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Thursday, May 2, 2013

Health Care

Econ Comments & Analysis                                                                                            
Investors | ObamaCare Is Blocking Job Creation, Economic Growth
On Friday the government will release its unemployment report for April. The jobs numbers last month were a huge disappointment. Americans can't afford more bad news.
CATO | Obamacare’s ‘Benefits’ Are Gradually Becoming Apparent
At his press conference Tuesday, President Obama assured Americans that, “To the 85-90 percent of Americans who already have health insurance: They’re already experiencing most of the benefits of the Affordable Care Act even if they don’t know it.”

Blogs                                                                                                                             
Library of Economics | Medicare Kills a Program
What do you do when you find a program that actually works, that is, saves the government money and improves health outcomes? If you're the people who run Medicare, the socialized health insurance program for the elderly, you kill it. Or, at least, that's what the Medicare bureaucracy is about to do with one such program.