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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

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

Dr. Jill Vecchio, a practicing physician, gives a non-partisan, thorough explanation of PPACA (aka ObamaCare) and what it means to all Americans. There are seven  segments in the series: 1) Who will be covered; 2) and 3) What are the costs 4) State Exchanges and Employers 5) Doctors and Patients; 6) Constitutional issues 7) Ideas for Real Healthcare Reform. … [Read more...] about Dr. Jill Vecchio on PPACA

The White House is trying to frame its latest “preventive care” mandate as a right to contraceptives.  In fact, this is about the fundamental issue of the founding principles of this country and the meaning of the Constitution’s protection of our rights. Rep. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) learned during a recent town hall meeting that her constituents appear to understand this fact better than she … [Read more...] about Trampling on Our Freedom

For all the White House’s chest-thumping that the U.S. Supreme Court will rule in favor of the mandate requiring Americans to have health insurance or pay a penalty, you know they’re worried the justices will decide that Democrats trampled the Constitution—not once, but several times. Given the recent Gallup pollclaiming that 72 percent of Americans believe the mandate is unconstitutional, … [Read more...] about Merrill Matthews: The Constitutional Issue in ObamaCare Isn’t Cost, but Control

As long as the Obamacare statutes are, its implementing regulations are now five times its length. With the publication of two new regulations in the Federal Register on February 27, 2012, we calculate Obamacare regulations to contain 2,163,744 words compared to 425,116 words in the Obamacare statutes. That’s a million words longer than the last time we wrote about the length of Obamacare … [Read more...] about ObamaCare Watcher: How long are the Obamacare regulations?: 5x the length of the Obamacare statutes

Never underestimate the brilliance of our federal bureaucracy. The Department of Health and Human Services has announced that it must delay implementation of new reimbursement codes for Medicare. Those new regulations would have increased the total number of reimbursement codes from the current 18,000 to more than 140,000 separate codes. The delay will undoubtedly come as a relief for … [Read more...] about Michael Tanner: Sickening Regulation

There is currently a shortage of more than 200 drugs in the United States. Among the drugs critically in short supply are anesthetics, blood pressure medications and a whole host of cancer-fighting treatments, the shortage of which has tragically left many patients with the grim prospect that they may not survive ailments that are treatable. Many explanations have been put forth as to what is … [Read more...] about Ayn Rand Center: Shortage of Drugs, Abundance of Regulations