News
National Journal | HHS Regulations Require Free Preventive Services for Women
HHS said in a statement on its website that private insurance plans will have to provide birth control, cervical exams, breast exams, and other preventive services to women. Religious institutions may opt out of covering contraceptive services for employees.
Politico | Health care reform key to debt crisis
At the heart of the gridlock is a deep disagreement over the role that out-of-control government spending plays in our current predicament — and nowhere is this disagreement more strongly expressed than in the debate over the government’s role in health care.
Econ Comments
Politico | U.S. health care system fails to deliver
Improving care and lowering costs are at the heart of the Affordable Care Act. As a pediatrician, as a patient and now as administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, I have seen our health care system both at its best and at its worst. We know that system that we want — and with the ACA, we can have it:
Politico | Health care reform's poor prognosis
Last year’s health care reform law may have a green yard and some flowers planted in the front, but the deeper we look into it, the worse it looks. Over the past six months, the House Energy and Commerce Committee has been conducting a thorough appraisal of health care reform, and it looks as if the country has been sold a lemon.
Blogs
Heritage Foundation | CMS Projections Confirm Runaway Health Care Spending
Runaway spending has overtaken the United States health care system and is on the rise. More notably, the study confirms Obamacare does not “bend the cost curve” but only increases government’s share of spending in the health care system instead.
