The American health care system dominates the nation’s economy and puts demands on taxpayers to a degree unequaled anywhere else on earth…
Health Care
Brain Map: President Obama Proposes First Detailed Guide of Human Brain Function
Ultimately, researchers believe that by understanding the brain at a circuit level, diseases like Alzheimer’s, schizophrenia, depression and other brain disorders could be better treated and perhaps even cured.
Good News on Health Care
Good news? Yes. There’s been a decline in the increase of health care spending that could shrink our budget deficits in the near future.
Obamacare and GOP Governors – Is This a Tipping Point?
Gov. John Kasich’s choice to expand Ohio’s Medicaid program may provide political cover to other Republicans who have vehemently opposed the Affordable Care Act.
The Cost of ObamaCare’s Coverage Provisions
The coverage provisions of ObamaCare will cost $1.165 trillion over ten years, according to a new CBO report. The healthcare law covers 27 million people who would previously be uninsured. (UPDATED)
Religious Groups Remain Concerned About Contraception Mandate
Religious nonprofits won’t have to pay for contraception coverage under ObamaCare, but their employees must be offered the benefit, the Department of Health and Human Services confirmed Friday in a rule-making proposal.
5 New Obamacare Taxes Coming in 2013
Starting next year, five new tax increases will begin to raise $258.2 billion in new revenue over seven years.
Waste or Haste? Electronic Health Record Payments Under Scrutiny
A new critical report from the Inspector General of Health and Human Services shows just how difficult it is for the feds to move fast on spending programs and still look out for taxpayer dollars.
For Republican Governors, Obamacare Exchanges Force an Unenviable Choice
There are countless unknowns still swirling around the Affordable Care Act. Its ultimate price tag is anyone’s guess. Thanks to the Supreme Court’s decision to make the ACA’s Medicaid expansion optional, there’s no way to predict how many uninsured people will gain new coverage. But one of the biggest mysteries shrouding the law …
The Romney-Ryan Plan for Medicare: What It Means for Seniors
Mitt Romney’s Pre-Existing Conditions
It’s hard to tell what Mitt Romney would do to solve the problem of sick uninsured Americans. Right now, these people often can’t find insurers willing to sell them policies or, if they can, the costs are prohibitive. Under Obama’s Affordable Care Act, insurance companies will be required, beginning in 2014, to sell policies to anyone …
Mitt Romney’s Confusing Health Care Comments
Now that Barack Obama is enthusiastically campaigning on the Affordable Care Act — even proudly referring to it as Obamacare — Mitt Romney is trying to blunt criticism that his plan to scrap health care reform is bad news for …
The Wall Street Journal’s Cheesecake Fallacy
There I was, reading Atul Gawande’s excellent piece about the future of medicine in the New Yorker, and thinking: hmm. Maybe we won’t need a major government presence in reforming the current, ridiculously wasteful system, maybe the free market will reform itself. After all, Gawande spends most of the piece showing how medical systems, …
