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Posts Tagged ‘health care costs’

• The Truth about Rising Health Insurance Premiums

  Posted March 3rd, 2010 at 2:00pm in Health Care with 11 comments

  Congress and its allies on the left are hell bent to overhaul the health care of every American. They have focused strongly on increasing regulation of insurance companies. They get the most of the blame for increasing premiums and skyrocketing health spending.  Though certain targeted and technical reforms of the health insurance market are sorely [...] More

• Buffett to Obama: Scrap Current Bill and Start Over

  Posted March 1st, 2010 at 5:42pm in Health Care with 12 comments

  Last week’s bipartisan summit on health care reform seems to have done little, if anything, to build support for the President’s vision of health care reform.  Strong opposition to the Democrats’ proposals remains the position of a majority of Americans.  And now, even the President’s biggest fans are following suit. In an interview‘ with CNBC, Warren [...] More

• House Bill Raises, Not Lowers, Health Care Costs

  Posted October 22nd, 2009 at 12:29pm in Health Care with 14 comments

  The Chief Actuary in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in the Obama Health and Human Services department issued a memorandum late yesterday looking at the potential impact of the House health reform legislation (H.R. 3200). As the Associated Press and other media outlets have been reporting, the study shows that- among other [...] More

• Abandoning Accountability in Medicaid

  Posted July 8th, 2009 at 11:19am in Health Care with 1 comments

  Yesterday’s New York Times editorial, “Financing Health Care Reform,” outlines the need to “make the hard choices” including “cutting and reallocating hundreds of billions of dollars from projected spending on Medicare and Medicaid…” However, judging by last week’s action by the Obama Administration to rescind three Medicaid regulations, the Times’ admonition is likely to fall [...] More

• The Impending Public Plan Spending Disaster

  Posted April 17th, 2009 at 11:53am in Entitlements, Health Care with 8 comments

  In his Jimmy Carter-esque “New Foundation” speech Tuesday, President Barack Obama linked health care reform and deficit reduction claiming: “If we want to get serious about fiscal discipline … we will also have to get serious about entitlement reform. Make no mistake: health care reform is entitlement reform.” Problem is, Obama’s health care reform plan includes [...] More