Health Savings Accounts
Commentary
Conservative Alternatives to ObamaCare
(Sue Lowden) Rather than crippling our nation with higher debt and higher taxes to fund government-run health care, I have called for solutions that can begin to drive down the cost of health insurance, thus making it more accessible to those who do not have coverage today. First, Congress ...
Commentary
Obama’s forgotten health-care promises
The Baltimore Sun, December 16, 2009 The more details that emerge from health care reform plans coalescing and colliding on Capitol Hill, the more one wonders how President Barack Obama could possibly justify supporting any of them – much less signing one into law. Congressional Democrats are threatening to serve ...
Commentary
Roadmap to Victory
Providing a contrast would best expose the weaknesses of the Democratic health bills. By proposing a health-care bill of their own, Senate Republicans can throw the extraordinary weaknesses of the Democratic bills into stark relief. In the wake of the Congressional Budget Office’s recent scoring of aspects of the House ...
Business & Economics
Exploring reasons for the rising cost of care in the state
It seems that everyone has an opinion regarding what should be done to reform our health care system. Most people believe that changes to our current system need to be made, but not quickly and not by politicians. The costs must come down, but not by rationing, government price controls ...
Commentary
Obama flip-flops on insurance mandate
San Francisco Chronicle, October 13, 2009 President Obama has promised that his health reform plan will lower costs and expand coverage. He and his Democratic allies are counting on an “individual mandate,” or a requirement that everyone purchase health insurance, to achieve these goals. But Obama hasn’t always been gung ...
Health Care
Jindal’s Poll-Driven Health-Reform ‘Ideas’
Unfortunately, while some of Mr. Jindal’s proposals are good, his op-ed is clearly the work of a professional politician (and his staff): A cobbling together of “solutions” that the uninformed public rate highly when surveyed about health “reform.” As a result, the grab-bag of ten “ideas” collapses into incoherence. Some ...
Commentary
‘Reform’ horrors: O’s Total Disconnect
The New York Post, September 30, 2009 The disconnect is just about perfect: President Obama’s utopian promises for what his health-care agenda would bring are the opposite of what the plans on the table would produce. In his Sept. 9 speech before Congress, he laid out three principles. “It will ...
Commentary
GOP ideas are ignored
OK, I’ll admit it. I’m a senior fast approaching Medicare eligibility and I’m worried. I’m worried about our nation’s future, and I’m worried that if President Obama’s proposed health care plan goes through, Medicare will be reduced by $500 billion. There will be 30 million citizens added to the health ...
Commentary
Sally Pipes on Health Care
FutureOfCapitalism.com spoke recently with the president and ceo of the Pacific Research Institute, Sally Pipes, as part of a series of interviews we have planned in the coming days and weeks with experts on health-care policy experts. Ms. Pipes is author of The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care. ...
Commentary
The Best Health Care Plan You’ve Never Heard Of
Real Clear Politics, September 13, 2009 Washington is in the midst of yet another scandal — but not the kind you’d read about in a gossip rag. Congressional dilettantes are willfully ignoring health-care reform ideas that would cut costs and provide high-quality care to all. Sound nuts? It shouldn’t. By ...
Conservative Alternatives to ObamaCare
(Sue Lowden) Rather than crippling our nation with higher debt and higher taxes to fund government-run health care, I have called for solutions that can begin to drive down the cost of health insurance, thus making it more accessible to those who do not have coverage today. First, Congress ...
Obama’s forgotten health-care promises
The Baltimore Sun, December 16, 2009 The more details that emerge from health care reform plans coalescing and colliding on Capitol Hill, the more one wonders how President Barack Obama could possibly justify supporting any of them – much less signing one into law. Congressional Democrats are threatening to serve ...
Roadmap to Victory
Providing a contrast would best expose the weaknesses of the Democratic health bills. By proposing a health-care bill of their own, Senate Republicans can throw the extraordinary weaknesses of the Democratic bills into stark relief. In the wake of the Congressional Budget Office’s recent scoring of aspects of the House ...
Exploring reasons for the rising cost of care in the state
It seems that everyone has an opinion regarding what should be done to reform our health care system. Most people believe that changes to our current system need to be made, but not quickly and not by politicians. The costs must come down, but not by rationing, government price controls ...
Obama flip-flops on insurance mandate
San Francisco Chronicle, October 13, 2009 President Obama has promised that his health reform plan will lower costs and expand coverage. He and his Democratic allies are counting on an “individual mandate,” or a requirement that everyone purchase health insurance, to achieve these goals. But Obama hasn’t always been gung ...
Jindal’s Poll-Driven Health-Reform ‘Ideas’
Unfortunately, while some of Mr. Jindal’s proposals are good, his op-ed is clearly the work of a professional politician (and his staff): A cobbling together of “solutions” that the uninformed public rate highly when surveyed about health “reform.” As a result, the grab-bag of ten “ideas” collapses into incoherence. Some ...
‘Reform’ horrors: O’s Total Disconnect
The New York Post, September 30, 2009 The disconnect is just about perfect: President Obama’s utopian promises for what his health-care agenda would bring are the opposite of what the plans on the table would produce. In his Sept. 9 speech before Congress, he laid out three principles. “It will ...
GOP ideas are ignored
OK, I’ll admit it. I’m a senior fast approaching Medicare eligibility and I’m worried. I’m worried about our nation’s future, and I’m worried that if President Obama’s proposed health care plan goes through, Medicare will be reduced by $500 billion. There will be 30 million citizens added to the health ...
Sally Pipes on Health Care
FutureOfCapitalism.com spoke recently with the president and ceo of the Pacific Research Institute, Sally Pipes, as part of a series of interviews we have planned in the coming days and weeks with experts on health-care policy experts. Ms. Pipes is author of The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care. ...
The Best Health Care Plan You’ve Never Heard Of
Real Clear Politics, September 13, 2009 Washington is in the midst of yet another scandal — but not the kind you’d read about in a gossip rag. Congressional dilettantes are willfully ignoring health-care reform ideas that would cut costs and provide high-quality care to all. Sound nuts? It shouldn’t. By ...
