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3 million — that’s the decrease in the number of middle-income earners who obtained health insurance from their employers from 2000 to 2008. [Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation]
And 3 times — is how much faster health care premiums are rising compared to wages. [Source: Kaiser Family [...]
Must-read Analysis of the Senate Democrats’ Health Care Bill
It appears that Senator Ben Nelson (D-Neb), the final Democratic holdout on health care, has caved on abortion - having sold out for an extra year of federal Medicaid subsidies for his state, and that Reid’s disastrous (for literally every American) Managers Amendment will move forward toward passage. The highly unpopular vote will be scheduled [...]
The CEA on Health Reform and the Economy, Take 2
This morning the Council of Economic Advisers is out with a new report (pdf) on health reform and the economy, which serves as an update to their report in June. The report is an interesting and accessible read, and essential for anybody interested in the topic of health reform, costs, and America’s economy. For a [...]
Do They Need the Public Option?
Much discussion of the House Democrats’ health care bill has focused on its inclusion of the “public option,” which most observers see as a Trojan Horse intended to serve, ultimately, as the vehicle for socialized medicine as private insurers are driven from the market–a process that President Obama has said may take ten to twenty [...]
Obama Then and Now, on Keeping Your Insurance
Obama, then:
First, no matter what you’ve heard, if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor under the reform proposals that we’ve put forward. If you like your private health insurance plan, you can keep it. If your employer provides you health insurance on the job, nobody is talking about messing with [...]
The Private Option: Consistency Is Sauce for the Gander
Several pundits (I can no longer write “pundants,” with Mr. Bush being gone from the scene) have quipped that if the Democrats are so anxious for a public (government) option in health-insurance reform, arguing that allowing the government to “compete” with private industry reduces cost without damaging quality, then why do they reject a “private [...]
