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• VIDEO: Small Business Owners Fight Obamacare in Court

  Posted July 28th, 2010 at 1:30pm in Health Care with 1 comments

  Research on the last seven recessions shows that small businesses generate about two out of every three new jobs during the recovery. But this time around the Obama administration has crippled the ability  small businesses to lead the way in new hiring with their job killing Obamacare legislation. Not only does the bill slap small businesses [...] More

• Ready for the Next Trillion-Dollar Bailout?

  Posted July 27th, 2010 at 4:00pm in Ongoing Priorities with 3 comments

  Obamacare has been rightly blasted as fiscally irresponsible, yet few have noticed what may be Obamacare’s largest ticking entitlement time-bomb: the CLASS Act. My new op-ed on the subject is here, and my new report, co-written with Jim Capretta, is here. CLASS is a new long-term-care insurance program that was inserted into Obamacare so that Congress [...] More

• New Bill Not Necessary: Public Option Already in Obamacare

  Posted July 26th, 2010 at 2:00pm in Health Care with 2 comments

  Like many federal efforts in Washington, 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. Stuart Butler points out that the health reform law already has its own “public option” through expanded powers to the [...] More

• Dem Plan to Cut Deficit Will Pay for Failed Stimulus … by 2130

  Posted July 21st, 2010 at 5:00pm in Entitlements with 6 comments

  Reps. Gary Peters (D-MI), John Adler (D-NJ), Peter Welch (D-VT) and Jim Himes (D-CT), should be commended for forming their new Spending Cuts and Deficit Reduction Working Group. Peters told The Macomb Daily: “Congress has to get serious about reducing the deficit now. Transforming the deficits generated over the past decade back into the surpluses of [...] More

• Morning Bell: White House Admits Obamacare’s Individual Mandate is a Tax

  Posted July 20th, 2010 at 8:56am in Health Care with 68 comments

  Throughout his presidential campaign, then-candidate Barack Obama promised the American people: “If you’re a family that’s making $250,000 a year or less, you will see no increase in your taxes.” After he became President, Barack Obama reiterated that pledge, promising the American people in his September 9th health care press conference: “The middle-class will realize [...] More

• Guest Blogger: Dr. Eric Novack on Mandatory Insanity

  Posted July 16th, 2010 at 3:00pm in Health Care with 7 comments

  The debate over health care reform has been a theoretical affair, full of abstractions that contradict one another. Amid all the ambiguity, one fact is unequivocal and unprecedented. Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, every American will be compelled to purchase health insurance, or else – the “or else” being a fine collected by [...] More

• Side Effects: Obamacare Could Punish Docs for Better Quality Care

  Posted July 16th, 2010 at 11:00am in Health Care with 3 comments

  “Pay-for-performance” medicine has gained popularity in recent years, and Obamacare makes it a reality for Medicare enrollees.  But that’s not necessarily a good thing. Pay-for-performance allows third parties to pay physicians based on treatment outcomes.  In theory, this sounds like a great way to encourage doctors to improve outcomes.  But in practice, it’s a bit more [...] More

• Side Effects: IRS and Businesses Unite Against Obamacare?

  Posted July 13th, 2010 at 4:00pm in Health Care with 5 comments

  The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently unearthed yet another undesirable side effect of Obamacare—one that will hit the taxman as well as business owners. The Taxpayer Advocate Service, “an independent organization within the IRS whose employees assist taxpayers,” reports that both the IRS and taxpayers will have trouble complying with the health care law’s extensive new [...] More

• Where Did Rep. Rodriguez (D-TX) Get that $4.1 Trillion Number From?

  Posted July 13th, 2010 at 2:00pm in Health Care with 6 comments

  Rep. Ciro Rodriguez (D-TX) does not like having his credibility questioned. Defending his vote for Obamacare in what appears to be a restaurant in his home district, a video on YouTube shows Rodriguez claiming: If we had not done anything in the next eight years based on CBO, congressional budget office, numbers it would have cost [...] More

• Side Effects: Obamacare’s Exploding Medicaid Costs

  Posted July 7th, 2010 at 4:00pm in Health Care with 1 comments

  The states are in Big Trouble. While Americans are fearful of record federal deficits, the states also are facing increased costs. Most of the exponential growth comes from increased Medicaid costs, and the taxpayers in the states are going to pay for it. A new Deloitte study gives predictions that by 2030 Medicaid costs could rise [...] More

• Morning Bell: The Rationer-in-Chief

  Posted July 7th, 2010 at 9:29am in Health Care with 66 comments

  When Linda O’Boyle was diagnosed with bowel cancer, her doctors told her she could boost her chances of survival by adding the drug cetuximab to her regimen. But the rationing body for Britain’s National Health Service, the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), had previously ruled that the drug was not cost-effective and [...] More

• Side Effects: Obamacare Shifts Costs to the Privately Insured

  Posted July 6th, 2010 at 5:15pm in Health Care with 8 comments

  President Obama promised to address the growing costs in health care with passage of his “reform” bill.  But instead of reducing costs, Obamacare will succeed only at shifting the burden to taxpayers and the privately insured.  Americans with private health insurance will indirectly subsidize care received by those reliant on Medicare and Medicaid. It is [...] More

• This Doctor Fights Obamacare One Patient at a Time

  Posted July 2nd, 2010 at 5:00pm in Health Care with 8 comments

  Embarrassed. Ashamed. Failure. These words don’t typically describe an accomplished doctor, but Martha Boone doesn’t fit the mold. The Atlanta urologist is an outspoken critic of Obamacare, warning her patients about its disastrous consequences and alerting fellow doctors to the ramifications for her profession. Lately, however, she’s spent more time worried about the survival of her own practice. With [...] More

• Obamacare’s Impact on the States

  Posted July 2nd, 2010 at 1:00pm in Health Care with 1 comments

  State legislators and governors will face many challenges implementing the provisions of Obamacare. In a new Heritage Foundation study, Ed Haislmaier and I analyze the components of Obamacare that detrimentally affect states and make recommendations for how states should respond to the new law. Of the many impacts on states that we analyze, there are three [...] More

• CBO: Obamacare Unlikely to Reduce Spending on Health Care

  Posted July 1st, 2010 at 5:00pm in Entitlements, Health Care with 5 comments

  Yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office released its annual long-term Budget Outlook, which provides a look at mandatory federal spending on health care after passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. One may have expected to see drastic changes after the passage of Obamacare.  After all, this legislation was supposed to reduce costs and overall [...] More

• Morning Bell: The Limitless Power of the Obama-Kagan Congress

  Posted July 1st, 2010 at 9:23am in Rule of Law with 70 comments

  This Sunday, our nation will celebrate Independence Day, which commemorates the Continental Congress’ adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration preamble reads: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these [...] More

• CBO Reveals Magnitude of Reform Needed for Sustainable Fiscal Future

  Posted June 30th, 2010 at 1:00pm in Entitlements with 0 comments

  The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released their annual Long-Term Budget Outlook today, and the updated projections—which include the effects of Obamacare—paint a grim picture. If Obamacare really did bend the cost curve down, CBO shows little evidence of it in this report. In fact, CBO openly admits that “projections understate the severity of the long-term budget [...] More

• Sen. Hatch Calls for Repeal of Obamacare Mandates

  Posted June 27th, 2010 at 2:00pm in Health Care with 15 comments

  “I’ve been working to dismantle Obamacare,” declared Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT). “We have to fight this terrible law that’s a threat to liberty itself.” These comments came during a June 21st blogger conference call held by Sen. Hatch in which he sought to rally support for two bills aimed at representing [...] More

• Side Effects: White House Misses Deadline for Creating High Risk Pools

  Posted June 24th, 2010 at 6:30pm in Health Care with 5 comments

  We’ve all heard it before — the age-old saying “Better late than never.” Well, get ready to hear it  again, this time from Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, regarding the creation of high-risk pools under Obamacare. The pools were supposed to provide coverage for individuals who cannot get health insurance due to chronic illness. [...] More

• Bringing Leviathan to Life: Experts Look at the Implementation of Obamacare

  Posted June 22nd, 2010 at 7:30pm in Health Care with 2 comments

  A June Health Affairs briefing on the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) showed just how deep the chasm is between many of Washington’s policy experts and ordinary Americans.  At the briefing, panelists discussed the potential impact and implementation of the PPACA amidst the public’s uncertainty over the law’s provisions and [...] More