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Friday, July 13, 2012

Health Care

News                                                                                                                             
Washington Times | Slow growth expected in costs for medicines
Spending on medicine will grow at historically low levels in the U.S. during the next two years while developing countries will see such spending double and match the U.S. market by 2016, a report released Thursday shows.
National Journal | Kentucky to Set Up Insurance Exchange
Kentucky wants to set up its own health insurance exchange, the state told the federal government on Tuesday.
CNN Money | Trying to duck health care's employer rules? Don't bother
In the wake of the Supreme Court's health care decision, several companies with 50 or more full-time workers have embarked on a quest.

Econ Comments & Analysis                                                                                            
WSJ | Medicaid Moment of Truth
In medicine, the treatments known as heroic measures pose grave risks to patients but are performed anyway because the alternative is certain death. That also more or less describes what Chief Justice John Roberts did to save the Affordable Care Act, and now the entitlement faces another challenge, especially in the states.

Blogs                                                                                                                             
Heritage Foundation | Facts Deflate Sebelius’s Defense of Obamacare
It must be a tough job defending Obamacare, but someone’s got to do it. This week, that someone is Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, who wrote an op-ed for The Washington Post.