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Governor Bredesen Got the Calculations Right

In yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, Tennessee Governor Philip Bredesen explained how Obamacare has created a situation where the state government and many of its employees will find it mutually...

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Congress Must Now Address Civil Justice Reform to Impact Health Care

Democrats profess great concern about the health care issue. Yet they avoided including any form of medical malpractice reform when passing their major health care legislation in 2010. This despite...

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Assessing the Impact of Repealing of Obamacare

Click here to read former Congressional Budget Office (CBO) director, Doug Holtz-Eakin’s paper from the American Action Forum.  By repealing Obamacare, Congress could save up to 695,000 jobs and cut...

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Pay-for-Performance in Medicare Could Do More Harm Than Good

Liberals’ solution to rising health care costs has consistently been to take control of health care decisions away from patients and their doctors and to place it in the hands of government. Obamacare...

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Another Good Swing At Defunding Obamacare—But Not A Hit

Once again the U.S. House plans to take another whack Tuesday at defunding Obamacare—although the Senate and White House are poised to protect the funding. The bill scheduled for a vote, HR 1213, would...

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Medicare’s Worsening Finances: The Other Shoe Drops

A week ago, the Medicare Trustees issued their annual report, which showed that the program is on the fact track to insolvency. The 2011 analysis projected that the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund (which...

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Senate Stands Still on Budget Crisis

Solving our nation’s fiscal crisis is not up for debate, and politicians should be past the point of using it as fodder for political gain. But you wouldn’t know it by looking at the latest from...

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Lunch with Heritage Online Chat on Obamacare

Click here to read the online chat on Obamacare. We were joined by Health Policy Analyst Kate Nix. She talked about the future of Obamacare and other policy alternatives that can be implemented to...

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Health Insurance Continues Unaffordable Trend After Obamacare

This week, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research and Educational Trust released a major survey on employer-sponsored health benefits in the United States. Among the many important...

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Obamacare’s Soaring Price Tag

On January 21, 2009, Barack Obama stood on the steps of the U.S. Capitol and, in his inaugural address, pledged to America that he would “wield technology’s wonders to raise health care’s quality and...

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