health insurance reform

Senator says not enough votes for health care repeal

By Consumer Insurance Guide Staff
Senator says not enough votes for health care repeal

The Republican effort to pass a legislative repeal of President Barack Obama’s health care reforms of last year will not be successful, warns Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski. Despite her personal opposition to the President’s reforms, Murkowski told a local news station in Anchorage, she thinks the party’s time would be better spent on issues it has more chance of actually getting traction on. According to the New York Times, Murkowski also said an alternative measure…

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New Mandate, More Regulation

By Kenneth Artz, The Heartland Institute
New Mandate, More Regulation

GUEST EDITORIAL By Kenneth Artz, The Heartland Institute Relationships between doctors and pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers will soon be under the microscope because of legislation forcing public revelation of such relationships and any ways they may have affected a doctor’s decisions. Under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act (PPSA) included in President Obama’s health care law, manufacturers of drugs, devices, and biological and medical supplies are required to keep a yearly report of all…

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Obamanomics: It’s Worse Than You Think

By Joseph Bast, The Heartland Institute
Obamanomics: It’s Worse Than You Think

GUEST EDITORIAL By Joseph Bast, The Heartland Institute Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act … all 3,256 pages of it … into law on March 23, 2010. Most of the provisions don’t go into effect until 2014, but some of the taxes to fund it started immediately. By counting ten years of revenues and only six years of expenses, the administration was able to claim it will reduce the federal debt over…

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