by Jane Richey | May 10, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Too-big-to-fail banks? Meet “too-big-to-control” government. That’s the label House Republicans slapped on the Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday during a hearing on the agency’s spending. GOP members of the Energy and Commerce Committee’s oversight...
by Jane Richey | May 9, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
The Department of Health and Human Services isn’t that much of a bully, it turns out. Health insurers flagged by the department for “unreasonable” premium hikes are refusing to back down in the first year of HHS’s new rate review authority. The health reform law gave...
by Jane Richey | May 3, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
A Department of Health and Human Services-designed presentation on ObamaCare makes no mention of some of the law’s most controversial elements, including the individual mandate, tax penalties, and cuts to Medicare. Published Wednesday on the website BuzzFeed, the...
by Jane Richey | Apr 22, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Many insurance experts and health policy consultants predict only a dozen or so states will be ready to run exchanges on their own — and a few say that projection may be too sunny. Only a handful of the most militant states are likely to continue all-out resistance to...