Best Blogs
Changing the Name — But Not the Political Game
Thomas Miller and James C. Capretta
Health Affairs Blog, 7/30/10
Earlier this month, the Obama administration launched the latest version of high-risk pools, as authorized by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). The new pools are off to a stumbling start – behind schedule, facing resistance (or indifference) from many state governments, structurally flawed, and substantially underfunded. In other words, “Close enough for government work.” But if you can’t solve a problem by first overstating it, and then underfunding it, you can at least change its name – to the “Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan,” increase the gaping chasm between its overreaching promises and likely results, and provide an emblematic preview of larger problems ahead in the rest of ObamaCare. Read more... What Desperate Democrats Do
James C. Capretta
National Review Online: The Corner, 7/30/10
It’s been a bad stretch for the Democratic majority in Congress.Their polling numbers have been going from bad to worse. The White House press secretary has openly speculated that House Democrats could lose their majority in November. Nasty disputes between Democratic congressional leaders and the White House staff have broken out in the press. One of the most senior House Democrats is now under an ethics-investigation cloud. And, worst of all, the public now sees the Obama agenda clearly and recognizes that it is far too liberal, government-heavy, and anti-business to be compatible with a vibrant American economy. Read more... Cuccinelli on Obamacare Lawsuit: ‘We Are Doing What the Founders Expected’
Rob Bluey
The Heritage Foundation: The Foundry, 05/28/10
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli said he will file a formal response as early as next week to the federal government’s attempt to dismiss Virginia’s legal challenge to Obamacare. In an exclusive interview with Heritage, Cuccinelli said the federal government’s motion to dismiss, released on Monday, was mostly predictable. He said the attorney general’s office had already anticipated the government’s arguments and will have its response ready on or before June 7. Read more... How to Stretch the Federal High-Risk Health Coverage Pool Budget
Katherine Hobson
The Wall Street Journal Health Blog, 05/27/10
You know that federal high-risk pool for people with a pre-existing condition and who haven’t had health insurance for six months? There’s a slight fiscal issue — while as many as 7 million people may qualify for participation, the money allocated may be enough to cover only 200,000 of them, according to an analysis released today by the National Institute for Health Care Reform. Read more... ‘Unseemly’ and ‘Dodgy’ Maneuvers Would Invite Legal Challenges
Edwin Meese III & William P. Barr
National Review Online: Critical Condition, 03/19/10
The convoluted and questionable method under discussion by both Houses of Congress for final passage of the long-debated health care legislation raises serious constitutional concerns, which, at best, will lead to protracted and wholly avoidable litigation and continued doubt about the bill’s validity. Members of Congress from both parties have criticized the use of such sleights of hand, and the Washington Post has rightly editorialized against such “unseemly” and “dodgy” maneuvers for the health-care bill. Read more... Blindsided?
Grace-Marie Turner
Galen Institute, 03/19/10
If Speaker Pelosi manages to get 216 members of the House of Representatives to walk the plank on Sunday and vote for her health overhaul -- against the overwhelming will of the American people -- President Obama plans to immediately sign the massive 2,700-page bill into law. ObamaCare will be the law of the land, with its $2.4 trillion in new government spending, jobs-killing mandates, huge tax increases, Medicare cuts, and scores of new government bureaucracies. Read more... Deficit-Cutting Mythology
James C. Capretta, Ethics and Public Policy Center
National Review Online: Critical Condition, 03/17/10
For months, one of the primary talking points pushed by the president and his allies in Congress is that their health-care plan would reduce the federal budget deficit substantially, especially during the second decade of the program’s implementation. This claim has always rested on completely implausible assumptions, gimmicks, and sleight of hand, all of which has already been well exposed by Rep. Paul Ryan and others. Still, some myths persist and require repeated debunking. Read more... If You Like Bureaucracy And Red Tape, Then You’ll Love The Health Care Bill
Richard Sherwood and Vivek Rajasekhar
Heritage Foundation's Foundry Blog, 01/27/10
Time and time again, congressional leaders have denied that the proposed health care legislation would result in a federal takeover of health care. Proponents of Obamacare claim that consumers would retain personal choice in selecting health plans and physicians...The President and Congressional leaders fail to mention that, under the House and Senate bills, the federal government would determine the kind of health plans Americans get— the kinds of insurance Americans would get, the level of coverage they can receive, and the premiums, co-payments and taxes they would pay. It even mandates that all individuals purchase a government-defined level of health insurance coverage, regardless of their personal wants or needs. Read more...
Daschle Handicaps the Final Health Bill
Andrew Pollack
New York Times: Prescriptions Blog, 01/13/10
With Congress grappling to unify House and Senate health bills, Tom Daschle, the former Senate majority leader, was on the West Coast Wednesday, making his predictions for the final bill. Read more...
Not As Advertised
James C. Capretta, Ethics and Public Policy Center
National Review Online: Critical Condition, 01/04/10
Now that health-care bills have passed in both the House and the Senate, Democrats just can’t seem to stop themselves from rhetorical excess. Just before Christmas, as the bill sponsored by Majority Leader Harry Reid was clearing its final hurdles in the Senate, Democrats took to the chamber floor and cable television shows to trumpet the “historic” nature of the legislation they were about to vote on — legislation that would, at long last, move toward their long-sought goals of “universality” and a government-guaranteed right to health care. But is it so? Read more...
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