Gazing Into CBO’s Budget and Health Care Crystal Ball James C. Capretta
Kaiser Health News, 07/29/10
CBO’s latest projections again make it clear that the nation is rushing headlong toward a fiscal crisis, and the health law does nothing to head it off. Americans Cut Back on Visits to DoctorAvery Johnson, Jonathan D. Rockoff and Anna Wilde Mathews
Wall Street Journal, 07/29/10
Insured Americans are using fewer medical services, raising questions about whether patients are consuming less health care as they pick up a greater share of the costs. Health Insurance: College Kids Face Coverage ChoicesCandice Choi
The Fiscal Times, 07/28/10
It's the first real-life test for students heading off to college: picking the right health insurance plan.
The confusion starts before students even step foot on campus, when families must decide whether to sign up for a school-based health insurance plan. Poll: Seniors know little about reform lawUPI, 07/28/10
Only 22 percent of U.S. seniors age 65 and older say the Affordable Health Care Act would not cut their basic Medicare benefits, a survey indicates. Health reform tasks could overwhelm agencies, former federal official saysDoug Trapp
American Medical News, 07/28/10
Federal employees responsible for drafting and enforcing health reform regulations have an enormous task ahead of them, according to Gail Wilensky, PhD, an economist and former director of the agency now known as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Harry Reid Imagines That ObamaCare is Getting More PopularPeter Suderman
Reason, 07/28/10
Democrats have recently taken to arguing that the public is warming to the new health care law, but I don’t buy it. | Leviathan's Drug ProblemJohn R. Graham
Pacific Research Institute, 07/27/10
This study concludes that allowing American patients to access medicines that have already been approved in Europe would increase regulatory competition, enable more patient choice, and potentially save the lives of those suffering life-threatening illnesses and who currently have no treatment options. Ready for the Next Trillion-Dollar Bailout?Brian Riedl
National Review Online: Critical Condition, 07/27/10
Obamacare has been rightly blasted as fiscally responsible, yet few have noticed what may be Obamacare’s largest ticking entitlement time-bomb: the CLASS Act. Medical Liability Bill Key to Health ReformReps. Phil Gingrey and John Fleming
Roll Call, 07/27/10
...Clearly, however, as has become more apparent every day since the bill became public law, ObamaCare will have none of these intended [positive] effects — due to both what is in the bill and what was left out. The Growing Battle Over BerwickHal Scherz
RealClearPolitics, 07/27/10
...the Obama administration's recess appointment of Dr. Donald Berwick as Medicare czar continued stirring controversy, with Senate Republicans "spoiling for a fight" and "escalating the conflict" according to the Washington Examiner's Byron York. The Do-It-Yourself House Call Avery Johnson
Wall Street Journal, 07/26/10
Technology that aims to keep congestive heart failure patients out of the hospital is gaining traction.
The idea is for heart patients to take readings like their weight, blood pressure and other key metrics using wireless and other technologies; the data are then transmitted to a case manager or medical care giver. | New Bill Not Necessary: Public Option Already in ObamacareMarguerite Higgins
Heritage Foundation: The Foundry, 07/26/10
...last week’s reintroduction from House Democrats to create a public health insurance option, which would become part of the 2014 insurance exchanges created by Obamacare, is a bureaucratic redundancy. The Biggest Tax Increase In U.S. History?Merrill Matthews
Forbes, 07/26/10
President Obama has repeatedly asserted that the new health care law's individual mandate requiring everyone to have qualified health insurance coverage or pay a penalty is not a tax. Pacific Legal Foundation Files Suit against ObamaCare’s Individual MandateMichael F. Cannon
Cato @ Liberty, 07/26/10
For more on Sissel v United States Department of Health & Human Services — and plaintiff Matt Sissel, a 29-year-old artist and former National Guardsman who earned a Bronze Star during his second tour as a medic in Iraq — see the Pacific Legal Foundation’s web site New health official faces hostility in SenateRobert Pear
New York Times, 07/26/10
...two weeks after taking office, Dr Berwick is still struggling to tamp down a furor over past statements in which he discussed the rationing of health care and expressed affection for the British health care system. Thanks to ObamaCare, Some Kids Won’t Have Health Insurance Michael Tennant
The New American, 07/26/10
The latest [unintended consequence of ObamaCare] is that some insurance companies are now refusing to write new policies that cover children as individuals, reports the Associated Press. Poll shows seniors are bewildered by new healthcare reform lawMike Lillis
The Hill, 07/26/10
The majority of the nation’s seniors have little understanding of what the Democrats’ newly enacted healthcare law actually does, according to poll results released Monday. |
