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Broker: Interstate Sales Of Health Plans? Forget About It.
President Trump’s pick for HHS secretary says consumers would benefit if health insurance policies could be sold across state lines. At least one broker says that position misses a key fact of selling health insurance. The plan outlined for reforming the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act by President Trump’s ...
Commentary
WashPost Op-Ed: Obamacare Repeal Will Kill 43,000 People A Year
According to a recent January 31 Bloomberg Politics article, conservatives are fuming over the slow pace of the Obamacare repeal effort. But if you believe the Washington Post, the sky will fall if it is repealed. Even the esteemed Congressional Budget Office, according to Joel Zinberg of the American Enteprise ...
Commentary
What Will Go With Obamacare?
(Translated from Spanish to English) After the freeze of Obamacare, many wonder what changes can we expect in medical coverage? Sally Pipes, president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute, a public healthcare expert since 1988, gave an exclusive interview to El Mundo Newspaper and discussed possible changes in medical ...
California
PRI Files Amicus Brief In Federal Lawsuit To Protect Constitutional Freedoms And Privacy Rights Of Anonymous Donors
SAN FRANCISCO –California-based free-market think tank Pacific Research Institute today joined the Cato Institute and the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) in filing an amicus brief before the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals supporting the constitutional and privacy rights of donors to public charities to contribute anonymously. Click here to ...
Commentary
Conservatives Warn GOP Is Losing Momentum On Obamacare Repeal
Congress was poised to start major work this week on dismantling the Affordable Care Act, but conservatives are already fuming over lost momentum that they fear could doom the repeal effort. Lawmakers missed a non-binding deadline to deliver details of a repeal plan Friday and left a GOP retreat without ...
Commentary
Obamacare Repeal And Replacement Could Come With Hidden Costs
The sprint to dismantle the Affordable Care Act has Houston’s hospital leaders worried about a potential fallout that could sweep beyond the poor if the uninsured rate rises again. Texas already leads the nation with more than 4 million uninsured, with Harris County topping the state at about 740,000. A ...
Business & Economics
Liberal Critics Should Take A Closer Look
President Trump’s extraordinary Inaugural Address was at once familiar and surprising, combining echoes from a forgotten past with notes that are entirely new. The echoes were to a president who was viewed with as much alarm by the official Washington of his day as Mr. Trump is by today’s Washington. ...
Business & Economics
Trump Should Remind Us To Acknowledge What’s Wrong Before Making Things Right
In his first Inaugural Address, President Andrew Jackson said that the election that brought him to office “inscribes on the list of Executive duties, in characters too legible to be overlooked, the task of ‘reform.’” With this election, the American people told those of us they chose – for both ...
Drug Pricing
Health Care Expert: If Obamacare Isn’t Immediately Repealed, Then It Likely Never Will Be
Ever since the Affordable Care Act — colloquially known as “Obamacare” — was signed into law in March 2010, the primary goal of congressional Republicans has been to repeal the law and replace it with a market-based solution that they say works for all Americans. For years, Republicans were only ...
Health Care
Post-Election Top Policy Changes To Watch In 2017
While every new year brings change, with Donald Trump elected to become the next president and the U.S. House and Senate both having Republican majorities, managed healthcare executives will see more changes than usual in 2017—beginning with repealing and replacing most of the provisions in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). ...
Broker: Interstate Sales Of Health Plans? Forget About It.
President Trump’s pick for HHS secretary says consumers would benefit if health insurance policies could be sold across state lines. At least one broker says that position misses a key fact of selling health insurance. The plan outlined for reforming the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act by President Trump’s ...
WashPost Op-Ed: Obamacare Repeal Will Kill 43,000 People A Year
According to a recent January 31 Bloomberg Politics article, conservatives are fuming over the slow pace of the Obamacare repeal effort. But if you believe the Washington Post, the sky will fall if it is repealed. Even the esteemed Congressional Budget Office, according to Joel Zinberg of the American Enteprise ...
What Will Go With Obamacare?
(Translated from Spanish to English) After the freeze of Obamacare, many wonder what changes can we expect in medical coverage? Sally Pipes, president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute, a public healthcare expert since 1988, gave an exclusive interview to El Mundo Newspaper and discussed possible changes in medical ...
PRI Files Amicus Brief In Federal Lawsuit To Protect Constitutional Freedoms And Privacy Rights Of Anonymous Donors
SAN FRANCISCO –California-based free-market think tank Pacific Research Institute today joined the Cato Institute and the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) in filing an amicus brief before the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals supporting the constitutional and privacy rights of donors to public charities to contribute anonymously. Click here to ...
Conservatives Warn GOP Is Losing Momentum On Obamacare Repeal
Congress was poised to start major work this week on dismantling the Affordable Care Act, but conservatives are already fuming over lost momentum that they fear could doom the repeal effort. Lawmakers missed a non-binding deadline to deliver details of a repeal plan Friday and left a GOP retreat without ...
Obamacare Repeal And Replacement Could Come With Hidden Costs
The sprint to dismantle the Affordable Care Act has Houston’s hospital leaders worried about a potential fallout that could sweep beyond the poor if the uninsured rate rises again. Texas already leads the nation with more than 4 million uninsured, with Harris County topping the state at about 740,000. A ...
Liberal Critics Should Take A Closer Look
President Trump’s extraordinary Inaugural Address was at once familiar and surprising, combining echoes from a forgotten past with notes that are entirely new. The echoes were to a president who was viewed with as much alarm by the official Washington of his day as Mr. Trump is by today’s Washington. ...
Trump Should Remind Us To Acknowledge What’s Wrong Before Making Things Right
In his first Inaugural Address, President Andrew Jackson said that the election that brought him to office “inscribes on the list of Executive duties, in characters too legible to be overlooked, the task of ‘reform.’” With this election, the American people told those of us they chose – for both ...
Health Care Expert: If Obamacare Isn’t Immediately Repealed, Then It Likely Never Will Be
Ever since the Affordable Care Act — colloquially known as “Obamacare” — was signed into law in March 2010, the primary goal of congressional Republicans has been to repeal the law and replace it with a market-based solution that they say works for all Americans. For years, Republicans were only ...
Post-Election Top Policy Changes To Watch In 2017
While every new year brings change, with Donald Trump elected to become the next president and the U.S. House and Senate both having Republican majorities, managed healthcare executives will see more changes than usual in 2017—beginning with repealing and replacing most of the provisions in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). ...
