News
Fiscal Times | Health Care Law Waivers Stir Suspicion of Favors
President Barack Obama's administration has granted nearly 1,400 waivers easing requirements of the new health care law, and some critics on the right say Obama is giving his political allies a pass from burdensome requirements everyone else will have to live with.
National Journal | Senate Democrats Push Medicare Talking Points
The Senate voted down the Republican Medicare plan last month, making clear what everyone knew already: The Medicare plan from Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., would not pass in this Congress. But Democrats think they have found a winning talking point, especially after last month’s special-election victory by Democrat Kathy Hochul in a typically Republican New York congressional district. They have not stopped talking about Medicare since.
Econ Comments
WSJ | ObamaCare's Next Constitutional Challenge
The Medicaid provision of the health law spells the death knell for competition among the states.
Blogs
AEI: American | The Advantage of Ryan’s Premium Support Over ObamaCare
Medicare generally prohibits “balance billing,” which means that a participating doctor can’t charge fees over and above what Medicare pays. That’s not such a big deal when the Medicare spending floodgates are wide open. But when Medicare starts cutting back on what it will pay doctors and prescribing the types of treatments that work best, it’s a problem.
Econlog | Gorman on Attendant Services Under Medicaid
Health economist Gorman takes on the "Iron Triangle" idea that in health care you can achieve at most two of the following three goals: high quality, universal access, and cost containment. She examines the empirical literature on experiments in Medicaid provision of attendant services for people who are disabled.
Café Hayek | A Question for Single-Payer Proponents
I have a question for anyone who believes that a single-payer health-care system (where the single payer is government) will reduce the quality-adjusted cost of health-care: will a single-payer pet-food system (where the single-payer for pet food is government) reduce the quality-adjusted cost of pet food?
Cato @ Liberty | That’s Not Healthy: Even Krugman Admits Medicare Is a Lousy Program
Paul Krugman gets Medicare vouchers all wrong, but at least he begins with the premise that Medicare is a lousy program.
