, health care consumed 17.9 percent of the U.S. Gross ...
Chart Focus: Will Americans Ever Control As Many Of Our Own Health Dollars as the Swiss, the Swedes, or the Canadians?
Key Points: Americans control a smaller share of our health spending than do residents of most other developed countries. In the late 1980s, the United States allowed patients to control more health spending than any other country, except Switzerland. In the twenty years to 2008, the share of U.S. health ...
Obamacare faces Supreme test
The Supreme Court on Monday begins hearing what could be one of the most important cases in our country’s history. The nine justices are set to determine the constitutionality of the “individual mandate” included in the president’s health care bill, passed two years ago this month. The mandate requires that ...
ObamaCare Individual Mandate Shifts Costs To Others
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments next week on the constitutionality of President Obama’s health reform law. One of the issues the high court will consider is whether Congress can require virtually every American to buy health insurance. The law’s defenders claim that forcing the uninsured to buy ...
Obamacare drives up health care costs for everyone
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently released their annual report on health care spending in America. And surprise, surprise – spending continues to grow. It amounted to 17.9 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product in 2010, or $2.6 trillion. But the annual rate of growth was lower ...
Health spending slows but premiums still rising
A funny thing happened as a result of Obamacare, signed in March 2010: Although the cost of health care has increased at a slower rate than in previous years, premiums for health insurance and the share of premiums used for purposes other than paying claims has been increasing faster than ...
Kill the CLASS Act Before It Kills Taxpayers
The House of Representatives just voted to wipe a major part of President Obamas healthcare law from the books the Community Living Assistance Service and Supports Act. This CLASS Act wouldve established a federally run long-term-care insurance program. The Senate should continue the Houses work and repeal CLASS right ...
President Obama’s Medical Board: A Backdoor Path to Health Rationing
Last week, a House of Representatives subpanel overwhelmingly approved a measure to repeal a key component of President Obamas 2010 health reform bill. By a bipartisan 17-5 margin, the Energy and Commerce Committees Health Subcommittee agreed to get rid of Sections 3403 and 10320 of the Patient Protection and Affordable ...
Just Say No to ACOs
Say hello to Obamacare’s latest technocratic gimmick — the Accountable Care Organization (ACO). The first of these federally-chartered Pioneer ACO groups of healthcare providers just launched. Proponents of ACOs claim that the new entities will help doctors and hospitals better coordinate care in order to improve the health of Medicare ...
How ObamaCare is already failing
A key technocratic gimmick of ObamaCare, the Accountable Care Organization, is rolling out now but the wheels are already starting to come off. ACOs are federally chartered health-care providers which, were told, will help doctors and hospitals better coordinate care to improve the health of Medicare patients and reduce ...
Congenital American Impatience Points to Obamacare’s Failure
Healthcare spending grew at the second-lowest rate on record in 2010, according to recent data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services(CMS). Still, the $2.6 trillion the United States spent represented a 3.9-percent increase over the previous year. All told, health care consumed 17.9 percent of the U.S. Gross ...
