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Politically-controlled health benefits exchanges crowd out private exchanges0
- July 27, 2011
Government has no business running health benefits exchanges. They compete with private ventures. Politico reports: “To some observers, the growing interest in private health exchanges indicates that employers would be less likely to send their employees to the public exchanges to take advantage of public subsidies.”
READ MOREMassachusetts health care mess0
- July 26, 2011
In a study that’s likely the first of its kind, the Beacon Hill Institute at Suffolk University near Boston took a look at health care costs in Massachusetts and found that they have increased significantly since RomneyCare became the law
READ MOREEntitlement Bandits Rob Medicaid/Medicare0
- July 25, 2011
Giving Medicare enrollees vouchers for private insurance and block-granting Medicaid (as passed by the House of Representatives but defeated in the Senate) would reduce the crushing levels of fraud in Medicare and Medicaid.
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England’s NHS ‘creaking at the seams’ as waiting lists rise0
- July 21, 2011
The Telegraph (UK) reminds us that single-payer “universal” health care is really universal misery: “A senior doctors’ leader has warned that the NHS is “creaking at the seams” as official figures showed almost a third more patients are waiting too long to be treated in hospital.”
READ MOREColorado among states with opt-out options for health information exchanges0
- July 20, 2011
Maine joins 8 other states in allowing patients to opt out of gov’t health information exchanges, including Colorado. Government tracking of doctors’ treatment methods is a step toward government control of doctors.
READ MOREMandatory insurance & regulating inactivity: a radical constitutional departure0
- July 19, 2011
Ilya Somin of George Mason School of Law says that the recent appellate court decision finding the individual mandate constitutional undermines federalism, misconstrues the boundaries of congressional authority, and lays the groundwork for limitless federal mandates
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