New Rules Could Undermine Successful Medicare Part D Program
A new effort by the Obama Administration to change the Medicare Part D prescription drug program by imposing new rules on how the plans are set up and managed risk[...]
Category: Health Care
Why Bundled Payments Aren’t Working
The New England Journal of Medicine recently ran an article by Clay Ackerly, MD, and David Grabowski, PhD, calling for “Post-Acute Care Reform.”
The authors recommend a bundled payment system in which, “hospitals and post-acute care providers are paid for a fixed “bundle” of services around a hospital episode, including post-hospitalization care.” But, alas, there are “substantial regulatory and operational barriers” that prevent such a system from being instituted.
But before we think about the barriers, perhaps we should take a moment to consider what has been said so far.
More
The Buck Stops – Where?
Writing in the National Journal, Sam Baker tries his darnedest to minimize some of the effects of Obamacare.
Environment/Energy · Health Care · Legal Affairs · Liberty · Politics · Regulation
America’s Constitutional Crisis
It falls to the voters themselves to rescue the rule of law and the Constitution from the President Obama’s lawlessness.
What The Washington Post’s Factchecker Gets Wrong About Obamacare
The Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler is just such an arbiter, tossing out “Pinocchios” like Mardi Gras beads to all who offend his sense of rectitude. But from time to time, his rush to play “Gotcha” gets ahead of reason.
Health Care · Legal Affairs · Politics
Now Obama Really is Bypassing Congress
Manipulating large-scale legislative policies, duly enacted, around election schedules goes beyond the parameters of executive discretion.
Senator Charles Schumer Calls for Ban on Chemical Used in Bread that Obama’s FDA Says is Safe as Used
Subway’s move came as a result from pressure from Vani Hari, a blogger who calls herself “The Food Babe.”
Economics · Featured · Health Care · Politics
CBO Report Shows Obamacare’s Economic Damage
Obama’s implied tax and subsidy penalties for success are so high that it won’t be worth a lower-income person’s effort to try to climb up the income ladder.
Economics · Featured · Health Care · Politics
VID: Heartland’s Ben Domenech on MSNBC Talking Obamacare and Job Losses
Heartland Senior Fellow Benjamin Domenech was a guest Wednesday night on “All In with Chris Hayes” on MSNBC. Ben is rare among people who go on TV to talk: He actually endeavors to answer the questions he’s asked.
Education · Environment/Energy · Featured · Health Care · Liberty · Politics · Regulation
Heartland Institute Experts React to Obama’s State of the Union Address
Staff, fellows, and policy advisors at The Heartland Institute react to President Obama’s State of the Union speech.
The Next Wave of Obamacare Cancellations
Bad news: Employers are already starting to get the same cancellation letters that went to millions of people in the individual market late last year.
Featured · Health Care · Regulation
Heartland Daily Podcast: The Future of Obamacare
We live in a post-Obamacare world now. The only questions are what we do about it. Avik Roy and Benjamin Domenech discuss the future of Obamacare in this cross-post to the[...]
Featured · Health Care · Media · Politics
Jimmy Kimmel Ridicules Obamacare
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel slammed Obamacare on Tuesday night, ridiculing the Obama administrations expectation that young people would buy health insurance.
Featured · Health Care · Politics
Will Illinois’ New Marijuana Law Eventually Duplicate the Results in CO and CA?
Colorado broke new ground by ringing in the New Year with the nation’s first legal pot industry for recreational use.
Antibiotic Surprise
Almost everyone these days uncritically accepts that the solution to antibiotic-resistant disease is to use fewer antibiotics. What about using more antibiotics? More varieties that is.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Health Care · Politics
New Obamacare ‘Fee’ Assails Small Business and Jobs
In case you’re feeling safe and secure from the reaches of ObamaCare, not so fast! Surprises will be in store for you on your insurance premiums and income tax bills.
Economics · Featured · Health Care · Liberty
Obama’s 2014 Big Lie: Income Inequality
Income inequality will be the theme of Obama’s forthcoming State of the Union speech, but like everything else he says it will be a Big Lie.
Will Insurers Ever Say Enough’s Enough To Obamacare?
How long will the insurance industry abide being treated like shoe shine boys? Mr. Obama will not be in office forever. His regime is already coming to an end. What will these companies do then?
WSJ: Obama Repeals Obamcare
For weeks, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney derided the policies people liked and could afford as “junk.” Today, that “junk” is apparently treasure.
Featured · Health Care · Politics · Regulation
Heartland Institute Experts React to Latest Delay in Obamacare Mandates
The president’s latest decision to effectively exempt a portion of the American people from the individual mandate is the most egregious and unlawful step he has yet taken in the failed rollout of his health care law.
The Latest from Michelle MalkinHeartland on YouTube
- Readable Links
- Quote of the Day: Jonah Goldberg on the left's definition of "diversity" - Sister Toldjah
- The myth of ‘settled science’
- Ninth Circuit Recognizes Right to Bear, Not Just Keep, Arms
- Core-ites Awaken
- The Party Of Science Has Absolutely No Clue What It's Talking About
- Obama’s Arbitrary Health Care Flexibility
- Charles C. W. Cooke - Obama Frees America From the Tyranny of Law
