Category: Health

Physicians Are Leaving Medicare Because Of “Doc Fix” Process

Press Release /
Threat of Drastic Cuts to Medicare Physician Fees Create Immense Uncertainty for Physicians Congress Always Suspends the Cuts and Will Do So Again this January – It's Time to End this Fraud Permanently Washington, D.C. - "It's a sad state ...
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To Bring Doctors Back to Medicare, Fix The "Doc Fix"

To Bring Doctors Back to Medicare, Fix The “Doc Fix”

National Policy Analysis #666 /
Dr. John Slatosky, a primary care physician in rural North Carolina, says, "I just couldn't see myself as anything but a country doctor." But Medicare is making it harder for him to stay true to his calling. Like nearly a ...
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If We Want Doctors to Return to Medicare, It Is Time to End The “Doc Fix”

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Physicians Are Leaving Medicare in Part Because of the Uncertainty Created by the Regular Threat of Drastic Cuts to Medicare Physician Fees Congress Always Suspends The Cuts and Will Do so Again This January – It's Time to End This ...
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Gruber’s Wrong: Hogberg Says Americans “Not That Stupid” about ObamaCare

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Commenting on shock videos released last week that show ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber disparaging the American people and admitting that the effort to sell the health care takeover was rife with lies and the bill was intentionally confusing, National Center ...
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Markets Are Not the Problem. ObamaCare’s Subsidy Mechanism Is the Problem

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After NCPPR sent out a Data Release on the ObamaCare exchanges last Thursday, I received this email about my criticism of the drop in subsidies from one of our readers: You […] note (correctly) that… “Many of them may see ...
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ObamaCare Exchanges Are Set to Create a Host of New Problems and Exacerbate Old Ones

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'Glitch' in Subsidy Mechanism Means Many Exchange Consumers Could Pay Higher Premiums Customers Will Find Insurance with Even Skinnier Networks; Exchanges Will Move One Step Closer to Death Spiral Dr. David Hogberg, Health Care Policy Analyst, Available to Discuss What ...
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Ridenour Op-Ed against U.S. Troops in Ebola Hot Zone Published in 56 Papers and Counting

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Despite the fact that Ebola no longer dominates the news as it once did, the National Center’s David Ridenour has a new commentary out there meant to make sure people don’t forget the United States still has a lot to lose. Obama ordered our ...
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14 Ways ObamaCare Is Still a Big Mess

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As ObamaCare Exchanges Are about to Open, ObamaCare Has Raised Premiums, Reduced Quality, Harmed Employment, Reduced Competition and Increased the Deficit Liberal Websites like Vox Present a Misleading Picture That ObamaCare Is "Working" Washington, D.C. - "With the ObamaCare Exchanges ...
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You Silly Conservatives! You Just Don’t Know How Good ObamaCare Really Is!

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A few weeks ago the usually over-confident Ezra Klein wrote, ““In conservative media, ObamaCare is a disaster. In the real world, it’s working.”  He complained that most conservatives probably don’t know this, since right-leaning websites “run multiple articles every day on ...
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14 Ways ObamaCare Is Still a Big Mess That You Won’t Learn from the Liberal Website Vox

National Policy Analysis #664 /
"In conservative media, ObamaCare is a disaster. In the real world, it's working."1 So claims the usually over-confident liberal editorialist Ezra Klein on his website, Vox. Klein says ObamaCare is working because premiums on the ObamaCare exchanges are "lower than ...
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