ObamaCare's Heavy Toll on Middle Class Americans
President Obama likes to say his campaign is about building up the middle class, but his signature initiative in office — ObamaCare — will pile thousands of dollars in new taxes and higher health costs...
View ArticleThe Real Stakes in the Medicare Debate
As a public trustee for Medicare I am often asked how the program’s future may be affected by the current political debate. In my opinion, the most salient Medicare policy choice before us has been...
View ArticleBuilding A Better Medicare Program: Lessons from the Private Sector
For years, it has been conventional wisdom in health-policy circles that government-run, Fee-for-Service Medicare is more efficient than private insurance. It is said that Medicare, America's...
View ArticleGet Obamacare, While Supplies Last
With deadline near for buying new policies, little is being said about doctor shortage.On Oct. 1, the uninsured can start signing up for coverage under ObamaCare. But should every policy be sold with...
View ArticleMore Good News as the Medicare Drug Benefit Approaches Ten Years
As the political back and forth over Obamacare intensified this summer, it largely went overlooked that the Medicare prescription drug benefit continues to outperform expectations. In July, the...
View ArticleObamacare will Increase Health Spending by $7,450 for a Typical Family of Four
It was one of candidate Obama’s most vivid and concrete campaign promises. Forget about high minded (some might say high sounding) but gauzy promises of hope and change. This candidate solemnly pledged...
View ArticleObamacare Bends the Cost Curve--Upward
Back in 2008, three eminent Harvard economists who were advising the Obama campaign—David Cutler, David Blumenthal, and Jeffrey Liebman—wrote a memo claiming that Senator Obama’s health-care plan could...
View ArticleHow to Cut Through the Spin About Obamacare Premiums
Thursday, just five days before the ObamaCare health insurance exchanges “go live,” the Obama administration released an “analysis” of insurance rates that would be available under federally run or...
View ArticlePutting Obamacare's Launch in Perspective
The common view of Obamacare among conservatives goes something like this. Prior to 2010, America’s free-market health-care system was the envy of the world. Obamacare changed all that; it is a...
View ArticleJumpstarting Entitlement Reform: Replace Obamacare’s Flawed Medicare ACOs...
The White House and Congress are inching closer to a conversation about serious entitlement reform. A good place to start would be how to replace the over-hyped Medicare accountable care organization...
View ArticleA Decade of Success: How Competition Drives Savings in Medicare Part D
On December 8, 2003, then-president George W. Bush signed into law the Medicare Modernization Act (MMA). As part of the MMA, a new, voluntary prescription drug program called “Medicare Part D” was...
View ArticleWhy Slower Healthcare Cost Inflation Isn’t Fixing Medicare Finances
Followers of the national healthcare policy debate may have noticed an interesting recent turn. After the Affordable Care Act (ACA)’s troubled rollout, the law’s supporters shifted to a new line to...
View ArticleNew Rules to Deprive Seniors of Drugs, Doctors
Two provisions in lengthy proposed regulations published by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in the Federal Register on January 10 would deprive seniors of vital drugs and make it more...
View ArticleObamacare Enrollment: Not Catastrophic, But Not Great
With the latest round of Obamacare enrollment numbers, the administration is once again trying to put a positive spin on the troubled health care reform. Health and Human Services Secretary Sebelius...
View ArticleWhen a Republican Runs Obamacare
Though it is admittedly hard to imagine at the moment, a Republican could actually win the White House again someday.That thought raises an interesting question: what would happen to Obamacare under...
View ArticleGet Obamacare, While Supplies Last
With deadline near for buying new policies, little is being said about doctor shortage.On Oct. 1, the uninsured can start signing up for coverage under ObamaCare. But should every policy be sold with...
View ArticleMore Good News as the Medicare Drug Benefit Approaches Ten Years
As the political back and forth over Obamacare intensified this summer, it largely went overlooked that the Medicare prescription drug benefit continues to outperform expectations. In July, the...
View ArticleMore Choices for Veterans Mean More Efficiency in Care
Teaser: Will the Veterans' Affairs Department see reform? Both chambers of Congress have passed bills that would both expand the number of existing VA hospitals and allow some veterans to seek medical...
View ArticleI Was Right About the ACA
Teaser: Four years into the ACA, it is remarkable how well our predictions have been borne out. Below I will resurrect but five of my own specific predictions about the ACA, contrast them with what...
View ArticleObamaCare's Heavy Toll on Middle Class Americans
President Obama likes to say his campaign is about building up the middle class, but his signature initiative in office — ObamaCare — will pile thousands of dollars in new taxes and higher health costs...
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