News
Politico | Affordability, flexibility key to health benefits
The federal government is in the throes of developing an “essential health benefits” package for the controversial health reform law. This package will dictate what all health insurance plans offered in small and individual group markets must cover.
National Journal | CDC: Painkiller-Overdose Deaths Have Tripled in Decade Since 1999
Deaths linked to opioid pain relievers such as OxyContin, Vicodin, and Opana have become an epidemic, Frieden said, adding that the rate of deaths has more than tripled in the past decade.
Politico | Health law ruling could be political earthquake
If the Supreme Court next year gets rid of the health reform law’s requirement to buy insurance, Republicans could gain momentum to get rid of the rest of the law — and President Barack Obama would suffer a huge embarrassment at the height of an election year.
Econ Comments
WSJ | The Bush-Obama Rx Shortages
Critical cancer drugs are in short supply thanks to price controls.
Blogs
Heritage Foundation | The Big Issues Behind the Obamacare Challenge
The Obamacare case will determine whether anything remains of the Constitution’s structural limitations on federal power; address whether the states retain any independence and power in the present day or are merely contractors of the federal government; and point the way to the future of constitutional federalism.
