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Thursday, March 20, 2014

Health Care

News                                                                                                                             
National Journal | Congress Plans to Use Another Band-Aid for 'Doc Fix'
Congress intends to pass another short-term "doc fix" instead of the long-term solution physicians have been seeking for years, a House committee spokesman confirmed Wednesday.
National Journal | The Six States That Can't Decide on Medicaid Expansion
For the final six holdouts, the decision of whether to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act has become a delicate tug-of-war between state officials and the federal government.
Washington Times | The White House wants feds to bail out insurers if they lose money on Obamacare
The Obama administration has taken a red pen to its signature health care reform law again — rewriting the measure without consulting Congress.

Econ Comments & Analysis                                                                                            
Washington Times | Obamacare is a Trojan horse for government-run health care starting in 2015
President Obama promised that we could keep our health care plans and our doctors, but he knew that was a lie. He pretended Obamacare was the endgame. That was also false.
Fortune | Medicare put on the brink, yet again
Next week, Congress will be racing against the clock to put a band-aid on an automatic measure that will significantly cut what doctors receive for treating Medicare patients.