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Monday, January 28, 2013

Health Care

News                                                                                                                             
Washington Times | Catholic University vows to pursue challenge to Obama health care law
Catholic University officials said Monday they have no plans to drop a legal challenge to a mandate requiring them to provide insurance coverage for contraception, after a federal judge dismissed their lawsuit against the Obama administration as not ready for consideration.

Blogs                                                                                                                             
CATO | Will ObamaCare’s Exchanges Be Ready in October? Will Anyone Show Up?
Ahead of 2014 and to get ready for open enrollment this fall, insurers are gauging their interest in participating in certain markets based partly on how [the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services] writes regulations governing the exchanges set to open on Jan. 1, 2014.
Café Hayek | Is the Quality-Adjusted Cost of Health-Care Higher Today than in 1980?
 A statistician finds that people in 2013 spend much more on health-care than they did in 1980.  Is it proper to conclude from this correct statistical finding that the rise in health-care expenditures – this rise in health-care costs – is a problem, a curse, something that we should lament?