How to Insure Americans who have Pre-Existing Conditions
Published in Pajamas Media: People with pre-existing conditions deserve better than ObamaCare’s price controls. Free market reforms can provide it. Like a hammer that sees every problem as a nail, many politicians think the solution to every problem is legislation that erodes our liberties.
New CBO report hides less of ObamaCare’s true costs
The latest CBO report on ObamaCare’s costs is less misleading, as covers more years that include both tax revenue & spending, rather than just revenue. The result more clearly shows how it fleeces taxpayers.
The Road To Socialized Medicine Is Paved With Pre-existing Conditions – The Objectivist – – Forbes
The government takeover of medicine & medical insurance has been an incremental process. At Forbes.com, read about the “general pattern of the expansion [where] advocates point to some group in real or alleged dire need and declare that Washington has a duty to act.”
Dave Kopel & John Suthers on Judge Vinson’s ruling that strikes down ObamaCare
Senior Federal Judge Roger Vinson has ruled that “Because the individual mandate is unconstitutional and not severable, the entire Act must be declared void.” This ruling declares that the law. Read reactions by the Independence Instiute’s Dave Kopel, CO Attorney General John Suthers, and others.
De facto death panels: all four pieces in place
All 4 pieces are in place for gov’t to deny life-saving medicine: Health Info. Technology to track doctors, comparative effectiveness research to decide what works, Accountable Care Orgs. to control doctors’ practice, & end-of-life counseling to inform patients. Greg Scandlen explains.
Health Insurance Rate Hikes: Unreasonable if Excessive, Excessive if Unreasonable
New insurance premium regulations by the Department of Health & Human Services would prohibit “unreasonable” price increases. An increase is “unreasonable” if it’s “excessive,” while “excessive” means it’s “unreasonably high.” Imagine if speed limit laws worked this way.
“Government takeover of health care”: Lie of the year?
PolitiFact has chosen “government takeover of health care” as the 2010 Lie of the Year. But the health care bill is a dramatic increase in government control of medicine. These add up to a good case for the bill’s being a government takeover.
Kopel & Natelson discuss Virginia v. Sebelius
A Virginia judge just ruled against ObamaCare’s individual mandate [HR 3590], saying that the Constitution’s Commerce Power does not justify Congress regulating economic inactivity. Professor Rob Natelson & Research Director Dave Kopel comment on the court’s ruling & what that means for AG Suther’s case.
Low-wage union workers’ kids lose health plans because of ObamaCare
Partly because of ObamCare [HR 3590], “one of the largest union-administered health-insurance funds in New York is dropping coverage for the children of more than 30,000 low-wage home attendants,” reports the Wall Street Journal.
Accountable care organizations threaten competition, quality care, & low prices
No advocate of liberty should be surprised by the following from the New York Times. Reporting on “accountable care organizations” established by ObamaCare (HR 3590): Consumer advocates fear that the health care law could worsen some of the very problems it was meant to solve — by reducing competition, driving up costs and creating incentives […]
Constitution’s ‘commerce power’ doesn’t permit Obamacare
Constitutional debate about the new health care law has been about the law’s mandate that individuals buy health insurance. But the constitutional issues also include whether the federal government should be regulating health care at all. The Founders would have said “no.”
What Republicans can do about ObamaCare
Republicans will have a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives next year. Michael Tanner at Cato outlines what they can, and cannot, do to stop ObamaCare (HR3590).
