News
USA Today | Aging population a boon for health care workers
As Baby Boomers age into retirement by the millions each year, their growing health care needs require more people to administer that care. That makes fields such as nursing one of the fastest-growing occupations, and hospitals are hiring now to prepare for what's to come.
Econ Comments & Analysis
RCM | J.D. Kleinke Is Wrong, Obamacare Isn't Conservative
Not a single Republican member of the House or Senate voted for the Affordable Care Act, which President Obama had sponsored and signed into law in March 2010. Yet, a new, revisionist history has just emerged from American Enterprise Institute resident fellow J.D. Kleinke, published in The New York Times on Sunday.
Politico | Red-state counties back off Medicaid expansion talk
Texas counties made waves this summer after reports surfaced that they were interested in moving forward on their own with a Medicaid expansion at the local level — without Gov. Rick Perry’s signoff.
Blogs
Cato @ Liberty | ObamaCare’s ‘Essential Health Benefits’: Few States Implement, HHS ‘Is in Clear Violation of the Law’
ObamaCare directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to define the “essential health benefits” that all consumers in the individual and small-group health insurance markets must purchase.
