News
Politico | Boston Globe has Mitt Romney's back on health care
After a week of broadsides marked the fifth anniversary of his controversial Massachusetts health care law, Mitt Romney is getting some support from his home state paper. In an editorial Monday the Boston Globe writes that conservatives should giver Romney credit for "warding off various schemes feared by business."
Econ Comments
WSJ | ObamaCare Opt Out
States turn down money for the law's new insurance exchanges.
NRO | The Road to IPAB
If you love Medicaid, you'll adore the new version of Medicare.
NRO | Government Makes a Poor Physician
Federal health guidelines do more harm than good.
Blogs
Heritage Foundation | The President’s Medicare Plan: A Trojan Horse to Ration Health Care?
Medicare, the federal health care program for America’s seniors, represents $30.8 trillion in long-term unfunded obligations. If Medicare’s runaway costs are not reined in, the program could cease to exist for future generations.
NRO: The Corner | IPAB, Obama, and Socialism
They're back. Rationing, death panels, socialism, all those nasty old words that helped bring Republicans victory in 2010, and that came to seem so impolite after November of that year. They're back because of IPAB (Independent Payment Advisory Board).
Reports
Heritage Foundation | Why Accountable Care Organizations Won’t Deliver Better Health Care—and Market Innovation Will
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) creates federal “accountable care organizations” (ACOs). In theory, ACOs provide financial incentives to health care organizations to reduce costs and improve quality. In reality, given the complexity of the existing system, ACOs will not only fail; they will most likely exacerbate the very problems they set out to fix.
