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Monday, February 10, 2014

Health Care

News                                                                                                                             
Politico | Obamacare Is Anything But Compassionate
The verdict is in, and it’s not good: Obamacare is rippling through the U.S. economy with vast implications for American prosperity.

Econ Comments & Analysis                                                                                            
Washington Times | Bailing out Obamacare
You don’t need a degree in higher math to see that the numbers for President Obama’s health care takeover don’t add up. Obamacare doles out generous subsidies to the elderly in the expectation that healthy young people will pay higher premiums to cover the added costs of insuring the old.
CRS | Medicaid Financing and Expenditures
Medicaid is a means-tested entitlement program that finances the delivery of primary and acute medical services as well as long-term services and supports. Medicaid is a federal and state partnership that is jointly financed by both the federal government and the states.