The Impending Public Plan Spending Disaster
In his Jimmy Carter-esque “New Foundation” speech Tuesday, President Barack Obama linked health care reform and deficit reduction claiming: “If we want to get serious about fiscal discipline … we will...
View ArticleAbandoning Accountability in Medicaid
Yesterday’s New York Times editorial, “Financing Health Care Reform,” outlines the need to “make the hard choices” including “cutting and reallocating hundreds of billions of dollars from projected...
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House Bill Raises, Not Lowers, Health Care Costs
The Chief Actuary in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in the Obama Health and Human Services department issued a memorandum late yesterday looking at the potential impact of the House...
View ArticleBuffett to Obama: Scrap Current Bill and Start Over
Last week’s bipartisan summit on health care reform seems to have done little, if anything, to build support for the President’s vision of health care reform. Strong opposition to the Democrats’...
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The Truth about Rising Health Insurance Premiums
Congress and its allies on the left are hell bent to overhaul the health care of every American. They have focused strongly on increasing regulation of insurance companies. They get the most of the...
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White House Health Care Rhetoric About to Meet Reality
At the signing of the Senate health bill today, President Barack Obama said: “In a few moments, when I sign this bill, all of the overheated rhetoric over reform will finally confront the reality of...
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Obamacare Spells Disaster for Americans
Now that Obamacare passed, the Left is calling it a truly historic achievement, chalking it up as a victory for health care reformers everywhere. With the enactment of the House-Senate...
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Price Transparency in Health Care: Will it Bend the Cost Curve?
Recently, the New York Times highlighted a booming trend toward greater price transparency in medicine thanks to up-and-comers such as Castlight, a new company aiming to create a search engine of...
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CBO: Obamacare Unlikely to Reduce Spending on Health Care
Yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office released its annual long-term Budget Outlook, which provides a look at mandatory federal spending on health care after passage of the Patient Protection and...
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Side Effects: Obamacare Encouraging Insurers to Cut Corners
With or without Obamacare, health insurance costs are on the rise. And that has businesses searching for more affordable options. One increasingly popular option: health plans covering services...
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Side Effects: Premium Hikes for Arizona State Employees, Courtesy of Obamacare
Arizona v. President Obama. This time it’s not about immigration but health care. A recent letter from the Arizona Department of Administration to 135,000 state employees informed them that, depending...
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Reduced Use of Health Care Could Cut Costs—That Is, Until Obamacare Makes Its...
The President signed Obamacare into law last March as an attempt to get spending and costs under control, but the new law will likely fail at this mission. In fact, The Wall Street Journal reports...
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Side Effects: Obamacare Raises Your Premiums
Health Insurers Plan Hikes. That’s the headline of today’s Wall Street Journal story which reports: “Health insurers say they plan to raise premiums for some Americans as a direct result of the health...
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What’s the Worst That Could Happen With The New Health Law?
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is one of the largest and most complicated overhauls ever enacted. Policy experts continue to debate the impact it will have. Among the issues that has...
View ArticleSupreme Court Is Asked to Strike Down Tobacco Settlement
Last week the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a Washington-based free-market advocacy group, filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court to review the 1998 tobacco Master Settlement Agreement on the...
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Congress Must Now Address Civil Justice Reform to Impact Health Care
Democrats profess great concern about the health care issue. Yet they avoided including any form of medical malpractice reform when passing their major health care legislation in 2010. This despite...
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Obamacare 2nd Birthday: No Surprise, Still Not Lowering Costs
This This week Obamacare will have its second birthday, but there’s little reason to celebrate. Throughout the week, Obamacare advocates will be emphasizing the law’s supposed benefits on specific...
View ArticleMedicare Reform Debate: What Really Works in Health Care Competition
Recently, economist Paul Krugman derided the premium support plan to reform Medicare: Still, wouldn’t private insurers reduce costs through the magic of the marketplace? No. All, and I mean all, the...
View ArticleUrban Institute Claims Wages and Other Benefits to Be Reduced Under Obamacare
Recent analysis by the Urban Institute says that Obamacare has “a negligible impact on total employer-sponsored coverage and its costs.” But a closer look at the results of the study uncovers some...
View Article10 Things About Obamacare That Just Don’t Make Sense
Obamacare includes many disastrous consequences for America’s health care system. Contributing to the impending mess are these 10 provisions that clearly elude common sense. Expanding a program that...
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Unions Insult Taxpayers with Obamacare Subsidy Request
Labor union leaders, who are big supporters of President Obama and were big proponents of his health care reform law, want taxpayer dollars to help pay for the increase in their health care costs due...
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Obama Tax Hikes Will Balance the Budget (April Fool’s)
In the ongoing debate over deficit reduction, President Obama and his colleagues in the House and Senate incessantly call for tax increases as if our budget problems persisted because of taxes being...
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Now Congress Wants to Exempt Itself from Obamacare
Newscom No argument for Obamacare’s repeal can top the simple fact that Members of Congress do not want it to apply to them. Today’s Politico reports that the House and Senate congressional...
View ArticleVIDEO: Schumer Admits Obamacare Will Increase Health Care Costs
It’s been a rough week for Obamacare. First came President Obama’s laughable defense of the health-care law, then news spread about an outcry from local leaders in Minnesota worried about the soaring...
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For Low-Income Families, Obamacare Is the UNAFFORDABLE Care Act
Newscom Yesterday the Associated Press published an article summarizing how Obamacare’s supposed benefits may well turn out to be a mirage for many low-income workers: It’s called the Affordable Care...
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NYC Soda Ban Shot Down Again: Bad Day for the Food Police
BILL GREENBLATT/UPI/Newscom New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other self-appointed nutrition czars are probably very upset. The New York Supreme Court Appellate Division, First Department,...
View ArticleWhen You Can’t Actually Keep Your Health Care Plan
President Obama has said that his health care law largely doesn’t impact anyone who already has coverage. Tell that to all the people who are being dropped from their health plans. UPS made a news...
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Obamacare Is Already Reducing Employment
AFP PHOTO/Jewel SAMADJEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images Employers are responding to the uncertainty of the Obamacare rollout by slashing hours and limiting their new hires. Although the Obamacare employer...
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Obamacare Costs Money, and Some People Don’t Like It
yelp.com/republique-los-angeles Obamacare is going to cost just about everyone—and some people don’t want to hear that. One restaurant owner in Los Angeles is making it clear that providing health...
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