For all of the quality care it delivers, the U.S. health care system is one of the most dysfunctional sectors of the U.S. economy. The government spends nearly 50 cents of every dollar spent on health care, most consumers are almost entirely insulated from the cost of their decisions, and employers decide what kind of health insurance their employees get.
But while the U.S. health care system begs for reform, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act only exacerbates all of the current problems, promising to devolve into a price-controlled system rationed and micromanaged by bureaucrats.
IPI believes there are much better options: reform the tax treatment of health insurance; remove the state and federal mandates and regulations that make coverage more expensive; pass medical liability reform; and promote policies that create value-conscious shoppers in the health care marketplace.
Five Reasons Why the VA Scandal Could Be the Democrats' Biggest Nightmare in 2014
Democrats realize the Veterans Administration scandal could damage them badly in what already looks like a bleak November election, and many are scrambling to express their outrage.
How ObamaCare customers could end up with a big tax bill
Fox News Chief national correspondent Jim Angle tells how Obamacare customers may end up with a big tax bill from Uncle Sam.
What the Veterans Administration scandal tells us about Obamacare
Americans should be paying close attention to the emerging healthcare scandal in the Veterans Administration (VA), because it’s a preview of what we will all be experiencing soon under Obamacare.
Obamacare High Deductibles Will Lower Health Care Costs and Empty Patients' Pockets
Obamacare was supposed to deliver low-deductible coverage at low cost; instead it is providing high deductible at high costs, which will have a big effect on people’s pocketbooks.
Five UK Headlines That Foretell ObamaCare's Future ... And Yours
The UK's NHS is so riddled with problems, these five newspaper headlines all appeared on ONE DAY. They foretell the problems Americans will soon encounter—if they haven’t already—under Obamacare.
Mississippi Rejects Medicaid Expansion and Embraces Innovation Instead
Obamacare tries to impose a failed industrial-era Medicaid program on states; Mississippi is choosing 21st century technology and innovation instead.
Democrats Say Ed Gillespie's Book Promoted Individual Mandates
Merrill Matthews writes in Forbes that a passage in Gillespie’s book amounts to an "anti-mandate approach," and was endorsing an unsuccessful proposal President George W. Bush made one year later offering tax breaks to insured households.
The FDA Needs To Move Faster On Safe Drug Approval
There is a growing recognition that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is more of a threat to human safety than a protector of it.
If The Facts Don't Fit, Change The Facts
The politicization of what is supposed to be reliable, nonpartisan, government-sponsored economic research is one of the saddest legacies of the Obama administration.
Roadblock to Health Care Reform
The 2009 GOP health care proposal was a modest plan that made incremental improvements to the health care system in America at that time, said Merrill Matthews. He thought that, while flawed, the proposal could form the foundation for a new proposal now.
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