Medicaid
Commentary
Senate GOP Health Reform Plan Has Room For Improvement — But Still Better Than Obamacare
In his recent State of the Union address, President Obama threw down a gauntlet for Republicans opposed to his health reform law. If you have specific plans to cut costs, cover more people, increase choice, tell America what youd do differently, he said. Lets see if the numbers add up. ...
Commentary
Michael Moore Is Right: Obamacare Is Awful, But Single-Payer Would Be Much Worse
Obamacare is awful, filmmaker Michael Moore recently wrote in the New York Times. He went on to say that President Obama knew in his heart that a single-payer, Medicare-for-all model was the true way to go. Moores been preaching the single-payer gospel for years, most famously in his 2007 documentary ...
Commentary
No ‘new day’ for Obamacare
The first insurance policies sold through Obamacares exchanges went into effect this month. As they did so, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius proclaimed a new day in health care for millions of Americans. But the actual numbers tell a different story. Lets start with the figure most frequently ...
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Don’t Be Fooled By Kathleen Sebelius’s Healthcare.gov ‘Progress’ Report
This month, Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius trudged up to Capitol Hill for her second public grilling over the flaws with the Obamacare healthcare exchanges. Sebelius was insistent that HealthCare.gov has vastly improved since its October launch, noting that about a quarter of a million new people signed up in November. ...
Commentary
Flash: Obamacare Dangerous To Health of Poor
Well, Halleluiah. The Obamacare website is up and running. Of course, at only half a million applications processed so far
and accounting for the ones that the system garbled or couldnt verify or seems to have lost
and anticipating the tens of millions of Americans predicted to lose coverage once ...
Commentary
Obamacare Is In Serious Trouble, And Obama’s Subsidies Are Worth Refusing
President Obama and his signature legislative accomplishment Obamacare are in deep trouble. The health insurance exchanges established by the law arent working properly; it now appears that the federally operated HealthCare.gov will not be fixed by November 30, as the president promised. Millions of Americans are irate that ...
Commentary
Move to save Medicaid money endangers lives
A particularly brutal kind of medical rationing is coming to Oregon. As of Oct. 1, Oregons Medicaid program stopped covering major medical interventions for patients assessed as having two years or less to live. Not only is the move immoral, its likely illegal. This coverage restriction comes courtesy of the ...
Commentary
ObamaCare Unraveling And It Only Gets Worse In 2014
With ObamaCare’s health insurance exchanges unraveling especially HealthCare.gov, the federally run portal for the 36 states that decided not to set up their own exchanges it’s safe to say that the president’s effort to expand coverage isn’t going well. It’s about to get worse. Once the calendar flips ...
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Seven steps to replace Obamacare with something that works
Excerpted from “The Cure for Obamacare” (Encounter Broadsides, summer 2013) President Obama took a shot at opponents of his health care reform law recently, saying, “there’s not even a pretense now that they’re going to replace it with something better.” Au contraire. Ideas for “something better” abound but the ...
Commentary
Obamacare Will Wreck U.S. Taxpayers, So Here’s Another Plan
The government shutdown has entered its second week, and House Republicans have remained steadfast in their insistence that changes to the presidents signature healthcare reform law accompany any deal to re-open the government. But the GOP isnt talking about what it would put in Obamacares place. And thats a shame, ...
Senate GOP Health Reform Plan Has Room For Improvement — But Still Better Than Obamacare
In his recent State of the Union address, President Obama threw down a gauntlet for Republicans opposed to his health reform law. If you have specific plans to cut costs, cover more people, increase choice, tell America what youd do differently, he said. Lets see if the numbers add up. ...
Michael Moore Is Right: Obamacare Is Awful, But Single-Payer Would Be Much Worse
Obamacare is awful, filmmaker Michael Moore recently wrote in the New York Times. He went on to say that President Obama knew in his heart that a single-payer, Medicare-for-all model was the true way to go. Moores been preaching the single-payer gospel for years, most famously in his 2007 documentary ...
No ‘new day’ for Obamacare
The first insurance policies sold through Obamacares exchanges went into effect this month. As they did so, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius proclaimed a new day in health care for millions of Americans. But the actual numbers tell a different story. Lets start with the figure most frequently ...
Don’t Be Fooled By Kathleen Sebelius’s Healthcare.gov ‘Progress’ Report
This month, Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius trudged up to Capitol Hill for her second public grilling over the flaws with the Obamacare healthcare exchanges. Sebelius was insistent that HealthCare.gov has vastly improved since its October launch, noting that about a quarter of a million new people signed up in November. ...
Flash: Obamacare Dangerous To Health of Poor
Well, Halleluiah. The Obamacare website is up and running. Of course, at only half a million applications processed so far
and accounting for the ones that the system garbled or couldnt verify or seems to have lost
and anticipating the tens of millions of Americans predicted to lose coverage once ...
Obamacare Is In Serious Trouble, And Obama’s Subsidies Are Worth Refusing
President Obama and his signature legislative accomplishment Obamacare are in deep trouble. The health insurance exchanges established by the law arent working properly; it now appears that the federally operated HealthCare.gov will not be fixed by November 30, as the president promised. Millions of Americans are irate that ...
Move to save Medicaid money endangers lives
A particularly brutal kind of medical rationing is coming to Oregon. As of Oct. 1, Oregons Medicaid program stopped covering major medical interventions for patients assessed as having two years or less to live. Not only is the move immoral, its likely illegal. This coverage restriction comes courtesy of the ...
ObamaCare Unraveling And It Only Gets Worse In 2014
With ObamaCare’s health insurance exchanges unraveling especially HealthCare.gov, the federally run portal for the 36 states that decided not to set up their own exchanges it’s safe to say that the president’s effort to expand coverage isn’t going well. It’s about to get worse. Once the calendar flips ...
Seven steps to replace Obamacare with something that works
Excerpted from “The Cure for Obamacare” (Encounter Broadsides, summer 2013) President Obama took a shot at opponents of his health care reform law recently, saying, “there’s not even a pretense now that they’re going to replace it with something better.” Au contraire. Ideas for “something better” abound but the ...
Obamacare Will Wreck U.S. Taxpayers, So Here’s Another Plan
The government shutdown has entered its second week, and House Republicans have remained steadfast in their insistence that changes to the presidents signature healthcare reform law accompany any deal to re-open the government. But the GOP isnt talking about what it would put in Obamacares place. And thats a shame, ...
