Articles by Kathryn Nix

Health Care

Bipartisan Rejection of Obamacare’s IPAB Rationing Board Grows

Kathryn Nix | July 21, 2011

  This week, the House Budget Committee and Energy and Commerce Committee held hearings to examine the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), a board of… Read More

Health Care

Mandating Coverage of Contraceptives Is Bad Health Policy

Kathryn Nix | July 20, 2011

This week, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released its recommendation of women’s preventive services that should be covered with no co-pay or deductible under Obamacare—a… Read More

Economy

AARP: How High Do You Want Your Grandkids’ Taxes to Go?

Kathryn Nix | July 18, 2011

AARP’s latest video opposing spending reductions in Social Security or Medicare once again pushes the flawed argument that cutting federal budget waste and loopholes would… Read More

Health Care

Can’t Teach an Old Dog New Tricks? Tell That to Current Medicare Recipients

Kathryn Nix | July 13, 2011

Conservatives, including The Heritage Foundation, support reforming Medicare to provide seniors with a defined contribution to apply to the health care plan of their choice…. Read More

Health Care

Paul Ryan Schools HHS Secretary on Patient-Centered Medicare Reform

Kathryn Nix | July 12, 2011

This morning, the House Budget Committee invited Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to a hearing on the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), the… Read More

Health Care

No More Bad Medicare Policies for a Debt Limit Deal: They Cost Too Much!

Kathryn Nix | July 08, 2011

The Hill reports that conservatives in Congress are considering extending Medicaid drug rebates to low-income seniors participating in the Medicare prescription drug program (Part D)… Read More

Health Care

For Patients in Both Medicare and Medicaid, Care Is Inefficient and Costly

Kathryn Nix | July 07, 2011

The Wall Street Journal recently reported on bureaucratic barriers for patients covered by both Medicare and Medicaid. These two programs serve the elderly and the… Read More

Economy

Battle of the Charts: Spending Is the Problem, No Doubt About It

Kathryn Nix | July 06, 2011

While Americans across the country were celebrating independence on Monday, Talking Points Memo (TPM) was churning out its “Chart of the Day” to support the… Read More

Health Care

CBO Report Shows, Without Reform, the Future of Medicare Ain’t Pretty

Kathryn Nix | June 30, 2011

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently released its annual Long-Term Budget Outlook, which highlights the effects of existing policy on the federal budget. The verdict:… Read More

Health Care

More Americans Using HSAs—Under Threat from Obamacare

Kathryn Nix | June 22, 2011

Spending in the U.S. health care system is growing too fast to ignore. Yet, the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act (PPACA), also known… Read More

Economy

From Sen. Hutchinson, Another Chance to Save Social Security

Kathryn Nix | June 21, 2011

While the national debt continues its climb above $14.3 trillion, the day is fast approaching when Congress will, once again, vote to increase the debt… Read More

 

Shocking Study Results Reveal Moral Imperative to Fix Medicaid

Kathryn Nix | June 17, 2011

This week, The New York Times highlighted a study on Medicaid, the federal–state partnership to provide health care to the poor and disabled, and its… Read More

Health Care

Huge Number of Businesses to Drop Health Insurance, Thanks to Obamacare

Kathryn Nix | June 08, 2011

Experts have warned that Obamacare’s new subsidy program could cause a mass exodus of businesses out of employer-sponsored insurance. New research from McKinsey and Company… Read More

Health Care

Deciphering the Left’s Medicare Playbook

Kathryn Nix | June 07, 2011

It’s a simple fact: You can’t sustain Medicare unless you transform the current—and unaffordable—system. But the left continues to falsely decry conservatives’ plans to achieve… Read More

Health Care

Hospitals’ Skepticism of New Obamacare Medicare Payment Scheme Grows

Kathryn Nix | June 06, 2011

A frequent accusation against conservative Medicare reform proposals is that they would “end Medicare as we know it.” But the reality is that Obamacare has… Read More

Health Care

New Study Reveals Obamacare’s Threats to the Economy — And Medicine as We Know it

Kathryn Nix | June 03, 2011

Moving into the 21st century, the practice of medicine is on the cusp of exciting new territory. Advances in medical and pharmaceutical research, particularly in… Read More

Health Care

Liberals’ Main Medicare Cost-Reduction Strategy Already Proves Ineffective

Kathryn Nix | June 02, 2011

Typically, demonstration programs exist to prove the effectiveness of a reform proposal before implementing it nationwide. This was apparently forgotten in the drafting of Obamacare,… Read More

Economy

Discouraging Retirement Savings Is No Way to Reduce the Federal Deficit

Kathryn Nix | June 01, 2011

It’s a fact that runaway spending, not lack of revenue, is the cause of long-term federal deficits. Still, some continue to push for higher taxes… Read More

Health Care

More Bold Proposals to Solve the Medicaid Crisis

Kathryn Nix | May 25, 2011

Successful health care reform requires bold changes, not more of the status quo. Nowhere is this truer than in the case of Medicaid, the federal-state… Read More

Health Care

Obamacare’s Accountable Care Organizations Leave Much to Be Desired

Kathryn Nix | May 24, 2011

As the debate heats up over how best to control runaway Medicare spending, one provision of Obamacare has received growing attention.  The new law creates… Read More

Health Care

Medicare’s Worsening Finances: The Other Shoe Drops

Kathryn Nix | May 23, 2011

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… Read More

Health Care

Doctors Need a Permanent Fix to the Medicare Payment Mess

Kathryn Nix | May 04, 2011

This week, the House Energy and Commerce Committee will consider solutions to Medicare’s flawed physician payment scheme. Physician payment is annually updated on the basis… Read More

Health Care

The State Flexibility Act: Moving Closer to Successful Medicaid Reform

Kathryn Nix | May 04, 2011

Spending on the two big health entitlement programs—Medicare and Medicaid—poses the threat of a fiscal meltdown if Washington does not act to contain their costs…. Read More

Health Care

Medicare’s New Performance Measures Are Bad News for Hospitals

Kathryn Nix | May 03, 2011

Congress has yet to enact health care reform that will successfully reduce costs without threatening the quality of care patients receive. Obamacare attempted to achieve… Read More

Economy

In Pictures: 2011 Budget Chart Book Illustrates Our Fiscal Future

Kathryn Nix | May 02, 2011

America’s financial future is at a crossroads.  While Congress debates the right path to balance the budget and restore order to the nation’s fiscal house,… Read More

Health Care

The Free Market Works for Health Care

Kathryn Nix | May 02, 2011

Advocates of big-government health care have ruthlessly attacked Representative Paul Ryan’s (R–WI) proposal to reform Medicare, which would give seniors a contribution to apply to… Read More

Economy

VIDEO: Hayek vs. Keynes Rap Battle Royale

Kathryn Nix | April 29, 2011

It’s not Eminem or Dre, not East Coast or West. It’s economists Hayek and Keynes, and Congress can’t decide who gets it best. They’re battling… Read More

Health Care

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

Kathryn Nix | April 27, 2011

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… Read More

Health Care

Obamacare Takes a Double Shot at the Economy and the American Dream

Kathryn Nix | April 26, 2011

In a recent piece for The Wall Street Journal, Daniel Kessler, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, describes how the new health care law’s… Read More

Economy

The False Choice Between Existing Medicare and Ryan’s Proposal

Kathryn Nix | April 21, 2011

Yesterday, Washington Post columnist Ezra Klein used a recent poll to argue that Americans oppose House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s (R–WI) proposal to transform… Read More