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The Future of Health Care Reform: Paul Ryan’s “Roadmap” and Its Critics

Representative Paul Ryan’s (R–WI)  “A Roadmap for America’s Future” would reduce the deficit, make Medicare sustainable, establish equity and efficiency in the federal tax treatment of health insurance, and improve access to health care for middle-class and low-income families. Congressman Ryan’s critics have accused him of trying to destroy the Medicare system and claim that the Roadmap will increase the deficit. Click here for Heritage Foundation health policy experts’ explanation of how the Ryan Roadmap would really work.

Tags: budget deficit, health care reform, Paul Krugman, Paul Ryan, Roadmap for America's Future

Getting 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 direction. This highly unpopular law would assert federal control over health care benefits and financing, erect a complex one-size-fits-all health system, and centralize America’s health care decisions in Washington. Instead, Congress should transform the health care system into one that empowers individuals and families, not Washington, to control more of their health care decisions.  Click here to read a Heritage Foundation report on Health Care Solutions for America.

Tags: health care, health care reform, Obama Health Care Plan, ObamaCare, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Utah’s Defined-Contribution Option: Patient-Centered Health Care

In Utah, state policymakers have taken a different approach in health care reform by  giving businesses and their workers the option of “defined contribution” health benefits—where participating workers choose coverage from a wide variety of plans offered by competing insurers through Utah’s health insurance exchange.  In a recent Heritage paper, Gregg Girvan explains how Utah’s state leaders are innovators who are doing precisely what they should be doing.  Click here to read how Utah policymakers are using their authority to resist concentrated power in Washington, and working to provide more and better choices for their citizens.

Tags: defined benefits, defined contribution, health care, health care reform, Utah

Revitalizing Federalism: The High Road Back to Health Care Independence

In recent research, Heritage expert Robert E. Moffit, Ph.D., explains that Americans face a historic challenge to their personal liberty and to their unique citizenship in a federal republic due to the enactment of the massive Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).  This piece of legislation is not merely a federal takeover of health care, but also radically alters the role of the federal government.

In other words, the PPACA is a direct threat to federalism itself.  To read more, click here.

Tags: federalism, health care reform, Individual Mandate, ObamaCare, states' rights

Check Out New Obamacare Watchdog Site

www.obamacarewatch.org is a project of e21, a new think tank devoted to promoting sound, market-based economic policy.  The site pulls together evidence and analysis about the legislation, as well as relevant news items and commentary.  To learn more about Obamacare and its impact on America, be sure to check out this site!

Tags: health care reform, ObamaCare

Obamacare: Impact on Future Generations

Proponents of the recently passed health care law argue that the legislation was needed to improve the nation’s health system for both today’s citizens as well as future generations.  But there are many reasons to be concerned that this new law will instead deliver both a lower quality health system and more costly and burdensome government for those paying taxes in future years.  To learn more, click here.

Tags: entitlements, federal deficit, government-run health care, health care reform, ObamaCare

Obamacare: Impact on Seniors

Passage of Obamacare will have negative consequences for practically all Americans.  However, as Heritage health policy expert Robert E. Moffit, Ph.D., outlines in a recent paper, it is the nation’s senior citizens who will get the short end of the stick after enactment of the President’s health care agenda.  To read more, click here.

Tags: health care reform, Medicare, Medicare Advantage, ObamaCare, Seniors