David Hogberg at Investor’s Business Daily reports another unpleasant ObamaCare surprise:
A new Obama administration rule could drive out of the market the low-cost, high deductible plans that are supposed to be available under ObamaCare.
Obama’s bureaucrats have been creative with PPACA’s MLR rules:
High-deductible plans, sometimes coupled with a tax-free health savings account to help pay for […]
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NEW OCARE SURPRISE: HHS REGULATION MAY ELIMINATE LOW-COST HEALTH PLANS
WE’D LIKE TO KNOW A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOU FOR OUR FILES
My column in today’s American Spectator discusses a new federal regulation that will profoundly change your relationship with government and eliminate what vestiges of personal privacy you still enjoy:
The new regulation … requires insurance companies to submit detailed health information about their patients to the HHS mother ship.
And the “information collection requirementsâ€? (ICRs) set […]
VIDEO: HOW REGULATIONS HURT PATIENTS
In 2004, Christopher Conover conducted a study for the Cato Institute that showed how government regulation costs lives:
4,000 more Americans die every year from costs associated with health services regulation than from lack of health insurance.
Even if one declines to accept that particular finding, there’s no doubt that overregulation is bad for patients. Dr. Lee Hieb explains why:
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MY LATEST AMSPEC COLUMN: 11TH CIRCUIT WIN IS GOOD NEWS, BUT DON’T GET COCKY
In my latest column for the American Spectator, I discuss some of the details of last Friday’s ruling against the Obama adminsitration on the individual mandate. It wasn’t a huge surprise considering how the judges pressed the DOJ during oral arguments last June. However …
Its predictability notwithstanding, the decision did cross two new and important milestones: […]
OBAMACARE COMMISSARS WILL TAKE OVER INSURANCE OVERSIGHT IN 10 STATES
Another day, another power grab by Obama’s apparatchiks. This time, they have decided that the hilariously titled Affordable Care Act empowers them to take over a function normally carried out by state regulators:
The Obama administration will soon take over the review of health insurance rates in 10 states where it says state officials do not adequately regulate premiums […]
VIDEO: SEBELIUS LIES TO CONGRESS ABOUT IPAB
Last April, I wrote a column for the American Spectator about ObamaCare’s Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). Among the issues I pointed out was that IPAB’s “recommendations” require an act of Congress to reverse:
In theory, IPAB can only propose changes to Medicare’s payment rates. In practice, however, the board’s proposals will take effect automatically unless Congress passes […]
VIDEO: THE SENATE SPEECH THAT KILLED OBAMACARE’S “SECRET SHOPPER” PROGRAM
This afternoon, HHS announced it would kill the secret shopper program. The apparatchiks claim that the decision was the result of careful review of “feedback received during the comment period,” but the obvious reason was the uproar caused the NYT piece noted in this post and this floor speech by Republican Senator Mark Kirk:
HSIEH ON ACCOUNTABLE CARE ORGANIZATIONS
Paul Hsieh points out at Town Hall, that ObamaCare is essentially a Soviet-style central planning scheme based on the notion that a group of Beltway apparatchiks can outsmart the market:
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) represent the latest attempt to control escalating health costs by government central planning. Through financial carrots and sticks, doctors and hospitals would […]
BUT DON’T TAKE MY WORD FOR IT
If you’re not convinced by my claim that IPAB is bad medicine, read Paul Hsieh’s write-up at Pajamas Media about ObamaCare’s powerful rationing board:
One of President Obama’s key proposals to reduce skyrocketing Medicare costs is a so-called Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). The IPAB would consist of 15 members appointed by the president (and confirmed […]
HHS BUREAUCRATS CONVERT 6 PAGES OF “REFORM” INTO 429 PAGES OF REGULATIONS
Remember all those claims, made by countless ObamaCare supporters, that “reform” would make the “chaotic” U.S. health care system more efficient? Well, here’s what the word efficient means to the bureaucrats of the Health & Human Services department:
Section 3022 of the law, which is about the Medicare shared savings program, take up just six pages in the […]