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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 couldn’t verify or seems to have lost… and anticipating the tens of millions of Americans predicted to lose coverage once ...
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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 aren’t 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 ...
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Move to save Medicaid money endangers lives

A particularly brutal kind of medical rationing is coming to Oregon. As of Oct. 1, Oregon’s Medicaid program stopped covering major medical interventions for patients assessed as having two years or less to live. Not only is the move immoral, it’s likely illegal. This coverage restriction comes courtesy of the ...
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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 ...
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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 president’s signature healthcare reform law accompany any deal to re-open the government. But the GOP isn’t talking about what it would put in Obamacare’s place. And that’s a shame, ...
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It’s Hard out There for a Doctor

America’s doctor shortage is quickly becoming a crisis. No less than 14 states have introduced legislation or created new programs to deal with the problem. The Association of American Medical Colleges reports that the country is currently short 20,000 doctors. Over the next decade, that number could quintuple. And “Obamacare” ...
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Nobody wins when bureaucrats make health care decisions instead of patients

What is called “health insurance” in the U.S. is not insurance. People buy insurance to protect themselves against unlikely but costly risks, like having a car accident. The purpose of purchasing automobile insurance is not to pay for routine maintenance costs; the purpose is to pay the huge costs that ...
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ObamaCare Making Doctor Shortage Crisis Even Worse

America’s doctor shortage is quickly becoming a crisis. No less than 14 states have introduced legislation or created new programs to deal with the problem. The Association of American Medical Colleges reports that the country is currently short 20,000 doctors. Over the next decade, that number could quintuple. And ObamaCare ...
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Expanding Medicaid: A foolish way to improve healthcare access

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius recently said, “If you want a healthier population, looking at the opportunity to expand Medicaid has got to be a piece of the puzzle.” Expansion of Medicaid — the jointly run federal-state health plan for low-income Americans — has long been an ...
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 couldn’t 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 aren’t 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, Oregon’s Medicaid program stopped covering major medical interventions for patients assessed as having two years or less to live. Not only is the move immoral, it’s 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 ...
Commentary

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 president’s signature healthcare reform law accompany any deal to re-open the government. But the GOP isn’t talking about what it would put in Obamacare’s place. And that’s a shame, ...
Commentary

It’s Hard out There for a Doctor

America’s doctor shortage is quickly becoming a crisis. No less than 14 states have introduced legislation or created new programs to deal with the problem. The Association of American Medical Colleges reports that the country is currently short 20,000 doctors. Over the next decade, that number could quintuple. And “Obamacare” ...
Commentary

Nobody wins when bureaucrats make health care decisions instead of patients

What is called “health insurance” in the U.S. is not insurance. People buy insurance to protect themselves against unlikely but costly risks, like having a car accident. The purpose of purchasing automobile insurance is not to pay for routine maintenance costs; the purpose is to pay the huge costs that ...
Commentary

ObamaCare Making Doctor Shortage Crisis Even Worse

America’s doctor shortage is quickly becoming a crisis. No less than 14 states have introduced legislation or created new programs to deal with the problem. The Association of American Medical Colleges reports that the country is currently short 20,000 doctors. Over the next decade, that number could quintuple. And ObamaCare ...
Commentary

Expanding Medicaid: A foolish way to improve healthcare access

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius recently said, “If you want a healthier population, looking at the opportunity to expand Medicaid has got to be a piece of the puzzle.” Expansion of Medicaid — the jointly run federal-state health plan for low-income Americans — has long been an ...
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