Time to Stop CPR on ObamaCare
This week’s Health Policy News Roundup, curated by Dr. Jane Orient ObamaCare is dead, writes Kevin D. Williamson. “It doesn’t work because it couldn’t work.” He explains how the Affordable Care Act (ACA) attempts to […]
Who Wants to Replace a Disaster?
This week’s health policy news roundup curated by Jane Orient, M.D. If ObamaCare is a disaster, then those who say it is “working” apparently want a disaster—for private insurance, private enterprise, and private medicine. The […]
Health Policy Legislative Update – 10/06/2015
Marilyn Singleton, MD, JD summarizes recent healthcare-related legislative activity on Capitol Hill. Five Parts of ACA On Path to Be Repealed via Reconciliation On September 29, 2015, the House Ways and Means Committee passed (23-14) […]
The $750 Pill and the Shackles of Serfdom
This week’s health policy news roundup curated by Jane Orient, M.D. How can the price of a pill leap from $13.50 to $750? Only because of third-party payment, writes Charles Hugh Smith. It’s time to […]
Medicare Turns 50: Will It Still Be There for YOU 10 Years from Now?
By Elizabeth Lee Vliet, M.D. Medicare was signed into law on July 31, 1965, by President Lyndon Johnson. Unlike ObamaCare, Medicare had broad bipartisan support. It is Title 18 of the Social Security Act. The […]
Health Policy Legislative Update – 7/25/2015
Marilyn Singleton, MD, JD summarizes recent healthcare-related legislative activity on Capitol Hill. Senator Mike Lee Takes Bold Step to Repeal ObamaCare The Washington Post and Freedom Works are reporting on Senator Lee’s plan to force […]
More and More Unaffordable
This week’s health policy news roundup curated by Jane Orient, M.D. Health insurers throughout the U.S. are seeking rate increases of 20 percent to 40 percent or more, saying their new customers under the Affordable […]
Health Policy Legislative Update – 7/2/2015
Marilyn Singleton, MD, JD summarizes recent healthcare-related legislative activity on Capitol Hill More Plucking Away at the ACA On June 18, 2015, H.R. 160, the Protect Medical Innovation Act was passed by the House 280 […]
Health Policy Legislative Update – 6/14/2015
Marilyn Singleton, MD, JD summarizes recent healthcare-related legislative activity on Capitol Hill Senate Finance Committee Determines the Affordable Care Act is Increasingly Unaffordable “According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services most recent […]
Measuring Physicians—and Changing Them
This week’s health policy news roundup curated by Jane Orient, M.D. Parents are rebelling against Common Core and other standardized tests of their children, which are turning education into a teach-for-the-test treadmill (or else lose […]
