Federal health care spending is to increase an average of 5.7% each year for the next decade. Health care spending was 3.6% last year, mainly due to the slow economic recovery, and the fact that the private sector is picking up more of the tab in the form of higher deductibles and co-pays. Currently, health spending […]
It is quite possible that in June of 2015 the PPACA, (Obamacare,) will be dealt a deadly blow by the Supreme Court. The case, King v. Burwell, challenges the legality of the federal subsidies being paid out to 4 million people in 37 states. Challengers of the law state that the IRS has no authority to pay out […]
If only it were true that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, (Obamacare,) lowered overall health care spending by paying for the quality of care, as opposed to the quantity of care, as we have been told, our health care system would in fact be more efficient. In 2001 and 2002, national health care spending […]
