In the wake of the Supreme Court ruling that the Affordability Care Act meets the test of constitutionality in its most significant aspect, the individual mandate, the urgency for new, truthful leadership is obvious. The law intends to transform health care toward a European-style system by shifting nearly 20 million more people into a financially unsustainable and scandalously inadequate … [Read more...] about Scott Atlas: The Supreme Court’s Obamacare Calamity Calls For New, Truthful Leadership
Archives for July 2012
Doug Holtz-Eakin, Stephen Parente, and Michael Ramlet: Congressional Budget Office Revision to the Affordable Care Act Baseline
The CBO will release its projection of the ACA budget baseline today in the aftermath of the Supreme Court decisions. The new baseline is unlikely to be dramatically different from prior budgetary outlooks because CBO doesn’t yet have all the information needed to resolve the uncertainty. However, based on information already available to CBO and others, Forum modeling found that the cost of … [Read more...] about Doug Holtz-Eakin, Stephen Parente, and Michael Ramlet: Congressional Budget Office Revision to the Affordable Care Act Baseline
Medicaid Patients Deserve the Dignity of Private Insurance
Studies have shown that Medicaid patients fare worse in many cases than the uninsured. In many states, Medicaid pays doctors so little, recipients can't find a private physician to see them so they must wait, sometimes for hours, in hospital emergency rooms to get care. They deserve the dignity of private insurance, which states could provide if they were freed from Medicaid's mountains of red … [Read more...] about Medicaid Patients Deserve the Dignity of Private Insurance
How Much Is The Obamacare Mandate Going To Cost You?
So just how much is that new ObamaCare tax going to cost you? For some people, a lot more than you have been hearing. The individual mandate section of the health overhaul law outlines the structure of the “taxes” that must be paid by those who don’t buy government-approved health insurance – starting at $95 a year the first year for individuals. Many people are thinking it will be much cheaper … [Read more...] about How Much Is The Obamacare Mandate Going To Cost You?
Frank Hill: The High Cost Impact of More Regulation and Admin/Executive Staff on Health Care Inflation
You have heard a lot about 'health care inflation' over the past 40 years or so. You would think that much of the 'inflated' cost of health care would have to do with paying a massive skyrocketing number of highly-skilled physicians, surgeons and specialists, right? After all, these doctors are THE most important part of any medical procedure when it comes to figuring out what is wrong with … [Read more...] about Frank Hill: The High Cost Impact of More Regulation and Admin/Executive Staff on Health Care Inflation
Avik Roy: Governors’ Worst Nightmare: Obama Proposed Shifting Costs of Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion to the States
Last week, I wrote about why states have asignificant fiscal incentive to drop out of Obamacare’s expansion of the Medicaid program. States fear, among other things, that the federal government will shift more of the program’s costs to the states over time, leaving states with an unsustainable spending commitment. It turns out that this fear isn’t merely theoretical. During the “supercommittee” … [Read more...] about Avik Roy: Governors’ Worst Nightmare: Obama Proposed Shifting Costs of Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion to the States
Poll: Obamacare Still a Huge Issue for the Voters This Fall
The latest New York Times/CBS News poll dives into public opinion on Obamacare following the Supreme Court decision and finds opposition to the law virtually unchanged from when it was enacted in 2010, with about half disapproving and one-third supporting the law. And those who strongly disapprove (36 percent) continue to significantly outnumber those who strongly approve (14 percent) of the … [Read more...] about Poll: Obamacare Still a Huge Issue for the Voters This Fall
Scott Gottlieb: Obama Pans the Private Equity That Will Save Our Lives
Today, most patients needing long-term dialysis no longer get it in hospitals but go to less costly, more convenient outpatient clinics. Routine problems like hernias are fixed in outpatient surgery offices; while complex issues like cancer are handled in specialized centers with expertise to better manage these problems, at lower cost. These and other innovations in delivering medical care, … [Read more...] about Scott Gottlieb: Obama Pans the Private Equity That Will Save Our Lives