Kaiser Health News: As governors across the land struggle with fiscal pressures and pepper the federal government with requests to scale back Medicaid – many people are losing sight of the fact that health care reform (what some call ObamaCare) requires a huge expansion of Medicaid.
Reason: John Goodman, president of the National Center for Policy Analysis, names his pick for the “absolute worst” thing about the health care overhaul:
Health Affairs Blog: Go to the web site of the Detroit Medical Center (DMC) and you will learn that DMC facilities rank among the ‘nation’s best hospitals’ by U.S. News & World Report and that they have won other awards. The DMC has some of the ‘best’ heart doctors; it is ‘tops’ in cancer care; and it ranks among the ‘nation’s safest hospitals.’
A year ago today President Obama signed into law the broadest, most expensive, most intrusive health-care bill in our history.
Investor’s Business Daily – Anniversaries are usually a time for celebration, but the one-year anniversary of ObamaCare is nothing to celebrate.
Forbes.com – One year ago today, the House of Representatives passed the final version of Obamacare. For proponents of the law, it is a time for sweet nostalgia, about overcoming the odds to achieve a cherished, long-time policy goal.
The Daily Caller – Former House Speaker and likely 2012 presidential candidate Newt Gingrich expects Obamacare to be fully repealed by March or April of 2013.
Modernhealthcare.com: Gingrich, founder of the Center for Health Transformation, spoke about the Affordable Care Act at the National Press Club on Friday in advance of the law’s one-year anniversary next week. James Capretta, a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation, and John Goodman, president of the National Center for Policy Analysis, also spoke.
The Fiscal Times: President Obama’s health-care overhaul law will be repealed by early 2013, according to Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich. Gingrich, speaking Friday at the National Press Club discussed the impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in advance of the one-year anniversary of its passage.
Adweek: What Else Could Big-Box Stores Sell? Healthcare!
CQ Roll Call: Mr. Chairman and members of the Subcommittee, I am John Goodman, President of the National Center for Policy Analysis, a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research organization dedicated to developing and promoting private alternatives to government regulation and control, solving problems by relying on the strength of the competitive, entrepreneurial private sector. I welcome the opportunity to share my views and look forward to your questions.
The Hill – Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans, taking a new tack for defunding healthcare reform, on Wednesday will look at five provisions of the law they want to subject to annual appropriations.
The Hill- Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans identified on Monday five provisions of the healthcare reform law that they want to subject to annual appropriations so they can defund them.
Health Care News – With the growth of social media, companies and consumers now use sites such as Facebook and Twitter to share information and provide support and service. Now the use of these tools by one category of companies, the pharmaceutical industry, is under attack by a number of groups under the leadership of Ralph Nader.
Health Care News – A new study assessing the quality of drugs made in emerging markets found the danger of variability remains high for several areas.
USNEWS & World Report: Health Day – Half of U.S. adults still oppose the "individual mandate" clause in the new health care reform law that requires all Americans not already insured to purchase health insurance, while only 22 percent support it, a new Harris Interactive/HealthDay poll finds.
The Health Care Blog – Nationwide, Medicare will start paying fees to ACOs, beginning next year. Eventually, the Obama administration would like to see everyone in an ACO.
US NEWS & World Report: Health Day – Experts from leading U.S. medical groups gathered Thursday to warn of impending dangers to human health if greenhouse gas emissions continue unchecked, speeding climate change.
Fox News – The parents of a Canadian boy ordered off life support by government health officials have been denied a request to transfer the 13-month-old to the Children's Hospital of Michigan.
Medinnovation: John Goodman, PhD, the economist who founded and heads the National Center for Policy Analysis in Dallas, is predicting a major migration of physicians into concierge medical practices in the Health Affairs Blog ("Future of Consumer-Driven Care," Health Alert, February 18).
Health Affairs Blog: Over the next decade I believe we are going to see a major transformation of American medicine. It won't be the kind of transformation that is normally discussed at health care conferences and at inside-the-Beltway briefings. Nor will it be the kind of change anticipated by the people who gave us the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare). Instead, what I envision is a large migration of patients and doctors, and facilities and services out of the third-party payer system.
The Atlantic: Health Affairs has a new article suggesting that low-income workers are going to be moving back and forth between Medicaid and the exchanges at a disturbingly rapid pace (H/T John Goodman):
Colorado Long Term Care Insider: Welcome to the Health Wonk Review! This week's edition has tons of great articles from some of the best wonks in the healthcare blogosphere.
The American Spectator: John Goodman: "It's as though the White House has concluded that seniors matter and poor people don't – at least in politics."
The Health Care Blog – As the map below shows, there is a lot of variation in the number of people per doctors across Texas counties.