Articles by Kathryn Nix

Health Care

Side Effects: Obamacare’s “Donut Hole” for Young Adults

Kathryn Nix | April 14, 2010

College seniors are eagerly ordering caps and gowns for May graduation ceremonies.  But graduation day often brings loss as well as gain.  Many graduates will… Read More

Health Care

Side Effects: Pre-Existing Physician Payment Problems Persist

Kathryn Nix | April 12, 2010

No one can criticize the Obamacare legislation for being too short.  But even at 2K+ pages, the new law fails to address some major problems… Read More

Health Care

The Obamacare Sales Pitch Paid for by Your Tax Dollars

Kathryn Nix | April 09, 2010

The Department of Health and Human Services recently launched its new website, www.healthreform.gov, to serve as an informative source on what’s to come under new… Read More

Health Care

Side Effects: States Will Feel the Effects of Obamacare

Kathryn Nix | April 08, 2010

The national health reform rammed through Congress is giving state officials headaches. Writing in The Wall Street Journal, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels outlines several problems… Read More

Health Care

Side Effects: New Entitlement Compounds Debt Problems of Existing Entitlement

Kathryn Nix | April 07, 2010

Obamacare was sold as a way to improve benefits and expand coverage.  But it doesn’t seem to be panning out that way. Almost immediately, major… Read More

Health Care

Side Effects: Obamacare Fueling Higher Insurance Costs

Kathryn Nix | April 05, 2010

Despite all the talk about how Obamacare would lower health care costs, it’s already becoming clear that it just won’t be the case. The Indianapolis… Read More

Health Care

Side Effects: Laws No Longer Mean What They Say

Kathryn Nix | April 01, 2010

Major flaws in the gargantuan Obamacare bill started to emerge almost immediately after it was signed into law.  One of the most embarrassing:  failure to… Read More

Economy

Rep. Paul Ryan: The Way Forward on Health Care Reform

Kathryn Nix | April 01, 2010

While President Obama and congressional liberals have yet to come down from the high of passing their historically horrible health care legislation, conservatives are still… Read More

Health Care

Side Effects: Obamacare May Be Fatal for Your HSA

Kathryn Nix | March 31, 2010

President Obama promised Americans that “If you like the plan you have now, you can keep it.”  It was a fundamental promise of Obamacare. But… Read More

Health Care

Side Effects: Medical Devices Tax Will Costs Jobs

Kathryn Nix | March 30, 2010

There’s only one way to pull the economy out of the doldrums. We need more jobs. Now. As Obamacare inched its way toward passage, boosters… Read More

Health Care

Side Effects: Young to Pay Higher Health Insurance Premiums

Kathryn Nix | March 30, 2010

Remember those lower health insurance premiums Obamacare would bring us?  Don’t count on it—especially if you’re young.  The Associated Press reports that a new analysis… Read More

Health Care

Side Effects: Higher Health Insurance Taxes

Kathryn Nix | March 30, 2010

Union bosses howled about one Obamacare tax hike: the levy on “Cadillac” health plans (expensive plans rich in benefits). The problem with this tax, as… Read More

Health Care

Side Effects: Obamacare Doesn’t Work on Children After All

Kathryn Nix | March 29, 2010

A signature achievement of Obamacare, we were told, was that it would provide immediate protection for children with pre-existing conditions.  In the brave new world… Read More

Health Care

A Guide to the Senate Vote-o-Rama: Part One

Kathryn Nix | March 25, 2010

The Senate’s health care bill became law earlier this week, but that does not mean the fight against a government overhaul of our nation’s health… Read More

Health Care

White House Health Care Rhetoric About to Meet Reality

Kathryn Nix | March 23, 2010

At the signing of the Senate health bill today, President Barack Obama said: “In a few moments, when I sign this bill, all of the… Read More

Health Care

Obamacare’s Delusional Deficit Reduction Claims

Kathryn Nix | March 19, 2010

Congressional leaders are gleefully reporting that the Congressional Budget Office score of their health care proposal released yesterday shows that their legislation would reduce the… Read More

Health Care

Medicaid Expansion Neglects Program’s Current Failures

Kathryn Nix | March 17, 2010

This week, the House is preparing to vote on the Senate-passed health care bill, which depends on a massive expansion of Medicaid to reduce the… Read More

Health Care

Obamacare Increases Unemployment, Insurance Premiums, Deficit, and Debt

Kathryn Nix | March 17, 2010

President Barack Obama and congressional leaders claim that the Senate health bill, which will likely face a vote in the House by the end of… Read More

Health Care

Congressional Micromanagement of Health Care: Messing Up The FEHBP

Kathryn Nix | March 10, 2010

While Congressional leaders are feverishly plotting to jam the hugely unpopular Senate health bill through the House of Representatives the moment Speaker Pelosi thinks she… Read More

Health Care

What the House Would Have to Swallow in the Senate Bill

Kathryn Nix | March 08, 2010

Amidst all the intense speculation about quickly passing the President’s health care agenda through the Budget Reconciliation process before the Easter Recess, ordinary Americans should… Read More

Health Care

The Senate Bill’s Fiscal Madness: Rep. Ryan’s Damning Indictment

Kathryn Nix | March 05, 2010

As Heritage analysts have noted time and again, spending from congressional liberals’ health care proposals would be in the trillions, growing the federal deficit. The… Read More

 

Democrats Weigh in On Reconciliation

Kathryn Nix | March 04, 2010

President Obama and congressional leadership are nearing the end of the road on health care reform. The only option left to pass their grandiose visions of… Read More

Health Care

The Truth about Rising Health Insurance Premiums

Kathryn Nix | March 03, 2010

Congress and its allies on the left are hell bent to overhaul the health care of every American. They have focused strongly on increasing regulation… Read More

Health Care

Buffett to Obama: Scrap Current Bill and Start Over

Kathryn Nix | March 01, 2010

Last week’s bipartisan summit on health care reform seems to have done little, if anything, to build support for the President’s vision of health care… Read More

Health Care

The President Health Proposal: Taxing Investment Income

Kathryn Nix | February 25, 2010

In preparation for today’s bipartisan Health Care Summit, President Obama released his own version of health care reform earlier this week.  The President’s proposal includes… Read More

Health Care

The President’s Health Proposal: Bringing Back Price Controls

Kathryn Nix | February 25, 2010

In preparation for the Health Care Summit, President Obama unveiled his first official health care proposal. It is intended to reconcile the differences between the… Read More

Health Care

The President’s Health Proposal: Further Jacking Up the Cost of Care

Kathryn Nix | February 24, 2010

In anticipation of the February 25th health care summit with members of Congress, the President released his proposal for pricey, government-run health care.  The White… Read More

 

The Health Care Summit: Getting Reform Done Right

Kathryn Nix | February 24, 2010

Thursday, Democrats and Republicans will convene at the President’s request to discuss the way forward on achieving bipartisan health care reform.  In a recent paper,… Read More

Health Care

Obamacare Bends the Cost Curve Up: Here Is How to Bend It Down

Kathryn Nix | February 19, 2010

President Obama often says that bending the curve in health spending downward is one of the main objectives of his health care reform agenda. There… Read More

Economy

A Toothless Commission On Spending Is No Substitute for True Leadership

Kathryn Nix | February 18, 2010

The recent debt limit increase passed by Congress has sparked a national debate on how to adequately reverse out-of-control federal spending. After much congressional hand-wringing… Read More