obamacare

http://insureblog.blogspot.ie/2012/06/video-friday.html Cato’s Michael Cannon has been on a tear lately, advocating that states pro-actively shun setting up ObamneyCare© Exchanges. Here, he explains why: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAbmzAMZnJw&feature=player_embedded If you’ve been following the Pioneer Institute’s series on the latest MassCare Payment Reform train-wreck efforts, here’s Part...

http://www.dailynews.com/opinions/ci_20750951/debra-j-saunders-pelosi-and-obamacare House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi explained this week the reason Washington had to pass Obamacare. Even if everyone in America “loved” their health care plans, Pelosi argued in an appearance at San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club, Congress had to pass President Obama’s...

http://www.redstate.com/tex_whitley/2012/05/31/massachusetts-plans-to-squeeze-doctors-to-control-health-care-costs/ On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Josh Archambault to discuss the Massachusetts effort to manage health care costs by squeezing the state’s doctors, how it will impact the quality of care, and...

http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/health/health_stew/2012/04/on_birthday_6_reflections_on_r.html Prior to Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign, hardly anyone referred to Massachusetts health reform as “RomneyCare.” As with “ObamaCare,” it was a term of choice only for critics, most of them out-of-state.  The libertarian Cato Institute began using it back in...

http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Daily-Reports/2012/April/04/wed-opinions.aspx The Wall Street Journal: Paul Ryan’s Hunger Games If there’s a Laffer Curve for Presidential invective—some point at which dishonest political abuse yields diminishing returns—the White House political team must not think their boss has hit it. Even in this hyperpartisan...

http://www.wbur.org/2012/03/29/mass-scotus-health BOSTON — The fate of President Obama’s health care overhaul now lies in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court and observers aren’t expecting a decision until this summer. The unprecedented combination of health care policy and legal theory has kept...

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20120327/OPINION04/703279967 President Barack Obama keeps trying to give former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney credit for the Affordable Care Act, which tells you how unpopular Obamacare is. Romney, Obama told the public radio show “Marketplace,” “is now pretending like he came up with...

http://www.cato.org/blog/other-federal-takeover Right now the nation is fixated on the Supreme Court and health care, as well it should be. If the Court rules the wrong way and the individual mandate is upheld, seemingly the last limit to federal power—Washington can’t make you buy...

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/26/the-way-forward-post-obamacare/?page=all#pagebreak The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing  oral arguments on the constitutionality of the federal health care law President  Obama pushed through Congress two years ago, the  Patient Protection and Affordable Care  Act. The court is expected to issue an  opinion by...

http://triblive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/apageofbooks/s_788030.html#axzz2NcwhEhqG If the U.S. Supreme Court — where oral arguments begin Monday — overturns  ObamaCare, states should become laboratories for reform; if it’s upheld, states’  design of their insurance “exchanges” still will be important and should reflect  each state’s demographics and health...