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National Journal | Insurance Exchanges Will Lead to Fights With State Legislatures
When it comes to getting health insurance exchanges up and running, there’s no question that states have a lot of work to do between now and 2014. But the heaviest lifting might come between state health officials and legislatures, experts said on Wednesday.
National Journal | Medicare Deficit Cost-Savers Don’t Help the Big Picture
Increasing the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 67 or increasing the co-pays or the deductibles seniors have to pay—both items included as cost-savers in various deficit-reduction plans—don’t solve the big problem: stemming the rising cost of health care, the experts said on Tuesday.
Blogs
Heritage Foundation | Making Obamacare Bureaucrats Play by the Rules
Laws set norms to regulate conduct. Obamacare, like most major laws, does not really do this. Instead, it authorizes administrators to make laws, insofar as they make the rules and regulations to govern our conduct. The public will not know the full implications of Obamacare until after unelected—and usually unknown—agency officials make the rules.