by Jane Richey | Jul 30, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
So many people have complained that something must be done about U.S. health care. But the truth is that a solution has been staring us in the face for years — about forty years, in fact. And it all started with Ronald Reagan. In 1971, California was heading...
by Jane Richey | Jul 23, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
The Supreme Court upheld Obamacare’s individual mandate to purchase health insurance, but it also struck down part of the law. That part—forcing states to expand their Medicaid programs—offers governors some much-needed relief. Expanding Medicaid, the government...
by Jane Richey | Jul 13, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Pennsylvania has dropped tens of thousands of people from its Medicaid rolls since last summer – and now the Obama administration wants to know if the state wrongly cut off those benefits. The federal agency that oversees how states administer Medicaid sent a...
by Jane Richey | Jul 6, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets, Politics
Several states say they will reject ObamaCare’s expansion of Medicaid, and one expert on the law believes even more states will follow suit. States that are saying ‘no’ to expansion include Wisconsin, Iowa, Louisiana and Florida, which is also...
by Jane Richey | Jul 4, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Michael Cannon, director of health policy studies at the Cato Institute, says the Supreme Court “completely defanged the Medicaid expansion” as called for in the new healthcare law. “The way Medicaid works is the federal government pays for a little...
