Savings of ObamaCare’s ACOs Declined 28 Percent!
One of the, ahem, “reforms” ObamaCare introduced to Medicare was Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). ACOs were supposed to save money for taxpayers and improve the quality of care for Medicare beneficiaries. (To understand what an ACO is, go here.) In 2013, ACOs saved Medicare about $492 million. If that savings ...
A Perspective on Harris County Deputy’s Death by a Project 21 Member Who Served with Him
Last Friday, Harris County Deputy Darren Goforth was essentially executed as he fueled his patrol car in a Houston suburb. The alleged shooter, who walked up and shot the unsuspecting deputy while he was standing and then fired several more rounds after he fell, is now in custody and will ...
Are Spurious Claims of Police Racism Fueling Ideological Attacks Upon Whites by People With Troubled Psyches?
In Light of Virginia Journalist Killings, Project 21's Joe Hicks Fears People with Mental Psychosis and Other Brain Disorders are Responding Dangerously to the Re-Birth of Militant Black Protests Washington, D.C. - "Did the ideology of black racial victimization play a role in the murder of a white Virginia TV ...
Are Amputees Medicare’s Next Victims?
Let me start this blog post with a thank you to Brad Knollenberg and AccessRX America for doing an interview with me about my book, Medicare’s Victims: How the U.S. Government’s Largest Health Care Program Harms Patients and Impairs Physician. The interview focuses a lot on the Part D portion ...
Rubio’s Health Care Plan: Economics vs. Politics
It is often the case that good economics makes bad politics, and vice-versa. That is evident in the part of Senator Marco Rubio’s health care plan that deals with the employer-based tax exclusion for health insurance. Rubio’s plan proposes a refundable tax credit for purchase of insurance on the individual market. It ...
Scott Walker’s and Marco Rubio’s Health Care Plans Would Move U.S. In a Free Market Direction
Walker and Rubio Depart from Previous GOP Candidates by Releasing Plans Early, Signaling Health Care Will Be a Central Issue for the Campaigns Washington, D.C. - "Both Scott Walker's and Marco Rubio's health care plans are a very good start," said Dr. David Hogberg, health care policy analyst at the ...
In Memoriam: Whitney Ball
We at the National Center for Public Policy Research were saddened to learn today of the death of Whitney Ball, the founder and CEO of DonorsTrust and an indefatigable fighter for liberty and limited government. Unlike many, we cannot claim the honor of having been close friends of Whitney’s, but ...
Mr. President, Don’t Use the 50th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act to Divide Americans
Celebrate the Achievement, Black Leadership Group Says Washington, D.C. - Members of the Project 21 black leadership network are hitting back against President Barack Obama's use of the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act to divide Americans from one another and to promote a political agenda. The Voting Rights ...
That’s Okay. New Mexico’s ObamaCare Exchange Will Be Just Fine with Fewer Insurers
In early June, Mother Jones writer Kevin Drum stated, “don’t pay too much attention to scare stories about gigantic increases in Obamacare premiums next year.” One reason, he said was that a “few months from now, the real rate increases—the ones approved by state and federal authorities—will begin to trickle ...
Danhof’s Criticism of Apple’s Tim Cook Highlighted by Rush Limbaugh and Fox Business Network
Is Tim Cook failing as the leader of Apple? He certainly seems hypocritical about gay rights when he calls Indiana discriminatory while doing business with Iran. Justin Danhof, director of the Free Enterprise Project, told host Neil Cavuto on the August 5 episode of Fox Business Network’s “Cavuto Coast to ...
A Word About the Economy: “Stagnant”
Another month has come and gone with not a lot of good economic news for Americans. Obama and his supporters might cheer at official unemployment figures that are slowly edging toward five percent like they do for other alleged economic progress, but they fail to note things such as low ...
ObamaCare Is a Very Inefficient Way to Deliver Health Care
In late July, the political left celebrated a new study from the Journal of the American Medical Association that purported to show that people are getting better care under ObamaCare. Johnathan Cohn claimed that the study is “one more reason to think Obamacare is not the fiasco that critics claim ...
Book: Medicare Harms Patients And Impairs Doctors
Some housekeeping chores I didn’t get to last week. First, thanks to Richard Eisenberg, who did an interview with me about Medicare’s Victims: How the U.S. Government’s Largest Health Care Program Harms Patients and Impairs Physicians, that appeared at both Forbes and PBS’s Next Avenue. Here’s a bit from the ...
Ban Federal Funding for Planned Parenthood, Say Members of the Black Leadership Network Project 21
S. 1881, Senator Joni Ernst's Bill to Do Exactly That, to be Voted on Shortly Washington, D.C. - Members of the Project 21 black leadership network are joining calls for passage of S. 1881, a bill to prohibit federal funding of Planned Parenthood, sponsored by Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA). The ...
Why ‘Medicare-for-All’ Is A Terrible Idea
Yesterday I had another article at The Federalist examining Robert Reich’s push for single-payer health care, a.k.a. “Medicare-for-All.” This was one of the more enjoyable pieces I’ve written in a while, so here is an excerpt: And what is Reich’s solution to [rising costs]? As he states at the beginning ...
Medicare’s Unhappy 50th Anniversary
Today is the 50th Anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson signing Medicare into law. The Daily Caller published my article today explaining why that is nothing to celebrate. Here is an excerpt: Medicare has a dark underbelly that is seldom given much attention in the media. Certain patients, often the sickest, ...
The Silliest Argument in Favor of Medicare-For-All
Easily the most absurd claim advanced by the Medicare-for-All (i.e. single-payer) crowd is that Medicare is more efficient than private sector health insurance because it has lower administrative costs. There are numerous problems with that argument, not the least of which is that comparing government administrative costs with private sector ...
Medicare’s Victims: What Readers Are Saying
My new book, Medicare’s Victims: How the U.S. Government’s Largest Health Care Program Harms Patients and Impairs Physicians, received its first review on Amazon: I am a patient of Dr. Juliette Madrigal-Dersch, and I thoroughly enjoyed the section about her and her practice. She is a wonderful doctor who has taken good ...
National Center for Public Policy Research Proposes 5-Point Plan for Achieving Repeal of ObamaCare and Replacing It with a Free-Market Alternative
"First You Win the Argument, Then You Win the Vote" Washington, D.C. - Saying Congress needs to be more aggressive about repealing ObamaCare, a Washington D.C. conservative think-tank is proposing a 5-Point Plan to help Members of Congress engage with each other and with the American people to develop an ...
July 30 Marks the 50th Anniversary of Medicare
Unfortunately for All Too Many, the Program Fails to Live up to Its Promise Medicare Often Denies The "Healing Miracle of Modern Medicine" to Seniors Medicare Constantly Interferes in the Doctor-Patient Relationship Washington, D.C. - "A week from today, Medicare will mark its 50th anniversary," says Dr. David Hogberg, senior ...
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