News
CNN: Money | Health care's hidden costs: $363 billion
That amounts to $1,355 per consumer, on top of the $8,000 the government says people spend on doctor fees and hospital care.
Fox News | High-Profile Conservative Group Files Lawsuit Against Obama Administration Over Health Care Waivers
On the first anniversary of President Obama's health care reform act being signed into law, the Washington based GOP super think tank known as Crossroads GPS plans to file a federal lawsuit Wednesday in D.C. District Court against the Department of Health and Human Services.
NationalJournal | Jindal Will Not Create Insurance Exchanges in Louisiana
“ 'Obamacare' is a terrible policy that needs to be repealed and replaced,” Kyle Plotkin, press secretary for Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, said in an e-mail. “It creates enormous new costs and future unfunded liabilities for states financing their Medicaid programs.”
Econ Comments
Politico | Health care law a bad prescription
The law is expected to increase federal health care spending by nearly a half trillion dollars in the next decade, according to the CBO. Privaet employer health care costs also are rising in part because of mandates that took effect last fall.
WSJ | Unhappy Anniversary
ObamaCare's cost jumps 8.6%.
AEI | One Year In, Americans Want a Divorce from ObamaCare
We are one year into this Alice in Wonderland journey toward further implementation of Obamacare, in which plain words, established facts, and basic economic relationships have struggled to retain their normal meaning. We should put the individual mandate out of its misery. It eventually will be repealed, but it also needs to be replaced. There are less onerous but more effective ways to ensure necessary health insurance coverage for more Americans.
Washington Times | FODEMAN & GRATZER: Obamacare: One year later
Look carefully at the legislation signed into law by President Obama last March, and you’ll discover a not-so-subtle campaign to dramatically reshape the doctor-patient relationship. From compensation to autonomy, Obamacare represents something of a war on doctors.
Politico | 'Obamacare' is a failed experiment
After a year of learning what is in the law and seeing its effects on families, small businesses and our economy it is now clear that Obamacare is a failed experiment. Sadly, this failure was predictable and very expensive.
Washington Times | GRAVES: Small business isn’t celebrating Obamacare
Small businesses are America’s job creators - responsible for creating seven of every 10 new jobs in the United States. But Obamacare’s job-destroying regulations and taxes are strangling businesses and, along with them, millions of quality American jobs.
NRO | Wrong, Baby, Wrong
How to undo the Obamacare disaster and do health-care reform right.
Blogs
NRO: The Corner | If I Were President: Obamacare, One Year In
If I were president, on Day One I would issue an executive order paving the way for Obamacare waivers to all 50 states. The executive order would direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services and all relevant federal officials to return the maximum possible authority to the states to innovate and design health-care solutions that work best for them.
Heritage Foundation | Happy Birthday, Obamacare? What it Really Means for Consumers
Obamacare has increased government control of Americans’ health care choices, raised the cost of insurance, forced insurers to stop offering child-only policies, broken the promise that an individual can keep his insurance unaltered, and bailed out underfunded union early-retiree health care plans. The early results suggest that Obamacare’s ‘benefits’ are not worth their costs.”
