One of the things [the U.K.] Government promised to do is tell us more about the actual state of the National Health Service. As a result, we are able to publish information today relating to GPs and the number of patients on their lists. The news is not encouraging, to put it mildly. An increasingly serious shortage of GPs means that, on average, doctors in poorer and more-hard pressed parts … [Read more...] about The NHS crisis deepens as GP numbers dwindle
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Doctors Going Broke, Health Costs Rising, Mandate Was a Mistake
A news article on CNN Money warns that a growing number of doctors in independent practices are barely able to pay their bills and many are thinking of leaving practice altogether. "Doctors in America are harboring an embarrassing secret: Many of them are going broke," the article reports, giving a new definition to medical bankruptcy. "This quiet reality, which is spreading nationwide, is … [Read more...] about Doctors Going Broke, Health Costs Rising, Mandate Was a Mistake
December 2011 Highlights
Health insurers are being forced to leave markets across the country because onerous ObamaCare regulations already are taking effect, and the first casualties are small businesses and the health insurance agents who serve them. In December, Grace-Marie Turner testified before a congressional Small Business Committee hearing entitled “New Medical Loss Ratios: Increasing Health Care Value or Just … [Read more...] about December 2011 Highlights
Ryan-Wyden: The best Medicare proposal yet
Oregon Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden is getting hammered by the White House for his courageous move to join House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan in co-sponsoring the best Medicare modernization proposal yet. The Ryan-Wyden plan would move Medicare to a more modern defined-benefit program and give seniors a choice of competing plans -- plans that would have an incentive to innovate and produce the best … [Read more...] about Ryan-Wyden: The best Medicare proposal yet
Congressional testimony on MLR rules
ObamaCare is forcing health insurers out of markets across the country, and the first casualties are small businesses and the health insurance agents who serve them. The House Small Business Committee's Subcommittee on Investigations, Oversight and Regulations invited Grace-Marie Turner to testify on December 15, 2011 at a hearing on an obscure and complex provision in the health overhaul law … [Read more...] about Congressional testimony on MLR rules
A Preview of ObamaCare's "Rescue" Programs
With good news about ObamaCare in such short supply, supporters of the health overhaul law are circulating widely an article published in the Los Angeles Times written by a California woman grateful for her coverage under one of the law's early programs. Called "ObamaCare to the rescue," the article by Spike Dolomite Ward describes how "A woman who felt President Obama had let the middle class … [Read more...] about A Preview of ObamaCare's "Rescue" Programs
ObamaCare Takes On More Water
How much of this can ObamaCare withstand before it sinks on its own? SICKER EMPLOYEES COULD BE SHOVED OUT Two University of Minnesota law professors write that ObamaCare actually provides incentives for “targeted employer dumping” of sicker workers into taxpayer-subsidized health exchanges. The article, “Will employers undermine health care reform by dumping sick employees?” by Amy Monahan and … [Read more...] about ObamaCare Takes On More Water
November 2011 Highlights
Every week — even every day — we get new information about how massively flawed and destructive ObamaCare is. The spotlight now is on the mandate that everyone must have government-approved health insurance — the issue at the center of the legal challenges to the law. We had an article published in The Wall Street Journal November 9 explaining why the individual mandate can never work and why 82% … [Read more...] about November 2011 Highlights