By Nora Janjan and Grace- Marie Turner The coming Supreme Court decision about the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate will have profound implications for government control over the doctor-patient relationship. Simply put, if the federal government can mandate that all Americans must have health insurance, it is only a short step to strict government mandates … [Read more...] about Obamacare will usurp control of medicine
Grace-Marie Turner on Journal Editorial Report
Galen Institute President Grace-Marie Turner spoke with Paul Gigot, editorial page editor of The Wall Street Journal, about her op-ed on RomneyCare entitled "Scoring Last Week's RomneyCare Debate." … [Read more...] about Grace-Marie Turner on Journal Editorial Report
AEI’s Thomas Miller at the Congressional Health Care Caucus
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
James C. Capretta for The Heritage Foundation: The Top Five Flawed Arguments Against Premium Support
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
Merrill Matthews in Forbes: The Government Is Dragging Its Feet on New Vaccines
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
Merrill Matthews in Investor’s Business Daily: ObamaCare Hidden Price Controls Will Hammer Insurers
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
Tom Miller in National Journal: Repeal to replace: starting this year
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
Bureaucratic Delay Costs Lives
One of the countless concerns with growing government control over the health sector is additional bureaucratic delay in getting new treatments to patients. We’re seeing more and more evidence of these hurdles. And we have another example involving a new life-saving vaccine: The Food and Drug Administration expedited approval of Prevnar 13, which prevents pneumonia and related diseases in … [Read more...] about Bureaucratic Delay Costs Lives