by Jane Richey | Feb 8, 2013 | Health Care
A growing bipartisan cadre of Congressional lawmakers is behind an effort to repeal a component of the Affordable Care Act they say will adversely impact manufacturers of heart valves, cardiac defibrillators, knee implants and other medical devices. Lawmakers say that...
by Jane Richey | Feb 8, 2013 | Health Care
After 25 years of practicing medicine, Dr. Tamzin Rosenwasser packed in her dermatology practice in 2011, barely a year after the passage of President Obama’s health care initiative. The timing wasn’t coincidental. “I have interrupted practicing medicine because of...
by Jane Richey | Feb 6, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Health Care
The Congressional Budget Office is offering a bleak picture of the exponential growth of entitlement spending over the next decade, stating that 53% of all federal spending in that time, amounting to $24.9 trillion, will be due to entitlements and Obamacare. n its...
by Jane Richey | Feb 6, 2013 | Health Care
According to the Congressional Budget Office, Obamacare will push 7 million Americans off of their employer-based health plans by 2022. So much for the law’s goal of introducing an era of universal coverage. The 7 million figure, reported Tuesday, is a revision....
by Jane Richey | Feb 5, 2013 | Health Care
President Obama’s health care law is “here to stay,” but cannot fulfill its promise if states do not expand Medicaid and the uninsured do not take advantage of the benefits designed to put coverage within reach of millions more Americans, Health and...
by Jane Richey | Feb 1, 2013 | Health Care
A global medical technology company has laid off nearly 100 employees at its offices in Tennessee and Massachusetts and is blaming the layoffs on the medical device tax tied to ObamaCare. London-based Smith & Nephew said Thursday it laid off fewer than 100...
