Giving Back—Not the Role of Government
This week’s health policy news roundup curated by Jane Orient, M.D. Many people forget that the government cannot give what it has not first taken. And once it takes power or gains a source of […]
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 […]
ObamaCare Continues to “Work Better Than Intended”—to Destroy American Medicine
This week’s health policy news roundup curated by Jane Orient, M.D. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the total number of uninsured dropped from 45.2 million in 2013 to 36.7 million in 2014—a net of […]
Bubbles Expand; Real Economy Contracts
This week’s health policy news roundup curated by Jane Orient, M.D. One of the most important and damaging ObamaCare provisions has largely gone unnoticed by the general public, but the Medicaid expansion bubble threatens to […]
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 […]
Central Government Dependency Day?
The concept of independence may live in the hearts of some Americans, but July 4, 2015, is a time when the White House is celebrating the role of five or six Supreme Court Justices in […]
SCOTUScare No Longer ‘Just a Law’
This week’s health policy news roundup curated by Jane Orient, M.D. On the eve of the King v. Burwell decision, in a fervid speech some thought was to designed to cow Supreme Court Justices, Barack […]
ObamaCare Disaster Lurches On
This week’s health policy news roundup curated by Jane Orient, M.D. It was already apparent in 2014 that the Affordable Care Act forces people to buy catastrophic policies at first-dollar coverage prices. Less well known […]
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 […]
Winners and Losers from King v. Burwell
This week’s health policy news roundup curated by Jane Orient, M.D. New entitlements tend to last forever because of the political uproar when government takes something away. If the U.S. Supreme Court decides, in King […]
