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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Health Care

News                                                                                                                             
Fox Business | U.S. Confidence on Health Care Spending Rises: Poll
That attitude could translate into an improvement for health-care providers and medical companies after U.S. consumers cut back on health services in recent years because of the recession.
NY Times | Long-Term Care Needs Changes, Officials Say
To make the program viable, Ms. Sebelius said, she is considering changes in the eligibility criteria, including employment and earnings requirements, to ensure that only active workers may enroll. She also said she favored adjusting premiums to rise with inflation.
Fox Business | 5 Ways to Fill The Health Care Gap Before Medicare
If you are laid off or experience some other job loss prior to your 65th birthday, there are several techniques you can use to simplify your search for a plan, and to ease the cost burden.

Econ Comments                                                                                                             
WSJ | Cuomo's Medicaid Warning
The New York Governor tries to clean up Tammany health care.

Blogs                                                                                                                             
Heritage Foundation | When Snow Melts, FEMA Funds Can Be Used for Health Care and Pensions
Now we learn that it isn’t just disaster response and recovery costs we are subsidizing; now we are federalizing and subsidizing health care and pension costs of local government workers.
Cato Institute | Two Reasons Governors Should Stop Implementing ObamaCare
So far, the only governors I've seen take a firm stand against implementing the law are Rick Scott (R-FL) and Sean Parnell (R-AK), who respectively govern the fourth-largest and the fourth-smallest states.