Nina Owcharenko Schaefer is the director of The Heritage Foundation's Center for Health and Welfare Policy. Read her research.
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If the goal is producing $1.2 trillion to $1.5 trillion in 10-year savings, the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction must think big and produce recommendations… Read More
In its yearly survey of health insurance coverage, the U.S. Census Bureau published figures that underscore the trend toward greater dependence on government for coverage…. Read More
There is an obvious omission from all the previews of the President’s upcoming speech on jobs: Obamacare. Obamacare is perhaps the most damaging of the… Read More
Conservatives should beware of policies that simply meet a budget target number without considering whether the underlying policy changes move a program in the right… Read More
Red Alert! Conservatives in Congress and elsewhere should be warned: The Administration’s latest signal for “compromise” may end up as little more than an expansion… Read More
Right now, states across the country are trying to figure out what to do in response to Obamacare and its health insurance exchange architecture. In… Read More
While overall health care spending slowed in 2009, it is the underlying trend that is more troubling: the continuing decline in private coverage and the… Read More
In their feverish effort to enact the Senate health bill, the House leadership recently released their 153 page bill to fix the underlying 2,409 page… Read More
On the eve of the House of Representatives push to jam through the misguided and highly unpopular Senate health care bill, , the President continues… Read More
Congressional liberals are working overtime. In case you missed it, hidden behind the non-stop news coverage of the health care debate, the Senate-passed extenders bill… Read More
The President has spent the past week trying to convince the American people that he was in search of a bipartisan health care reform. But… Read More
New analysis confirms that the health care bills moving the House and Senate will break the many promises President Obama made to the American people…. Read More
Although the details have not been released, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has floated yet another potential “compromise” to his health care bill. There appear… Read More
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid unveiled his 2,074 page health care bill with claims that the massive measure falls under the $900 billion cost threshold… Read More
The President promised that health care “reform” would expand coverage and choices for American families. Unfortunately, after a preliminary review of the “affordability credits” in… Read More
In the Senate, there is growing interest in the idea of a state “opt-out” of the federal public plan, a government –run health plan that… Read More
Looking beyond the media hype, taxpayers should remember a few crucial facts about the recent CBO/JCT analysis of the Finance Committee’s provisions for the America’s… Read More
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal’s timely piece in The Washington Post, lays out his elements of a serious health care reform package. Even in the face… Read More
Senator Baucus’ latest attempt to reach a bi-partisan agreement still misses the mark. While there may be a few elements that may be worth discussing,… Read More
This weekend President Obama dedicated his weekly address to defending Congress’s plans for an overhaul of the nation’s health care system. He argued, “Once you’ve… Read More
Republicans in Congress are making yet another major attempt to reform the health care system, going in a very different direction from the expensive health… Read More
In his testimony before the House Education and Labor Committee on the Tri-Committee Health Care Reform bill, Dr. Jacob Hacker (the architect of the now… Read More
Efforts in Congress to fast-track passage of an economic stimulus package and expansion of the children’s health care program, if successful, would give liberals a… Read More
