News
National Journal | Insurance Companies Would Have Owed $2 Billion Under Health Care Law
Consumers would have gotten $2 billion back from their health insurance companies if rebate rules in the health care law had gone into effect in 2010, according to a report from the liberal Commonwealth Fund.
USA Today | Prescription drug spending was flat in 2011
Spending on prescription drugs in the U.S. was nearly flat in 2011 at $320 billion, held down by senior citizens and others reducing use of medicines and greater use of cheaper generic pills.
Politico | Hikes in cost of veterans' health care draw fire
The Obama administration’s budget proposal to cut defense spending, in part, by increasing the cost of health care for retired service members has riled veterans groups and members of Congress.
Econ Comments & Analysis
CATO | The Role of Partisanship in the Health Care Reform Challenge
The large interest shown by the public in the three days of oral arguments devoted to the constitutional challenge to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) should be heartening to any fan of the US Constitution.
Real Clear Markets | Medicare Is a Future Budget Buster
The riveting oral arguments before the Supreme Court about the Affordable Care Act have diverted attention from another facet of the health-care problem that is likely also to emerge as a 2012 campaign issue: how to revise Medicare so that its future cost will be less than the astronomic amount expected under present law.
Blogs
Heritage Foundation | Critics Are Wrong: Conservatives Have a Plan for Health Reform
The Heritage Foundation, for example, has outlined a detailed and comprehensive approach to reforming health care in Saving the American Dream. There are four core elements of this conservative alternative.
