News
National Journal | Conservative Group Proposes Curbing Medicaid by Using Private Insurance
“This report marks the first time that anyone has laid out a full alternative to Medicaid that is not a single-payer model,” TPPF Executive Director Arlene Wohlgemuth said. “A system where government makes all the decisions and holds all the authority is not the Texas way of doing things.”
Econ Comments
Washington Times | EDITORIAL: Obamacare’s race against the cures
Misguided health care policy has serious side effects. As regulators refuse to approve new medical devices and medicines, venture capital for health care has dried up, and hospitals are running out of some important drugs. It has caused what one analyst has called a serious medicine crash.
WSJ | ObamaCare Is Already Damaging Health Care
Many of its changes don't kick in until 2014. But the law is forcing dramatic consolidation and reducing choice in the industry.
Blogs
Heritage Foundation | Another Hearing Highlights Obamacare’s Problems
Sebelius opined that the new health care law will increase patient access to physicians and hospitals, provide more choices for Medicare beneficiaries, create jobs, and allow those who are happy with their current plans to keep them. However, reality paints a different picture.
Atlantic: McArdle | Unions and Medicaid
If we neither cut reimbursements, nor services, then the fight is between unions and taxpayers, most of whom are not corporations, or even particularly rich
