The True Cost of the House Health Plan in Pictures
Commenting on the delayed start to the House’s health bill spending, The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein writes: “The slow start is a way of holding… Read More
Commenting on the delayed start to the House’s health bill spending, The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein writes: “The slow start is a way of holding… Read More
At last night’s All Star game, President Barack Obama told Joe Buck that the federal government couldn’t bailout the National League because “we’re out of… Read More
Under increasing pressure to find unconventional ways to pay for the cost of health reform (which was supposed to save money for American families), the… Read More
President Obama has repeatedly claimed that his health care reforms also represent entitlement reform. Not surprisingly, the Congressional Budget Office shows this claim implausible. They… Read More
House Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel announced that a surtax on individuals and families above a certain income level would be used to pay… Read More
As Congress debates health care reform and how to pay for it, the Congressional Budget Office reported today on something that economists have long known:… Read More
Transformers aren’t only in the movies and toy stores; they’re a fact of life in the U.S. Congress as well. And we should beware of… Read More
President Barack Obama’s push for government-run health care has proceeded in three separate phases… and we’re just entering the last. Phase One: Fantasy Football. The… Read More
The Waxman-Markey energy tax plan will have all sorts of unwanted side effects. As the healthcare debate ramps up, it’s worth noting problems misguided global… Read More
On July 2, 2009, the Congressional Budget Office produced its second preliminary analysis of title I of the “Affordable Health Choices Act,” as drafted by… Read More
So what would happen to you if President Barack Obama succeeds in passing a health care bill that includes a public option? Law professor Hugh… Read More
As Congress tries to push through health care reform at a rapid speed and publicize so-called deals with several health industry groups (most recently with… Read More
What has been going on in the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee for the past three weeks? Unless you’ve been carefully watching… Read More
Last Sunday, in an appearance on FOX News Sunday with Chris Wallace, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) repeated yet another justification for including a… Read More
The Wall Street Journal reports today: The reason left-flank Democrats are so adamant about a public option is because they know it is an opening… Read More
Senate Democrats are desperately trying every trick in the book to get the lowest possible cost scoring out of the CBO. Ethics and Public Policy… Read More
The Washington Post’s Alec MacGillis opens his article on health reform today: The question came from a Colorado neurologist. “Mr. President,” he said at a… Read More
The trumpets are blaring to announce with great fanfare another “historic” political deal designed to give a boost to the sagging fortunes of health care… Read More
Yesterday’s New York Times editorial, “Financing Health Care Reform,” outlines the need to “make the hard choices” including “cutting and reallocating hundreds of billions of… Read More
From the Maine Heritage Policy Center, Tarren Bragdon reports: Passed in 2003, Maine’s Dirigo Health initiative was lauded as the first state-based universal coverage program… Read More
Three weeks ago, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a preliminary score of the Kennedy-Dodd health reform bill. CBO estimated that Title I of the… Read More
In his blog, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman launches an unsubstantiated attack on The Heritage Foundation for our June 25 report showing that Medicare… Read More
The Washington Post’s Liza Mundy had a cute take on the recent divorce of reality TV stars Jon and Kate Gosselin: Poor Jon and Kate…. Read More
Recent press reports, including a front-page story in the Wall Street Journal, have the news that Wal-Mart has signed a letter to President Obama endorsing… Read More
Following up on his infomercial last week , courtesy of ABC News’ “Questions for the President: Prescription for America” special, which was meant to be a… 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
President Obama has yet again shifted his position on the key question of whether Americans will be able to keep their private health care package… Read More
That was the core question U.S. Rep. Robert Andrews (D-N.J.) directed to health expert Robert Moffit, director of the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Health Policy… Read More
After speaking at Heritage’s weekly Blogger Briefing, Senator Cornyn articulated why a public option does not lower health care costs, no matter what.
At his press conference today, President Barack Obama defended his insistence that health care reform include a government-run insurance plan, explaining: Why would it drive… Read More
