Posts Tagged ‘Obama Health Care Plan’
Heritage Research
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
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The 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 system. Given the narrow, partisan enactment of Obamacare, America appears to be on a similar path. In a recent paper, Heritage experts Ryan Lynch and Eline Altenburg-van den Broek explain why patients in the Nehterlands do not have a significant choice among the health insurance companies nor can they access sufficient information about the health system and different options. Click here to read about why this system would not benefit patients in America, either.
Tags: Dutch-Style Health Care, health care, individual mandates, Obama Health Care Plan, ObamaCare, transparency
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The 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 experience of the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988 demonstrates that full-scale repeal of Obamacare is not politically unrealistic. To learn more, click here.
Tags: HR 3590, Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988, Obama Health Care Plan, ObamaCare, repeal and start over
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Obamacare: 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 will be subject to more government regulation and oversight, and will be increasingly dependent on unreliable government reimbursement for medical services. Because of Obamacare, Doctors will only see their jobs become more difficult. Click here to read more.
Tags: doctor-patient relationship, doctors, Obama Health Care Plan, ObamaCare, physicians
Key Documents
Congressional 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.
Tags: CBO, deficit spending, government-run health care, Obama Health Care Plan, ObamaCare
Heritage Research
Abortion 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 shows that, in fact, the President’s proposal and the Senate bill on which it is based include several ways in which abortions would be federally funded.
Tags: Obama Health Care Plan, President's proposal, Senate Health Bill, taxpayer funded abortion
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Obama’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 eligibility. Here, Heritage’s Brian Blase uses the effects of a similar expansion of TennCare in Tennessee to prove that expanding Medicaid nationwide would not only cost billions, but would also fail to improve the quality of health for uninsured Americans.
Tags: health care reform, Medicaid Expansion, Obama Health Care Plan, uninsured
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The 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 tax would cripple future growth of the U.S. economy and further delay recovery from the current economic downturn.
Tags: economy, Medicare tax, new taxes, Obama Health Care Plan, President's proposal
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The 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 the case and how President Obama’s plan would far exceed this cost estimate.
Tags: deficit spending, health care spending, Health Care Summit, Obama Health Care Plan, President's proposal
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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 the House and Senate bills, as well as the President’s recent proposal, and begin afresh. Here, Heritage analyst Nina Owcharenko outlines the way forward on bipartisan reform that will give Americans, not the government, greater control over their health care.
Tags: government-run health care, Health Care Summit, House Health Bill, Obama Health Care Plan, President's proposal, Senate Health Bill
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