Senior Obama administration officials took a series of decisions beginning in late 2013 that ranged from the reckless to the illegal in an effort to keep insurers participating in health insurance exchanges. A report issued last week jointly by the House Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce committees explores how the administration came to unlawfully funnel $7 billion in unappropriated money … [Read more...] about Panic prompted ObamaCare lawlessness
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How Uber Will Redefine Healthcare
My Twitter pal and founding partner of Forthright Health Management, Tom Valenti, wrote in TechCrunch that “there will never be an Uber for healthcare” because “[h]ealthcare is not a transaction business; it is a relationship business.” I’ll respectfully disagree: Healthcare “Ubers” are already proliferating and will ultimately reshape 21st-century medicine. The more aspects of healthcare … [Read more...] about How Uber Will Redefine Healthcare
House Committee Investigates Illegal Administration Spending on ObamaCare
Galen Institute Senior Fellow Doug Badger testified before Congress today that “Implementation of the cost-sharing reduction program [in ObamaCare] has been irresponsible, unaccountable and, at its heart, unlawful.” Badger testified before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, following a hearing on the same issue yesterday before the Ways and Means … [Read more...] about House Committee Investigates Illegal Administration Spending on ObamaCare
A Behind-The-Scenes Look At The House Republican ‘Better Way’ Proposals
When he was chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, Paul Ryan was frustrated when decisions about tax and other legislation under his committee’s jurisdiction emanated from the House leadership offices rather than from his committee. When he was elected Speaker last fall, he promised to change that, and, in the “Better Way” package of policy proposals, he has delivered. House committee … [Read more...] about A Behind-The-Scenes Look At The House Republican ‘Better Way’ Proposals