News
National Journal | House Votes to Defund Insurance Exchanges
The legislation from Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton, R-Mich., would stop Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius from giving states unlimited funds until 2015 to establish insurance exchanges. The agency has already given $49 million to 48 states and the District of Columbia.
Econ Comments
CNN: Money | How rich health care mandates could bust the budget
Medical groups are furiously lobbying HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to get their treatments covered under the reform bill. Her choices could be what makes or breaks the plan.
CNN: Money | Healthcare reform 'sound and fury' represents quite a lot
The health care reform law has yet to go into full effect, but it's already changed the health care industry's internal debate.
AEI | How Safe Are Medicines Sold In the US?
The increasing reliance on active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) made in unreliable plants, particularly in China, is part of the problem. APIs are the most important ingredients in any drug, and today, Chinese and Indian products are found in nearly 80% of American pharmaceuticals. In 2002, the U.S. imported $331 million in drug products from China - by 2010, it was $1.74 billion.
Blogs
Heritage Foundation | Medicare’s New Performance Measures Are Bad News for Hospitals
Congress has yet to enact health care reform that will successfully reduce costs without threatening the quality of care patients receive. Obamacare attempted to achieve this by moving Medicare from a system that pays for the volume of services to one that pays for value.
Econlog | Starve-the-Beast Health Care Policy
I think that any health care policy going forward will do two things.
