Private competition in Medicare Part D has led to lower prices and more choices for seniors, and the program is saving money for taxpayers as well. That’s not a statement you see often in the health reform debate, where prices continue to climb above the rate of inflation year after year. But the Medicare drug benefit is breaking new ground. Part D represents the first significant initiative … [Read more...] about Part D Is Still Working
Tom Miller: How Romney can make health care an asset in Wednesday’s debate
Health policy will claim several minutes of its own during Wednesday night’s first presidential debate. The debate between President Obama and Governor Romney is primarily about the economy. Both topics tend to be detached from sound “economics” per se at the campaign level, but the handling of health care during the next presidential term (and beyond) could either strengthen or sink prospects for … [Read more...] about Tom Miller: How Romney can make health care an asset in Wednesday’s debate
Tom Miller: A Conservative Case for Obamacare?
J. D. Kleinke, my neighbor at the American Enterprise Institute, has written a New York Times op-ed that recycles a fact-challenged rewriting of health-policy history and combines flawed analysis with wishful thinking. Kleinke argues that the individual mandate and health exchanges of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) were, and should remain, sound conservative ideas meriting Republican support. He … [Read more...] about Tom Miller: A Conservative Case for Obamacare?
Tom Miller: A conservative case for Obamacare?
J. D. Kleinke, my neighbor at the American Enterprise Institute, has written a New York Times op-ed that recycles a fact-challenged rewriting of health-policy history and combines flawed analysis with wishful thinking. Kleinke argues that the individual mandate and health exchanges of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) were, and should remain, sound conservative ideas meriting Republican support. He … [Read more...] about Tom Miller: A conservative case for Obamacare?
The ‘Next Big Thing’ in Health Benefits?
Galen's Grace-Marie Turner appeared on Varney & Co. to talk about employers offering workers more control over their health benefits through defined contributions. … [Read more...] about The ‘Next Big Thing’ in Health Benefits?
Jim Capretta: A Fantasy-Based Case for Obamacare
It’s not surprising that the New York Times snapped up an opinion piece entitled “The Conservative Case for Obamacare,” by my American Enterprise Institute colleague J. D. Kleinke. Finally, a truth-teller! But what is surprising is the obvious superficiality of Kleinke’s arguments. He either doesn’t understand Obamacare and the conservative case against it, or has willfully distorted his … [Read more...] about Jim Capretta: A Fantasy-Based Case for Obamacare
The Commonwealth Fund Makes It Up, Again
The liberal Commonwealth Fund is at it again, releasing today a new study, “Health Care in the 2012 Presidential Election: How the Obama and Romney Plans Stack Up.” But the “study” is, in a word, nonsense. The crucial sentence in the publication is this one: “Because Romney has not yet fleshed out the details of [his health reform] proposals, a set of assumptions was made.” That is a … [Read more...] about The Commonwealth Fund Makes It Up, Again
Jim Capretta: The candidates’ positions on Medicare Advantage
President Obama and his allies continue to repeat attacks on Gov. Mitt Romney and his running mate Rep. Paul Ryan that were long ago discredited as completely false. That Republicans want to “end Medicare as we know it” is a popular line from the Democrats, but there’s nothing in the Romney-Ryan plan that ends Medicare as anyone has known it. Indeed, the whole point of the Romney-Ryan reform is to … [Read more...] about Jim Capretta: The candidates’ positions on Medicare Advantage