Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Health Care News--4.10.12

 
Health-care law will add $340 billion to deficit, new study finds
Washington Post
President Obama's landmark health-care initiative, long touted as a means to control costs, will actually add more than $340 billion to the nation's budget woes over the next decade, according to a new study by a Republican member of the board that ...
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Study claims Obama's health care law would raise deficit
Fox News
WASHINGTON – A former Bush administration official and leading conservative economist says President Obama's health care law will add at least $340 billion to the national deficit, a claim the White House denies. In a study to be released Tuesday, ...
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Fox News
Study: Obama's Health Care Law Would Raise Deficit
ABC News
Reigniting a debate about the bottom line for President Barack Obama's health care law, a leading conservative economist estimates in a study to be released Tuesday that the overhaul will add at least $340 billion to the deficit, not reduce it.
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Health Care Reform Could Add Up To $530 Billion To Budget Deficit: Report
Huffington Post
WASHINGTON, April 10 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's healthcare law could sharply exceed its cost-savings targets and add up to $530 billion to the federal budget deficit, a leading authority on US government benefit programs said on Tuesday.
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Obama disputes claims health care law will cost $340B more
USA TODAY
By David Jackson, USA TODAY While waiting for the Supreme Court to rule on the new health care law -- probably in June -- the Obama administration and its critics continue to battle over the true costs of the landmark plan. A Republican member of the ...
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USA TODAY
Recommended: Obama healthcare law could sharply worsen deficits: study
msnbc.com (blog)
By Reuters President Barack Obama's healthcare law could sharply exceed its cost-savings targets and add up to $530 billion to the federal budget deficit, a leading authority on US government benefit programs said on Tuesday. A study by Charles Blahous ...
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Health care: A mandate that overreaches
Bradenton Herald
By WILLIAM VOEGELI — Los Angeles Times Health care is different. That, according to defenders of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - "Obamacare" - is the justification for the law's individual mandate. Health care is different, they say, ...
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Health-Care, Industrial Stocks Favored by Ramsey
Washington Post
Apr. 10, 2012 - April 10 (Bloomberg) -- Douglas Ramsey, chief investment officer at Leuthold Group, talks about the outlook for US markets and economy and investment strategy. Ramsey speaks with Erik Schatzker, Stephanie Ruhle and Sara Eisen on ...
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Study: Obamacare will raise deficit
Christian Science Monitor
The study, by a conservative economist, is due to be released Tuesday, and says that the deficit will increase by $340 billion due to the president's signature health care law. By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, The Associated Press / April 9, 2012 Reigniting ...
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Health reform can be restructured to avoid constitutional issues
Kansas City Star
Tomasky argues that this is why the commerce clause can regulate supposed inactivity — the refusal by someone to buy health insurance. His sledgehammer point: "Well, pal, if you're healthy and 35 and you don't buy insurance and you get hit by a bus ...
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Blogs
 
Health Care for 1% of the Cost - Vijay Govindarajan - Harvard ...
By Vijay Govindarajan
There is a general consensus that U.S. healthcare needs major reform. Can reverse innovation — innovations originating from poor countries — provide one important answer? Most definitely. In the U.S., the approach is to spend more money ...
HBR.org
OpEdNews - Article: The Real Health Care Debate
It's not necessary to force Americans to buy private health insurance to achieve universal coverage. There is a proven alternative that Congress didn't seriously consider, and that is a single payer national health insurance system. Congress ...
OpEdNews
Prescription Drug Shortages: Data and ... - The Health Care Blog
By Sanjay Bansu, MD
A key finding of an independent Health and Human Services Agency report on the issue is that generic firms have not been able to quickly provide supply as they have been essentially eliminated from many markets and can't build up the ...
The Health Care Blog
Liberals Still Shaken After Health Care Arguments - Hit & Run ...
By Damon W. Root
Writing at The Daily Caller, Roger Pilon, the director of the Cato Institute's Center for Constitutional Studies, has a little fun at the expense of those liberals who still cannot believe the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was so roughly ...
Hit & Run
"Supreme Court's Ratings Jump Following Health Care Hearings"
By Randy Barnett
Just before the highly publicized hearing on the constitutionality of President Obama's health care law, ratings for the U.S. Supreme Court had fallen to the lowest level ever measured by Rasmussen Reports. Now, following the hearings, ...
The Volokh Conspiracy

Web
 
Transform
We focus on innovation and design solutions that transform the experience and delivery of ...
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Gingrich's Health Care Consulting Firm Declares Bankruptcy ...
GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich's health care consulting company filed for bankruptcy Thursday. The Center for Health Transformation charged up to ...
www.kaiserhealthnews.org/.../gingrich-consulting-firm.aspx

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