Health Care Reform
Commentary
Study: Massachusetts Reform Not a Model
Health Care News (Heartland Institute), June 1, 2009 Massachusetts’s 2006 attempt to cut health care costs and increase the number of insured through a government mandate requiring individuals to purchase insurance has become an object lesson in what not to do in reforming health care, three Harvard Medical School professors ...
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Minnesota Lawmakers Propose More Control over Health Care
Minnesota legislators have announced several health care reform proposals they say will reduce health care spending by the state government to help lower the state’s looming budget deficit. The proposals include requiring patients to enroll in medical homes; ending state payment for medical errors; implementing a licensing and preferential treatment ...
Health Care
ObamaCare: More of the Same Sicko Ideas
When Barack Obama convened a White House forum on health care reform last week, there was one ground rule: check fresh ideas at the door. Of course, you’d never know that from Obama’s opening remarks rife with the usual bipartisan Mad Libbery: In this effort, every voice has to be ...
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Under Obama Healthcare Scheme, Big Government Rations Care for Sick Patients
U.S. News & World Report (Washington, DC), May 13, 2009 American healthcare may not be perfect. But it’s not on the verge of collapse either—unless President Obama succeeds with his various healthcare reform efforts. Exhibit A: The $787-billion stimulus bill, which became law on February 19. The measure builds on ...
Health Care
Obama’s Healthcare Reform Malpractice
OBAMA’S HEALTHCARE REFORM MALPRACTICE Josiah Swampoodle – The only people Obama and congressional leaders are barring from the table in discussions of healthcare reform are people who advocate healthcare reform. You can’t solve a problem by only talking to those who created it. James Ridgway, Unsilent Generation – In a ...
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Health Care Reform: What’s in It for Patients?
ABC News, May 12, 2009 On the same day that insurance companies, hospitals, doctors’ groups and other so-called stakeholders in the United States health care system met with President Obama to discuss reforms, 64-year-old Patty Keen of Delaware was adjusting her schedule to attend the rehearsal for her grandson’s confirmation. ...
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Washington View: Health care fix hinges on learning from others’ mistakes
The Columbian (Vancouver, WA), May 11, 2009 Bonney Lake/Sumner Courier Herald (WA), May 12, 2009 Comprehensive health care reform is high on President Obama’s agenda, as it rightly should be. Health care is a growing expense for government, employers and families. There are no easy answers, as U.S. Sen. Ben ...
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Kansas Gov. Sebelius 2nd Choice for HHS
President Barack Obama has nominated Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D) to serve as secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Sebelius is Obama’s second nominee for the post, after his initial selection for HHS and White House health care czar, former U.S. senator Tom Daschle (D-SD), admitted ...
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Obama’s public plan will be a disaster for American health care
High-ranking Democrats recently signaled that they might exploit a procedural maneuver in congressional protocol to pass major healthcare legislation without a single Republican vote. Through “budget reconciliation,” a fast-track process that allows the Senate to pass the government’s budget without debate and with just a simple majority, Democratic leaders hope ...
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Would the Health Reform Prescriptions Offered by President Obama and Congressional Leaders Help Patients?
Health Policy Consensus Group Statement By Thomas P. Miller, Scott Gottlieb, M.D., Robert B. Helms, Joseph Antos, Doug Badger, Robert A. Book, James C. Capretta, Greg D’Angelo, Stephen J. Entin, John C. Goodman, Linda Gorman, John R. Graham, Paul Guppy, John S. Hoff, Merrill Matthews, Amy Menefee, Robert E. Moffit, ...
Study: Massachusetts Reform Not a Model
Health Care News (Heartland Institute), June 1, 2009 Massachusetts’s 2006 attempt to cut health care costs and increase the number of insured through a government mandate requiring individuals to purchase insurance has become an object lesson in what not to do in reforming health care, three Harvard Medical School professors ...
Minnesota Lawmakers Propose More Control over Health Care
Minnesota legislators have announced several health care reform proposals they say will reduce health care spending by the state government to help lower the state’s looming budget deficit. The proposals include requiring patients to enroll in medical homes; ending state payment for medical errors; implementing a licensing and preferential treatment ...
ObamaCare: More of the Same Sicko Ideas
When Barack Obama convened a White House forum on health care reform last week, there was one ground rule: check fresh ideas at the door. Of course, you’d never know that from Obama’s opening remarks rife with the usual bipartisan Mad Libbery: In this effort, every voice has to be ...
Under Obama Healthcare Scheme, Big Government Rations Care for Sick Patients
U.S. News & World Report (Washington, DC), May 13, 2009 American healthcare may not be perfect. But it’s not on the verge of collapse either—unless President Obama succeeds with his various healthcare reform efforts. Exhibit A: The $787-billion stimulus bill, which became law on February 19. The measure builds on ...
Obama’s Healthcare Reform Malpractice
OBAMA’S HEALTHCARE REFORM MALPRACTICE Josiah Swampoodle – The only people Obama and congressional leaders are barring from the table in discussions of healthcare reform are people who advocate healthcare reform. You can’t solve a problem by only talking to those who created it. James Ridgway, Unsilent Generation – In a ...
Health Care Reform: What’s in It for Patients?
ABC News, May 12, 2009 On the same day that insurance companies, hospitals, doctors’ groups and other so-called stakeholders in the United States health care system met with President Obama to discuss reforms, 64-year-old Patty Keen of Delaware was adjusting her schedule to attend the rehearsal for her grandson’s confirmation. ...
Washington View: Health care fix hinges on learning from others’ mistakes
The Columbian (Vancouver, WA), May 11, 2009 Bonney Lake/Sumner Courier Herald (WA), May 12, 2009 Comprehensive health care reform is high on President Obama’s agenda, as it rightly should be. Health care is a growing expense for government, employers and families. There are no easy answers, as U.S. Sen. Ben ...
Kansas Gov. Sebelius 2nd Choice for HHS
President Barack Obama has nominated Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D) to serve as secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Sebelius is Obama’s second nominee for the post, after his initial selection for HHS and White House health care czar, former U.S. senator Tom Daschle (D-SD), admitted ...
Obama’s public plan will be a disaster for American health care
High-ranking Democrats recently signaled that they might exploit a procedural maneuver in congressional protocol to pass major healthcare legislation without a single Republican vote. Through “budget reconciliation,” a fast-track process that allows the Senate to pass the government’s budget without debate and with just a simple majority, Democratic leaders hope ...
Would the Health Reform Prescriptions Offered by President Obama and Congressional Leaders Help Patients?
Health Policy Consensus Group Statement By Thomas P. Miller, Scott Gottlieb, M.D., Robert B. Helms, Joseph Antos, Doug Badger, Robert A. Book, James C. Capretta, Greg D’Angelo, Stephen J. Entin, John C. Goodman, Linda Gorman, John R. Graham, Paul Guppy, John S. Hoff, Merrill Matthews, Amy Menefee, Robert E. Moffit, ...
