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Senate Passes ACA Repeal Bill

This week’s Health Policy Roundup curated by Jane M. Orient, M.D. The Democrats’ worst nightmare is happening, writes Michael Cannon. The Senate passed a bill that would repeal most, but not all, of the Affordable […]

Legislative Update – 12/1/2015

Marilyn Singleton, MD, JD summarizes recent healthcare-related legislative activity on Capitol Hill. Reconciliation Placed on the Senate’s Calendar H.R. 3762, the Restoring Americans’ Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act of 2015, authored by Rep. Tom Price, MD […]

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 […]

AAPS Asks Supreme Court to Grant Cert in Sissel

Today, November 24, 2015, AAPS along with the Citizens Council on Health Freedom, and individual physicians, filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court of the United States asking the court to review the Sissel […]

Republicans Debate: on Healthcare—Ho Hum

This week’s health policy news roundup curated by Jane Orient, M.D. Republican Presidential candidates all still say they want to repeal ObamaCare, but aren’t making much of an issue about it. In the Nov 10 […]

Denial: the First Stage in Confronting Death of ObamaCare

This week’s health policy news roundup curated by Jane Orient, M.D. The press may think that the debate on ObamaCare is over, but as Rick Lowry points out, the death spiral is beginning. http://nypost.com/2015/11/02/obamacares-death-spiral-stage-one-denial/ The […]

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 […]

Be Careful About Replacing ObamaCare

By Marilyn Singleton, MD, JD Since the day the Affordable Care Act was enacted, we have been subjected to the “repeal and replace” mantra. Replacement offerings are basically slimmed down versions of the ACA. A […]

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 […]

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) […]