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Liberalism Will Never Fix Our Broken Health Care System
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #504 In a May 2 op-ed for The New York Times, Richard Scheffler, a professor at the University of California-Berkeley, and Sherry Glied, a professor at New York University, acknowledge the Affordable Care Act’s failure to create a -
Vermont Patient-Monitoring App Has Massive Potential
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #503 Boston-based PatientPing has developed a new application that helps doctors monitor their patients’ activities at other health care facilities, an innovation some are saying could help lower costs and improve patient care. -
Insurers Are Abandoning Obamacare Exchanges
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #502 March 23 marked the sixth anniversary of passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), legislation that was promised to provide millions of Americans with affordable health insurance they otherwise couldn’t get while improving -
Report: Obamacare Fails to Meet Obama’s 2009 Promises
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #501 In September 2009, President Barack Obama released a highly touted report on the state of health insurance prices in the United States, titled The Burden of Health Insurance Premium Increases on American Families. -
The Rise of Socialized Medicine
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #500 In August 2007, then-Sen. Barack Obama expressed his hope for the growth of socialized medicine in the United States. -
A Not-So-Happy Obamacare Anniversary
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #499 Six years ago, President Barack Obama signed into law the Affordable Care Act (ACA), radically transforming the U.S. health care system and insurance marketplace. -
Government Regulations Reduce Access to Mental Health Services
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #497 In January, President Barack Obama announced a proposal to spend $500 million on improving access to mental health care and to provide better mental health information for firearms background checks. -
Health Care Hackers Causing Chaos
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #496 Computer systems at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center were under attack for 10 days in February as hackers haggled with hospital administrators over the ransom price for ending the electronic siege. -
Small Business CFOs Call Obamacare ‘Fastest-Growing Threat’
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #495 One week before the Republican Party’s so-called “SEC Primary Day,” on which 12 states and more than 500 delegates will be up for grabs, presidential candidates Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Sen. -
Ted Cruz’s Life-Saving Legislation Would Reduce FDA’s Monopoly
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #494 U.S. Sens. -
Medical School Costs Keep Young Doctors Out of Primary Care
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #493 Health care reform efforts over the past two decades have focused primarily on creating ways to help more Americans obtain health insurance, but little has been done to address the rapid medical school cost increases now -
Obamacare Paperwork: A Multi-Billion-Dollar Cost Americans Can’t Afford
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #492 [Subscribe here. -
Popular Health Care Plan Will Soon Be Extinct in Obamacare Marketplace
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #490 According to PolitiFact, the Obama administration, in at least 37 separate instances, promised Americans they would be able to stay enrolled in a health care plan if they enjoyed the coverage they were receiving prior to the -
Small Businesses Suffering Under Obamacare
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #491 Since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) became law in 2010, millions of Americans have been forced to obtain a new, often inferior health insurance plan; health insurance premiums have risen dramatically, especially for young -
Obamacare Officials May Have Cost Taxpayers $1 Billion
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #489Subscribe here. -
Attempts to Roll Back CON Laws Underway in Virginia
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #488 Few Americans know the substantial and detrimental effects certificate of need (CON) laws have on the quality of health care in the 36 states that have chosen to enact them. -
For Many, New Year’s Resolution Is to End Obamacare
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #487 December 30, 2015 Welcome to the Consumer Power Report. -
All I Want for Christmas Is Lower Drug Prices
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #486 One of the most significant struggles facing millions of Americans today is the growing cost of pharmaceuticals. According to U.S. News and World Report, U.S. -
Racial Profiling Dominates Medical School Admissions
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #485 Vijay Chokal-Ingam made headlines earlier in 2015 for claiming race plays a significant role in medical school admissions. -
The Real Reason Behind High Health Care Costs
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #484 On November 30, The Washington Post published a story by Lena H. -
The Obamacare ‘Death Spiral’
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #483 The health care industry is still recovering from news UnitedHealth Group (UHG), the largest U.S. -
New Obamacare Court Challenges Emerge
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #482 Hold on to your wallets America: It’s Obamacare’s open-enrollment season, and health insurance costs continue to go up across the board for consumers in nearly every part of the nation. -
Budget Deal Ends Obamacare Enrollment Mandate
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #481 Just in time for Halloween, Congress and President Barack Obama reached a budget agreement that some experts, including the Urban Institute’s Richard Johnson, are calling “an unexpected bit of sanity coming out of Washington,” -
Thousands Forced to Enter Obamacare Exchange
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #480 It’s the most not-so-wonderful time of the year: The open-enrollment period for the national Obamacare exchange began on November 1, and millions of Americans were greeted with the good tidings of increased health insurance