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• The President’s Health Proposal: Further Jacking Up the Cost of Care

  Posted February 24th, 2010 at 5:30pm in Health Care with 3 comments

  In anticipation of the February 25th health care summit with members of Congress, the President released his proposal for pricey, government-run health care.  The White House estimates the cost of the proposal to be $950 billion over a decade, decreasing the federal deficit.  However, health policy expert James Capretta, a former senior official of the [...] More

• Obama’s Health Plan – Taxes, Taxes Everywhere

  Posted February 24th, 2010 at 12:59pm in Entitlements, Health Care with 3 comments

  The White House recently released President Obama’s health care reform proposal. The plan incorporates a mixture of the many tax increases passed by the House and Senate, hiking taxes by almost $750 billion over ten years. This is on top of $1.3 trillion in other tax increases the President recently proposed in his 2011 budget. [...] More

• Obama’s Health Plan Has Dangerous New Taxes

  Posted February 23rd, 2010 at 6:35pm in Entitlements, Health Care with 20 comments

  The health care plan President Obama recently released is mostly a combination of the different plans passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate. But in one major way it breaks with long-standing precedent, proposing a fundamental wrong-headed change to both entitlement policy and tax policy. He proposes for the first time to tax [...] More

• Cash-Only Docs: A Promising Advancement in Consumer-Driven Health Care

  Posted February 17th, 2010 at 11:00am in Health Care with 5 comments

  Dr. James Eelkema, a Burnsville, MN family practice physician was fed up with the costly paperwork insurance companies required and the second guessing of his medical decisions by company bureaucrats. So when he learned that up to a third of his pay was to become contingent on “measures such as whether his patients got pap [...] More

• Obama’s Very Weak Hand: When All Else Fails, Try Bipartisanship

  Posted February 12th, 2010 at 3:30pm in Ongoing Priorities with 4 comments

  Suddenly, bipartisanship is all the rage at the Obama White House. The president has announced that he will hold a bipartisan gathering on February 25 at Blair House, across the street from the White House, in an effort to get the health-care legislative effort out of the political ditch it is now in. Plans are also under [...] More

• The Canadian Patients’ Remedy for Health Care: Go to America!

  Posted February 9th, 2010 at 3:00pm in Health Care, Ongoing Priorities with 9 comments

  One common assertion among the left is that other industrialized nations, such as Canada, achieved great success in health care within their collectivist framework. This, then, begs the question: why is the head of an east coast Canadian province coming to the United States for medical treatment? Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams is seeking heart surgery in [...] More

• Big Tort Means Big Problems for US Health Care

  Posted February 4th, 2010 at 12:45pm in Health Care with 1 comments

  America is the land of litigation. A tort lawyer’s paradise. In America, you can sue anyone for just about anything. This has affected the cost of America’s health care, and has demoralized the medical profession. In fact, abusive tort litigation has added billions of dollars to health care costs, both directly, through [...] More

• Budget 2011: Another Taxpayer-Funded Medicaid Bailout

  Posted February 3rd, 2010 at 11:56am in Health Care with 3 comments

  As President Obama’s recently-released budget for 2011 reveals, with or without a health care reform bill, Medicaid stands to receive a big, taxpayer-funded bailout.  Again.  The 2011 Budget includes $25 billion in additional funding for state Medicaid programs as an extension of the bailout that was included in the 2009 economic stimulus bill. As Heritage analysts [...] More

• Outside the Beltway: States Consider Prohibiting the Individual Mandate

  Posted February 2nd, 2010 at 9:17am in Health Care, Rule of Law with 7 comments

  According to the Associated Press, an increasing number of state legislatures have begun considering legislation that would prohibit the imposition of the individual mandate — a feature of both the current House and Senate bills. The individual mandate, an attempt to keep the costs of the reform package in line by forcing all citizens to purchase health insurance, has concerned many Americans and has led to a public backlash against the proposal. More

• Obamacare’s Uninvited Wedding Guest: A New Health Tax

  Posted January 21st, 2010 at 3:09pm in Family and Religion, Health Care with 10 comments

  Does marriage provide health benefits? According to the research, it does, but not according to many in Congress. Under the Senate-passed health care bill, couples who choose to wed, or to remain wedded, will face financial penalties cohabiting couples will be spared, even if a married couple makes the exact same combined income as a [...] More