The World Health Organization found itself Friday in the strange position of defending North Korea’s health care system from an Amnesty International report, three months after WHO’s director described medicine in the totalitarian state as the envy of the developing world.
On July 18, 2010, In Uncategorized, By admin
On July 18, 2010, In Uncategorized, By admin
The relentlessly rising cost of health insurance is prompting some small Massachusetts companies to drop coverage for their workers and encourage them to sign up for state-subsidized care instead, a trend that, some analysts say, could eventually weigh heavily on the state’s already-stressed budget.
On July 17, 2010, In Uncategorized, By admin
When Congress required most Americans to obtain health insurance or pay a penalty, Democrats denied that they were creating a new tax. But in court, the Obama administration and its allies now defend the requirement as an exercise of the government’s “power to lay and collect taxes.”
Administration officials say the tax argument is a linchpin of their legal case in defense of the health care overhaul and its individual mandate, now being challenged in court by more than 20 states and several private organizations.
On July 17, 2010, In Uncategorized, By admin
The Democratic co-chair of President Obama’s fiscal commission said that the president’s health care bill will do very little to bring down costs, contradicting claims from the White House that their sweeping legislation will dramatically impact runaway entitlement spending.
“It didn’t do a lot to address cost factors in health care. So we’ve got a lot of work to do,” said Erskine Bowles, former White House chief of staff to President Bill Clinton, speaking about the new health law, which was signed into law by Obama this past spring after a nearly year-long fight in Congress.
Bowles, speaking at an event hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said that even with the passage of Obama’s legislation, health care costs are still going to “really eat us alive” unless dramatic changes are made. The commission will submit recommendations on how to fix America’s long term fiscal problems to Congress in December.
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On July 11, 2010, In Uncategorized, By admin
A warning that federal tax officials will need more congressional funding to administer the Democrats’ health reform law has rekindled the partisan debate over its cost effectiveness.
Senior Republicans have said for months that the new responsibilities required of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) under the legislation would saddle the agency with billions of dollars in additional costs — expenses not accounted for in the bill.
A Wednesday report from the National Taxpayer Advocate (NTA), an independent watchdog within the IRS, backed those claims, finding that the agency currently lacks the resources to take on the new duties.
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On July 6, 2010, In Uncategorized, By admin
Berwick has condemned the free market’s involvement in medical practice and declared the United States should be more like Britain, where some people die waiting in line for medical treatment.
Berwick also lambasted consumers in the United States for being able to get the care they want as opposed to need in the United States. He wants to fix this “problem” declaring, “That is for leaders to do.”
On July 6, 2010, In Uncategorized, By admin
President Obama said earlier this year that the health-care bill that Congress passed three months ago is “essentially identical” to the Massachusetts universal coverage plan that then-Gov. Mitt Romney signed into law in 2006. No one but Mr. Romney disagrees.
As events are now unfolding, the Massachusetts plan couldn’t be a more damning indictment of ObamaCare. The state’s universal health-care prototype is growing more dysfunctional by the day, which is the inevitable result of a health system dominated by politics.
On July 2, 2010, In Uncategorized, By admin
Emergency rooms, the only choice for patients who can’t find care elsewhere, may grow even more crowded with longer wait times under the nation’s new health law.
That might come as a surprise to those who thought getting 32 million more people covered by health insurance would ease ER crowding. It would seem these patients would be able to get routine health care by visiting a doctor’s office, as most of the insured do.
But it’s not that simple. Consider:
There’s already a shortage of front-line family physicians in some places and experts think that will get worse.
On June 22, 2010, In Uncategorized, By admin
Obama passes a law that is GUARANTEED to increase the cost of health insurance and then pretends to act concerned when it actually happens. Doesn’t Obama appreciate that if the ACTUAL cost of insurance rises and insurers are prohibited from raising rates, they will be forced to dramatically scale back benefits in order to prevent going out of business? Perhaps that was the motivation all along.
On June 15, 2010, In Uncategorized, By admin
Despite the claim that current health care plans are “grandfathered” in under PPACA, if an individual’s current insurance company makes changes to its plan (such as including more people other than dependents or employees), it would trigger the mandate to have a government approved plan.
Under PPACA “grandfathered” plans would still be required to comply with certain reforms, and individuals who choose to enroll in these plans would not be able to use tax credits, essentially allowing these plans to wither on the vine. Six months after passage, the reconciliation bill would require “grandfathered” individual and small group plans to do the following:
- Prohibit practices such as the rescission of insurance, excessive waiting periods, and lifetime limits.
- Requires “young adults” be allowed to stay on their parents’ insurance plan until age 26.
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