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The Government Accountability Office has just released a report detailing the massive opportunities for fraudulently getting tax credits in Obamacare’s health insurance exchanges. Obamacare sends billions of taxpayers’ dollars to health insurers which operate in these exchanges – $37 billion last year alone. These tax credits are used to discount premiums for plans offered in […]
Phyllis Schlafly | Eagle Forum After seven years of rule by decree by President Obama’s Chicago crony Arne Duncan, why are Republicans reauthorizing the federal government’s authority over the nation’s public schools? And why did the new [mc_name name=”Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)” chamber=”house” mcid=”R000570″ ], rush a 1,059-page bill to a floor vote only two […]
AHIP chief Marilyn Tavenner blasts drug plans as Hillary Clinton proposal targets price hikes[/caption] The health insurance industry is undergoing a crisis of consensus on how to respond to the failure of Obamacare. That is the only way to interpret the departure of another large, national carrier, Aetna, from America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP). This […]
Devon Herrick | NCPA The House is voting on a reconciliation bill that would repeal much of Obamacare. It’s expected to pass easily – and be vetoed by President Obama. Before we discuss what should replace Obamacare it would be a valuable exercise to revisit what needs to be repealed. The employer mandate has to […]
Bruce Deitrick Price Eight hundred years ago, Genghis Khan spread destruction from China to Europe, across a landscape more than 3000 miles wide. His skilled horsemen were also expert archers. They attacked in great swarms, and then galloped on to the next town. Genghis Khan was a ruthless conqueror. Wikipedia notes: “These campaigns were often […]
Devon Herrick | NCPA The U.S. health care system is an unsustainable mess. Medical spending is rising at twice the rate of income growth. Medical prices are rising at three times the rate of consumer inflation. National health expenditures are approaching one-fifth of the economy. Currently the government funds about half of health care. In […]
John R. Graham | NCPA Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) tests are back in the news, as they are one entry point for the government to start micromanaging how it pays doctors in Medicare. To set the stage: Currently, Medicare pays for an annual PSA test for men 50 and older as “preventive care.” However, Obamacare […]
Congress should make sure taxpayer money spent on failed Obamacare exchanges is recovered[/caption] After spending at least $3.2 billion of the $5.5 billion allocated for the creation of state-based exchanges under the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare, some states are now seeking to get some of that money from lawsuits involving the failure […]
Mary Ann Kreitzer | Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation SHENANDOAH VALLEY, VA — U.S. medical care and its delivery are changing and have been for several decades. When was the last time you were sick, called the doctor’s office and actually saw the doctor? Wasn’t your appointment with the “physician’s assistant” or a “nurse practitioner?” Medical practice […]
Gail Dutton | The Life Sciences Report Aethlon Medical Inc. has pioneered a novel biofiltration platform that was used effectively against Ebola in 2014. Now this broad-spectrum platform is being tested against cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Aethlon CEO James “Jim” Joyce tells The Life Sciences Report how this device is helping transform modern healthcare. Management Q&A: […]
Bruce Deitrick Price Steve Jobs, founder of Apple Computer, was arguably more intelligent and capable than 99.9% of the population. In a 1980 interview Jobs gave his vision for education: “I’m a very big believer in equal opportunity, as opposed to equal outcome….Equal opportunity to me more than anything means a great education….Maybe even more important […]
No good words were used to describe last week’s Employment Situation Summary: “Every aspect of the September jobs report was disappointing,” wrote Michelle Girard, chief U.S. economist at RBS (quoted in Forbes). This is largely a repeat of the August jobs report, although those and previous months’ figures were also revised downwards. One quarter of […]