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August 17, 2010Getting Health Care Reform Right
The health care system needs reform, but not the types of changes enacted under the new health care law. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act moves the health care system in the wrong direction. This highly unpopular law would assert federal control over health care benefits and financing, erect a complex one-size-fits-all health system, and centralize America’s health care decisions in Washington. Instead, Congress should transform the health care system into one that empowers individuals and families, not Washington, to control more of their health care decisions. Click here to read a Heritage Foundation report on Health Care Solutions for America.
Tags: health care, health care reform, Obama Health Care Plan, ObamaCare, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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August 17, 2010Utah’s Defined-Contribution Option: Patient-Centered Health Care
In Utah, state policymakers have taken a different approach in health care reform by giving businesses and their workers the option of “defined contribution” health benefits—where participating workers choose coverage from a wide variety of plans offered by competing insurers through Utah’s health insurance exchange. In a recent Heritage paper, Gregg Girvan explains how Utah’s state leaders are innovators who are doing precisely what they should be doing. Click here to read how Utah policymakers are using their authority to resist concentrated power in Washington, and working to provide more and better choices for their citizens.
Tags: defined benefits, defined contribution, health care, health care reform, Utah
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August 17, 2010The Drawbacks of Dutch-Style Health Care Rules: Lessons for Americans
In 2006, the Dutch government implemented a universal insurance mandate. Many American policy makers are looking to the Dutch experiment as a model to fix America’s complex and costly health care system. Given the narrow, partisan enactment of Obamacare, America appears to be on a similar path. In a recent paper, Heritage experts Ryan Lynch and Eline Altenburg-van den Broek explain why patients in the Nehterlands do not have a significant choice among the health insurance companies nor can they access sufficient information about the health system and different options. Click here to read about why this system would not benefit patients in America, either.
Tags: Dutch-Style Health Care, health care, individual mandates, Obama Health Care Plan, ObamaCare, transparency
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April 21, 2010Obamacare Implementation Timeline
Click here for an Obamacare Implementation Timeline compiled by the Minority Staff of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
Tags: health care, ObamaCare, timeline
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March 18, 2010Reconciliation Bill [HR 4872]
CBO score of the Reconciliation bill
From the Congressional Research Service:
Tags: congressional research service, health care, health care reform, reconciliation bill
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February 22, 2010The President’s Health Care Proposal
Read the summary here.
Read the President’s letter sent to Congressional leaders on March 2, 2010 here.
Click here to read Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) letter to President Obama regarding the White House Health Care Summit.
Tags: health care, President Obama
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January 21, 2010Perspectives on Long-Term Deficits
Jim Capretta, Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, testified today before the House Budget Committee. His testimony on the subject of long-term deficits can be found here.
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December 16, 2009Sen. Baucus Admits No Senator Can Understand Health Bill
Today on the Senate floor, Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) admitted that no Senator can understand the health care bill or should be expected to. To watch the video, click here.
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December 11, 2009Video: Sen. Hatch Says Congress Is Boldly Going Where It Has Never Gone Before
Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) addressed The Heritage Foundation yesterday on the unconstitutionality of congressional action that forces Americans to buy health insurance under Obamacare.
In Sen. Hatch’s opinion, that mandate would not pass muster under the Constitution, and it would be an entirely unprecedented action that is beyond the scope of Congress’ powers:
Tags: health care, health insurance, Individual Mandate, ObamaCare, Sen. Orrin Hatch, unconstitutional
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December 4, 2009CBO Report Shows ObamaCare Raises Premiums
Media coverage of the CBO scoring of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s health care bill left out some of the fine print and heroic assumptions that were in the report. The Heritage Foundation believes they merit your consideration.
Premiums Rise
The media quotes the CBO as saying that ObamaCare would not make premiums rise for people who get their insurance through their job or other groups. This is mostly because millions of people would no longer receive coverage from their employer, and instead would buy insurance in the so-called “non-group” market that sells individual health plans. These would likely be older and sicker Americans.
Tags: CBO Report, health care, ObamaCare, Rising Premiums, senate health care bill
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