The Obama administration’s top spokesperson on health care was unable to defend the president’s health overhaul law during a Senate hearing yesterday when she was confronted with the facts about a string of promises that already have been broken about law. Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was clearly flummoxed by a series of fact-based questions asked by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) during a Senate … [Read more...] about Sebelius flummoxed about ObamaCare’s impact
The Contraceptive Mandate and the Indignity of the Law
BY KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ Grace-Marie Turner has been at the forefront of the health-care reform debate for years, as the founder of the Galen Institute, a Beltway-area public-policy institute dedicated to health-care policy. She has been an opponent of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, in no small part having taken Catholic social thought into consideration. She has spoken at the … [Read more...] about The Contraceptive Mandate and the Indignity of the Law
Scott Gottlieb: IPAB: its impacts on Medicare, its beneficiaries, and healthcare providers
The Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) is premised on a belief that decisions about how we price the services offered by Medicare are simply too contentious to be adequately addressed by our political system. Politics, it’s argued, inevitably stymie our ability to make hard decisions to cut prices and reduce coverage of services. As a result, it becomes impossible to shrink the growth in … [Read more...] about Scott Gottlieb: IPAB: its impacts on Medicare, its beneficiaries, and healthcare providers
Romney’s Best Defense: The Truth About Romneycare
Even though Mitt Romney has had a string of primary wins, support for his presidential bid still is tepid among Republican voters nervous about Romneycare. He could calm them if he were to more fully explain the difference between his vision for reform and the law that ultimately was enacted in Massachusetts. Gov. Romney gets big applause when he pledges to repeal Obamacare, but he faces … [Read more...] about Romney’s Best Defense: The Truth About Romneycare
President Obama Wants to Strengthen Medicare Rationing Board
President Obama is doubling down on one of the most dangerous provisions in his 2010 health overhaul law, the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) which will become Medicare's rationing board. In his proposed budget, the president plans to give greater powers to the panel to cut Medicare spending even more deeply than his health overhaul law already does. The IPAB is one of the most … [Read more...] about President Obama Wants to Strengthen Medicare Rationing Board
Congress Must Accept Its Responsibility
Medicare must be improved to save the program -- and the country -- from fiscal calamity. But Congress is abdicating its constitutional responsibility by giving a panel of 15 unelected technocrats the power to cut Medicare spending and make decisions which the Constitution vests only in the hands of elected representatives. The first step to getting on the right track is repeal of the … [Read more...] about Congress Must Accept Its Responsibility
Jay Sekulow: Mandate Is Ultimate Intrusion
President Obama's mandate and so-called compromise violate religious liberty and the conscience rights of millions of Americans. First, the Department of Health and Human Services issued its mandate requiring religious institutions, such as religious schools and hospitals, to include abortion-inducing drugs, sterilization and contraception in their insurance policies for employees. That is a … [Read more...] about Jay Sekulow: Mandate Is Ultimate Intrusion
ObamaCare’s Supreme Mistake
The US Supreme Court this month hears arguments on the constitutional challenges to the ObamaCare law — with the top challenge centering on the mandate that every American buy health insurance. Increasingly, and not just for constitutional reasons, that mandate looks to be the law’s downfall. Princeton University’s Paul Starr, whose advice helped shape ObamaCare, recently admitted that the … [Read more...] about ObamaCare’s Supreme Mistake