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This debate features Paul Starr, Avik Roy, and Howard Husock. Watch at the Manhattan Institute... … [Read more...] about Manhattan Institute Video: 2010 Health Care Law: Amend or Repeal It?

Statements both for and against President Barack Obama‘s signature health reform law are flooding the Supreme Court. Thus far, nearly 80 “amicus curiae” –or “friend of the court” — briefs have been filed. Many more will surely come in before the February 13 deadline.  These documents allow interest groups, lawmakers, and even ordinary Americans the chance to try to influence the high court’s … [Read more...] about Sally Pipes in Forbes: Amicus Briefs Give A Supreme Condemnation Of ObamaCare

Consensus Group member Tom Miller of the American Enterprise Institute spoke before the Congressional Health Care Caucus yesterday about what a “replace” plan should look like. … [Read more...] about AEI’s Thomas Miller at the Congressional Health Care Caucus

The introduction of the bipartisan Wyden–Ryan premium support plan for Medicare ensures that reform of the government’s largest health entitlement program will continue to be a major topic of debate in 2012. With premium support, the federal government moves away from running a health plan and instead provides fixed levels of support for insurance plans selected by the beneficiaries themselves. … [Read more...] about James C. Capretta for The Heritage Foundation: The Top Five Flawed Arguments Against Premium Support

One of the most important questions plaguing President Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is whether it would politicize, or ration, access to health care.  Recent actions taken by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have only exacerbated the concern that, in a world of tight budgets where the government pulls most of the strings in the health care system, patients will be denied … [Read more...] about Merrill Matthews in Forbes: The Government Is Dragging Its Feet on New Vaccines

The federal government is cranking up its effort to control health care costs by imposing backdoor price controls on health insurers, or as the Government Accountability Office euphemistically puts it, so Americans "receive value for their (health insurance) premium dollars." A provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act referred to as the medical loss ratio (MLR) requires … [Read more...] about Merrill Matthews in Investor’s Business Daily: ObamaCare Hidden Price Controls Will Hammer Insurers

Serious political debate in Republican circles over the substance, scope, and scale of what should “replace” the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has been more or less frozen in suspended animation since its enactment in March 2010 for three reasons. (1) Grassroots activists focused on outright repeal as a common unifying goal. (2) Elected GOP officials and other Republican candidates for office … [Read more...] about Tom Miller in National Journal: Repeal to replace: starting this year

Speaker Boehner lead the House of Representatives on Wednesday to overwhelmingly pass a bill repealing the long-term care entitlement in ObamaCare -- the one that Democratic leaders have described as "completely unsustainable" and "a Ponzi scheme of the first order" and which the Obama administration could see "no viable path forward" to implement. The vote to repeal the CLASS Act was 267-159, … [Read more...] about Strike One against CLASS