Medicaid Rescissions Worse than Private Insurers

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

THe health control legislation [HR 3590] expands Medicaid eligibility.  John Goodman explains how Medicaid's denial of coverage are worse than private insurers: During the year leading up to the final passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), the White House set up a special Web site and ...

“Don’t say the “the law will reduce costs and deficit.”

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

"Don't say the "the law will reduce costs and deficit." This is the last line on the final slide of a presentation given during a conference call organized by Families USA, a strong supporter of the health control legislation, HR 3590. Reports Ben Smith at Politico: Key White House allies are dramatically ...

Prepare for countless government health care bureaucracies

Thursday, August 12th, 2010

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said "we have to pass the bill [HR 3590] so you can find out what is in it." Apparently passing the bill is not enough. We still don't know what's in it. As Politico reports: Don’t bother trying to count up the number of agencies, boards and ...

ObamaCare’s broken promises

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

Michael Tanner reviews a few of Barack Obama's promises about the health control legislation (HR 3590) in a New York Post article: "The bill doesn't come close to giving "everybody" access to coverage." "Even further from reality is the president's continued insistence that the new law is 'reducing costs.'" "Anyone who thinks that ...

Bad Medicine: The Real Costs & Consequences of ObamaCare

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

A new analysis of ObamaCare (HR 3590) from the Cato Institute: The length and complexity of the health care reform legislation, combined with a debate that often generated more heat than light, has led to massive confusion about the law's likely impact. A new white paper by Cato ...

ObamaCare’s high-risk pools may deny coverage

Friday, July 9th, 2010

This week the Denver Business Journal and the Denver Post reported on Colorado's new federally subsidizes high-risk pools ("GettingUSCovered"). But there's a good reason to be concerned about quality and access. The Hill reports: The Obama administration has not ruled out turning sick people away from an insurance program created by ...

Draft HHS report: half of employer plans illegal by 2013

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

More illegal insurance resulting from HR 3590, the health control legislation. From Investor's Business Daily: Internal administration documents reveal that up to 51% of employers may have to relinquish their current health care coverage because of ObamaCare. Small firms will be even likelier to lose existing plans. Read the whole article: ...

Politico: “Health law could ban low-cost plans”

Monday, June 14th, 2010

From Jennifer Haberkorn at Politico explains how the health control legislation, HR 3590, bans affordable insurance: Part of the health care overhaul due to kick in this September could strip more than 1 million people of their insurance coverage, violating a key goal of President Barack Obama’s reforms. Under the ...

Health care “reform” barely reduces government deficit

Friday, June 11th, 2010

Proponents of the health control legislation, HR 3590, claimed it would reduce the federal deficit.  First of all, this desirable if government cuts spending.  In any case, Veronique de Rugy at the Mercatus Center shows that the health care bill's deficit reduction is tiny: The above chart by Mercatus Center senior ...

HSA health insurer shuts down because of ObamaCare

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010

In response to the health control legislation, HR 3590, a small health insurance companies that focused on selling high-deductible policies is closing its doors. So reports Richmond BizSense (emphasis added) The hotly debated healthcare reform bill signed into law in March has killed a local insurance company. At least that’s according ...