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Obamacare: The reckoning - The Washington Post
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Krauthammer cites Congressional Budget Office numbers that show the Obama U.S. health care law continues the spiralling costs of health care with new government mandates at a time of severe budget cuts in education and other areas- for 2013-2022 the costs come to $1.76 trillion. The initial Obama administration figures of 10 year costs of $938 billion announced in 2010 reflected the fact that the new U.S. health care law would take 4 years to fully go into effect. Costs after 2021 are shown to be $250 billion each year in the CBO figures. The law is now before the Supreme Court in 2012, which has to decide on the basis of the limits of the Commerce Clause.
The parts of the Obama U.S. Health Care Law that are likely to be retained and the parts that may be ignored if the Supreme Court overturns it in 2012
03/22/2012
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Washington Post 03/23/2012
Obamacare: The reckoning - The Washington Post
Washington Post 03/23/2012
New York Times 03/22/2012
Wall Street Journal 03/23/2012
Washington Post 03/25/2012
Washington Post 03/26/2012
Different interpretations of the savings or costs from the Obama Health Care Law
01/07/2011
The Congressional Budget Office estimates savings of $230 billion from the health care law. Other views show that some of the money should not have been counted in the math and some was doublecounted. The legislation involves spending $930 billion over a decade for insuring 32 million people, so is it overstating the case to say there are savings, says this different view.
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In Battle Over Health Law, Math Cuts Both Ways
New York Times 01/07/2011
House Approves Health Law Repeal
Wall Street Journal 01/20/2011
CBO: U.S. budget deficit to reach $1.5 trillion in 2011, highest ever
Washington Post 01/26/2011
The Right Way to Reform Medicare
Wall Street Journal 04/29/2011
Four Deficit Myths and a Frightening Fact
Wall Street Journal 01/19/2012
Obamacare: The reckoning - The Washington Post
Washington Post 03/23/2012
The Obama Health Care Law that passed the U.S. House of Representatives by 220 to 215 on November 7, 2009.
11/09/2009
Health care reform legislation efforts and the political difficulties that they ran into in Congress. The new health care law passed over Republican opposition in Congress.
Grouped Articles
A Federal Budget Crisis Months in the Planning
New York Times 10/05/2013
Wall Street Journal 11/09/2009
In Final Hours, an Intense Push for 'Yes' Votes
Wall Street Journal 11/09/2009
Health-Care Overhaul Proposals
Wall Street Journal 11/09/2009
Democrats Raise Alarms Over Health Bill Costs
New York Times 11/10/2009
Health-care bill's ability to reduce deficits debated
Washington Post 11/30/2009
Medicaid and U.S. state budgets- 2011-2014
02/17/2011
The recession has greatly increased the number of people on Medicaid. State efforts to gain flexibility in the amount of coverage provided are limited by provisions in the 2009 health care legislation.
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Governors Scramble to Rein In Medicaid
Wall Street Journal 02/28/2011
Governors Ask Congress for Leeway on Health Care Bill
New York Times 03/01/2011
BusinessWeek 02/17/2011
In Texas, Furor Over a Proposal for Huge State Budget Cuts
New York Times 04/08/2011
Medicaid Benefits Dropping for Millions of Patients
New York Times 06/15/2011
Cuts Would Only Shift Health-Care Costs
Wall Street Journal 07/13/2011
The Massachusetts health care legislation
10/17/2011
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Massachusetts Looks at âGlobal Paymentsâ to Lower Health Cost
New York Times 10/17/2011
Obamacare: The reckoning - The Washington Post
Washington Post 03/23/2012
Pricing of healthcare services and pharmaceuticals as the biggest problem in funding healthcare in the U.S.
01/31/2008
The cost of most healthcare services are double or higher in the U.S. than in Canada, Germany, France and Japan. By not bringing prices in line with the price in other major developed countries, the U.S. is effectively defunding infrastructure, R&D, education and other important means of improving competitiveness say experts. The methods of setting price present in these countries are notably absent in the U.S. The Obama healthcare bill and before that the Bush Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit simply leave this problem unaddressed.
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Cuts Would Only Shift Health-Care Costs
Wall Street Journal 07/13/2011
Bayonne Medical Center Has Highest U.S. Billing Rates
New York Times 05/16/2013
The Soaring Cost of a Simple Breath
New York Times 10/12/2013
New York Times 12/21/2013
Economy Led to Cuts in Use of Health Care, Study Says
New York Times 08/16/2010
Washington Post 09/22/2015
The sweeping restructuring of U.S. health care that is needed and the way patients, doctors, and hospitals would rather live with the status quo.
01/31/2008
The risks of "cosmetic" reform in the Obama administration's efforts, and the unsustainability of the current system in the costs and results it provides.
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Bayonne Medical Center Has Highest U.S. Billing Rates
New York Times 05/16/2013
New York Times 12/21/2013
Patients’ Costs Skyrocket; Specialists’ Incomes Soar
New York Times 01/18/2014
Something’s Got to Give in Medicare Spending
New York Times 06/14/2009
Robert J. Samuelson - Wrong Way on Health 'Reform'
Washington Post 06/15/2009
Obama's Health Plan Needs Spending Controls, CBO Says
Washington Post 06/17/2009
A brief history of reform efforts in US health care, retrospective look at a time of deadlock.
01/20/2010
Leonhardt looks at the history of reform efforts and puts it in perspective.
Grouped Articles
New York Times 01/20/2010
In Battle Over Health Law, Math Cuts Both Ways
New York Times 01/07/2011
Wall Street Journal 01/08/2011
House Approves Health Law Repeal
Wall Street Journal 01/20/2011
Obamacare: The reckoning - The Washington Post
Washington Post 03/23/2012
Medicare.
06/14/2009
Medicare, funding and government deficits. Quality of care, education and lifestyle choices.
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Something’s Got to Give in Medicare Spending
New York Times 06/14/2009
Doctors Chafe As Medicare Cuts Loom
Wall Street Journal 06/16/2010
Bullish Medicare Projection Doubted
Wall Street Journal 08/06/2010
Toward a Different Fiscal Future
Wall Street Journal 02/08/2010
Physician Panel Prescribes the Fees Paid by Medicare
Wall Street Journal 10/26/2010
Medicare Plan to Link Cost to Performance Rankles Hospitals
New York Times 05/30/2011
The Independent Payment Advisory Board and cost control for U.S. Medicare
02/18/2011
The Obama administration's Independent Payment Advisory Board would be charged with reducing Medicare costs and holding them to GDP and half a percentage point under President Obama's deficit reduction plan.
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The Affordable Care Act's Rate-Setting Won't Work
Wall Street Journal 07/28/2013
New York Times 12/21/2013
Wall Street Journal 04/20/2011
New York Times 04/21/2011
The Right Way to Reform Medicare
Wall Street Journal 04/29/2011
Medicare Plan to Link Cost to Performance Rankles Hospitals
New York Times 05/30/2011
Where the money for a deficit-neutral health care plan will come from, and the environment in which each group is trying to preserve its own interests in the face of a public interest.
09/06/2007
The options to tax employer provided health insurance as income, to reduce tax breaks for mortgage deductions and charitable contributions for highend taxpayers, and to reduce Medicare payments, all have one common problem. Each group would like to preserve as much of the status quo as possible, and give up as least as possible.
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New York Times 04/13/2013
In Holland, Some See Model For U.S. Health-Care System
Wall Street Journal 09/06/2007
Obama's Health Plan -- a Preview
Wall Street Journal 03/04/2008
CEOs Say Stimulus Top Priority
Wall Street Journal 11/19/2008
Wall Street Journal 11/22/2008
When a Job Disappears, So Does the Health Care
New York Times 12/07/2008
Cuts to Medicare and Medicaid proposed in the U.S. deficit reduction talks of 2011
07/13/2011
Of the $350 billion in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid that are proposed most of the cuts do little to reduce the rapid increase in medical costs. Most of the cuts shift the burden of paying for medical costs to public hospitals, seniors and state governments.
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Cuts Would Only Shift Health-Care Costs
Wall Street Journal 07/13/2011
Where's Your Budget, Mr. President?
Wall Street Journal 08/03/2011
The Debt Crisis, Merely Postponed
New York Times 08/02/2011
Wall Street Journal 08/04/2011
How the super-committee can strike a Grand Bargain - The Washington Post
Washington Post 08/05/2011
Why the Debt Crisis Is Even Worse Than You Think
BusinessWeek 07/27/2011
American public opinion on cutting Medicare and Social Security
02/15/2011
There is little support for cutting the two programs polls show. This suggests that politicians who fight for cuts in the popular programs risk being punished in the next elections. Voter awareness about the problems the large budget deficits pose for the U.S. and what action needs to be taken is growing, but only growing slowly.
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Bayonne Medical Center Has Highest U.S. Billing Rates
New York Times 05/16/2013
Voters Balk at Cuts Close to Home
Wall Street Journal 02/15/2011
Wall Street Journal 03/03/2011
Republicans Shelve Medicare Overhaul Plan
New York Times 05/05/2011
New York Times 05/26/2011
New York Times 05/26/2011
Medicaid at the U.S. state level- state governors look for flexibility and reform
02/17/2011
U.S. state efforts to win flexibility in detemining Medicaid eligibility and nature of coverage. A pressing issue at the state level as the Medicaid programs take up 17% of all U.S. healthcare spending, costing $346 billion in 2009. Of this 57% on average covered by the federal government and the rest borne by the states.
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Health-Care Law Helps Add 3 Million to Medicaid
Wall Street Journal 04/05/2014
Governors Scramble to Rein In Medicaid
Wall Street Journal 02/28/2011
Governors Ask Congress for Leeway on Health Care Bill
New York Times 03/01/2011
BusinessWeek 02/17/2011
Our Obsolete Approach to Medicaid
New York Times 04/21/2011
Medicaid Benefits Dropping for Millions of Patients
New York Times 06/15/2011
The impact on Medicare and Medicaid of the 2012 Paul Ryan U.S. Budget Proposal
09/16/2010
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Charlie Rose Talks to Paul Ryan
BusinessWeek 09/16/2010
Medicare Cost Would Rise for Many Under Ryan Plan
Wall Street Journal 04/06/2011
New Proposal Hits Old Hurdles of Budget Math
Wall Street Journal 04/06/2011
For moderates, no more fence-straddling on the budget - The Washington Post
Washington Post 04/07/2011
In budget fight, conservatives have put themselves in a corner - The Washington Post
Washington Post 04/07/2011
The Budget Battles: The Threat to Medicaid and Medicare
New York Times 04/05/2011
The U.S. Supreme Court and the Affordable Care Act (Obama U.S. health care law)
11/03/2011
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Health Care Is Defining Decision for Chief Justice Roberts
New York Times 06/28/2012
Chief Justice John Roberts’s health-care ruling gets plenty of second-guessing - The Washington Post
Washington Post 06/30/2012
New York Times 06/30/2012
What the Supreme Court Challenge Means for the Health-Care Law
Wall Street Journal 03/03/2015
Justices Divided at Health-Law Argument
Wall Street Journal 03/05/2015
Some Supreme Court Justices Cite 2012 Argument Against Health Care Law as Defense for It Now
New York Times 03/08/2015
Judicial rulings on the healthcare law
02/01/2011
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Chief Justice John Roberts’s health-care ruling gets plenty of second-guessing - The Washington Post
Washington Post 06/30/2012
Wall Street Journal 02/01/2011
On Health Care, Justice Will Prevail
New York Times 02/07/2011
Health Insurance and the Broccoli Test
New York Times 11/15/2011
Obamacare: The reckoning - The Washington Post
Washington Post 03/23/2012
Past Denials of Vulnerability Raise Health Act What-Ifs
New York Times 06/23/2012
Court challenges to Obama Health Care Law
12/13/2010
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A Federal Budget Crisis Months in the Planning
New York Times 10/05/2013
Judge Calls Health Law Unconstitutional
Wall Street Journal 12/13/2010
House Approves Health Law Repeal
Wall Street Journal 01/20/2011
Health Insurance and the Broccoli Test
New York Times 11/15/2011
Obamacare: The reckoning - The Washington Post
Washington Post 03/23/2012
Pharmaceutical company and industry lobbying in the U.S. Congress
06/25/2008
The influence on legislation and federal regulation that the pharmaceutical companies and industry associations are seeking, with $168 million spent on lobbying in 2006. As a result pricing of pharmaceutical products and healthcare services is the major unsolved problem in the U.S.
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Wall Street Journal 06/25/2008
Health-Care Firms Have Supported Lawmakers Debating Reform
Washington Post 07/21/2009
Dana Milbank - Washington Sketch: GOP's Steele Couldn't Have Said It Better Himself
Washington Post 07/21/2009
Obama's Health Expert Gets Political
Wall Street Journal 07/24/2009
New York Times 08/02/2009
As Congress Goes on Break, Health Lobbying Heats Up
Wall Street Journal 08/05/2009
The perverse effects of lobbying in damaging the public interest.
04/10/2009
Finance industry lobbying, with $300 million alone spent to repeal the Glass Steagall Act which kept banks from getting involved in the securties business, is having the effect of making changes without the due diligence and care necessary for changing legislation that had deep reason embedded in experience during the Great Depression. Citigroup's failure is a result of its involvement in the securities business, and it was a principal backer for the repeal. Similar situation is playing out in the U.S. health-care area which has overtaken the finance industry in money spent for lobbying. Lobbying of this magnitude is having distortional effects on national priorities on necessary regulation, and on creating sustainable economical systems for health care in health care laws.
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Banks' Lobbyists Help in Drafting Financial Bills
New York Times 05/23/2013
New York Times 04/10/2009
Finance Lobby Cut Spending as Feds Targeted Wall Street
Wall Street Journal 07/02/2009
New York Times 07/20/2009
New York Times 07/20/2009
Doctors' Payments Snag Health Bill
Wall Street Journal 07/20/2009
Republican Efforts to Repeal the Obama Health Care Law in 2011
01/06/2011
Grouped Articles
A Federal Budget Crisis Months in the Planning
New York Times 10/05/2013
Republicans Reject Cost Estimate of Health Law Repeal
New York Times 01/06/2011
In Battle Over Health Law, Math Cuts Both Ways
New York Times 01/07/2011
Wall Street Journal 07/01/2012
The ObamaCare Bad News Continues
Wall Street Journal 06/16/2011
Obamacare: The reckoning - The Washington Post
Washington Post 03/23/2012
Martin Feldstein on the risks for the American Economy after failures in the Obama Economic plan.
09/12/2007
Failures to address problems on the housing front, especialy the problems for 15 million homeowners under water- see the links to opeds by Feldstein suggesting focus on these issues throughout 2008-2009. And the focus on health care which diverted attention from this problem and the problem facing bad loans in commercial real estate. Other problems are failure to get bank lending up for businesses. And the failure of Obama health care plans to control the increase in the nation's surging health care spending, instead increasing the deficit to unsustainable levels. Public sentiment as shown in WSJ/NBC polls confirm Feldstein's sense of the situation.
Grouped Articles
New York Times 12/08/2013
From President Obama, Economic Clarity but Little Courage
Washington Post 04/15/2009
Wall Street Journal 09/12/2007
How to Stop the Mortgage Crisis
Wall Street Journal 03/07/2008
Wall Street Journal 02/20/2008
Enough With the Interest Rate Cuts
Wall Street Journal 04/15/2008
Krauthammer on the U.S. health care law
03/23/2012
Grouped Articles
Obamacare: The reckoning - The Washington Post
Washington Post 03/23/2012
Wall Street Journal 03/23/2012
Solutions to the U.S. budget deficit, including changes in Social Security and Medicare.
10/21/2010
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U.S. Annual Budget Deficit Smallest in Nearly Seven Years
Wall Street Journal 06/11/2015
Alice Rivlin's Bid to Cut the Deficit
BusinessWeek 10/21/2010
Key Tax Breaks at Risk as Panel Looks at Cuts
Wall Street Journal 10/25/2010
Physician Panel Prescribes the Fees Paid by Medicare
Wall Street Journal 10/26/2010
Deficit panel leaders propose curbs on Social Security, major cuts in spending, tax breaks
Washington Post 11/10/2010
Panel Weighs Deep Cuts in Tax Breaks and Spending
New York Times 11/10/2010
The Republican U.S. Budget proposal made by Paul Ryan in 2012
09/16/2010
Paul Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, has outlined a bold proposal to bring the U.S. budget deficits down from the $1 trillion level of the last 3 years. It would bring changes to Medicare and Medicaid, and reduce the individual and corporate income tax levels from 35% to 25%. Medicare would become a premium support system with the government paying the premium for an array of private insurance plans, and Medicaid would become a block grant system.
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Budget Shell Games Are Contrary to Law
Wall Street Journal 07/14/2011
GOP Hopefuls Betting Voters Want Deep Cuts
Wall Street Journal 07/18/2011
Charlie Rose Talks to Paul Ryan
BusinessWeek 09/16/2010
House GOP Budget Seeks Balance by 2015
Wall Street Journal 04/05/2011
Wall Street Journal 04/05/2011
Ryan's Plan for Medicare Is Huge Bet by GOP
Wall Street Journal 04/05/2011
Escalating cost of Medicare with a rising deficit in the U.S.
06/15/2009
Grouped Articles
Bayonne Medical Center Has Highest U.S. Billing Rates
New York Times 05/16/2013
Doctors Chafe As Medicare Cuts Loom
Wall Street Journal 06/16/2010
Small Group of Doctors Are Biggest Medicare Billers
Wall Street Journal 06/01/2015
BusinessWeek 12/10/2009
10 Ways to Cut Health-Care Costs Right Now
BusinessWeek 11/12/2009
Preventing the Next Financial Crisis
Wall Street Journal 10/23/2009
Efforts against the waste, fraud, and misuse of public money in the Medicare system
01/02/2011
Estimates of the wasted dollars are as high as $125 billion, at a time of severe budget deficits and austerity measures in government.
Grouped Articles
Cuts Would Only Shift Health-Care Costs
Wall Street Journal 07/13/2011
Bayonne Medical Center Has Highest U.S. Billing Rates
New York Times 05/16/2013
Small Slice of Doctors Account for Big Chunk of Medicare Costs
Wall Street Journal 04/09/2014
Small Group of Doctors Are Biggest Medicare Billers
Wall Street Journal 06/01/2015
Issa says Obama administration is 'one of most corrupt'
Washington Post 01/02/2011
Why Medicare Can't Catch the Fraudsters
BusinessWeek 01/06/2011
Krugman on Republican Congressman Paul Ryan's Plan for Medicare and Medicaid
09/16/2010
Grouped Articles
New York Times 09/08/2013
Charlie Rose Talks to Paul Ryan
BusinessWeek 09/16/2010
New York Times 05/26/2011
New York Times 05/26/2011
New York Times 05/27/2011
New York Times 07/03/2011
Medicaid, beneficiaries right to file suit for right to care, and the U.S. Supreme Court
08/08/2011
Grouped Articles
Health-Care Law Helps Add 3 Million to Medicaid
Wall Street Journal 04/05/2014
Democrats Break With Obama on Medicaid Lawsuits
New York Times 08/08/2011
Obamacare: The reckoning - The Washington Post
Washington Post 03/23/2012
44 Percent of Americans Approve of Supreme Court in New Poll
New York Times 06/07/2012
Supreme Court Upholds Mandate as Tax
Wall Street Journal 06/28/2012
The U.S. Medicaid program in 2010-2014
02/17/2011
Grouped Articles
Health-Care Law Helps Add 3 Million to Medicaid
Wall Street Journal 04/05/2014
Governors Scramble to Rein In Medicaid
Wall Street Journal 02/28/2011
Governors Ask Congress for Leeway on Health Care Bill
New York Times 03/01/2011
BusinessWeek 02/17/2011
Our Obsolete Approach to Medicaid
New York Times 04/21/2011
Medicaid Benefits Dropping for Millions of Patients
New York Times 06/15/2011
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