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House Questions Obama Admin For Using Taxpayer Money to Push ObamaCare

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Yesterday, the House Ways and Means Committee asked the Obama Administration to provide detailed information to the committee on the use of federal tax dollars for significant public relations campaign by HHS. Congressman Charles Boustany (a medical doctor) sent the letter.

A copy of the Ways & Means Committee press release can be found here.

Text of the Ways & Means Committee letter can be found here.

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Government Can Lead by Getting Out of the Way

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

A new article at The Apothecary details how many well-intended (but misguided) government policies have increased health insurance costs. As costs increase, more people drop health insurance or opt-out either because they cannot afford the higher prices or the do a simple cost-benefit analysis and decide that the benefit is no longer worth the cost. In either case, it is government mandates and policies that drive up costs with the end results being fewer people with insurance. ObamaCare repeats many of the failed policies of the past which will make the problems associated with higher cost health insurance even worse. Read the full commentary here.

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ObamaCare's Job Killing Tax on Innovation

Friday, May 18, 2012

Last week, George Will wrote in the Washington Post about Obamacare's job-killing tax hikes. He wrote: "An axiom of scarcity is understood by people not warped by working for the federal government, which can print money when it wearies of borrowing it. The axiom is: A unit of something — time, energy, money — spent on this cannot be spent on that. So the 2.3 percent tax, unless repealed, will mean not only fewer jobs but also fewer pain-reducing and life-extending inventions — stents, implantable defibrillators, etc. — which have reduced health-care costs."

Read his full article here.

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How The Sale of Insurance Across State Lines Would Work

Thursday, May 17, 2012

An interesting commentary about the purchase of health insurance across state lines would work. Read more here.

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The Coming Government Price Controls Under ObamaCare

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Supporter of PPACA (ObamaCare) regularly point to Massachusetts as the model for the federal law. That being the case, watching the direction that Massachusetts takes in healthcare is a pretty good indication of the direction that healthcare may go on a national basis.

Americans nationwide need to take note of what is happening in Massachusetts. Avik Roy explains what has happened in Massachusetts. He writes: "Under Governor Deval Patrick, Massachusetts has tried a couple of methods for limiting the government’s exposure to rising health-care costs. First, Patrick forced insurers to stop raising premiums, which led to a predictable train wreck, as insurers started hemorrhaging cash. When a state appeals board overturned Patrick’s decree, he shifted gears, and began going after the prices charged by hospitals and doctors. On Friday, the Massachusetts House unveiled new legislation toward that end."

This is quiet clearly just another form of government price controls. Read more about what is in the new Massachusetts law here.

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The Future of Health Care Innovation

Monday, May 14, 2012

ObamaCare imposes a series of tax hikes - including on medical innovators. Grace-Marie Turner explains exactly what this will mean to patients and their health care:

"ZOLL Medical Corporation is one of the medical device companies in the bull’s eye of ObamaCare. ZOLL President Jonathan Rennert explained that the new taxes the law imposes on his company’s revenue – revenue, not profits – will raise ZOLL’s tax rate to greater than 50%, which will in turn drastically curtail the company’s investment in research and development. 'The medical device tax would have completely wiped out our profit if it were in effect over the last several years,' Rennert said. 'Every one of the jobs in our company is now in the U.S. But we will have every incentive to move jobs offshore” when the tax takes effect in 2013. The medical device tax will lead to less innovation, fewer jobs, and fewer lives saved.'"

Read the full article here.

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The Future of Health Care Innovation

Monday, May 14, 2012

ObamaCare imposes a series of tax hikes - including on medical innovators. Grace-Marie Turner explains exactly what this will mean to patients and their health care:

"ZOLL Medical Corporation is one of the medical device companies in the bull’s eye of ObamaCare. ZOLL President Jonathan Rennert explained that the new taxes the law imposes on his company’s revenue – revenue, not profits – will raise ZOLL’s tax rate to greater than 50%, which will in turn drastically curtail the company’s investment in research and development. 'The medical device tax would have completely wiped out our profit if it were in effect over the last several years,' Rennert said. 'Every one of the jobs in our company is now in the U.S. But we will have every incentive to move jobs offshore” when the tax takes effect in 2013. The medical device tax will lead to less innovation, fewer jobs, and fewer lives saved.'"

Read the full article here.

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Calls Grow Louder for Montana to Reject ObamaCare Exchanges

Friday, May 11, 2012

On April 27, 2012, The Bozeman Daily Chronicle published one of the most coherent opinion pieces in a call for states to reject creating an ObamaCare health insurance exchange. The piece states the following:

This exchange is being sold as a free-market tool for its simplicity, innovative design and ease of use, but these exchanges are nothing of the sort.Health care exchanges voluntarily created by market participants could be something that conservatives support. However, the exchanges created by President Obama and his Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) must be opposed. These exchanges heap thousands of pages of rules, regulations and mandates on Montana’s insurance market, hurting competition and increasing premiums for consumers. Even Jonathan Gruber, an economist and chief architect of the law, acknowledges this fact. In a study for the state of Wisconsin, Gruber found that premiums for individuals will spike by 30 percent once the law’s requirements are in place.

Read the full commentary here.

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ObamaCare Threatens the Poor, Most Vulnerable Among Us

Thursday, May 10, 2012

The Washington Times has published an opinion piece explaining how ObamaCare threatens the most vulnerable Americans. From the piece: "Obamacare most directly hurts women, an irony that receives little attention, given the great effort by the Obama campaign to paint its Republican opponents as being hostile to America’s women."

Read the full article here.

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Just in Time for the Election, HHS Releases ObamaCare Propaganda

Wednesday, May 09, 2012

The Obama Administration has released a twenty page powerpoint presentation to give talking points and propaganda to help people push ObamaCare. The document is filled with a series of misstatements, mischaracterizations and outright lies.

Read the full article here and view the powerpoint here.

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