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.
New Ground: ALEC Conference Moves Forward on CDA, Considers Health IT, Data Privacy
ALEC wants to provide ideas of how legislators can act next, said task force private-sector Chairman Bartlett Cleland, IPI policy counsel. "It is critically important for the future of healthcare that state legislators start understanding what they can do and start to act, so we can drive down healthcare costs and get healthcare to more people."
Shocker: New Survey Finds Nearly Every Federal Employee Rejects ObamaCare
Apparently when President Obama promised, “If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. Period,” he was only referring to federal employees and himself. This kind of hypocrisy goes a long way toward explaining why the American people have become so cynical about politics.
Obama Needs to Know Why Small Businesses Will Hire and Invest Next Year
A survey of small businesses say they plan to hire and invest next year, but it’s not because of something President Obama did, but what he didn’t do.
Oklahoma Lawsuit Could Effectively Defund ObamaCare
Oklahoma is still fighting ObamaCare, and using a very solid argument for doing so. If the state is successful, it will largely defund ObamaCare in the states that did not set up their own exchange.
Another ObamaCare Assumption Bites the Dust
President Obama promised that ObamaCare would reduce emergency room visits and save money; a new study explains why yet another ObamaCare assumption is dead wrong.
Experts: Obamacare Exchanges Not Decreasing Insurance Rates
Healthcare experts questioned President Barack Obama’s claim Thursday that Obamacare-mandated health insurance exchanges will actually drive down insurance costs, contending that he is making bad comparisons and that costs are increasing.
Make apps part of health insurance
Health care could become cheaper and more efficient with the full integration of technology.
Immigration Bill's Health Care Provisions Could Get U.S. Workers Fired
The Senate bill would likely cost millions of low-income Americans their jobs because of the economic advantage it gives to hiring newly legalized workers instead.
Business Gets A Pass On ObamaCare, But How About The Rest Of Us?
President Obama has decided to delay by one year enforcement of the employer mandate to provide employees with health coverage. But why stop with employers? How about giving every American a get-out-of-ObamaCare-free pass?
Here Come the Health Insurance Price Control Police
ObamaCare promised lower premiums, and politicians will ensure that happens, even though it means price controls and fewer policies to choose from.
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