Health Care Reform
Commentary
Lucy Dunn: O.C. business group wary of Obamacare
On Nov. 09, the Register’s Opinion pages published opposing views on health care reform [“Is it time to dismantle health reform law?”], one of which mentioned Orange County Business Council research by Wallace Walrod. OCBC’s report, cited in the piece by Daniel Zingales of the California Endowment, was an initial ...
Pacific Research Institute
November 18, 2010
Commentary
The government’s waning support of breast cancer?
Breast Cancer Awareness month, which wound down last month, appeared to get plenty of government support. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius held a teleconference in recognition of national mammography day. She and Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control, touted a new program to promote awareness. ...
Sally C. Pipes
November 11, 2010
Commentary
Obamacare’s Popularity Hits All-Time Low
The survey also confirms that “health care voters” were central to the Republicans’ overwhelming victory in the midterms. Such voters – defined by Kaiser as “those who named health care or health care reform as one of the top two factors in deciding their vote for Congress” – overwhelmingly supported ...
Jeffrey H. Anderson
November 9, 2010
Commentary
American Health Care and American Productivity: An International Comparison
Key Points Domestic critics claim that U.S. health care is a drag on productivity, but the United States is the world’s most productive nation. American productivity leads to much higher national income than in other countries, suggesting that our high health spending as a share of GDP is not out ...
John R. Graham
November 9, 2010
Business & Economics
GOP gets undeserved second chance
SACRAMENTO – President Barack Obama saved the Republican Party from itself. In a two-party system, when one party makes a mess of things, the only choice is to reward the other party and hope that, eventually, one of the parties learns the right lessons. The Democrats received a well-deserved comeuppance, ...
Steven Greenhut
November 2, 2010
Commentary
Interview with Sally Pipes on ObamaCare at Six Months
“I would say the mainstream media, of course, always likes to increase the role of government in our lives, and Obama, Pelosi, and Reid believe that government can make decisions for the American people better than we can make for ourselves.” AIM recently interviewed Sally Pipes, President and CEO of ...
Roger Aronoff
September 24, 2010
Health Care
Book Review: The Truth about Obamacare
Health care reform may prove to be President Obama’s signature domestic achievement — as well as the undoing of the Democratic Party. Contrary to his claim that Americans would grow to love Uncle Sam as doctor-in-chief, public support for statist “reform” continues to fall. Few Democrats in marginal congressional districts ...
Doug Bandow
September 14, 2010
Commentary
States fight Obamacare
Opposition to the new health reform law is continuing to grow in the states – just as Congress prepares for its final pre-election legislative session. Colorado, for instance, just placed an initiative on the ballot that would, if passed, block many aspects of Obamacare – including the requirement that individuals ...
Sally C. Pipes
September 8, 2010
Health Care
BOOK RELEASE: THE TRUTH ABOUT OBAMACARE
San Francisco— President Obama’s national healthcare mandate will undoubtedly lead to the largest expansion of government in the history of the United States and will cost taxpayers at least $1 trillion over ten years. And that’s just the beginning, says Sally Pipes, author of The Truth About Obamacare. As candidates ...
Pacific Research Institute
August 5, 2010
Commentary
How real reform is different from Obamacare
Part three in a three-part series To turn a phrase, there ought not to be a law; Obamacare should be booted from the U.S. Code and onto the ash heap of history. Think it can’t be done? Guess again — Congress has reversed course on health care reform before. On ...
Sally C. Pipes
August 4, 2010
Lucy Dunn: O.C. business group wary of Obamacare
On Nov. 09, the Register’s Opinion pages published opposing views on health care reform [“Is it time to dismantle health reform law?”], one of which mentioned Orange County Business Council research by Wallace Walrod. OCBC’s report, cited in the piece by Daniel Zingales of the California Endowment, was an initial ...
The government’s waning support of breast cancer?
Breast Cancer Awareness month, which wound down last month, appeared to get plenty of government support. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius held a teleconference in recognition of national mammography day. She and Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control, touted a new program to promote awareness. ...
Obamacare’s Popularity Hits All-Time Low
The survey also confirms that “health care voters” were central to the Republicans’ overwhelming victory in the midterms. Such voters – defined by Kaiser as “those who named health care or health care reform as one of the top two factors in deciding their vote for Congress” – overwhelmingly supported ...
American Health Care and American Productivity: An International Comparison
Key Points Domestic critics claim that U.S. health care is a drag on productivity, but the United States is the world’s most productive nation. American productivity leads to much higher national income than in other countries, suggesting that our high health spending as a share of GDP is not out ...
GOP gets undeserved second chance
SACRAMENTO – President Barack Obama saved the Republican Party from itself. In a two-party system, when one party makes a mess of things, the only choice is to reward the other party and hope that, eventually, one of the parties learns the right lessons. The Democrats received a well-deserved comeuppance, ...
Interview with Sally Pipes on ObamaCare at Six Months
“I would say the mainstream media, of course, always likes to increase the role of government in our lives, and Obama, Pelosi, and Reid believe that government can make decisions for the American people better than we can make for ourselves.” AIM recently interviewed Sally Pipes, President and CEO of ...
Book Review: The Truth about Obamacare
Health care reform may prove to be President Obama’s signature domestic achievement — as well as the undoing of the Democratic Party. Contrary to his claim that Americans would grow to love Uncle Sam as doctor-in-chief, public support for statist “reform” continues to fall. Few Democrats in marginal congressional districts ...
States fight Obamacare
Opposition to the new health reform law is continuing to grow in the states – just as Congress prepares for its final pre-election legislative session. Colorado, for instance, just placed an initiative on the ballot that would, if passed, block many aspects of Obamacare – including the requirement that individuals ...
BOOK RELEASE: THE TRUTH ABOUT OBAMACARE
San Francisco— President Obama’s national healthcare mandate will undoubtedly lead to the largest expansion of government in the history of the United States and will cost taxpayers at least $1 trillion over ten years. And that’s just the beginning, says Sally Pipes, author of The Truth About Obamacare. As candidates ...
How real reform is different from Obamacare
Part three in a three-part series To turn a phrase, there ought not to be a law; Obamacare should be booted from the U.S. Code and onto the ash heap of history. Think it can’t be done? Guess again — Congress has reversed course on health care reform before. On ...