Poll: Obamacare Still a Huge Issue for the Voters This Fall
The latest New York Times/CBS News poll dives into public opinion on Obamacare following the Supreme Court decision and finds opposition to the law virtually unchanged from when it was enacted in 2010,...
View ArticleBetter Health Care Through Innovation
Obamacare was sold, in part, on the promise that it would improve the quality of medical treatment and reduce costs through better care coordination and disease management. For the Medicare program in...
View ArticleGood Luck Finding a Doctor under Obamacare
“No matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period.”President Barack Obama,Speech to the...
View ArticleViolating the DNA of Our Culture
Obamacare violates American values down to our country’s very DNA.A majority of Americans continue to oppose the health law because we understand that it is at odds withthe fundamental principles and...
View ArticleThe New Resident Duty Hours Fail
A year ago, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) changed the rules governing the schedules of medical residents. The new work hours were intended to curb resident fatigue,...
View ArticleAnother Attack on Innovative Care
An article in the Wall Street Journal explains how physician-owners of hospitals — among the highest-quality, most-efficient hospitals in the country — are “descend[ing] on Congress” to seek relief...
View ArticleDebunking Bill Clinton's Medicare Claims
When former president Bill Clinton’s good, he’s very, very good. That formidable rhetorical skill was on display in his defense of Obama’s Medicare policy at the Democratic National Convention. Though...
View ArticleObamacare: It’s Still a Gateway to Single-Payer Health Care
More than two years after the passage of Obamacare, the data overwhelmingly show the law will fail to achieve its core objectives of lowering costs and improving access. That, ironically, may have been...
View ArticleMedicare Coupons, Strokes, and Heart Attacks
Those who favor reforming the giant Medicare program must explain themselves carefully. But opponents of Medicare reform can just manufacture and spread around some fantastic fictions. Consider a...
View ArticleWill Expanding Medicaid Save States Money?
It’s not just the political Left that’s pressuring states to adopt the costly Obamacare Medicaid expansion. Hospitals and clinics, too, are leaning on state lawmakers to expand the rolls. Indeed, there...
View ArticleObama’s Medicare Cuts Will Affect Benefits
Question: If you cut funding for benefits, will you then affect persons dependent upon those benefits? Of course you will. Financing directly affects the quantity and quality of the benefits available...
View ArticleA Small-Government Solution to a Big-Government Problem
Democrats -- the perennial defenders of Medicare as we know it -- have turned Medicare upside down with the adoption of Obamacare. And now the alarm bells are ringing in our senior-citizen communities...
View ArticleMassachusetts: An Apples to Oranges Comparison
AEI's Tom Miller challenges health economist Austin Frakt who wrote in a recent JAMA Forum article that the penalties in Obamacare are high enough to get people to comply with the individual mandate....
View ArticleFocusing on Mental Illness
In days following the tragedy in Connecticut, most of the focus has been on firearms legislation. I submit that we would be wiser to focus more attention on how states handle the mentally ill that are...
View ArticleSCOPE Act: Protecting the Physician-Patient Relationship
A multitude of flaws in President Obama’s health- care law have been exposed, both prior to its enactment and since it passed on a straight party line vote. They range from tax hikes on small business...
View ArticleAnother Attack on Innovative Care
An article in the Wall Street Journal explains how physician-owners of hospitals -- among the highest-quality, most-efficient hospitals in the country -- are “descend[ing] on Congress” to seek relief...
View ArticleDon't Be Reckless with New Drug Law
Congress is on the verge of completing work on legislation to renew the Prescription Drug User Fee Act, which establishes the rules under which private companies pay fees to support the Food and Drug...
View ArticleAfter Obamacare, Congress Needs to Confront the Control Freaks
The United States Supreme Court will soon render a historic decision on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”). However the Court rules on the specific legal issues - those...
View ArticleObamacare Supreme Court Decision Live Blog
On Thursday, June 28, at 10 a.m. ET, the Supreme Court will issue its decisions in the several related issues in the Obamacare legal challenge, Florida v. HHS. Starting at 9:30, we will be here to...
View ArticleCourt Upholds What Congress Disavowed
The Supreme Court ruled that Obamacare's individual mandate is not constitutional under the Commerce Clause, which was how Congress framed the mandate to avoid a political backlash from calling it a...
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