News
National Journal | Potential Super Committee Health Cuts Would Hit Everyone
The entire health industry, from doctors to hospitals to beneficiaries, would pay more out of pocket or make less off Medicare under a menu of cost-saving changes prepared by the House Ways and Means Democrats for the congressional super-committee that will begin hammering out budget changes this week.
National Journal | Health Expenses Eat Up Income Gains - Study
An average U.S family of four with employer-supplied health insurance, earning the median income of $76,000 a year in 1999, would have earned an average of 30 percent more in 2009, or $99,000. But that same theoretical family would only have taken home $95 more a month in 2009, David Auerbach of the nonprofit RAND Corporation and colleagues found.
National Journal | Feds Arrest 91 for Medicare Fraud
The federal government indicted 91 people on Wednesday for Medicare fraud worth an estimated $295 million. Most were doctors and nurses in Miami, where Medicare fraud has been a special problem.
Blogs
Heritage Foundation | Want to Help Job Creation? Don’t Forget to Repeal Obamacare
Obamacare is perhaps the most damaging of the Administration’s policies that are impeding the country’s recovery. At a time when there should be a focus on cutting spending, reducing regulation, and lowering taxes, Obamacare does the complete opposite.
Cato @ Liberty | Biggest Crackdown Ever Shows Medicare's Anti-fraud Efforts are a Fraud
The Obama administration somehow continues to garner positive coverage for arresting (alleged) Medicare fraudsters who bilk the program for, say $295 million.
Cato @ Liberty | Latest ObamaCare Glitch Enables States to Block New Entitlement Spending
The wonderful thing about this newly discovered feature of ObamaCare is that states don’t have to wait for Congress to act. They can reduce federal spending simply by not creating a health insurance Exchange.
