Opinion
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CMS Allows Medicare Advantage Plans to Expand
Opinion -health-care-news, News -A new rule announced by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will allow providers of Medicare Advantage plans to expand the kinds of benefits they offer so they can compete more with each other and attract more participants overall. -
Wisconsin Lawmakers Continue to Resist Medicaid Expansion
Opinion -health-care-news, News -Lawmakers in Wisconsin are resisting calls to expand Medicaid in the wake of a report by the Wisconsin Office of the Commissioner of Insurance (OCI) claiming expansion would lower premiums in the individual health insurance market by 7 to 11 percent. -
Oklahoma Supreme Court Allows Medicaid Expansion Ballot Initiative
Opinion -health-care-news, News -Within hours of hearing oral arguments, the Oklahoma Supreme Court rejected an effort to stop a petition drive that would put Medicaid expansion on the 2020 ballot. -
Medicare Is $38 Trillion Short – And Other Reasons Government Shouldn’t Run Anything
Opinion -Editorial -America’s Left has certainly evolved. Fifty years ago, it was the Left who didn’t trust Big Brother and wanted to stick it to The Man. Now they LOVE Big Brother, because they now are The Man -
North Carolina Lawmakers Continue to Disagree on Medicaid Expansion
Opinion -health-care-news, News -Plans to expand Medicaid coverage to hundreds of thousands of additional North Carolina residents remain in limbo, with lawmakers arguing over how to pay for the program and whether the expansion should include a work requirement. -
Medicare for All Will Mean Waiting Lines, Rationing, Worse Care
Opinion -health-care-news, News -There is no question that many millions of Americans are frustrated with our current health care system. -
CMS Allows Medicare Advantage Plans to Expand
Opinion -health-care-news, News -A new rule announced by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will allow providers of Medicare Advantage plans to expand the kinds of benefits they offer so they can compete more with each other and attract more participants overall. -
Legislative Pulse Lawmaker Critiques California’s $98 Million per Year Health Care for Illegal Immigrant Adults
Opinion -News -Editor’s Note: California lawmakers reached a budget deal on June 9 that will extend full-scope Medicaid benefits to low-income adults age 19 to 26 regardless of U.S. citizenship or legal immigrant status. -
CMS Offers Flat-Fee Payment Model for Medicare Providers
Opinion -health-care-news, News -The Trump administration is trying to help lower Medicare costs by offering primary care doctors a flat fee instead of the fee-for-service model currently in place. -
Louisiana Lawmakers Seek to Crack Down on Medicaid Fraud after Audit Shows Enrollment Abuse
Opinion -health-care-news, News -Louisiana lawmakers are pushing forward several bills in response to an audit of the state’s Medicaid program which resulted in the removal of 30,000 people from rolls because they earned too much money. -
California Becomes First State to Provide Free Health Care to Adults in the U.S. Illegally
Opinion -health-care-news, News -California will become the first state in the nation to offer full-scale Medicaid benefits to low-income adults regardless of U.S. citizenship, under a new budget deal inked on June 9. -
Ohio Plans Medicaid Work Requirements as Trump Administration Appeals Ruling
Opinion -budget-tax-news -The Trump administration is appealing rulings by a federal court that have blocked the implementation of Medicaid work requirements in Kentucky and found a similar program already in place in Arkansas violates federal law. -
Medicaid Expansion in Kansas Averted
Opinion -News -The Kansas State Legislature adjourned for the year after deciding not to expand Medicaid coverage to as many as 150,000 additional residents in the state. -
Analysis: Comparison of U.S., Canadian Systems Shows Single-Payer Is a Bad Deal
Opinion -Editorial -Widespread reports this spring that elderly patients in the United Kingdom were facing significant delays getting routine cataract operations coincided with the news that British rock music legend Mick Jagger -
Commentary: Central Planning Destroys Health Care Innovation
Opinion -Editorial -Direct primary care (DPC) doctors have found ways to improve health care access, include telemedicine, and offer deeply discounted rates on medications, labs, and imaging for a low-cost monthly membership, similar in design and value to Costco. -
North Carolina Senate Rejects Medicaid Expansion
Opinion -News -A rarely used state Senate rule and growing concerns over the potential cost of providing health care to tens of thousands of additional low-income residents in North Carolina stymied efforts to enact Medicaid expansion in this year’s legislative session. -
Upcoming Medicare Insolvency Poses Big Challenges for Government, Individuals
Opinion -News -Medicare’s assets will be depleted by 2026, the 2019 Medicare Board of Trustees Annual Report states. -
New Book Presents Solutions for Financially Insolvent Entitlement Programs
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Provides straightforward explanations and direct, simple solutions to the nation’s entitlements crisis. -
Abolish the Welfare State to Solve the National Debt Crisis
Opinion -Editorial -Why is it so difficult to win the case for freedom in modern American society? -
USDA Secretary Perdue Proposes Tighter Food Stamp Work Requirements
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Proposed rule focuses on tightening loopholes in SNAP’s work requirements for able-bodied adults without dependents -
New Jersey Considers Defined-Contribution Public Employee Pensions
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Legislators are considering moving new state and local public employees from the Garden State’s underfunded pension systems to defined-contribution plans. -
San Francisco Voters Approve Tax Hike
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Tax businesses to fund spending on homeless -
A Nightmare Farm Bill for Conservatives
Opinion -Editorial -We’re in the holiday season, but that doesn’t mean conservative legislators should take a holiday from their conservative principles. Unfortunately, the farm bill devised by House and Senate negotiators would require them to do just that. -
Is It Time to Lick the Food Stamp Program?
Opinion -Editorial -The federal Food Stamps Program (FSP), now known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), celebrated its 59th anniversary this September.