Grace-Marie Turner, president of the Galen Institute, was among a number of experts who recently convened at The Heritage Foundation on a panel entitled “Beyond the Individual Mandate: Why Obamacare Must Be Repealed.” Turner is one of the authors of Why Obamacare Is Wrong for America, along with James Capretta, Thomas Miller, and Heritage expert Robert Moffit. At the panel, Turner highlighted a … [Read more...] about Kathryn Nix and Kevin Dayaratna: Turner Lays Out the Case Against Obamacare
Archives for February 2012
ACNation at CPAC
Grace-Marie Turner talks with host Butch Porter about the details of the health overhaul law, why it violates basic civil liberties, pushes up health care costs, and hurts the most vulnerable among us. … [Read more...] about ACNation at CPAC
Cigna Study Shows Consumer-Driven Health Plans Can Save $9,700 Per Employee Over Five Years
When American workers engage in health-smart habits offered in consumer-driven health plans (CDHP), they reduced their health risks and lower their total medical costs an average of $9,700 per employee over a five-year period, according to a recent study of health care claims representing 1.1 million Cigna customers in consumer-driven health plans, PPOs and HMOs. The Sixth Annual Cigna Choice … [Read more...] about Cigna Study Shows Consumer-Driven Health Plans Can Save $9,700 Per Employee Over Five Years
Joe Antos on The American: Medicare Reform Faces Reality
Let’s face it. Medicare reform is a phrase that scares the daylights out of politicians. They know that Medicare is in deep financial trouble, but they also know (or think they know) that seniors and people nearing age 65 will punish them at the polls if they even hint that the program might have to change. What most politicians are unwilling to admit is that the program is changing for the worse, … [Read more...] about Joe Antos on The American: Medicare Reform Faces Reality
The Heritage Foundation: Obamacare Anti-Conscience Mandate: An Assault on the Constitution
The Anti-Conscience Mandate: Under Obamacare, all insurance plans must cover, at no charge, abortion-inducing drugs, contraceptives, sterilization, and patient education and counseling for women of reproductive age. Religious employers such as Catholic hospitals, Christian schools, and faith-based pregnancy care centers will have to provide and pay for such coverage for their employees regardless … [Read more...] about The Heritage Foundation: Obamacare Anti-Conscience Mandate: An Assault on the Constitution
J.D. Kleinke in The Wall Street Journal: The Myth of Runaway Health Spending
New data show that health spending over the past several years has been normalizing toward the rate of general inflation, rather than growing higher and higher, as had been the case almost continuously since the 1970s. This moderation in the growth rate of spending predates the national recession. And it puts the lie to the claim that we need government to put the brakes on an "out-of-control" … [Read more...] about J.D. Kleinke in The Wall Street Journal: The Myth of Runaway Health Spending
A Tsunami Of Court Challenges to ObamaCare
When the Supreme Court hears arguments at the end of March about ObamaCare, the question of the rights of individuals and the states will be center stage. But if the court upholds all or parts of the law, this will just be the beginning of many years of legal challenges to this deeply unconstitutional law. ObamaCare violates the Constitution down to its “very DNA,” said Sen. Orrin Hatch in a … [Read more...] about A Tsunami Of Court Challenges to ObamaCare
Avik Roy in Forbes: Burr-Coburn: The Best Medicare Reform Proposal Yet
Today, Sens. Burr and Coburn have put forth a new Medicare reform proposal, the Seniors’ Choice Act, which combines the ideas behind the best two bipartisan plans that came out last year. If Wyden-Ryan and Lieberman-Coburn got together to do what many people did on Valentine’s Day, Burr-Coburn would be the result. Continue reading on Forbes... … [Read more...] about Avik Roy in Forbes: Burr-Coburn: The Best Medicare Reform Proposal Yet