Medicare

Health-Care System Traps Doctors

Health care reform that raises quality, lowers costs, and improves access to care is almost inconceivable without physicians leading and directing the changes.

February 29, 2012

Coburn and Burr Plant the Flag

Washington, DC witnessed a confrontation last week that encapsulates, for good and for ill, the dire situation facing the United States – and the choice we must make if we are to recover and return

February 20, 2012

A False Compromise on Conscience Protections

Last week, in the wake of incredible backlash from faith communities and employers across the country,

February 13, 2012

The 2012 Index of Dependence on Government

William W. Beach and Patrick D. Tyrrell
February 8, 2012

Today, more people than ever before—67.3 million Americans, from college students to retirees to welfare beneficiaries—depend on the federal government for housing, food, income, student aid, or ot

Consumer Power Report #308: Who Pays for Medicaid Expansion?

Welcome to the Consumer Power Report.

February 07, 2012

Newt Gingrich as President Could turn the White House into an Ideas Factory

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January 27, 2012
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Consumer Power Report: The Good, Bad, and Ugly on Cancer

The new year brings us good, if not great, news within the annual cancer statistical projections for 2012, according to an annual report from Dr. Ahmedin Jemal.

January 10, 2012

Uncle Sam's disturbing little secret

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December 28, 2011
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GAO report showing $33 trillion needed for Social Security/Medicare should scare us all.

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Consumer Power Report: Lessons of the Year

Let’s pause from our normal breakneck pace of waivers and reviews, court challenges and approvals, to take a moment to assess three lessons from the year in health policy.

December 19, 2011

Question and Answer on Wyden-Ryan

December 16, 2011
Benjamin Domenech, health care research fellow at the Heartland Institute, offers his initial thoughts on Rep. Paul Ryan and Sen. Ron Wyden's Medicare reform plan.
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