News
National Journal | Doc Fix' Once Again Squeezed to Short Term
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, except perhaps it’s the worst. Congress is once again facing down a hard deadline to avoid a 27 percent pay cut to Medicare doctors, and with only a few weeks left, the last hope is yet another short-term patch.
National Journal | Proposed Law: Decide Health Care Cases Now
Advocates on both sides of the case want the court to answer the cases' constitutional questions right away. But the Court could still decide to postpone the decision until 2015, if it finds that it doesn't have jurisdiction to consider the law now.
Econ Comments
Washington Post | Choking on Obamacare
In an economic climate of increasing uncertainties, Puzder says, one certainty is that many businesses now marginally profitable will disappear when Obamacare causes that margin to disappear.
WSJ | The ObamaCare Recusal Nonsense
The left doesn't want Justice Thomas to hear the case. The right says Justice Kagan is too biased. The full court should decide the case.
Blogs
Marginal Revolution | Claims about health care
The magnitudes of our empirical findings imply that changing provider incentives explain up to one third of recent growth in spending on physician services. The incremental care has no significant impacts on mortality, hospitalizations, or heart attacks.
