The Health Care Summit: A Chance to Start Over and Get It Right
This week, the President will invite Members of Congress from both parties to a summit to discuss bipartisan ways to achieve health care reform. If the meeting is to be a success, lawmakers must scrap...
View ArticleThe President’s Health Reform Proposal: More Like $2.5 Trillion
The White House estimates that the President’s Proposal for health care reform would cost approximately $950 billion over a ten year window. Here, James Capretta explains why this is unlikely to be...
View ArticleThe President’s Health Proposal: Taxing Investments Undermines Economic Recovery
President Obama’s recent proposal for health care reform would cover the cost of expanding coverage to millions of Americans by taxing investments. Here, Heritage analysts outline how this punitive...
View ArticleObama’s Proposed Medicaid Expansion: Lessons from TennCare
President Obama and the Congressional Majority leadership have presented several proposals for health care reform that would decrease the nation’s number of uninsured largely by expanding Medicaid...
View ArticleAbortion Coverage in President Obama’s Health Care Reform Bill
Throughout the months of debate on health care reform, President Obama has promised that no health care bill will include taxpayer-funded abortion. However, research from Heritage’s Chuck Donovan...
View ArticleCongressional Budget Office Analysis of Cost of Obamacare
The Congressional Budget Office predicts that Obamacare will cost $155 billion more than originally thought. Click here to access the document.
View ArticleObamacare: Impact on Doctors
No class of American professionals will be more negatively impacted by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act than physicians. Physicians...
View ArticleThe Prospects for Ending Obamacare: Learning from Health Policy History
In Washington’s policy battles, the players are either on offense or defense. Those who frame the terms of the debate are on offense and, by outlining a compelling program for change, can win. The...
View ArticleThe Drawbacks of Dutch-Style Health Care Rules: Lessons for Americans
In 2006, the Dutch government implemented a universal insurance mandate. Many American policy makers are looking to the Dutch experiment as a model to fix America’s complex and costly health care...
View ArticleGetting Health Care Reform Right
The health care system needs reform, but not the types of changes enacted under the new health care law. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act moves the health care system in the wrong...
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