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...bill??s central tenet is a law preventing insurers from denying coverage to individuals with pre-existing conditions. To do this, Democrats mandate that all Americans buy insurance in order to prevent people from gaming the system. This mandate in turn requires government subsidies for those who cannot afford coverage. These three new regulations amount to what Paul Krugman calls the “three-legged stool” of reform...
First, 16 million Americans will be added to the failing government-run Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program rolls. That is, half of the 32 million Americans that the bill??s proponents claim will be covered are dumped into a government-run program that America already cannot afford. While 87 percent of doctors reported accepting all or most new privately insured patients in 2008, only 53 percent of doctors reported accepting all or most new Medicaid patients, because Medicaid reimburses doctors below market rates. What good is Medicaid coverage if a doctor refuses...
...recently-passed Senate “jobs bill?? might as well have been nicknamed the Senate “let’s-keep-our-jobs” bill. With 70 Senators voting for the $15 billion legislation, including 13 Republicans, the verdict represented welcome progress for the stalled, embattled body. However, it would be a mistake to view the passage of this bill as a bipartisan victory. Along such lines, the media has covered Mass. Senator Scott Brown’s reach across the aisle to support the bill as though his actions were notable. However, voting...
...Yale graduate Kerry has done enough. The notion that in such a polarized, anything-goes political climate any legislation would be a “100 percent” guarantee seems grandiose.Specify the legislation is on climate-related fuel emissions? To put it mildly, that will not improve the bill??s odds...
...House will vote on next week. This bill seeks to leverage private market forces by making companies choose between doing business with the United States or with Iran. In October, the House overwhelmingly passed the Iran Sanctions Enabling Act by a vote of 414-6 (one of the bill??s original co-sponsors was Harvard alum and Massachusetts Representative Barney Frank). This bill authorizes state and local governments to divest from companies investing in Iran’s petroleum and natural gas sector or doing business with Iran’s nuclear industry. Since these companies are already...