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Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Health Care

News                                                                                                                             
Politico | GOPers split over how to reform health care
Ask the 242 House Republicans what kind of health policy they’d like to enact instead of President Barack Obama’s health care reform law and you might get 242 different answers.
National Journal | House Republicans Say Companies Might Stop Health Coverage
A report Tuesday from the House Ways and Means Committee predicts that businesses will stop offering health coverage, choosing instead to save hundreds of millions of dollars a year by simply terminating health insurance for their workers and dumping these employees into taxpayer-funded health care exchanges.

Blogs                                                                                                                             
Heritage Foundation | Medicare: Admitting You Have a (Structural) Problem Is the First Step
A new study by the Urban Institute reconfirms a vital fact: Medicare’s massive increase in enrollment, largely attributable to retiring baby boomers, is driving its fiscal instability.
The American | Is health spending really flattening out?
The New York Times reports that health spending may be flattening out, something that has surprised the experts. This apparent slow-down was spotted by AEI’s J.D. Kleinke in February. But if this trend is genuine, the best hope for its continuation would be to repeal and replace Obamacare.