ObamaCare Costs and Cover-up
ObamaCare News Roundup Curated by Jane M Orient, MD “The law has been successful so far according to the one metric that really matters to the Left: hiding its true cost from the American taxpayer,” […]
Why Accountable Care Organizations Are Failing
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), a key piece of the Affordable Care Act (“ObamaCare”) “reform” plan, are failing because they must fail. ACOs are based on faulty assumptions, poor economics, and junk science. They would not exist in a truly free market, and are best viewed as a product of government central planners and crony capitalism.
Protect Americans against Importation of Deadly Diseases Like Ebola, Says AAPS
On August 8, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Ebola epidemic to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has stated that a […]
More ObamaCare and EHR Failures
ObamaCare Roundup Curated by Jane M Orient, MD Even if you like your ObamaCare plan, you probably won’t be able to keep it, because of the unfathomable structure of the metallic bands, explains Robert Grayboyes […]
Will U.S. Keep Ebola in Check Here at Home?
By: Jane M. Orient, M.D. Some 3,000 American soldiers are arriving in Africa to fight an Ebola epidemic that is doubling about every 3 weeks, with the number of infections projected to reach 1.4 million […]
GAO: HHS Lacks Funding Authority in Obamacare to Cover Insurer Losses
The nonpartisan government watchdog Government Accountability Office (GAO) confirms the Congressional Research Service conclusion that Department of Health and Human Services “has no legal authority to disburse risk corridor payments under Obamacare absent a congressional […]
H.R. 5556: Electronic Health Fairness Act of 2014
A Quick Fix for Meaningful Use Requirements? A bipartisan bill, the ‘‘Electronic Health Fairness Act of 2014’’, HR 5556, was introduced by Diane Black (R-TN), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), David Scott (D-GA), and Tim Griffin (R-AR) […]
Truth and (Unintended?) Consequences
ObamaCare Roundup curated by Jane M. Orient, M.D. The Associated Press has compiled a list of 8 ways in which the Obama Administration is blocking access to information. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests are […]
ObamaCare Roundup: Terminations
Curated by AAPS Executive Director Jane M. Orient, M.D. ObamaCare Terminations: Some 115,000 people will lose their ObamaCare coverage as of Sept. 30, according to Andrew M. Slavitt, the No. 2 official at the Centers […]
Third-Party Payment Key to Medical Cost Increases, Economists Write
The rapid increase in medical costs starting in the 1970s is commonly ascribed be market imperfections. However, federal and state governments have long suppressed the functioning of the market system in the medical industry, write […]
