Dr Donald Berwick is gone. The man who was appointed by President Barack Obama last year to head the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services would not be confirmed by Republicans in the Senate so the administration is nominating his deputy instead. The White House deemed it “unfortunate that a small group of senators obstructed his nomination, putting political interests above the best interests of | Read More »
A recent Gallup poll found that more American seniors support Paul Ryan’s reform plan for Medicare than they do the president’s. 48 percent of those over the age of 65 favor the Wisconsin congressman’s approach that would privatize the program and entitle people to “premium support” or vouchers with which to buy health insurance on the private market. 42 percent support Barack Obama who has | Read More »
With its latest report (PDF) on the budgetary projections of the president’s health care reform law, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) provides an enhanced view of what ObamaCare is likely to cost. The full spending provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will not come into effect until 2014. So far, the CBO has projected expenditures of the law until 2019. Its | Read More »
Earlier this week, Britain’s National Health Service Ombudsman came out with a grim report about the current state of health care in the United Kingdom. A number of terrible instances of neglect can be read in The Telegraph. Here is how the ombudsman summed it up: The findings of my investigations reveal an attitude—both personal and institutional—which fails to recognize the humanity and individuality of | Read More »
A federal judge in Florida ruled the president’s health care reform law unconstitutional on Monday, citing the mandate that requires Americans to buy insurance. Because the provision is key to the rest of the law, the judge declared it unconstitutional in its entirely but stopped short of ordering the Federal Government to suspend its implementation. Last year, a federal judge in Virginia similarly declared the | Read More »
As Republicans will vote to repeal ObamaCare in the House of Representatives this week, Democrats are condemning the measure as fiscally irresponsible. Repealing their health care reform bill, liberals say, would add some $230 billion to the federal deficit over the next decade. The numbers come from the Congressional Budget Office and while some Republicans dispute them, I don’t really care. For a decent and | Read More »
Elizabeth MacDonald reporting for the Fox Business Channel: The list of companies, insurers and unions winning exemptions from the new health reform legislation has grown to 222, doubling since early November and up from just 30 in the month of October. Companies and unions that provide health coverage for more than 1.5 million people now don’t have to abide by health reform changes for one | Read More »
Members of the president’s debt commission have proposed deep budget cuts in order to rein in government spending in the United States. Entitlement programs as Medicare and Social Security, which are responsible for the brunt of federal spending, would be hit especially hard. The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, created by President Barack Obama in January of this year, was not supposed to | Read More »
When Democrats this spring were hard at work trying to get their health care reform bill passed through Congress, they denied high and low that the penalty Americans would be subject to under the bill’s insurance mandate was anything like a tax. Health care reform will force Americans to have “minimum essential coverage” starting in 2014. “For us to say that you’ve got to take | Read More »
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