Opening the Door to Health Care Rationing Under Obamacare
One of the biggest fears Americans have about Obamacare is who will ultimately control health care decisions: the government or patients and their doctors. New… Read More
Could Britain’s Health Care Rationing Come to the States?
Advocates of Obamacare often point to Great Britain’s National Health Service as an example of a national health care system that works. But all is… Read More
Morning Bell: The Rationer-in-Chief
When Linda O’Boyle was diagnosed with bowel cancer, her doctors told her she could boost her chances of survival by adding the drug cetuximab to… Read More
Calling Doctor Berwick: We Have A Mild Case of Rationing
Dr. Donald Berwick may not be a household name yet, but if he is confirmed as the head of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid… Read More
The Obama Budget Plan: Taxes and Rationing
Suddenly, the Obama administration and Democratic congressional leaders seem to want health-care news stories to fall off of the front page. This week, House Energy… Read More
Beyond the Constitution: The Healthcare Bill Violates the Rule of Law
Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) has pointed observers to a problematic section of the health care legislation now before the Senate that proposes (in Section 3403)… Read More
Obamacare in the Senate: First Week Amendments
The Senate began debate on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R.3590) this week. Senators on both sides of the aisle offered amendments to… Read More
Video: How Obamacare Rations Mammograms
Sens. John Barrasso (R-WY) and Tom Coburn (R-OK) recently hosted Center for American Progress blogger Igor Volsky on their Senate Doctors Show. Volsky challenged Sen…. Read More
Morning Bell: The Obamacare Rationing Threat To Your Mammograms
Last week, the United States Preventive Services Task Force issued new guidelines recommending that women in their 40s no longer have annual mammograms and that… Read More
Advisory Health Panels Good, Obama’s Super MedPac Bad
The Washington Post reports: Women in their 40s should stop routinely having annual mammograms and older women should cut back to one scheduled exam every… Read More
This Is What Government Rationed Health Care Looks Like
The Oregon Health Plan is a government run health insurance option that, like some current health plans being pushed in Washington, is designed to increase… Read More
The Obamacare Pep Rally
We will have a longer point by point fact check of President Barack Obama’s Porstmouth, New Hampshire, health care townhall tomorrow morning, but one talking… Read More
Should Government Determine the Value of Human Life?
Controversial Princeton bioethics professor and philosopher Peter Singer is making waves with his article outlining the case for rationing in last week’s New York Times… Read More
Rep. Blackburn: We’ve Tried Gov’t-Run Health Care Already
Rep. Marsha Blackburn has seen the future of health care in America that the Left wants to implement. Blackburn’s home state of Tennessee implemented TennCare,… Read More
Senate Committee Blocks Anti-Rationing Amendments
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
Preventing the Rationing of Your Health Care
When President Barack Obama included $1.1 billion for comparative effectiveness research in his economic stimulus bill, we warned that such funding would set the stage… Read More
Public Plans and Rationing Your Health Care
The Washington Post’s Ruth Marcus tackled health care reform in an op-ed this Sunday, and her article nicely laid out many of the key areas… Read More
Cost and Consequences of Government Health-Care Decision Making
Several leading European and Canadian health economists, physicians and scholars — in Washington recently for the Galen Institute’s conference, “Lessons from Abroad for Health Reform… Read More
