Publications
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Research & Commentary: Jobs and the Health Care Law
Publication -Research and Commentaries -There is little question that the key issue for most voters in November’s election was the economy. -
No. 128 The Obamacare Disaster
Publication -Policy Studies -Earlier this year, Congress passed and President Barack Obama signed into law the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. -
The Obamacare Disaster
Publication -Books -Earlier this year, Congress passed and President Barack Obama signed into law the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. -
Research & Commentary: Severability and Obamacare
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Recent hearings in Virginia regarding the commonwealth’s case against the individual health insurance mandate in President Barack Obama’s health care reform raised important questions hinging on the issue of constitutional severability. -
Research & Commentary: Nutrition Information Overload
Publication -Research and Commentaries -One of the new requirements of President Barack Obama’s health care legislation concerns disclosure of nutrition information in restaurants — essentially a tactic designed to shame people into better eating habits. -
Research & Commentary: Health Care Reform May Kill HSAs
Publication -Research and Commentaries -The question keeps coming up from concerned citizens: “Under President Barack Obama’s new health care regime, what’s going to happen to my health savings account (HSA)? -
Research & Commentary: Donald Berwick’s Radical Agenda
Publication -Research and Commentaries -While everyone in Washington is chatting about a different nominee, President Barack Obama’s choice of Donald Berwick to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is an equally unique one and in some ways the more surprising choice. -
Reforming Medicaid in Florida
Publication -Policy Briefs -Medicaid, the joint Federal-State program that was created to provide health care for the poor, celebrated its 40th birthday in 2006. There was no party for the program. -
Research & Commentary: California’s Single-Payer Posturing
Publication -Research and Commentaries -When the governor of your state compares it to "an accident victim bleeding to death on the side of the road" and has to go to Washington seeking $6. -
Research & Commentary: Bipartisan Support for State-Led Effort Against Medicare and Medicaid Fraud
Publication -Research and Commentaries -President Barack Obama's February Blair House summit made little difference in the push toward national health care reform, but an increasingly popular idea for cutting costs was raised by Sen. -
No. 125 Ten Ways Consumer-Driven Health Care Is a Proven Success
Publication -Policy Studies -A revolution is underway in American health care, but you won’t read about it in newspapers or see it on TV. -
Research & Commentary: The Effect of ObamaCare on Insurance Premiums
Publication -Research and Commentaries -According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, Americans were expected to spend $2.5 trillion on health care in 2009, or $8,160 per person--17.6 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). Projections for 2018 put U.S. health care spending at $4. -
No. 123 Obama Health Plan: Rationing, Higher Taxes, and Lower Quality Care
Publication -Policy Studies -President Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats are rushing to enact legislation that would overhaul the way health care is financed and delivered in the United States. -
No. 122 Safety First: A Legislator’s Brief on Biosimilars
Publication -Policy Studies -Congress is currently exploring legislation that would create a new drug approval process in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for what are called follow-on biologics, or “biosimilar” therapies. -
Research & Commentary: Health Information Technology
Publication -Research and Commentaries -As part of the federal government’s economic stimulus package, Congress has authorized spending about $20 billion on health information technology (health IT) and another $1 billion on comparative effectiveness research. -
The Ineffectiveness of Individual Mandates
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Providing insurance coverage for the uninsured has become a cause celebre during the recent crisis, with hundreds of thousands of Americans losing their jobs and the percentage of Americans without insurance rising across multiple policy lines. -
Research & Commentary: Health Care Retail Clinics
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Affordable, convenient health care has become more available to average Americans as a result of the proliferation of so-called "retail clinics. -
Health Insurance Mandates
Publication -Research and Commentaries -One of the major causes of high-priced health insurance in the U.S. is the high number of mandatory minimum coverages required by some state governments. -
Health Savings Accounts
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Health Savings Accounts are a way to provide affordable, flexible, consumer-directed health insurance for a population that has a growing need for quality coverage. -
Rationing – How Not to Reform Health Care
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Most Americans want health care reform, but mandating health insurance or legislating a government-run single-payer system will not solve anything. Health care needs less government intervention, not more. -
Evidence-Based Medicine
Publication -Research and Commentaries -The relationship between doctors and their patients is very special. -
Medicaid Reform
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Between 1970 and 2002 government expenditures on health care rose by 690 percent, and if current trends hold, by the year 2050 those expenditures will account for one-third of U.S. gross domestic product. -
10 Principles of Health Care Policy
Publication -Legislative Principles -This booklet is designed to help state legislators find solutions to health care problems by first identifying their causes and true extent--which often are not as they are reported in newspaper stories or touted by special interest groups--and then by -
State Children’s Health Insurance Program
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Created in 1997, SCHIP provides health insurance coverage for families with too much income to qualify for Medicaid, but not enough income to afford private insurance.