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.
Obamacare High Deductibles Will Lower Health Care Costs and Empty Patients' Pockets
Obamacare was supposed to deliver low-deductible coverage at low cost; instead it is providing high deductible at high costs, which will have a big effect on people’s pocketbooks.
Five UK Headlines That Foretell ObamaCare's Future ... And Yours
The UK's NHS is so riddled with problems, these five newspaper headlines all appeared on ONE DAY. They foretell the problems Americans will soon encounter—if they haven’t already—under Obamacare.
Mississippi Rejects Medicaid Expansion and Embraces Innovation Instead
Obamacare tries to impose a failed industrial-era Medicaid program on states; Mississippi is choosing 21st century technology and innovation instead.
Democrats Say Ed Gillespie's Book Promoted Individual Mandates
Merrill Matthews writes in Forbes that a passage in Gillespie’s book amounts to an "anti-mandate approach," and was endorsing an unsuccessful proposal President George W. Bush made one year later offering tax breaks to insured households.
The FDA Needs To Move Faster On Safe Drug Approval
There is a growing recognition that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is more of a threat to human safety than a protector of it.
If The Facts Don't Fit, Change The Facts
The politicization of what is supposed to be reliable, nonpartisan, government-sponsored economic research is one of the saddest legacies of the Obama administration.
Roadblock to Health Care Reform
The 2009 GOP health care proposal was a modest plan that made incremental improvements to the health care system in America at that time, said Merrill Matthews. He thought that, while flawed, the proposal could form the foundation for a new proposal now.
One More Politically Damaging Part of Obamacare Gets Ignored
Democrats wrote, passed and praised Obamacare, including the legislation's cuts to seniors' Medicare Advantage program. But now that many of them are facing tough reelections, they asked the Obama administration to ignore the law and unilaterally postpone the cuts. The Obama administration responded by actually providing a spending increase.
Health Insurance Mandate's So Unpopular Democrats Are Accusing Republicans of Supporting It
It’s telling that Democrats are accusing Republicans of supporting what they passed and are now running from.
When Government Slows Our Access to Health
The challenges for health IT are known and the Senate can join with the House to fix the problems which allow the FDA and FCC to end the mission creep and focus on the truly critical.
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