This Week’s Health Policy News Roundup Curated by Jane M. Orient, M.D.
ObamaCare architect Gruber outed on video.
Gruber was also a member of the team headed by William Hsaio, famous for the Resource-Based Relative Value Scale, that designed the Vermont single-payer plan.
Gruber’s attitude appears typical of the ruling elite. Is there any shame if it works? http://www.wnd.com/2014/11/obamacare-stupid-american-belief-pervasive/. They are, after all, both holier and smarter than thou: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/392500/smarter-thou-ian-tuttle
The Republican victory could still mean the twilight of ObamaCare, writes John Graham: http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2014/11/05/obamacares-twilight-health-reform-in-the-next-congress/.
Avik Roy suggests seven bills that might pass in 2015: http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2014/11/05/seven-obamacare-bills-that-the-new-gop-senate-majority-should-pass-in-2015/print/
Free markets work. Greg Scandlen writes on the power of price transparency: http://gregscandlen.wordpress.com/2014/11/11/price-transparency-works/
Acting more like a dictator than a lame duck, as Thomas Sowell describes it, Obama is poised to defy the voice of the people by legalizing illegal immigration and destroying our energy-producing industries (with hurrahs from Communist China): http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2014/11/11/what-happened-n1916791/page/full
Social Media:
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— Twila Brase (@twilabrase) November 14, 2014
Have Doctors joined the working class? http://t.co/pOVupQ9dm0.
— The Health Care Blog (@THCBstaff) September 26, 2014
All you need to know abt #Gruber's comic book for #StupidAmericans http://t.co/hF7RNXEG9F
— Amy Kremer (@AmyKremer) November 15, 2014