News
Daily Finance | Long-Term Care-Less: An Insurance Nightmare As Premiums Nearly Double
It's the right thing to do: I still recommend that you purchase long-term care insurance to avoid the dreaded outcome of being older, alone, and in need of everyday care that is not covered by Medicare or supplements.
National Journal | Ryan Goes With Wyden Medicare Plan
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., wants to overhaul Medicare for the second year in a row, making it a central piece of his 2013 budget but going with a kinder, gentler version of his Medicare plan from last year.
Econ Comments & Analysis
WSJ | ObamaCare's Costs Are Soaring
One year after the passage of ObamaCare, this paper published an op-ed I wrote ("ObamaCare and Carey's Heart") about how America's health-care system saved my daughter's life, and describing how implementing this law will limit innovation, lead to rationing, and lower the quality of care. Now, two years out, I would like to focus on the budgetary disaster.
CATO | Obamacare, Two Years Later
This week marks two years since of the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and if the Obama administration has chosen to all but ignore the second anniversary of Obamacare, the rest of us should pause and reflect on just what a monumental failure of policy the health-care-reform law has been.
Blogs
The American | No, Paul Ryan’s new budget does not end Medicare
The plan lowers Medicare spending by $210 billion over the next decade—a modest reduction for a $6.6 trillion program
