HC Law Forces Some Insurers to Drop Children-Only Coverage
Jonathon M. Seidl
Insurers in four states have decided to discontinue children-only coverage days before new requirements forbid insurers from dropping children with pre-existing conditions. Read More
Obamacare Widens Health Care Disparities
Heritage Foundation - co-authored by Charles Adair
Rather than improve the health care system, the expansion is expected to exacerbate problems that riddle the poor-performing program—namely, poor quality and low reimbursement rates to primary-care providers that have resulted in a physician shortage for Medicaid patients. Read More
How Do Obamacare and the Obama Tax Hikes Effect Seniors?
Heritage Foundation
Back to Question LibraryHow Do Obamacare and the Obama Tax Hikes Effect Seniors?No demographic was more opposed to Obamacare’s passage and no group wants to see the law repealed more than America’s seniors. They know that Obamacare used Medicare as a piggy bank to transfer half a trillion dollars out of Medicare, not to shore up Medicare’s solvency, but to spend on a new government program. As if that were not enough, now President Barack Obama wants to raise taxes on the dividend payments that millions of seniors depend on for their livelihood. American seniors are beginning to wonder when they’ll stop being target #1 of President Obama’s economy-crushing policies. Read More
Keep Your Health Plan Under Overhaul? Probably Not, Gov't Analysis Concludes
By DAVID HOGBERG AND SEAN HIGGINS, INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Internal administration documents reveal that up to 51% of employers may have to relinquish their current health care coverage because of ObamaCare.
Small firms will be even likelier to lose existing plans.
The "midrange estimate is that 66% of small employer plans and 45% of large employer plans will relinquish their grandfathered status by the end of 2013," according to the document.
In the worst-case scenario, 69% of employers — 80% of smaller firms — would lose that status, exposing them to far more provisions under the new health law. Read More
Obama and GOP Bicker Over Doctors' Medicare Pay
By CHARLES BABINGTON, Associated Press Writer Charles Babington, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is asking Republican lawmakers to approve billions of dollars in new spending to avert a scheduled 21 percent cut in payments to doctors who treat Medicare patients.
If GOP senators don't allow the stalled proposal to pass, some doctors will stop treating Medicare recipients, Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday.
The Senate's top Republican, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said his party wants to avoid reducing physicians' fees, but do it without adding to the deficit — meaning spending cuts elsewhere.
HEALTHCARE REFORM
IN THE NEWS
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS: Democrat bigwig: We have votes for health care reform; GOP chief: No you don't!
Ronald Reagan speaks about Socialized Medicine
VOTED FOR THE HOUSE BILL:
Rep. Robert Andrews
(D) NJ-01
Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr.
(D) NJ-06
Rep. Bill Pascrell
(D) NJ-8
Rep. Steven Rothman
(D) NJ-9
Rep. Donald Payne
(D) NJ-10
Rep. Rush Holt
(D) NJ-12
Rep. Albio Sires
(D) NJ-13
VOTED FOR THE SENATE BILL:
Sen. Robert Menendez
Sen. Frank Lautenberg
NJ LEGISLATORS
VOTED AGAINST THE HOUSE BILL:
Rep. Frank LoBiondo
(R) NJ-02
Rep. John Adler
(D) NJ-03
Rep. Christopher Smith
(R) NJ-04
Rep. Scott Garrett
(R) NJ-05
Rep. Leonard Lance
(R) NJ-07
Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen
(R) NJ-11
Healthcare Reform
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