Obamacare
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Two New Ventures Simplify Consumer-Driven Health Care
A friend of mine who made a lot of money use to tease me when I (constantly) expressed shock at how simple so many successful business ideas are. All great businesses are simple, he said. Here are two in the healthcare space: Bloom Health and ZocDoc. Although disrupting different parts ...
Health Care
The Best Jobs Program? Full Repeal of ObamaCare
President Barack Obama is currently barnstorming around the country to drum up support for his $447-billion plan to put unemployed Americans back to work. But Congress need not hand him a check for half a trillion dollars in order to jump start the economy. If lawmakers are really serious about ...
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What Should Rick Perry Say About Gardasil?
The Republican presidential primaries have been temporarily hijacked by a single incident in Rick Perrys decade-plus tenure as governor of Texas. Despite Michele Bachmanns ludicrous claim that Gardasil causes mental retardation, lets recall that not one single schoolgirl was vaccinated by the offensive executive order: The legislature overturned it long ...
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Democrats’ Plan B For Medicare: Medicare For All
Last month, ObamaCare was dealt another huge blow. On August 12, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta ruled that the law’s requirement that all adults purchase health insurance was unconstitutional. The court determined that the government isn’t empowered to force private citizens to buy a ...
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Over-The-Counter Remedies That Would Reduce Health Care Costs
Earlier this month, the pharmaceutical company Pfizer announced that it may ask the Food and Drug Administration to allow it to market the cholesterol-lowering statin Lipitor over the counter after its patent expires in November. The FDA has not yet signaled whether it would approve Pfizers proposal. And some doctors ...
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Health insurers in states’ cross hairs
The new health care law encourages state politicians to increase their interference with health insurance premiums, an underreported aspect of Obamacare with consequences for patients and health plans alike. Obamacare distributes federal grants that encourage states’ insurance departments to increase their power to dictate insurance premiums. States are responding by ...
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The Latest ObamaCare Assault On Health Care Innovation
The list of health services that ObamaCare requires all insurers to cover without co-pays or deductibles keeps growing. The latest additions include an array of womens wellness services and products: birth control, breast pumps, domestic violence counseling, and more. Of course, these additional benefits arent really free. They drive up ...
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Counting Up ObamaCare’s Health Cost Inflation
Its time to add yet another study to the growing list of research showing that ObamaCare isnt delivering on its grand promises. In the July issue of the journal Health Affairs, Medicares actuaries released new estimates of the rate of growth of national health costs. Surprise, surprise theyre projected ...
Commentary
Political control unhelpful
Faced with spiraling statewide health costs, Massachusetts passed a law in 2008 mandating the states attorney general to issue annual reports with recommendations on how to keep a lid on spending. On June 22, Martha Coakley released her latest report, which recommended that the state impose price controls on medical ...
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Why Don’t Health Insurance Exchanges Work?
A previous entry reported and discussed the lackluster basically non-existent results of the Utah Health Exchange, and promised to explain why unsubsidized exchanges are unlikely to attract significant numbers of beneficiaries from the small-group market. The answer, I believe, is pretty straightforward: The administrative costs of operating an ...
Two New Ventures Simplify Consumer-Driven Health Care
A friend of mine who made a lot of money use to tease me when I (constantly) expressed shock at how simple so many successful business ideas are. All great businesses are simple, he said. Here are two in the healthcare space: Bloom Health and ZocDoc. Although disrupting different parts ...
The Best Jobs Program? Full Repeal of ObamaCare
President Barack Obama is currently barnstorming around the country to drum up support for his $447-billion plan to put unemployed Americans back to work. But Congress need not hand him a check for half a trillion dollars in order to jump start the economy. If lawmakers are really serious about ...
What Should Rick Perry Say About Gardasil?
The Republican presidential primaries have been temporarily hijacked by a single incident in Rick Perrys decade-plus tenure as governor of Texas. Despite Michele Bachmanns ludicrous claim that Gardasil causes mental retardation, lets recall that not one single schoolgirl was vaccinated by the offensive executive order: The legislature overturned it long ...
Democrats’ Plan B For Medicare: Medicare For All
Last month, ObamaCare was dealt another huge blow. On August 12, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta ruled that the law’s requirement that all adults purchase health insurance was unconstitutional. The court determined that the government isn’t empowered to force private citizens to buy a ...
Over-The-Counter Remedies That Would Reduce Health Care Costs
Earlier this month, the pharmaceutical company Pfizer announced that it may ask the Food and Drug Administration to allow it to market the cholesterol-lowering statin Lipitor over the counter after its patent expires in November. The FDA has not yet signaled whether it would approve Pfizers proposal. And some doctors ...
Health insurers in states’ cross hairs
The new health care law encourages state politicians to increase their interference with health insurance premiums, an underreported aspect of Obamacare with consequences for patients and health plans alike. Obamacare distributes federal grants that encourage states’ insurance departments to increase their power to dictate insurance premiums. States are responding by ...
The Latest ObamaCare Assault On Health Care Innovation
The list of health services that ObamaCare requires all insurers to cover without co-pays or deductibles keeps growing. The latest additions include an array of womens wellness services and products: birth control, breast pumps, domestic violence counseling, and more. Of course, these additional benefits arent really free. They drive up ...
Counting Up ObamaCare’s Health Cost Inflation
Its time to add yet another study to the growing list of research showing that ObamaCare isnt delivering on its grand promises. In the July issue of the journal Health Affairs, Medicares actuaries released new estimates of the rate of growth of national health costs. Surprise, surprise theyre projected ...
Political control unhelpful
Faced with spiraling statewide health costs, Massachusetts passed a law in 2008 mandating the states attorney general to issue annual reports with recommendations on how to keep a lid on spending. On June 22, Martha Coakley released her latest report, which recommended that the state impose price controls on medical ...
Why Don’t Health Insurance Exchanges Work?
A previous entry reported and discussed the lackluster basically non-existent results of the Utah Health Exchange, and promised to explain why unsubsidized exchanges are unlikely to attract significant numbers of beneficiaries from the small-group market. The answer, I believe, is pretty straightforward: The administrative costs of operating an ...
