News
CNNMoney | Military health costs up 300%
The Defense Department expects to spend $52.5 billion on health care in 2012, a 300% increase since 2001, the report says. By 2015, health care will account for 10% of the Pentagon budget.
WSJ | Defining 'Essential' Care
Regulators Move to Specify Coverage Under Health Law; Insurers Seek Flexibility
POLITICO | GOP governmors want Medicaid block grants
Block grants would give states fixed, upfront funding for a predetermined period of time, a marked departure from the traditional Medicaid financin, in which the federal govenrment generally matches state spending on a per-claim basis.
Econ Comments
WSJ | Regulating 'Mental Activity'
The Commerce Clause as thought monitor.
NRO | Obamacare and the CLASS Fraud
The alleged deficit-defeater turns out to be a budget-buster.
WSJ | The FDA and Slower Cures
The bureaucratic assault on cancer treatments.
Reports
Heritage Foundation | How States Can Survive the Medicaid Crisis
Along with the exploding costs of public-sector benefit packages, managing Medicaid is the greatest challenge confronting the nation’s governors and state legislative bodies.
