Articles by Kathryn Nix

Economy

Lessons from Canada: Stay Away from Nationalized Medicine

Kathryn Nix | June 07, 2010

The United States isn’t the only country in North America grappling with the fiscal problems caused by an aging population and mounting federal deficits—Canada faces… Read More

Health Care

Paying for Obamacare: Kicking the Can Down the Road to Future Generations

Kathryn Nix | June 04, 2010

Health care reform was supposed to lower health care spending while expanding access for the uninsured.  Instead, though Obamacare will cost taxpayers trillions, it will… Read More

 

Side Effects: Obamacare Creates a Costly Drop in Employer Health Coverage

Kathryn Nix | June 02, 2010

The President repeatedly promised that if you liked your health plan, you would be able to keep it. Nothing would change. Fat chance. In fact,… Read More

Health Care

Side Effects: HSAs an Endangered Species under Obamacare

Kathryn Nix | June 01, 2010

Why is there so much excessive—indeed, downright wasteful—spending in health care?  One reason is the disconnection between patients’ wallets and their health care bills. Most… Read More

Health Care

Side Effects: Cost Of Medicaid Expansion Going Nowhere But Up

Kathryn Nix | May 27, 2010

In passing Obamacare, Congress has put the states in quite a pickle. To sharply expand health coverage, Obamacare flung wide the gates of Medicaid eligibility…. Read More

Economy

Rescission is No Substitute for Real Entitlement Reform

Kathryn Nix | May 26, 2010

Today President Obama’s deficit commission met for the second time and the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the Congressional Accountability and Line-Item Veto… Read More

Health Care

Side Effects: Seniors Will Lose Big Under Obamacare

Kathryn Nix | May 24, 2010

Passage of Obamacare will have negative consequences for practically all Americans. However, it is the nation’s senior citizens who will get the short end of the… Read More

Health Care

Side Effects: ER Overload Will Only Get Worse

Kathryn Nix | May 21, 2010

Remember how Obamacare was going to save big bucks and reduce wait time in emergency rooms? The idea was that millions of previously uninsured Americans… Read More

Health Care

Side Effects: Small Businesses Still Left Empty-Handed

Kathryn Nix | May 18, 2010

One of the great promises of Obamacare, you’ll recall, was that it would give folks working in small businesses better access to affordable care.  “It… Read More

Economy

Can U.S. Avoid Greek Disaster if Washington is Asleep at the Wheel?

Kathryn Nix | May 17, 2010

Greece’s recent escapades in economic disaster are a sobering example to the United States of the consequences of allowing government spending to far exceed revenue. … Read More

 

Side Effects: Fewer Flippin’ Hamburgers at White Castle

Kathryn Nix | May 17, 2010

Yesterday we saw how Obamacare is leading large employers to contemplate dropping their coverage of employees.  Today we learn it will cripple businesses’ ability to… Read More

Economy

Hoyer Makes it Official – Congress Shuns Budget Duties

Kathryn Nix | May 14, 2010

The term ‘fiscal responsibility’ is en vogue in Washington these days.  Lawmakers have been quick to claim they will tackle the federal government’s impending financial… Read More

Health Care

Obamacare: A Hard Pill to Swallow for Physicians

Kathryn Nix | May 12, 2010

The negative effects of Obamacare will impact every American.  However, it is those who are the very backbone of the United States’ high-quality health care… Read More

Economy

What’s the President’s Weapon of Choice for America’s Economic Decline?

Kathryn Nix | May 10, 2010

When it comes to spending, President Obama’s proposed budget for 2011 takes fiscal irresponsibility to Greece and beyond. Ernest S. Christian and Gary A. Robbins,… Read More

Economy

Presidential Rhetoric vs. Reality of Spending Cuts

Kathryn Nix | May 07, 2010

The United States must reverse its spending habits, and most Americans know it.  A recent poll by Resurgent Republic shows that 62 percent of likely… Read More

Health Care

Side Effects: Physician-Owned Hospitals Face New Regulations, Limits on Growth

Kathryn Nix | May 06, 2010

Obamacare was going to expand access to higher-quality health care for all Americans, right? Well, though the legislation can purport to extend health insurance for… Read More

Economy

America to Debt Commission: Read Our Lips—No New Taxes.

Kathryn Nix | May 06, 2010

Last week, the President’s debt commission held its kick-off meeting.  The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, a group of 18 lawmakers and policy… Read More

Health Care

Standing Up To Obamacare: What The States Can Do

Kathryn Nix | May 03, 2010

Due to the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), the nation’s health care system is on its way to undergoing a… Read More

Education

Side Effects: Stay Single and Save 15 Percent or More on Health Insurance

Kathryn Nix | May 03, 2010

No, this isn’t a Geico commercial.  Come 2013, America’s bachelors may want to think twice before popping the question.  Thanks to Obamacare, some couples can… Read More

Health Care

Side Effects: State Reluctant to Swim in National High-Risk Pools

Kathryn Nix | April 30, 2010

Obamacare aims to insure the uninsured.  To do that, the law bars insurers from denying coverage to people with pre-existing conditions—but not until 2014.  In… Read More

Economy

Memo to Deficit Commission: Spending is the Problem

Kathryn Nix | April 29, 2010

The President’s deficit commission met yesterday to begin its task to address the mounting fiscal crisis facing the nation.  As we show in our 2010… Read More

Health Care

Obamacare: No Friend of Small Business

Kathryn Nix | April 28, 2010

Obamacare was marketed to the American people as health care reform that would expand coverage to reduce the number of uninsured.  One of the ways… Read More

 

Side Effects: Special Treatment for Congress

Kathryn Nix | April 27, 2010

As we noted last week, Congress screwed up the language of their health care bill at their own expense. But, thanks to Obama administration lawyers,… Read More

Health Care

Side Effects: It’s Official- Higher Health Care Costs

Kathryn Nix | April 23, 2010

Yesterday, the actuaries at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the agency that runs the giant entitlement programs, released their analysis of the… Read More

Health Care

Side Effects: The Catch 22 of Obamacare Risk Pools

Kathryn Nix | April 22, 2010

It was one of the most oft-repeated promises of Obamacare:  It will cover people, regardless of pre-existing conditions. But when it came time to make… Read More

Economy

Americans Have Every Reason to Doubt Social Security Solvency

Kathryn Nix | April 21, 2010

A recent poll by Rasmussen shows that 58 percent of Americans lack confidence that they will receive their promised Social Security benefits in their entirety. … Read More

Economy

Tax Hikes Wrong Route to Take for Deficit Reduction Commission

Kathryn Nix | April 19, 2010

Earlier this year, after Congress passed an increase in the debt ceiling, was deliberating over a trillion plus health care package, and the President’s Budget… Read More

Health Care

Outside the Beltway: Utah’s Successes Highlight Federalism’s Benefits

Kathryn Nix | April 19, 2010

In the past year, the Congressional health care battle has usurped much of the public discourse on health care reform.  In the mean time, Utah… Read More

Health Care

Side Effects: The Doctor Is NOT In

Kathryn Nix | April 19, 2010

Doctors are becoming increasingly demoralized. And no wonder!  They are losing control over their professional independence and the Washington lobbyists they hire to represent them… Read More

Economy

Europe’s Record Shows VAT is No Solution to Debt

Kathryn Nix | April 15, 2010

The United States is on an unsustainable financial course, and everyone seems to know it.  As Heritage highlighted in our recently published 2010 Budget Chart… Read More