Presidential Candidates in the Year of the Sheep
By Marilyn M. Singleton, M.D., J.D. Gong Hay Fat Choy! [Happy New Year!] The Chinese Year of the Sheep is upon us. Sheep are known for trying to make people happy and being loyal followers. […]
Is ACA Too Coercive? Supreme Court Ponders
This Week’s Health Policy News Roundup Curated by Jane M. Orient, M.D. If the Affordable Care Act (ACA or ObamaCare) really means what it plainly says—that premiums for Exchange plans are only available on state-created […]
Health Policy Legislative Update 3/13/2015
Marilyn Singleton, MD, JD summaries health care related bills introduce in the last week of February 2015. Affordable Care Act Congress is still putting forth piecemeal legislation to derail or “improve” the Affordable Care Act. […]
What Will Happen If Supreme Court Cuts ObamaCare Subsidies?
By Jane M. Orient, M.D. The Obama Administration was apparently shocked when the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the case of King v. Burwell, which challenges insurance subsidies flowing through federal Exchanges. The Affordable […]
What’s at Stake if SCOTUS Rules Out Subsidies in Federal Exchanges?
This Week’s Health Policy News Roundup Curated by Jane M. Orient, M.D. There are five stakeholders at risk if the U.S. Supreme Court rules in King v. Burwell that taxpayer-funded insurance subsidies are only available […]
Health Policy Legislative Update February 2015
Marilyn Singleton, MD, JD summarizes the health policy related legislation introduced in February 2015: There were several more attempts to dismantle the Affordable Care Act in the last few weeks. On February 3, 2015, H.R. […]
ObamaCare Cronyism vs. the Free Market
By: G. Keith Smith, M.D. http://SurgeryCenterOK.com, http://MarketMedicine.org Who will rescue the victims of ObamaCare and other government healthcare schemes? Not the legislators or regulators, but rather the growing free market. Patients who learn that an […]
Feds Want Your Medical Records—So Do Hackers and Data Sellers Everywhere
This Week’s Health Policy News Roundup Curated by Jane M. Orient, M.D. The federal government spent $30 billion in subsidies to get physicians to adopt electronic medical records, which are now a major cause of […]
Government Healthcare Benefits the 1 Percent
This Week’s Health Policy News Roundup Curated by Jane M. Orient, M.D. ObamaCare fleeces the middle class to benefit a mere one percent, writes Ileana Johnson Paugh in Canada Free Press. U.S. Rep. Bradley Byrne […]
What My Patient Taught Me about Medicaid
By Alieta Eck, M.D. – http://ZHcenter.org/ Since ObamaCare’s newly insured are predominantly new Medicaid beneficiaries, it is important to be aware of what this can mean to patients. These are the lessons I learned from […]
