Newsmax: The Republican alternative to ObamaCare should focus on increasing choice, says NCPA President John Goodman in a Newsmax article. Goodman suggests an annual tax credit of $2,500 per adult and $1,500 per child as long as individuals purchase credible private health insurance.
Wall Street Journal Live: NCPA PresidentJohn Goodman explains the GOP alternative to ObamaCare includes choice, fairness, simplicity and pro-jobs elements in his video interview on The Wall Street Journal Live.
FOXBusiness.com: If people haven’t paid, they aren’t actually insured in the health care exchange, says NCPA Senior Fellow Devon Herrick in a FOXBusiness.com article. The administration continues to count unpaid premium statistics.
Heartland.org: NCPA President John Goodman’s tax credit-based solution to health care was discussed in Heartland’s latest ObamaCare Consumer Power Report.
FOX News: Healthy people who lose their coverage and are forced into the exchange are overcharged in order to pay for the older, sicker people, says NCPA President John Goodman on FOX’s Special Report with Bret Baier.
Somewhat Reasonable: Standardizing charges worked to drop joint replacement costs in California, observed NCPA President John Goodman in a piece at the Heartland Institute’s Somewhat Reasonable.
FOX News: Despite the assurances of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, NCPA President John C Goodman predicts that ObamaCare will cause job losses across the nation.
HealthBlawg: Goodman’s plan for achieving affordable access to health care was mentioned in the Health Wonk Review at the HealthBlawg.
Managed Healthcare Executive: Cutting Medicare Advantage payments would diminish seniors’ options and benefits many have come to rely on, says NCAP Senior Fellow Devon Herrick in a Managed Healthcare Executive article.
NCPA: A new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposal would cause almost 14 million seniors to lose their Medicare Part D stand-alone drug plans next year, according to a new National Center for Policy Analysis(NCPA) report.
FOXBusiness.com: The focus of the ACA enrollment debate should be if and when people are paying their premiums, says NCPA Senior Fellow Devon Herrick in a FOXBusiness.com article. According to Herrick, it’ll be 3-5 months before we know whether people are consistently paying their premiums and keeping their insurance.
Watchdog.org: Medicaid is taking in “more and more people that are less and less poor,” and its expansion in Virginia could reduce access to care for those most needy, says NCPA Senior Fellow Devon Herrick in a piece from Watchdog.org.
The Washington Examiner: Due to the lack of young people signing up for ObamaCare, NCPA President John Goodman estimates in the Washington Examiner that the losses are going to be “quite large,” and understands why the Obama Administration would be tempted to extend the risk corridors.
CNSNews.com: The declining growth in health care spending that started 10 years ago is a result of health savings accounts, not ObamaCare, says NCPA Senior Fellow Peter Ferrara in a CNSNews.com piece.
InsuranceNewsNet.com: Include your employees in the insurance discussion to cut costs and target benefits, advises NCPA Senior Fellow Devon Herrick in an InsuranceNewsNet.com piece.
FOX Business.com: NCPA Senior Fellow Devon Herrick is more concerned with “who is paying,” and if they will continue to pay their premiums, rather than overall ObamaCare enrollment numbers, reports a FOXBusiness.com article.
Commentary: The slowdown of the rise in health care costs is due to Health Savings Accounts and Health Reimbursement Arrangements, not ObamaCare, says NCPA President John Goodman in a Commentary post.
The Weekly Standard: Quoting NCPA President John Goodman, Arthur Herman says that attempting to lower health care costs by having “buyers of care telling the providers how to practice medicine” and redistributing or rationing care is not an effective solution in a piece for The Weekly Standard.
FOX News: America’s Newsroom (FOX News) featured the prepared testimony of NCPA President John Goodman in their coverage of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee’s hearing on risk corridors. Goodman reiterated that only those with serious incentives, i.e. those with the highest medical claims, were persistent enough to navigate the ObamaCare website.
Long Island Newsday: American health should be developed within free-market principles, says Lane Filler in a Long Island Newsday editorial. Citing an NCPA study, Filler says that costs will go down as competition is encouraged.
Washington Examiner: The ACA’s provision for federal subsidies over the next three years “puts taxpayers at risk for the cost of serious mistakes in the design of the exchanges,” said NCPA President John Goodman in a Washington Examiner article. Goodman, along with Sen. Marco Rubio, testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on February 5th regarding ObamaCare’s risk corridors.
FOX Business: On Lou Dobbs Tonight (FOX Business), NCPA President John Goodman stresses that ObamaCare cannot survive in its present form. With no movement from either party or the insurance companies to address the problems, Goodman says that the fact that people have been left in the dark is “a tragedy.”
Carolina Journal Online: In a Carolina Journal Online article, NCPA Senior Fellow Devon Herrick questions the AARP’s support for reducing Medicate Advantage subsidies. “It doesn’t make sense if you’re really advocating for care for seniors that you would support a law that essentially funded itself into perpetuity by cutting Medicare fees for the very doctors and hospitals that treat your constituents,” and run the risk of reducing service, said Herrick.
FOX Business.com: In an FOX Business.com article, NCPA Senior Fellow Devon Herrick says that with the administration expressing concerns about healthcare.gov, investors are hesitant to put money in insurers.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram Online: In a Fort Worth Star-Telegram editorial, NCPA President John Goodman’s recommends that Republican health care reform be simple, understandable and workable, as well as focused on themes that resonate with Americans and provide an economic incentive for those at the bottom in order to be successful.