National Center for Public Policy Research, March 2014 Many supporters of ObamaCare insisted that the health insurance exchanges created by the law would result in consumers having a greater choice among insurance policies and lower prices. This study tests those claims by examining policies on the exchanges in metropolitan areas across 45 states for a single 27-year-old and a 57-year-old … [Read more...] about David Hogberg: ObamaCare Exchanges: Less Choice, Higher Prices
New Rule Creates Avalanche Of Time-Wasting Paperwork For Doctors
By Grace-Marie Turner and Tyler Hartsfield Were you hit by a falling kayak? Injured while baking, vacuuming or spending too much time in a deep freeze? Encountered a lamppost for the second time? Were you bitten by a turkey? Never fear, the ICD-10 is here. Starting this October, your doctor will be required to record precisely whether you were bitten or struck by a parrot, macaw, chicken, … [Read more...] about New Rule Creates Avalanche Of Time-Wasting Paperwork For Doctors
Florida Charts a Path for Medicaid Reform
By Tyler Hartsfield and Grace-Marie Turner The Florida Legislature continues to receive pressure to accept ObamaCare’s Medicaid expansion, which would offer Florida about $51 billion in federal funds over ten years and force an additional 1.1 million Floridians into Medicaid coverage. But the state legislature is hesitant to expand a Medicaid program that is already overburdened and has poor … [Read more...] about Florida Charts a Path for Medicaid Reform
Rasmussen Reports: Health Care Law
Rasmussen Reports, March 3, 2014 One-in-three U.S. voters now says his or her health insurance coverage has changed as a result of Obamacare, and the same number say the new national health care law had a negative personal impact on them. Forty percent (40%) of Likely U.S. Voters have at least a somewhat favorable opinion of the health care law, while 56% regard it unfavorably, according to … [Read more...] about Rasmussen Reports: Health Care Law
Fresh ideas and a new vision for health reform – Handouts
The following are the handout materials from our Feb. 27 conference, Fresh ideas and a new vision for health reform American Enterprise Institute: A Senate GOP Health Reform Proposal: The Burr-Coburn-Hatch Plan By James Capretta and Joseph Antos http://www.aei.org/article/health/healthcare-reform/a-senate-gop-health-reform-proposal-the-burr-coburn-hatch-plan/ Conservative Health-Care Reform: A … [Read more...] about Fresh ideas and a new vision for health reform – Handouts
Obama administration in denial on Part D
By Grace-Marie Turner After the Affordable Care Act’s disastrous rollout, the Obama administration might well have learned that excessive bureaucratic meddling in the design of health plans will not be well received by the American people. But instead, the agency that runs the Medicare program -- the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) -- is doubling down. CMS proposed a rule in … [Read more...] about Obama administration in denial on Part D
Glenn Kessler: Obama’s claim that 7 million got ‘access to health care for the first time’ because of his Medicaid expansion
Washington Post, February 24, 2014 “We’ve got close to 7 million Americans who have access to health care for the first time because of Medicaid expansion.” – President Obama, remarks during dinner with the Democratic Governors Association, Feb. 20, 2014 The Fact Checker has written several times about the fuzziness of the Medicaid numbers issued by the Obama administration. But it is … [Read more...] about Glenn Kessler: Obama’s claim that 7 million got ‘access to health care for the first time’ because of his Medicaid expansion
Gary Alexander: Resisting the Medicaid-expansion temptation
The Washington Times, February 14, 2014 Thanks to the Supreme Court’s 2012 ruling, states are no longer required to liberalize Medicaid eligibility, one of the strategies of Obamacare to improve health care access among lower-income Americans. Yet that doesn’t mean the 25 states that have resisted turning the means-tested welfare program into a default health care plan for working-age, … [Read more...] about Gary Alexander: Resisting the Medicaid-expansion temptation