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.
Ten Steps for a Market-Oriented Health Care System
Congress is looking for health care reform steps to take to replace President Obama's Affordable Care Act. Here are 10 market-oriented steps that will help will go a long way toward increasing access, lowering costs and improving the quality of health care.
Senate GOP adopts Merrill Matthews' principles for plan to replace Obamacare
Republican senators released their proposal to repeal and replace Obamacare yesterday, and it is right on target. The plan, for which the senators personally credited and thanked the author, incorporates nine of the 10 reform points suggested by Merrill Matthews’ piece for Human Events published Monday
Ten Principles of a Market-Oriented Health Care System
The GOP wants a market-driven health care reform plan to replace Obamacare. In Human Events, Merrill Matthews offers a brief summary of the key components.
Look at shameful veterans' healthcare for a preview of Obamacare
Seeing politicians stand up and praise our returning wounded warriors and yet never fixing their health care system is lesson in hypocrisy. But it’s also a lesson in what the public can expect under Obamacare.
Here's a real health insurance alternative to Obamacare
Let's shift from the current system where countless people are involved in managing care and controlling costs—except the doctor and patient—to one in which patients are financially empowered to make their own decisions.
Republicans Get It Mainly Right on Health Care Reform
The Republican Study Committee’s recent proposal as an alternative to the Obamacare rollout is on the right track, and changes economic incentives for the U.S. health care system.
White House hoping for positive ObamaCare headlines in 2014
IPI's Merrill Matthews appears on Fox News Channel's Special Report discussing ObamaCare's unprecedented expansion of Medicaid in 2014 and the new chaos that is the U.S. health care system.
Health Insurers Are Being Battered By Obamacare, And They Deserve It
There's turmoil among health insurers as they try to provide Obamacare-qualified coverage that has become at best a moving target. But they deserve every bit of the confusion, uncertainty and potential financial losses they get.
The Obamacare Cuts That May Force You to Cut Ties with Your Doctor
Fox News reporter Jim Angle says those who sign up for private insurance on the health care exchanges may have a nasty surprise.
The doctor won't see you? Analysts warn ObamaCare plans could resemble Medicaid
As thousands enroll for coverage beginning Jan. 1, analysts are warning that the plans are likely to give them access to fewer doctors and hospitals. So much so, they warn, that the system could begin to resemble Medicaid, the health care program for low-income Americans.
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