Medicaid
Commentary
Obamacare wins: Now the pain begins
With the passage of the health “reform” bill, President Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid have ensured that the American economy and America’s household economics are in for a rough decade. Liberals are hailing the vote as historic, and indeed it was — a blunder ...
Sally C. Pipes
March 22, 2010
Health Care
Taxing Health Insurance: How Much Do States Earn?
Nevada, Hawaii, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Georgia will see significant reductions in dollars available to fund Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Programs Taxing Health Insurance: How Much Do States Earn? presents a first-of-its-kind report on the potential cost of increased federal control of health insurance. This report, written ...
John R. Graham
March 17, 2010
Health Care
New PRI Sudy Shows that Increased Federal Control of Health Insurance Plans Will Reduce States’ Tax Revenue
Nevada, Hawaii, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Georgia will see significant reductions in dollars available to fund Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Programs San Francisco, March 17, 2010 – Today the Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a free-market think tank based in California, released a first-of-its-kind report on the potential ...
John R. Graham
March 17, 2010
Commentary
Massachusetts’ ‘reform’ mess
Federal lawmakers pondering how to vote on Obama-Care this week should notice that Massachusetts is back asking Washington for hundreds of millions more to bail out its universal health-coverage system. When it became law in 2006, the Bay State’s plan was supposed to fix everything — with much the same ...
Sally C. Pipes
March 16, 2010
Commentary
ObamaCare vs The 57
With perhaps a third of practicing physicians threatening to “Go Galt” should ObamaCare pass, it’s easy to overlook another potentially devastating effect of this monstrosity: ” Nevada, Hawaii, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Georgia will see significant reductions in dollars available to fund Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Programs.” ...
Heather Kays
March 15, 2010
Commentary
Health Care Subject Matter Experts Part 2 Sally C. Pipes
A few weeks ago, my Leadership Program of the Rockies class heard Sally C. Pipes speak on the American health care system. Who is Sally Pipes, you ask? (It’s okay, I didn’t know either!) She is author of The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care: A Citizen’s Guide, and ...
Laura Benjamin
March 13, 2010
Commentary
Dem And Voter Differences Are Irreconcilable
Investor’s Business Daily, March 8, 2010 During his 35th speech on health care at the White House last Wednesday, President Obama called on Congress to give his reform package an “up-or-down vote” before the Easter recess, with or without Republican support. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry ...
Sally C. Pipes
March 8, 2010
Health Care
Did You Hear About Anthem Blue Cross Cutting Premiums 20 Percent?
Probably not. But its just as accurate as recent headlines trumpeting a 39 percent increase for individual policyholders. The insurers letter to Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, describes a wide range of premium changes, from a reduction of 20 percent to an increase of 35 percent, after ...
John R. Graham
March 3, 2010
Commentary
Health reform plans represent financial malpractice
Detroit News, February 27, 2010 President Barack Obama has made it clear that reducing the cost of care is one of the primary goals of his reform effort, a point he emphasized at Thursday’s health care summit. And yet, according to a recent report from the Department of Health and ...
Sally C. Pipes
February 27, 2010
Commentary
Why Canadian premier seeks health care in U.S.
San Francisco Chronicle, February 25, 2010 The Greeneville Sun, February 22, 2010 Danny Williams, the premier of the Canadian province of Newfoundland, traveled to the United States earlier this month to undergo heart valve surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami. With his trip, Williams joined a long list ...
Sally C. Pipes
February 25, 2010
Obamacare wins: Now the pain begins
With the passage of the health “reform” bill, President Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid have ensured that the American economy and America’s household economics are in for a rough decade. Liberals are hailing the vote as historic, and indeed it was — a blunder ...
Taxing Health Insurance: How Much Do States Earn?
Nevada, Hawaii, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Georgia will see significant reductions in dollars available to fund Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Programs Taxing Health Insurance: How Much Do States Earn? presents a first-of-its-kind report on the potential cost of increased federal control of health insurance. This report, written ...
New PRI Sudy Shows that Increased Federal Control of Health Insurance Plans Will Reduce States’ Tax Revenue
Nevada, Hawaii, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Georgia will see significant reductions in dollars available to fund Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Programs San Francisco, March 17, 2010 – Today the Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a free-market think tank based in California, released a first-of-its-kind report on the potential ...
Massachusetts’ ‘reform’ mess
Federal lawmakers pondering how to vote on Obama-Care this week should notice that Massachusetts is back asking Washington for hundreds of millions more to bail out its universal health-coverage system. When it became law in 2006, the Bay State’s plan was supposed to fix everything — with much the same ...
ObamaCare vs The 57
With perhaps a third of practicing physicians threatening to “Go Galt” should ObamaCare pass, it’s easy to overlook another potentially devastating effect of this monstrosity: ” Nevada, Hawaii, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Georgia will see significant reductions in dollars available to fund Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Programs.” ...
Health Care Subject Matter Experts Part 2 Sally C. Pipes
A few weeks ago, my Leadership Program of the Rockies class heard Sally C. Pipes speak on the American health care system. Who is Sally Pipes, you ask? (It’s okay, I didn’t know either!) She is author of The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care: A Citizen’s Guide, and ...
Dem And Voter Differences Are Irreconcilable
Investor’s Business Daily, March 8, 2010 During his 35th speech on health care at the White House last Wednesday, President Obama called on Congress to give his reform package an “up-or-down vote” before the Easter recess, with or without Republican support. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry ...
Did You Hear About Anthem Blue Cross Cutting Premiums 20 Percent?
Probably not. But its just as accurate as recent headlines trumpeting a 39 percent increase for individual policyholders. The insurers letter to Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, describes a wide range of premium changes, from a reduction of 20 percent to an increase of 35 percent, after ...
Health reform plans represent financial malpractice
Detroit News, February 27, 2010 President Barack Obama has made it clear that reducing the cost of care is one of the primary goals of his reform effort, a point he emphasized at Thursday’s health care summit. And yet, according to a recent report from the Department of Health and ...
Why Canadian premier seeks health care in U.S.
San Francisco Chronicle, February 25, 2010 The Greeneville Sun, February 22, 2010 Danny Williams, the premier of the Canadian province of Newfoundland, traveled to the United States earlier this month to undergo heart valve surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami. With his trip, Williams joined a long list ...