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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recently convened at The Heritage Foundation on a panel entitled “Beyond the Individual Mandate: Why Obamacare Must Be Repealed.”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

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

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 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

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

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

This study from the RAND Corporation finds that the elimination of the individual mandate leads to a 12.5-million–person reduction in the number of newly insured individuals and increases government spending per newly insured individual by a factor of more than two. While we ind that average exchange premiums increase by approximately 9.3 percent when the individual mandate is eliminated, this … [Read more...] about RAND Corporation: The Effect of the Affordable Care Act on Enrollment and Premiums, With and Without the Individual Mandate

Offended by President Obama's decision to force health insurers to pay for contraception and surgical sterilization? It gets worse: In the future, thanks to ObamaCare, the government will issue such health edicts on a routine basis—and largely insulated from public view. This goes beyond contraception to cancer screenings, the use of common drugs like aspirin, and much more. Under ObamaCare, a … [Read more...] about Scott Gottlieb in The Wall Street Journal: Meet the ObamaCare Mandate Committee