An employer mandate will result in job loss and it will encourage employers not to hire employees, says John Goodman, President, CEO and the Kellye Wright Fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis...

WASHINGTON EXAMINER

WARDEN PELOSI

Under House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's health care reform bill, Americans who don't maintain acceptable health insurance coverage and who choose not to pay a fine/tax of up to 2.5 percent of income are subject to fines of up to $250,000 and imprisonment of up to five years...

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

CONGRESS WOULD COMPEL YOUNG ADULTS TO BUY HEALTH INSURANCE THEY DON'T NEED

Since about one-third of young adults already reject health insurance at current prices, even more of them would avoid coverage if Congress drives those prices higher, says Aaron Yelowitz, an associate professor of economics at the University of Kentucky...

CATO INSTITUTE

THE HOUSE'S EXPENSIVE MEDICINE

The House health care reform bill is about more than covering the nation's uninsured, it's about remaking the nation's health care system, say observers...

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

MAINE FINDS A HEALTH CARE FIX ELUSIVE

Many of the health care reform proposals circulating on Capitol Hill have already been tried in Maine and failed, say observers...

NEW YORK TIMES

HOW TO CONTROL RISING HEALTH CARE COSTS? INCREASE CONSUMER CHOICE

To lower the costs of health care, we should open up state insurance markets to competition, says Joseph Antos, the Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy at the American Enterprise Institute...

NEW YORK TIMES

Epic new spending and taxes, pricier insurance, rationed care, dishonest accounting: The Pelosi health bill has it all, say observers...

WALL STREET JOURNAL

BAUCUS BILL DOES NOT BEND THE COST CURVE

The Baucus health care reform bill will not lower costs but instead add to the deficit, increase total health spending and add costs and deliver little savings to consumers, according to a report from the Lewin Group...

HERITAGE FOUNDATION

THE COSTS OF DEFENSIVE MEDICINE

Doctors say the price of defensive medicine and malpractice insurance accounts for up to 10 percent of health care spending...

ASSOCIATED PRESS

THE PUBLIC'S BEST OPTION: LESS GOVERNMENT, MORE CHOICE

When compulsion takes the place of competition, the result is invariably less choice at higher cost, says columnist Jeff Jacoby...

JEWISH WORLD REVIEW

THE HEALTH CARE DISASTER IN CANADA

We cannot cover 36 million new patients without more doctors and nurses, much less with the declining census of medical professionals the Canadian experience points to, say columnists Dick Morris and Eileen McGann...

JEWISH WORLD REVIEW

THE COMING SHORTAGE OF DOCTORS

Our aging population is challenge enough. Try to get an appointment after health care reform, says Dr. Herbert Pardes, president and CEO of New York Presbyterian Hospital...

WALL STREET JOURNAL

Health insurance profit margins typically run about 6 percent, give or take a point or two; that's anemic compared with other forms of insurance and a broad array of industries, even some beleaguered ones, say observers...

ASSOCIATED PRESS/YAHOO.COM

PUBLIC PLAN MIRAGE

Why would a plan tied to Medicare control health spending, when Medicare hasn't, asks columnist Robert J. Samuelson?...

WASHINGTON POST

THE MALPRACTICE PROBLEM

We can't have health care reform without tort reform, says Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, the associate dean of clinical education at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine...

WEEKLY STANDARD

PENALTIES FOR NO INSURANCE

Taxes or fines could be thousands of dollars a year for individuals and families who don't have health insurance if any of the health care overhauls currently being debated pass, say observers...

ASSOCIATED PRESS/TOWNHALL.COM

THE WELLPOINT REVELATION

Private insurance premiums could triple under ObamaCare, according to report...

WALL STREET JOURNAL

CBO UNDERESTIMATES BENEFITS OF MALPRACTICE REFORM

A full accounting of medical malpractice reforms shows the benefits would be $242 billion a year, says Lawrence J. McQuillan, director of business and economic studies at the Pacific Research Institute...

WALL STREET JOURNAL

Middle-income families will face a big marginal tax rate increase under ObamaCare, say observers...

CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE/WALL STREET JOURNAL

OBAMACARE PUTS YOU ON WELFARE

Why do ObamaCare supporters want to put 90 million Americans on the welfare rolls?...

HERITAGE FOUNDATION

THE BAUCUS DEATH SPIRAL

If the Baucus bill were to become law, in a couple of years Congress would be forced to take up the issue again to clean up the mess the bill will have created, say observers...

NATIONAL REVIEW

SWISS HEALTH CARE: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY

One of the good things about the Swiss health care system is that it is predominantly private; individuals are required to buy insurance and almost all of them do, says John C. Goodman, President, CEO and the Kellye Wright Fellow with the NCPA...

NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS

WHY HEALTH CARE IS SO EXPENSIVE IN NEW YORK

New York's private individual insurance market is among the nation's most expensive and highly regulated, say Stephen T. Parente, a professor of finance at the University of Minnesota, and Tarren Bragdon, an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute and chief executive officer of the Maine Heritage Policy Center...

WALL STREET JOURNAL

IF IT'S SO URGENT, WHY WOULD TWO ELECTIONS PASS BEFORE HEALTH REFORM TAKES EFFECT?

By the time Americans experience the effects of ObamaCare (except for the tax increases), not only will President Obama have run for re-election, but so will two-thirds of the senators -- and every House member will have been up for re-election twice, says researcher Robert A. Book...

HERITAGE FOUNDATION

Hidden in the Senate's health care bill are huge incentives for corporate America to stop covering their workers; if that happens, the deficit could skyrocket, say observers...

FORTUNE/CNNMONEY.COM

OBAMACARE INVADES YOUR WALLET

Instead of reducing the average family's health insurance premiums by $2,500 per year, as President Obama promised, the Baucus health care bill would actually raise them by $4,000 more than they would have been without reform, according to report...

PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS

"REFORM" MEANS YOU PAY MORE FOR HEALTH CARE

The only "savings" under Sen. Baucus's (D-Mont.) health care reform bill would be to those who receive government-paid health care and subsidies at the cost of higher prices for everyone else, says new report...

PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS/HERITAGE FOUNDATION

CBO REPORT RAISES ESTIMATE OF SAVINGS FROM MEDICAL MALPRACTICE REFORM

Tort reform would reduce the nation's health care spending by 0.5 percent, according to the Congressional Budget Office...

MEDSCAPE TODAY

TORT REFORM COULD REDUCE MALPRACTICE INSURANCE PREMIUMS BY 10 PERCENT

The annual cost of defensive medicine in 2005 was between $100 billion and $178 billion, according to the National Center for Policy Analysis...

MEDSCAPE TODAY

THINGS THAT PROBABLY WILL BE IN THE HEALTH CARE BILL (BUT SHOULDN'T)

ObamaCare would strengthen the Internal Revenue Service and create over 30 new federal programs, agencies and commissions that would be required to administer the massive new health care entitlement, say observers...

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE

ObamaCare punishes cardiology and oncology to finance general practitioners, say observers...

WALL STREET JOURNAL

THE CONSERVATIVE CASE FOR REFORM

There are 10 ideas that could increase the affordability and quality of health care, says Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal (R)...

THE WASHINGTON POST

THE LESSON OF STATE HEALTH CARE REFORMS

The major provisions of ObamaCare already have been tried and they've led to increased costs and reduced access to care, says Peter Suderman, an associate editor at Reason magazine...

WALL STREET JOURNAL

MEDICARE: LARGEST DENIER OF HEALTH CARE CLAIMS

The Obama administration calls for a government option to make sure that coverage is not denied any American, yet, Medicare denies more claims than private insurers, according to the AMA's National Health Insurance Report Card...

HERITAGE FOUNDATION

WILL THE COST CURVE BEND, EVEN WITHOUT REFORM?

There are several pieces of evidence that suggest increases in health care might actually moderate significantly, if not decline relative to the gross domestic product, over the next few decades, says Harvard University economist David M. Cutler...

NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

STATES OF PERSONAL PRIVILEGE

Senators aren't counting on health care reform savings when it comes to their constituents, says author Kimberley A. Strassel...

WALL STREET JOURNAL

In six years, the average family health insurance policy, now projected to cost $25,000, will, in fact, cost $35,000 due to the Obama-Baucus tax, say Dick Morris, a former adviser to Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and President Bill Clinton; and Eileen McGann, an attorney and consultant...

THE HILL

THE BAUCUS HEALTH BILL: A MEDICARE PHYSICIAN PAYMENT SHELL GAME

Fixing the Medicare physician payment fee schedule would cost $200 billion over 10 years, says researcher Dennis G. Smith...

HERITAGE FOUNDATION

LAWSUIT ABUSE REFORM IS WORKING FOR FLORIDA

Applied nationwide, lawsuit abuse reform could shave billions of dollars off the nation's health care bills while improving the quality of patient care, says N. Michael Helvacian, a senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis...

WASHINGTON EXAMINER

HEALTH CO-OPS AREN"T THE ANSWER

If we want greater competition in health care, then we should allow health plans to compete across state lines and reduce the number of mandated benefits states impose on them, says Dr. William Winkenwerder, a health care consultant...

WALL STREET JOURNAL

SWISS HEALTH CARE THRIVES WITHOUT PUBLIC OPTION

As a potential model for the United States, the Swiss health care system involves some important trade-offs that American consumers, insurers and health care providers might find hard to swallow, say observers...

NEW YORK TIMES

EMPOWER PATIENTS FIRST ACT: ANOTHER SERIOUS CONSERVATIVE HEALTH PLAN

Rep. Tom Price's (R-Ga.) "Empower Patients First Act," would fix the unfairness in the tax treatment of health insurance by extending a tax credit or deduction to those without employer-sponsored insurance...

HERITAGE FOUNDATION

States are demonstrating that tort reform lowers health care costs, expands access and creates jobs, says Matt Blunt (R), a former governor of Missouri...

WALL STREET JOURNAL

ONE-IN-SIX PATIENTS MISDIAGNOSED IN GREAT BRITAIN

If you are a patient in Great Britain's government run health care scheme, you have a one-in-six chance of being misdiagnosed, according to observers...

THE TELEGRAPH

SENATOR BAUCUS DECLARES WAR ON THE MIDDLE CLASS

The health care reform bill authored by Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) will require every American to buy a health insurance plan that will be designed in Washington and (through time) be shaped and molded by special interest pressures or pay a hefty tax, says John C. Goodman, President, CEO and the Kellye Wright Fellow with the NCPA...

NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS

APPLYING THE LESSONS OF STATE HEALTH REFORM

One reason health insurance policies are so expensive in New Jersey is that state regulations require insurers to sell policies to all applicants, including people who wait until they become sick to buy coverage (so-called guaranteed issue), says Michael Bond, a senior fellow with the NCPA...

NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS

OBAMACARE IS HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH

The health care reform bill of Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), would start off by imposing annual fees of $6.7 billion on health insurance companies, $4 billion on medical device producers, $2.3 billion on drug manufacturers and $750 million on clinical laboratories, all of which would surely be passed on to consumers in higher prices, says Pete du Pont, Chairman of the National Center for Policy Analysis...

WALL STREET JOURNAL

MEDICAID EXPANSIONS

Expansion of Medicaid eligibility causes people to drop their private coverage (which allows them access to a broad array of providers) in order to join the public plan (where access is much more narrow), says John C. Goodman, President, CEO and the Kellye Wright Fellow of the National Center for Policy Analysis...

NATIONAL JOURNAL

Penalties for employers who don't cover their low-wage workers -- proposed by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) -- would discourage hiring and needlessly prolong the recession, says John Goodman, President, CEO and the Kellye Wright Fellow of the National Center for Policy Analysis...

DALLAS MORNING NEWS

TRANSPARENCY IN THE HEALTH INSURANCE MARKET

We don't need a public option; transparency can keep health care competitive, say Regina Herzlinger, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and Peter Pronovost, a professor of anesthesiology and critical-care medicine and health policy and management at Johns Hopkins University...

NATIONAL REVIEW

STUDY GIVES HIGH MARKS TO RETAILERS' CLINICS

Walk-in clinics in big box stores such as Wal-Mart or Target provide routine care of equal quality to an emergency department at a lower price, according to study...

RAND CORPORATION/ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

50 MILLION NEW PATIENTS? MORE PRIMARY DOCS NEEDED

To keep up with the demand for primary care doctors, the country will need to add another 40,000 to the existing 100,000 doctors over the next decade or face a soaring backlog, according to Dr. Ted Epperly, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians...

ASSOCIATED PRESS/THE TIMES-PICAYUNE (NEW ORLEANS)

OBAMA AND THE COST OF INDIVIDUAL INSURANCE

One reason that individual health insurance policies are cheaper than employment-based plans is that they generally require more cost-sharing by consumers, say observers...

WALL STREET JOURNAL

PUBLIC OPTION LITE

The Baucus health care reform plan remains a public option by other means, say observers...

WALL STREET JOURNAL

The higher taxes, debt payments and interest rates needed to pay for health reform mean lower living standards, says Martin Feldstein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Ronald Reagan and a professor at Harvard University...

WALL STREET JOURNAL

WHAT OBAMA SHOULD TELL CONGRESS

ObamaCare will increase costs, probably reduce quality, and (after spending more than $1 trillion) may not even increase access to care, says John C. Goodman, President, CEO and the Kellye Wright Fellow of the National Center for Policy Analysis...

NATIONAL JOURNAL

RATIONING OBAMA-STYLE

The Obama Administration has yet to demonstrate how it plans to reduce spending without denying people high quality health care, says John C. Goodman, President CEO and the Kellye Wright Fellow of the NCPA...

NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS

SENTENCED TO DEATH ON THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE

British patients with terminal illnesses are being made to die prematurely under a National Health Service-scheme to help end their lives, leading doctors have warned...

DAILY TELEGRAPH

CRISIS OF THE UNINSURED: 2009

The increase in the number of uninsured over the past decade is largely due to immigration and population growth -- and to individual choice, says health economist Devon Herrick...

NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS

READ THE UNION HEALTH CARE LABEL

ObamaCare is a Trojan Horse for more forced unionization, Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Committee...

WALL STREET JOURNAL

Rein in health costs, Massachusetts urged...

BOSTON GLOBE

ROMNEY'S FOLLY

Health care mandates are a middle-class tax...

NATIONAL REVIEW

OBAMA'S GREAT PREVENTION SAVINGS MYTH

Prevention is not, as so widely advertised, healing on the cheap, says Charles Krauthammer...

WASHINGTON POST/HUMAN EVENTS

SMALL BUSINESSES HAVE MUCH AT STAKE IN THE HEALTH CARE DEBATE

Under the bill that the House of Representatives may vote on, small businesses will be responsible for helping foot the bill for new government spending and at a time when they can least afford it, says NCPA distinguished fellow Terry Neese...

EXAMINER.COM/NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS

CONSERVATIVES SEE NEED FOR SERIOUS HEALTH DEBATE

Critics of Obama's health care reform plan have approached it in the wrong way, says John Goodman, President and Kellye Wright Fellow of the National Center for Policy Analysis...

NEW YORK TIMES

CAVING TO TRIAL LAWYERS

Because doctors pay more for malpractice insurance, patients pay nearly $2,000 a year in extra health expenses, says editor Fred Barnes...

WEEKLY STANDARD

If we let insurance companies sell health care policies across state lines, affordability would improve because consumers could escape states where each policy is loaded with expensive mandates, says Devon Herrick, a senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis...

WALL STREET JOURNAL

NO MAINE MIRACLE CURE

After just five years, Maine's "public option" has failed, say observers...

WALL STREET JOURNAL

HOW TORT REFORM CUT FLORIDA WORKERS' COMPENSATION COSTS

Florida's experience shows the ability of tort reform to reduce litigation costs without harm to the injured, says N. Michael Helvacian, a senior fellow with the NCPA...

NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS

HEALTH SAVINGS ACCOUNTS: REAL REFORM

ObamaCare would almost surely kill off consumer-driven plans that reward patients for smart shopping; that's a pity, because there are signs that the plans may actually be starting to cut costs, say observers...

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

FANNIE MED?

Congress should reject proposals to create a new government health insurance program for the sake of American patients, who would be subject to unnecessary morbidity and mortality, says health economist Michael F. Cannon...

CATO INSTITUTE

WHAT'S SCARY ABOUT HEALTH CARE REFORM?

The system may be in need of repair, but ObamaCare will only make things worse...

REASON

Both the conservative and moderate Republican health care reform plans would allow low-income Medicaid patients to get vouchers to buy private insurance and encourage states to experiment with insurance market reforms, says Morton Kondracke, executive editor of Roll Call, the newspaper of Capitol Hill...

JEWISH WORLD REVIEW

CO-OPS: A "PUBLIC OPTION" BY ANOTHER NAME

ObamaCare was a bad idea with an explicit "public option;" it is still a bad idea without one, says senior fellow Michael D. Tanner...

CATO INSTITUTE

AN OVERABUNDANCE OF MANDATES

The 12 most popular mandates increase the cost of health coverage plans by anywhere from 15 percent to 30 percent, says the National Center for Policy Analysis...

WASHINGTON EXAMINER

YOU WANT A CRISIS?

When we get through the economic time that we're in right now, we're going to be confronted with an even bigger problem, says John C. Goodman, President, CEO and the Kellye Wright Senior Fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis...

THE CITIZEN (FAYETTEVILLE, GA.)

HEALTH CO-OPS: SLOW ROAD TO GOVERNMENT CARE

Government-authorized health care co-ops would serve no useful purpose and they would risk the same adverse consequences as a public plan, says Scott Harrington, professor of health care management and insurance and risk management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania...

AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE/WALL STREET JOURNAL

MORE CAPITALISM THE CURE FOR HEALTH CARE

President Obama's health care model is the Canadian system; yet, Canada's mortality rate for colon cancer is higher than the United States because the Canadian government refuses to purchase the two most effective drugs to treat the disease, say observers...

TERRE HAUTE NEWS

In Great Britain, dogs get better health care than humans; this could have a great impact on the health care debate in the United States, says Theodore Dalrymple, a British physician...

WALL STREET JOURNAL

OBAMA VS. MATHEMATICS

Health care plus entitlements plus higher taxes only on the "rich" equals disaster, say Jagadeesh Gokhale, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, and Kent Smetters, a professor at the Wharton School...

NATIONAL REVIEW

GOVERNMENT MEDICINE SHOULD HORRIFY AMERICANS

Government medicine has been an excruciating disaster in the United Kingdom and Canada, says Deroy Murdock, a columnist and media fellow with the Hoover Institution...

REAL CLEAR POLITICS

OBAMA'S SENIOR MOMENT

Once health care is nationalized, or mostly nationalized, rationing care is inevitable, and those who have lived the longest will find their care the most restricted, say observers...

WALL STREET JOURNAL

TEXAS GOVERNOR SAYS TORT REFROM MUST BE PART OF HEALTH CARE REFORM

Instead of handing down "one size fits all" mandates, Washington should enable the states to set their own agendas when it comes to health care, says Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R)...

WASHINGTON EXAMINER

THE WHOLE FOODS ALTERNATIVE TO OBAMACARE

There are eight things we can do to improve health care without adding to the deficit, says John Mackey, co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods Market Inc....

WALL STREET JOURNAL

ObamaCare's deficit hole will eventually have to be filled one way or another -- along with Medicare's unfunded liability of some $37 trillion, say observers...

CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE/WALL STREET JOURNAL

ON HEALTH REFORM, MASSACHUSETTS IS THE MODEL

ObamaCare, like RomneyCare, is socialized medicine with a private facade, say observers...

CATO INSTITUTE

THE PROGNOSIS FOR NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE

President Obama's health care reforms will increase medical price inflation, say researchers...

TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION

CHARITY CLINICS CAN BE REFORM MODEL

The uninsured receive about $1,500 in free health care annually and some of that care is being dispensed at charity clinics, according to the National Center for Policy Analysis...

ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION

HEALTH CARE REFORM THAT'S HARD TO SWALLOW

Cutting costs at the expense of pharmaceutical firms could lead to drug rationing, say experts...

HOOVER INSTITUTION/AMERICAN COUNCIL ON SCIENCE AND HEALTH/LOS ANGELES TIMES

STUDY: 88 MILLION WOULD LOSE PRIVATE, EMPLOYER-BASED COVERAGE UNDER FEDERAL PLAN

If ObamaCare passes, some 88.1 million Americans could be transitioned out of their current plan as employers opt out of continuing their existing coverage, losing the coverage they now have, according to study...

THE LEWIN GROUP/OLYMPIA BUSINESS WATCH