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Health Care Reform | Huge Middle Class Tax Hike (PDF)
06/12/2009
With the President promoting a big expansion in federal health care spending, Democratic leaders are scrambling to find ways to pay for it. The plan is expected to cost almost $2 trillion, but our nation is arguably already broke and on the verge of hyperinflation.
The Mess in Massachusetts: Failed Health Reform
06/12/2009
When Massachusetts passed its pioneering health care reforms in 2006, critics warned that they would spiral toward a government–run health care system. Three years later, those predictions are coming true.
Obama takes health agenda on road
06/11/2009
He has run into opposition from fellow Democrats in Congress and the nation's largest doctors' association, the American Medical Association.
Comparative Effectiveness Research: The Need for a Uniform Standard
06/11/2009
Budget estimates suggest CER will not reduce the deficit. We can expect then that CER will be used in the future to make decisions about access and pricing of medical products.
The problems with an individual mandate in health insurance
06/11/2009
An individual mandate actually would operate as a gateway drug to even greater addiction to government control of health care.
Baker College student's journey inspires fellow students and teachers
06/11/2009
James Key, 50, who lives in Jackson, worked 12 years at a local factory and had perfect attendance until he was sidelined by a spinal injury. Shortly thereafter, he was diagnosed with kidney cancer and ultimately lost his job.
Health care bill is the ball game
06/11/2009
Whereas the Clinton administration advertised the overhaul of American health care primarily as a means of covering the uninsured, President Obama is making the bolder claim that revamping health care is a way to save money. Really?
More Opposition Forms to Government Insurance Option
06/11/2009
Employers and doctors belonging to the American Medical Association are lining up against parts of the health-reform plans such as that introduced by Sen. Ted Kennedy.
A Win-Win Approach to Financing Health Care Reform?
06/11/2009
Moving to universal coverage is now widely acknowledged to require that all US citizens carry insurance coverage, but where is the Constitutional mandate for this level of government interference in our lives?
NEJM: Finding Money for Health Care Reform
06/11/2009
The National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association, an organization of about 100 private insurers and public agencies, estimates that some $60 billion (about 3% of total annual health care spending) is lost to fraud every year, but that figure is considered conservative.
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