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CNN Money | Health care coverage: Big changes in 2012 - Exclusive
Charging higher contributions for dependent coverage and dropping retiree accounts, are among the steps companies are considering as they fight rising medical costs and new expenses tied to health reform.
NationalJournal | Must-Pass Bills Could Be Used to Defund Health Care Law
House Republicans laid the foundation to repeal mandatory spending in the health care law on Wednesday, holding a hearing that could be the first stop in attaching defunding language to vital bills.
Time | Admin Wants Swift Ruling on Health Care
The Obama Administration is asking a federal appeals court in Atlanta to act swiftly on a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of govenrment's health care overhaul.
NationalJournal | Keeping Medicaid May Mean Doing Less With Less
States that are struggling to maintain their Medicaid programs are going to have to slash more than just dental and vision – they may have to make painful cuts, the executive director of the National Association of Medicaid Directors said on Tuesday.
Time | Personal and Partisan Battles in the Legal War Over Health Reform
Although federal district judges have already dismissed or ruled against some plaintiffs, many are appealing in a long march toward the Supreme Court, which is expected to ultimately decide the fate of the law.
Econ Comments
WSJ | Medicaid Is Worse Than No Coverage at All
New research shows that patients on this government plan fare poorly. So why does the president want to shove one in four Americans into it?
NRO | Real Health-Care Reform
We don’t' need top-down, centralized health-care reform; we need governance reform.
Fiscal Times | Medicare Fraud: A $70 Billion Taxpayer Ripoff
Medicare could wrench as much as $70 billion a year in savings by cracking down on fraud, experts told Congress this week. But the key is preventing scam artists and fake firms from doing business with the senior citizen health care program in the first place — not chasing them down after the fact.
NRO | Those Magic Billions
Imagine that you have $500 in your left pocket. You shift it to your right pocket. Can you now buy $1,000 worth of merchandise at your favorite store? Of course not.
Ludwig Von Mises Institute | The Myth of Free-Market Healthcare
While most people believe that our healthcare industry is one comprised of free markets, it is anything but. The industry is completely distorted by government manipulation
Blogs
Volokh Conspiracy | Maine Gets a Waiver
The U.S. Health and Human Services department said in a letter it would waive the requirement that insurers spend 80 cents to 85 cents of every premium dollar on medical care and quality improvement. Instead, the letter said, the state could maintain its 65 percent standard for three years, with the caveat that HHS intends to review the figures after two years.
