Health Care
Return to Common Sense
November 17, 2019
Section: Culture
– Health Care
“The longer the federal
government delays a transition to patient-centered, consumer-based health care,
the more likely the existing health care system will drag the federal
government into bankruptcy; and the
American public has made their preferences known, if only politicians listened.”
“The answer for
healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government
bureaucracy.” Mitt Romney.
Philosophy
(Background, Issues, Objectives):
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is the United
States government’s principal agency for protecting the health of all
Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are
least able to help themselves.
- HHS represents almost a quarter of all
federal outlays, and it administers more grant dollars than all other
federal agencies combined.
- HHS’ Medicare program is the
nation’s largest health insurer, handling more than 1 billion claims
per year.
Medicare
and Medicaid together provide health care insurance for one in four Americans.
The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) was passed in 1986 as part of the Consolidated Omnibus
Budget Reconciliation Act
(COBRA).
- EMTALA requires hospitals to provide care to
anyone needing emergency healthcare treatment
regardless of citizenship, legal status or ability to pay.
- There are no reimbursement provisions.
- Participating hospitals may only
transfer or discharge patients needing emergency treatment under their own
informed consent, after stabilization, or when their condition requires
transfer to a hospital better equipped to administer the treatment.
Top ten causes of death in the U.S. for
2010 according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
- Heart disease: 616,067
- Cancer: 562,875
- Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 135,952
- Chronic lower
respiratory diseases: 127,924
- Accidents (unintentional
injuries): 123,706
- Alzheimer's disease:
74,632
- Diabetes: 71,382
- Influenza and Pneumonia:
52,717
- Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis:
46,448
- Septicemia: 34,828
Medicare
is the federal government’s health insurance program for all Americans
age 65 and older and for the disabled.
- In 2010, the program covered 47 million
enrollees.
- Medicare is projected to spend $549 billion
in 2011, increasing to $891 billion per year by 2019.
- Part A covers in-patient
hospitalization, hospice care, and some home health care. It is funded by
a 2.9 percent payroll tax, but projected spending will far exceed future
tax revenue.
- Part B is voluntary and covers
physician services, outpatient hospital services, preventive care, and
some home health services. Beneficiary premiums cover just 25% of Part B
costs. Taxpayers pay for the remaining 75 percent.
- Part C, the Medicare Advantage
program, is also voluntary. It consists of private plans that already
compete in the Medicare program.
- Part D is the voluntary
Medicare prescription drug program. While beneficiary premiums account for
approximately 10% of Part D financing, 82% comes from general federal
revenues, and approximately 8% of the funding comes from states and other
sources.
- Medicare Part A and Part B together are
sometimes referred to as traditional Medicare or Medicare fee-for-service
(FFS).
Medicare is facing insolvency as the baby
boom generation goes fully into retirement.
- CBO projects Medicare to exceed 25% of all
tax revenue by 2030.
o
In
1965 Medicare was enacted as part of the social security program for all those
over 65.
o
Life
expectancy has risen and the fastest growing portion of the population is over
65.
o
Currently
over 40 million elderly and disables people enrolled in Medicare.
o
Defensive
medicine practices have driven the cost of Medicare up dramatically
o
From
1970 to 2005, average spending per Medicare beneficiary rose 8.9%.
o
Medicare's
cost had soared from 42 billion to over $468 billion between 1970 and 2008 - an
11-fold, or 1000 percent, increase.
- As of 2008, the present
value of liabilities of future Medicare benefits is $36 trillion.
Medicaid is unfit to meet the needs
of working families without health care coverage.
- Medicaid is a
joint federal-state “free” public program for the poor (means
testing).
o
Medicaid provides comprehensive medical coverage
including hospital stays, visits to doctors’ offices, prescription drugs
and even long-term nursing home care.
o
The current funding structure, based on federal
matching grants, encourages expansion and provides little incentive to control
costs.
o
Overall, the federal government pays about 60% of program
costs, while states pay 40%.
- The law was expanded
with the Kerr-Mills Act, which provided the states with grants for low
income health care.
- In 1997 Congress
created the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which
increased incomes covered by Medicaid.
- Medicaid is a form of welfare, discouraging self-sufficiency and
encourages dependence.
o
Total federal and state Medicaid expenditures will
reach $349 billion in 2007, of which 57% is federal.
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Medicaid typically pays physicians 56% of the
amount that private insurers pay.
o
Medicaid is now the largest government health care
program, surpassing the cost of Medicare.
o
Medicaid patients have poorer health outcomes, than
privately insured patients.
o
65% of adults between 19 and 64 would prefer
private health care coverage over Medicaid.
o With
huge budget deficits and exploding costs, states are over-extended and have
begun rationing.
Federal government intervention has
resulted in higher costs and lower efficiency.
- Health care is not in the Declaration of Independence or
Constitution as a “human right.”
o
Compulsory health insurance was defeated under
Presidents FDR, Truman, and Nixon.
- Federal attempts such as McCarran-Ferguson Act, Medicare, Medicaid,
ERISA, CLIA, and Stark I & II have all made health care more
expensive.
o
In 1973 the Employee Retirement Income Security Act
(ERISA) allowed large employers (300+) to “self-insure” and be
exempt from McCarran-Ferguson.
§
IRS decision allowed health insurance benefit to be
tax-free.
§
ERISA coverage was employer based, but was not
employee portable.
o
In 2005 public health programs account for $2
trillion spent on U.S. health care (16% of GDP).
o
80% or more of all medical-care pricing is based on
government reimbursement rates set by Medicare.
o
Government regulations imposed on the industry cost
more than $330 billion a year.
- Medicare
bureaucracy has no experience buying outpatient prescription drugs.
o
Federal negotiation of drug prices has resulted in
a reduced and older drug list at the VA’s National Formulary (VANF).
o
Medicare’s market clout is in fact, inferior
to that of the largest existing pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs).
- Medicare reimbursements for doctors and hospitals do not cover the
total cost of treatment.
o
Doctors and hospitals routinely “cost shift” by charging private insurance higher
prices to cover the Medicare shortfalls.
People are uninsured for various
reasons, but a majority chooses to be uninsured.
- Only 6% of Americans buy health insurance directly
from those insurance companies.
- Some smaller businesses buy policies for their
employees but together this constitutes less than 15% of the market.
- The largest bloc of Americans
(about 40%) have health benefits, not insurance.
o
Employer self-ensures under the federal ERISA
program, which allows employers to offer their employees health coverage free
of state and federal taxes and cumbersome state mandates
- U.S. Census data shows over 47 million people uninsured during
2006, though long term very small.
o
17%, over 8 million, “can
not afford” health insurance.
o
20%, over 9 million, will
have insurance again with 4 months after job transitions.
o
27%, over 12 million, are
not citizens and ineligible for government assistance.
o
38%, over 18 million, earn
enough but choose not to be insured.
o
80% are working uninsured, while at least one
member of the family has a job.
- Institute
of Medicine 2004 study concluded 18,000 people died because no health
insurance, when no correlation was shown or proved.
- Non-emergency
care is being provided in hospital emergency rooms.
- Small businesses
are unable to afford health insurance for their employees.
- Individuals
purchasing a policy must use after tax dollars.
- State
Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) is designed to extend
coverage to children.
o
Extensions to SCHIP are being proposed to cover
more people including adults.
o Minnesota
and five other states spend their SCHIP dollars largely on adults, not kids.
o
SCHIP extension is based on a 1993
Hillary Clinton political strategy to subliminally expand into a universal
healthcare program.
Americans
carry insurance for unexpected catastrophes such as car accidents, burned
houses, and inpatient hospital care, but not routine car or home maintenance.
- Insurance
for routine health care makes it easier to conceal and inflate prices
while charging for services that patients wouldn’t necessarily allow
to be done if they knew ahead of time that they would have to pay for them
with their own money.
- When
Americans pay directly for outpatient medical care at facilities that make
their pricing transparent, they pay much less than they would at
facilities that don’t.
Texas has aggressively addressed tort
reform.
- In 2003, Texas
House Bill 4, an omnibus tort reform bill was passed to balance the laws
of the state to protect the rights of both those who have been wronged and
those who have done no wrong.
- In 2007, a Texas
constitutional amendment was passed limiting awards in medical malpractice
lawsuits.
- HB4 increased
access to health care and an unanticipated positive impact of the Texas
economy.
- The number of licensed physicians in
Texas has almost doubled.
Americans have expressed their
preferences (Gallup Polls) on health care reforms:
- 94% prefer tax
breaks for small businesses.
- 86% prefer to
de-link jobs from insurance.
- 81% prefer
pay-or-play mandate for large companies.
- 77% prefer
reduction in government regulation of insurance.
- 76% prefer
subsidies for low-income Americans.
- 69% prefer
limits on malpractice lawsuits.
- 68% prefer tax
credits to buy health insurance.
- 68% prefer
federal funding for state health programs.
- Only 54% prefer
single payer national health care system.
- Only 54% prefer
repealing tax cuts to pay for health care.
- Only 53% prefer
individual mandates.
Health Savings Account (HSA) and Health
Reimbursement Account (HRA) have been proposed.
- Conservatives
proposed personal health accounts, with retained ownership by the
employee.
- Democrats
proposed reforms at Hyde Park Declaration for reform and personal
retirement accounts.
- Liberal obstructionists are in crisis denial and insist that
Medicare does not have a problem.
Health issues have been sensationalized
based on poor research and exaggerated implications.
- Genetically
modified food and bacteria that would create out of control
transgenic life forms has proven to be a baseless fear.
- AIDS remains a very low threat to the health of the vast majority of
Americans, since it is restricted primarily to homosexuals and IV drug
users.
- New particle
accelerators that were built to replicate the Big Band Theory might
inadvertently create a black hole
swallowing the earth has been proven not to be a threat.
- In the 1980s
environmentalists predicted that the ocean would
die if not immediately cleaned up, but these predictions of its
demise were proven incorrect.
- Smoking research
has proven a relationship between smoking and
cancer, but not causal.
o
Secondary smoke research has reached no real causal
conclusions, only inferences.
o
1993 EPA report on secondhand smoke was vacated in
1998 based on poor research methodology and lack of scientific proof.
- Cancer
fear of electric and magnetic fields created by power lines had no evidence to
support it.
- Global
hunger based on a population explosion has been
forecast by Thomas Malthus two centuries ago and Paul Ehrlich 40 years
ago, but these predictions were proven wrong.
- Obesity exaggerated claim of deaths due to obesity was adjusted downward
by 93% after scrutiny.
- High
fat has been proven not to have a direct
correlation with coronary heart disease.
- Anti-meat activists published bogus study lining beef consumption and risk
of colon cancer.
- National Academy
of Science announced no safe exposure of radiation,
despite 82% is natural.
- FDA warning on soft drinks was removed after discovering no
scientific basis for warning.
- Trans-fat ban is attacking single dietary factor (> 2% of calories) that
affects blood lipids.
- Bird
flu hysteria was used to lobby for money to
prevent a non-existent U.S. epidemic.
- Assisted
suicide is being offered as a health care alternative
to the terminally ill.
o
Oregon has begun to offer assisted suicide drugs
when prescriptions are not covered.
o
If a physician prescribes a lethal overdose, when
that physician completes the death certificate, he or she is required to list
the underlying disease as the cause of death.
State health insurance experiments to
tailor their health care needs have uncovered problems.
- Hawaii
tried a play-or-pay scheme which backfired with low enrollment.
- Oregon reformed its health care systems in 1989 by formalizing rationing,
which did not work.
- Wisconsin
proposed doubling state taxes to install single payer health care,
but died in House.
- Connecticut balked at the price tag associated with universal health care.
- Maine passed its Dirigo Health Reform Act to
cover uninsured, but enrollment is tuck at 25%.
- Massachusetts
passed a state subsidized universal health care in 2006 requiring
everyone to purchase insurance, which has resulted in primary care
providers turning away patients.
- Illinois
proposed comprehensive health care reform, but was defeated 107-0.
- California is proposing a single payer system, which will require new taxes
to support.
The Organization
for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reported on health care and
found the U.S spends substantially more per capita on health care, yet does not
have superior health system performance.
- The
United States spends substantially more per capita on health care than
other developed countries.
- The
OECD uses mortality metrics to measure health care system performance, but
these data do not adequately indicate health status differences and do not
accurately judge health care system efficiency.
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Infant Mortality - three
overlapping infant mortality measures: Infant
(deaths in the first year per one thousand live births); Neonatal (deaths in the first
twenty-eight days per one thousand live births); and Perinatal (deaths in the first week after birth, plus fetal deaths after
twenty-eight weeks of gestation or fetuses that exceed a weight of one thousand
grams).
o
Life Expectancy - can be measured at birth or at older ages
such as forty, sixty, etc. but incorporates infant mortality and not
identically measured across all countries.
o
Premature Mortality - determined by
potential years of life lost (PYLL), though it is also strongly influenced by
infant mortality but does not factor in lifestyle.
National Health Care systems in other
countries have proven that there is a big difference between universal coverage
and actual access to medical care.
- Socialized
medicine in Great Britain has slowed down
treatment for critical diseases.
o
TaxPayers’
Alliance in London estimates low quality health care killed more than 17,000
Britons in 2004.
o
NHS has determined drug-coated stents are not cost
effective so they are rationed.
o National
Institute for Health and Clinical Effectiveness (NICE) has denied anti-dementia
drugs to Alzheimer’s patients.
o Vision
care sector of NHS has been deregulated and partnered with private opticians.
o Britain
claims to fund dental care, but many have incredible difficulty obtaining care.
o One
in ten dentists has stopped offering treatment under Great Britain’s NHS.
o More than 70,000 Britons, known as 'health tourists,' have gone as
far as India, Malaysia and South Africa for major operations, and is expected
to rise to almost 200,000 by the end of the decade.
- New
Zealand has limited treatment for those over 75.
- Healthcare appears
to cost less in Canada than in the United
States partly because Canadian government health insurance does not cover
many advanced medical treatments and technologies that are commonly
available to Americans.
o
The health care system is so overburdened that
hundreds of thousands in need of medical attention wait for care, or
participate in lotteries to win appointments with the local family doctor.
o
Total waiting time between referral from a general
practitioner and treatment increased to 18.3 weeks in 2007.
§
Total number of procedures where patients are
waiting for surgeries in 2006 is 770,641.
§
Modern medical equipment like CT Scans, MRIs, and
mammograms are very limited.
§
Many doctors are leaving Canada because of the long
time it takes to be paid.
§ Access to a waiting list is not the same thing as access to
healthcare.
o
By 2035 six of ten Provinces will spend half of
their tax revenue on health care expenses.
o
The Canadian single-payer system does not cover
prescription drugs on a universal basis with only about one-third of the
Canadian population eligible for various government-financed drug programs.
o
Canada does not fund dental care and vision care
excludes standard vision tests.
o
Canadian physicians send patients to the
U.S. and the Canadian government spends over $1 billion each year on health
care in the United States.
- Cuba’s vaunted health care system is more myth than
reality, with a doctor shortage and higher than normal levels of diseases.
- Sweden’s health care system date back to the 1930s, buy now is forced
to ration service.
International health care priorities are
set by politicians, not health care professionals.
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UN spent $3 billion on AIDS programs in Africa, while
only $30 million on safe water projects.
Other countries have implemented
successful market based health care programs.
- Switzerland has successfully privatized
health insurance as a market based initiative.
- Singapore has implemented a healthcare system
that puts decisions in the hands of the patients and doctors rather than
government bureaucrats and insurers.
o
Individuals
contribute much more money at the point of purchase with the payment mechanism
varying according to treatment and patient.
o
Government
doctors and facilities compete with private health care workers.
o
Singaporeans
are required to contribute to health savings accounts and purchase a
catastrophic insurance plan.
o
There
is an insurance pool for the severely disabled and a fund to pay their bills.
o
There
are subsidies to providers based on their level of service.
o
Singapore healthcare includes MediSave
(mandatory pension program), MediShield (national
insurance program for serious illness), MediFund
(fund unable to pay), and ElderShield (private
disability insurance).
o
Singaporeans are considerably healthier than
Americans, yet pay, per person (3.7% GDP), about one fifth of what American pay
for their healthcare (15.4% GDP).
Principles:
Health care is a noble idea, but not a
Constitutional right:
- Everyone should
be able to have private health care coverage.
- The total cost
of health care must be visible to aid in personal care decisions.
- Personal control
over health care will inject the free market values into health care.
Healthcare regulation must be fact
based and statistically valid, not junk science!
- Computer models
are notoriously inaccurate forecasting the future.
- Models must
explain predicted behavior and also historical anomalies.
- Cost benefit
analysis must provide range of outcomes with associated range of costs.
A reformed and sustainable Medicare
program should be based on five key principles:
- Predictable and
stable financing.
- Broad personal
choice of plans and options.
- Standards that
meet or exceed the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program’s
(FEHBP).
- Freedom of
choice for Medicare enrollees.
- Medicare savings
for Medicare alone.
Patient-centered, consumer-driven
health care reform key principles:
- Individuals are
the key decision makers in the health care system.
- Individuals buy and own their own health insurance coverage.
- Individuals choose their own health insurance coverage.
- Individuals have a wide range of coverage choices.
- Prices are transparent.
- Individuals have the periodic opportunity to change health coverage.
10 Essential Principles of Health
Care Reform:
1) Every
American should be encouraged and incentivized to take personal responsibility
for his or her health.
2) Every
American should have genuine access to quality, cost-effective care that best
meets his or her individual needs.
3) Every
American should have health insurance coverage (private or public) that is affordable,
accessible, and portable -- no matter where he or she chooses to work or live.
4) Health
care providers should deliver the best possible care based upon best evidence
or best practice.
5) Every
provider of care, from doctors and nurses to pharmacists and hospitals, should
be interconnected with an electronic health record for every American.
6) Payment
to providers should be based on the quality of care delivered, not the number
of transactions or services provided.
7) Cost,
quality, and performance information should be available and accessible to all
consumers.
8) Government
should promote and encourage competitive, market-based solutions in the private
sector.
9) Government
should offer effective, efficient, and sustainable public programs for those
who need them.
10)
Government should aggressively invest in targeted
clinical research, laying the foundations for future breakthroughs and cures.
Recommendations:
Short
Term, improve health care coverage and
performance.
- Isolate the Medicare and Medicaid separating entitlements funding
and unfunded liabilities from the total budget.
o
Deliver Medicaid as a block grant to
states to allow flexibility and eliminate overspending.
o
Separate OMB forecast income and spending as a
discrete entitlement expense.
o
Budget long term (30 year) to identify shortcoming
long before they become problems.
o
Require program reauthorization every four years
based on sustainability.
o Comply
with GASB 45 to establish an accrual accounting approach to report the cost of
benefits as an expense during the years in which the employee is working.
o Include
a complete and objective cost benefit analysis in any healthcare regulations.
o Include
State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) as separate line item.
- Defund, Repeal, and Replace ObamaCare, before more damage is done to health care
delivery.
o
Promote personal ownership of health insurance that
is portable.
o
Let free markets (cross state) provide the
insurance and health care services that people want.
o
Encourage employers to provide a portable health
insurance benefit.
o
Assist those who need help through civil society,
the free market, and states.
o
Protect the right of religious conscience and
newborn children.
- Return Health and Human Services funding to 2008 levels to erase
recent unwarranted expansion.
o
Reduce Food and Drug Administration funding by 62%
to FY2008 levels.
o
Reduce Health Resources and Service Administration
by 34% to FY2008 levels.
o
Reduce Indian Health Service funding by 46% to
FY2008 levels.
o
Reduce Center for disease Control and Prevention funding
by 28% to FY2008 levels.
o
Reduce National Institute of Health by 37% to
FY2008 levels.
o
Reduce National Institute of Mental Health by:
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Eliminate the Division of AIDS Research ($184
million) as duplicative.
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Eliminate the Intramural Research Program ($172
million) as better done with research grants to universities.
§
Shut down the Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Administration ($3.4 billion) as ineffective.
- Reform Medicare and Medicaid to discourage government dependence by
individuals and families.
o
Abolish the Office of the Surgeon General.
o
Repeal McCarran-Ferguson Act that
restricts competitive interstate insurance markets.
o
Reject any expansion of the State
Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).
o
Promote individual responsibility and realign economic
incentives for the purchase of value-based health care.
o
Restructure health care financing to assist low
income Americans in purchasing coverage.
- Promote greater opportunities for individuals to manage and control
their health care spending with Health Savings Accounts (HSAs).
o
Create opportunities for individual health savings
accounts
o
Continue improvements like Medicare Advantage
(2003) to expand personal choice in health care options.
o
Provide health care tax credits to ensure equity
between individual and business based health insurance plans.
o
Offer direct subsidies to lower income workers and
families for purchase of private health care.
o
Liberalize the tax treatment of health insurance
for individuals and families.
§
Ensure guaranteed renewability.
§
Provide assistance to low and moderate income
workers for basic insurance coverage.
§
Provide block grants of Medicaid and SCHIP back to
the states.
§
Incorporate state uninsurable risk pools.
- Restructure Medicare and Medicaid from a defined benefit, open
ended entitlement to a defined contribution system.
o
Establish a system for those retiring after 2011
based on Federal Employees Health Benefits Program.
o
Restructure Medicaid financing to be patient
centered, helping to identify higher cost cases.
o
Give states greater flexibility to experiment with
adjustments in their Medicaid programs.
o
Eliminate individual incentives to qualify
inappropriately for Medicaid long term care services.
o
Ensure inclusion of catastrophic protection.
- Administer Medicare and Medicaid “safety net” with each
state defining level of coverage.
o
Return fiscal responsibility for individuals with
mental illness to the states.
o
Discontinue federal government insurance premium
collections.
o
Abolish federal healthcare revenue redistribution
to states.
o
Allow states to put conditions on SSI and SSDI
payments.
- Examine health care reforms to salvage program such as:
o
Transform drug benefit into targeted
benefit for low income seniors who lack coverage.
§
Require a means test to the Medicare
prescription-drug benefit.
o
Reduce benefit levels, number or types of
treatments covered.
o
Increasing premium costs, deductibles or
co-payments.
- Replace jury malpractice system with expert
health courts.
Long
Term, privatize all health insurance to
transition to patient centered care.
- Enable Health Insurance Exchanges (HIE) to open up health care to
individual coverage.
o
Enable health insurance portability, moving with
the individual.
o
Create open market for health insurance aligned
with moral principles.
o
Limit mandates to allow more custom design of
policies.
- Enable medical transparency by making medical information including
performance directly available to consumers.
o
Make physician pricing fully transparent.
o
Make treatment pricing fully transparent.
- Privatize health insurance allowing each person to buy directly,
like other types of insurance.
o
Phase out employer-sponsored health insurance
replaced by individual insurance.
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Businesses pay employees monies directly, that are currently
spent on healthcare premiums.
o
Allow health insurance providers to establish risk
pools to lower costs.
o
Individuals choose their own health care coverage
based on their individual needs.
o
Retired workers able to use small fraction of
accumulated funds to buy long term nursing home insurance.
·
Provide five year transition for current recipients
(over 50-55) with program as currently exists.
o
Everyone will be responsible for their own health
care planning, protecting those with pre-existing conditions.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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“Knee-Jerk Left Bashes Bush’s Health
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“The Left Marches On: Pied Pipers Whistle
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“The Health Insurance Exchange: Enabling
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dated March 1, 2007 published by The Heritage Foundation at http://www.heritage.org/Research/HealthCare/wm1377.cfm
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“More Medicaid Means Less Quality Health Care”
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“Everything You Wanted to know About Medicare
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“It’s time for a dose of reality in
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“The Massachusetts Health Plan: An Update and
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“What’s Ailing Health Care?”
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“Insuring
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“A ‘Right’ to Health Care?”
by Michael F. Cannon dated June 29, 2007 published by National Review Online at
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“Health Care Tax Credits: The Right
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“Private Sector Healthcare Can Also Be
‘Universal’” by Emily Beuhler
dated August 9, 2007 published by The American Magazine at http://www.american.com/archive/2007/august-0807/private-sector-healthcare-can-also-be-universal
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“Nanny State?
No, Thanks; Government Should Quit Mandating Health-care Perks; Edicts Hike
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“Kids First…” by David Freddoso dated August 22, 2007 published by National Review
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“Compulsory Universal Health Insurance
– Neither a New Idea, Nor a Good Idea” by Diana West dated
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“Sinking SCHIP – A First Step toward
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“One Flew Over the Bird Flu’s Nest”
by Michael Fumento dated September 14, 2007 published
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“Hazards of the Individual Health Care
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by Karl Rove dated September 18, 2007 published by Wall Street Journal Opinion
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by Jennifer Rubin dated September 19, 2007 published by Human Events Online at http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=22456 .
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by Town Hall at http://www.townhall.com/columnists/FrankPastore/2007/09/23/no_more_free_lunch_at_the_health_care_buffet
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“Hillary and Health Care Prove a Toxic Mix
Again” by Kevin Hassett dated September 24,
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“HillaryCare II: A Big Leap in Federal Control”
by Robert E. Moffit dated September 24, 2007
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by Eli Lehrer dated October 2, 2007 published by Competitive Enterprise
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“Diet and Fat: A Severe Case of Mistaken
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“Not True That Thousands Died for Lack of
Health Insurance, Critic Says” by Pete Winn dated October 11, 2007
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“Newer Reforms Prescribe Doses of Competition”
by David S. Broder dated October 12, 2007 published
by Investors Business Daily at http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=277074871527128
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“The Freedom to Spend Your Own Money on
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“Friends Want Friends to Do Health Care”
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“Creative Destruction” by Jonathan
Cohn dated November 12, 2007 published by The New Republic at http://tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=51faeaa7-5021-40d0-95d3-0f260b25edd4
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“Global Warming is the New AIDS” by
November 12, 2007 published by American Daily at http://www.americandaily.com/article/20913 .
“The Case for Health Care Tax Credits”
by Greg D’Angelo dated December 3, 2007
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.
“Rx for Health Care: Pain” by
Robert Samuelson dated December 5, 2007 published by Real Clear Politics at http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/12/rx_for_health_care_pain.html
.
“Hungry For Trouble” dated December
18, 2007 published by Investors Business Daily at http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=282873306405019
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“Putting a Plague in Perspective”
by Daniel Halperin dated January 1, 2008 published by
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“The Truth About Health Costs”
dated January 10, 2008 published by Investor’s Business Daily at http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=284861446430958
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“Bad Medicine” dated January 18,
2008 published by Investor’s Business Daily at http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=285552473520990
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“Health Freezes Over” dated January
29, 2008 published by Investor’s Business Daily at http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=286502291658004
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“A Clear Choice” dated February 1,
2008 published by Investor’s Business Daily at http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=286760850611327
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“Washington Must Pull the Trigger on
Explosive Medicare Spending” by Robert E. Moffit
and Alison Acosta Fraser dated February 4, 2008 published by The Heritage
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.
“Lines For Swedish Care Grow Longer”
dated February 4, 2008 published by Investor’s Business Daily at http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=287022137319357
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“Benefits of the President’s Proposed
Standard Deduction for Health Insurance” by J.D. Foster dated
February 6, 2008 published by The Heritage Foundation at http://www.heritage.org/Research/HealthCare/wm1799.cfm
.
“Time to Rechristen SCHIP” by David
Gratzer dated February 8, 2008 published by City
Journal at http://www.city-journal.org/2008/eon0208dg.html
.
“Make Medicare Budget Options Compatible with
Comprehensive Reform” by Robert E. Moffit
dated February 11, 2008 published by The Heritage Foundation at http://www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/wm1807.cfm
.
“State and Local Governments Must Address
Unfunded Health Care Liabilities” by Greg D’Angelo
dated February 11, 2008 published by The Heritage Foundation at http://www.heritage.org/Research/HealthCare/wm1808.cfm
.
“Single Payer Systems Kill” by Deroy Murdock dated February 22, 2008 published by Human
Events Online at http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=25137
.
“What Canada Tells Us About Government Health
Care” by Doug Wilson dated February 25, 2008 published by Town Hall
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“Promise of Choice” dated February
26, 2008 published by Investor’s Business Daily at http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=288921903474479
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“WHOm Are They Kidding?” by Glen
Whitman dated March 10, 2008 published by The American Spectator at http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=12865
.
“Medicare Prescription” by John
Ensign dated March 11, 2008 published by National Review Online at http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MzE3M2M1Y2RkNmMxZWRhZGE5YzNhNGRiMDI0NGZlMTY= .
“America’s Unstable Health Insurance
System: Recommendations for increasing Stability and Coverage” by
Michelle C. Bucci dated March 12, 2008 published by
The Heritage Foundation at http://www.heritage.org/Research/HealthCare/bg2115.cfm
.
“State Health Reform: Six Key Tests”
by Robert E. Moffit dated April 23, 2008 published by
The Heritage Foundation at http://www.heritage.org/Research/HealthCare/wm1900.cfm
.
“Health Care Reform: Design Principles for a
Patient-Centered, Consumer-Based Market” by Edmund F. Haislmaier dated April 23, 2008 published by The Heritage
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.
“The Singapore Model” by Rowan Callick dated May 27, 2008 published by The American
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“Free Market Universal Care” by
Peter Ferrara dated June 11, 2008 published by The American Spectator at http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=13352
.
“The Success of Medicare Advantage Plans:
What Seniors Should Know” by Robert E. Moffitt dated June 13, 2008
published by The Heritage Foundation at http://www.heritage.org/Research/HealthCare/bg2142.cfm
.
“Reform of the American Health Care System is
Still Achievable” by Tom Price dated June 24, 2008 published by Human
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“Canadian Health Care We So Envy Lies in
Ruins, Its Architect Admits” by David Gratzer
dated June 25, 2008 published by Investor’s Business Daily at http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=299282509335931
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“Coming Soon: Not-So-NICE Health Care?”
by Sally C. Pipes dated June 25, 2008 published by Investor’s Business
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“Have Health Reformers Forgotten
Medicare?” by Joseph Antos dated July 7,
2008 published by American Enterprise Institute at http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.28244,filter.all/pub_detail.asp
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“A Fork in the Road” by Michael
Tanner dated July 29, 2008 published by Cato Institute at http://www.cato.org/pubs/bp/bp104.pdf .
“State Health Care reform: A Brief Guide to
Risk Adjustment in Consumer Driven Health Insurance Markets” by
Edmund F. Haislmaier dated August 1, 2008 published
by The Heritage Foundation at http://www.heritage.org/Research/HealthCare/bg2166.cfm
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“Free-Market Medicine” by Paul
Howard dated August 20, 2008 published by National Review Online at http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NjY2ZTUxYjA0ZmYxMWVjNjA1YWI0ZGRiNDBkODQ4YmQ= .
“Medicare’s Financial Woes: Bigger Than
Official Estimates” by J. D. Foster dated September 2, 2008 published
by The Heritage Foundation at http://www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/bg2174.cfm
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“Oregon’s Suicidal Approach to Health
Care” by Rita L. Marker dated September 14, 2008 published by
American Thinker at http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/oregons_suicidal_approach_to_h.html .
“You’re All Dead – and
Don’t Know It” by Phillip Ellis Jackson dated September 20,
2008 published by Intellectual Conservative at http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/09/20/you%E2%80%99re-all-dead-and-don%E2%80%99t-even-know-it/print/
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“State Health Reform: How States Can Control
Costs and Expand Coverage” by Dennis G. Smith dated September 22,
2008 published by The Heritage Foundation at http://www.heritage.org/Research/HealthCare/bg2183.cfm
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“Affordable Health Care” by Walter
E. Williams dated October 22, 2008 published by Town Hall at http://townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2008/10/22/affordable_health_care
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“How a Federal Health Board Will Cancel
Private Coverage and Care” by Robert E. Moffit
dated December 4, 2008 published by The Heritage Foundation at http://www.heritage.org/Research/HealthCare/wm2155.cfm
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“Employer-Based Health Insurance: Why
Congress Should Cap Tax Benefits Consistently”
by Jason Roffenbender dated December 5, 2008
published by The Heritage Foundation at http://www.heritage.org/Research/HealthCare/bg2214.cfm
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“The Trouble with Canadian Healthcare”
by Brett J. Skinner dated December 6, 2008 published by The American Magazine
at http://www.american.com/archive/2008/december-12-08/the-trouble-with-canadian-healthcare
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“Obama’s Coming Health Care Headache”
by Robert Samuelson dated January 9, 2009 published by Investor’s
Business Daily at http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=316396380187863
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“How to Reform Entitlement Spending”
by Brian M. Riedl and Alison Acosta Fraser dated
January 13, 2009 published by The Heritage Foundation at http://www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/sr43.cfm .
“Behind the 8 Million Ball” by
Peter Ferrara dated February 4, 2009 published by The American Spectator at http://spectator.org/archives/2009/02/04/behind-the-8-million-ball
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“Obama’s False Choice” by
Phillip Klein dated April 10, 2009 published by The American Spectator at http://spectator.org/archives/2009/04/10/obamas-false-choice
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“The Pauper Option” by Jeffrey H.
Anderson dated April 15, 2009 published by The Weekly Standard at http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/016/385axoqj.asp
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“Health Care Deconstructed” by
Bethany Stotts dated April 15, 2009 published by
Accuracy in Media at http://www.aim.org/aim-column/health-care-deconstructed/
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“Coming This Summer: Health Care Wars”
by Newt Gingrich dated May 27, 2009 published by Human Events at http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=32017 .
“U.S. health care is not inferior”
by Vincent Carroll dated June 23, 2009 published by The Denver Post at http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_12667987 .
“Markets, Not Mandates” by Ronald
Bailey dated July 28, 2009 published by Reason Magazine at http://www.reason.com/news/show/135081.html .
“Health Reform’s Taboo Topic” by Philip K. Howard dated July 31, 2009 published by
The Washington Post at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/30/AR2009073002816.html .
“The Bad Road to Baucus” by William
Tucker dated October 20, 2009 published by The American Spectator at http://spectator.org/archives/2009/10/20/the-road-to-baucus
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“Bending the Cost Curve” by William
Tucker dated March 10, 2010 published by The American Spectator at http://spectator.org/archives/2010/03/10/bending-the-cost-curve-with-a
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“Obamacare: The straw that broke the camel’s
back” by David Coughlin dated March 23, 2010 published by American
Thinker at http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/03/obamacare_the_straw_that_broke.html
“The Entitlement Crisis” dated August 17, 2010 published by
The Heritage Foundation at http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2010/08/The-Entitlement-Crisis
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“Getting Health Care Reform Right”
dated August 17, 2010 published by The Heritage Foundation at http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2010/08/Getting-Health-Care-Reform-Right
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“How to Fix Medicare: A New Vision for a
Better Program” by Robert E. Moffit and
James C. Capretta dated December 13, 2010 published
by The Heritage Foundation at http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2010/12/How-to-Fix-Medicare-A-New-Vision-for-a-Better-Program
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“Sen. Paul Proposes Serious
Cuts” by Chris Edwards dated January 31, 2011 published by Cato Institute
at http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/sen-rand-paul-proposes-serious-cuts
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“Why Accountable Care Organizations
Won’t Deliver Better Health Care – and Market Innovation Will”
by Rita E. Numerof dated April 18, 2011 published by
The Heritage Foundation at http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2011/04/Why-Accountable-Care-Organizations-Wont-Deliver-Better-Health-Care-and-Market-Innovation-Will
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“Saving the American Dream” by
Stuart M. Butler, Alison Acosta Fraser, and William W. Beach dated May 10, 2011
published by The Heritage Foundation at http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2011/05/Saving-the-American-Dream-The-Heritage-Plan-to-Fix-the-Debt-Cut-Spending-and-Restore-Prosperity
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“How the Free Market Can Cure Health Care”
by Matt Palumbo dated December 17, 2011 published by American Thinker at http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/12/how_the_free_market_can_cure_health_care.html
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“How to Bring Sanity to Our Mental Health
System” by E. Fuller Torrey dated December 19, 2011 published by The
Heritage Foundation at http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/12/how-to-bring-sanity-to-our-mental-health-system
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“US health care: A reality check on
cross-country comparisons” by H.E. Frech, Stephen T. Parente, and John Hoff
dated July 11, 2012, published by American Enterprise Institute at http://www.aei.org/outlook/health/global-health/us-health-care-a-reality-check-on-cross-country-comparisons/
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“Studies Show: Medicaid Patients Have Worse
Access and Outcomes than the Private Insured” by Kevin D. Dayaratna dated November 7, 2012 published by The Heritage
Foundation at http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/11/studies-show-medicaid-patients-have-worse-access-and-outcomes-than-the-privately-insured
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“The Singapore Cure” by Matthew Continetti dated February 25, 2013 published by The Weekly
Standard at http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/singapore-cure_701312.html
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“Ten Years of Tort Reform in Texas: A Review”
by Joseph Nixon dated July 26, 2013 published by The Heritage Foundation at http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2013/07/ten-years-of-tort-reform-in-texas-a-review
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“After Repeal of ObamaCare:
Moving to Patient Centered, Market-Based Health Care” by Center for
Health Policy Studies dated October 31, 2013 published by The Heritage
Foundation at http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2013/10/after-repeal-of-obamacare-moving-to-patient-centered-market-based-health-care
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“FreeMarketCare”
by Dean Kedenburg dated November 1, 2013 published by
American Thinker at http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/11/freemarketcare.html
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“What Happened to American Medicine?”
by Deane Waldman dated November 22, 2014 published by American Thinker at http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/11/what_happened_to_american_medicine.html
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“Medicaid Reforms” by Chris Edwards
dated May 1, 2018 published by CATO institute at https://www.downsizinggovernment.org/hhs/medicaid-reforms
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“Why primary care costs a trillion dollars
more than it should” by Robert Berry dated November 17, 2019
published by American Thinker at https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/11/why_primary_care_costs_a_trillion_dollars_more_than_it_should.html
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