A doctor describes how billing codes have changed the medical profession: Hospitals’ reimbursements for their Medicare-patient treatments were based on another coding system: the Diagnosis Related Group (DRG). Each diagnostic code is assigned a specific monetary value, and the hospital … Continue reading →
Ever since Obamacare was proposed and then passed there has been rampant speculation on what its actual effects will be. It would almost be funny, if it weren’t so sad, how little anyone actually knows about precisely how this new … Continue reading →
Read this and get angry about Obamacare all over again. Remember how it had to receive a good report from the CBO in order to be passed? Well, here’s how the smoke and mirrors worked: In sum, the scorekeeping baseline … Continue reading →
…but that’s actually good, according to Alan B. Krueger, the White House Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. Or something like that. And then there’s the news that, under Obamacare, the “bronze” plan for a family would cost about … Continue reading →
It’s not over till it’s over.
Continue reading →And even though the liberal senators already knew what was in it, some of them are finding it not to their liking. Boo hoo. An epic rant by Rush Limbaugh.
Continue reading →…but it turned out maybe not so much. Here’s more on how that came to be. Author Mark Mackinnon writes: …[A]ll of this could have been avoided had President Obama simply led and acted on the 2010 Simpson-Bowles plan. Simply? … Continue reading →
Get ready to hear a lot of this sort of thing: “Paul Ryan’s plan would ELIMINATE MEDICARE as we know it.” The words “eliminate Medicare” will be said with great emphasis, and the phrase “as we know it” will be … Continue reading →
If the past is any guide, it’s a safe bet that Obamacare will cost far more than estimated. Check this out: A few years ago, the Senate Joint Economic Committee released a study that looked at initial estimates of programs … Continue reading →
In the midst of the flurry of attention in the press and blogosphere given to the commerce clause vs. penalty/tax controversy in the SCOTUS decision on Obamacare, I began to wonder whether it was possible that the Medicaid part of … Continue reading →
There’s been an email going around alleging that Muslims will be exempt from the Obamacare tax/mandate. It’s not true, at least at the moment, but it stands a remote possibility of becoming true. The facts are here and here, and … Continue reading →
Avik Roy outlines a plan.
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