Archive for July, 2009
Heritage Research
Myths of the Public Plan
It’s a critical week in Congress on the health care reform front, and members are ramping up the rhetoric for one of the sticking points — a government-run health insurance plan that would “compete” with private insurers. Read more here.
Tags: health reform, House Bill, public plan
Heritage Research
Big Bang approach all wrong for health reform
Momentum for the Obama administration’s health care proposal seems to be dissipating as concern about the plan mounts. But why is it so difficult to overhaul our health system when there is bipartisan agreement it needs to be fixed?
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Tags: health reform, Obama
Health Care News
HHS Secretary on FoxNews
Tags: Fox News, Health Bill, health reform, Kathleen Sebelius
Health Care News
The Senate Doctors Show, Episode 7
Heritage Research
A Federal Health Insurance Exchange Combined with a Public Plan: The House and Senate Bills
While the national health insurance exchange advocated by President Obama and congressional leaders is sometimes described as a nationwide pool of health insurance providers, its major function would be to provide a platform for a government-run public health plan. The result would be a massive erosion of private health insurance and consolidation of federal control of the financing and delivery of medical services.
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Tags: public plan
Heritage Research
That Was Then: Exploding ‘Health Reform’ Costs
President Obama and congressional leaders are desperately searching for a way to finance their fast-track power grab over the health-care sector. Both the House and Senate bills, backed by the administration, would cost well over $1 trillion over 10 years.
Read the paper here.
Tags: cost, health reform, House Health Bill, Senate Health Bill
Health Care News
It Is Time for Responsible Health Care Reform
Another day, another round of polls showing the American people do not want Obamacare. National Public Radio found that likely voters disapprove of Obamacare 47%-42% with 39% strongly opposed, compared to 25% strongly in favor. Wall Street Journal and NBC News found that 42% of Americans called Obama care a “bad idea” while only 36% said it was a “good idea.” Finally, the New York Times/CBS News poll found that “Americans are concerned that revamping the health care system would reduce the quality of their care, increase their out-of-pocket health costs and tax bills, and limit their options in choosing doctors, treatments and tests.”
In a follow-up interview, Democrat Mary Bevering of Fort Madison, Iowa, told the NYT: “We need to fix health care but if the government creates the system, I’m afraid the quality of care will go down and costs will go up: We will pay more taxes.” Bevering is dead-on. Reforming health care is an immense task that should be taken on gradually through experimentation, not top-down government planning. Heritage VP for domestic policy Stuart Butler writes in today’s Washington Times:
If the U.S. health care sector were a separate national economy, it would be the sixth largest in the world – bigger that Britain’s entire economy. Imagine five bickering congressional committees trying to redesign the British economy successfully in just a few weeks. No wonder people are getting nervous. … [and] the congressional majority wants to revamp the huge health care economy using the doctrine of central planning. So we have thousands of pages of legislation, with potentially hundreds of thousands of pages of rules and dozens of boards and “czars.” These will regulate prices, reorganize hospitals and doctors, and decide what health care each of us should and should not have. (more…)
Health Care News
Video: Rep. Ryan Educates MSNBC on Obamacare
Tags: government-run health care, MSNBC, Paul Ryan, public plan
Health Care News
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on the Health Reform Vote Deadline
Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) now says reporters fictitiously made up the deadline for a health care vote to happen before the August recess, per The Hill.
“That is a deadline that you created … It’s not like we don’t have a product. Significant progress has been made. The mere fact that this wasn’t done by last Friday or by five o’clock doesn’t mean we’re not going to get a quality product.”
Tags: deadline, Harry Reid, health reform
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