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We Told You So, Real Clear Politics

Sunday, January 20, 2013
As the Affordable Care Act--otherwise known as ObamaCare--begins to be implemented, we are seeing its first big consequence: it is making care less affordable.

The New York Times reports that "Health insurance companies across the country are seeking and winning double-digit increases in premiums for some customers, even though one of the biggest objectives of the Obama administration's health care law was to stem the rapid rise in insurance costs for consumers."  

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The Slow Dismantling Of Obamacare, The Heritage Foundation

Tuesday, January 08, 2013
Things aren’t going so well for Obamacare.

Even Democrats in Congress aren’t huge fans any more. It seems after passing the law and finding out what’s in it, the allure has faded—so much so that Congress actually repealed part of Obamacare in the fiscal cliff deal last week.  

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The High Price Of Nickel And Diming Doctors, Businessweek.com

Thursday, November 22, 2012
 

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Former Democrat Senator Evan Bayh: Obamacare's Tax Raid On Medical Devices, Wall Street Journal

Friday, September 28, 2012

D4PC: A two time supporter of the Obama healthcare law, former Democrat Senator Evan Bayh gives his new opinion of the unintended consequence of the ACA's tax on the medical device indusry.

The Supreme Court decision in June upholding the Affordable Care Act leaves in place a tax on medical devices that threatens thousands of American jobs and our global competitiveness. It will also stifle critical medical innovation in the industry that gave us defibrillators, pacemakers, artificial joints, stents, chemotherapy delivery systems and almost every device we depend on to save lives.

The 2.3% tax will be charged to manufacturers on each sale and takes effect in January. Many U.S. device companies, in response, have already announced layoffs, canceled plans for domestic expansion and slashed research-and-development budgets.

Given the fragile state of the U.S. economy, Congress must move quickly to redress the harm from this tax before it becomes irreversible.

 

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Full List Of Obamacare Tax Hikes: Listed By Size Of Tax Hike, Americans For Fair Taxation

Sunday, August 12, 2012
 

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CBO: Obamacare To Cost $1.93 Trillion, Leaves 30 Million Uninsured, The Weekly Standard

Friday, July 27, 2012

The latest CBO scoring of Obamacare, in the wake of the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision upholding the overhaul’s individual mandate as an allowable (although seemingly unprecedented) tax on inactivity, shows that President Obama’s centerpiece legislation would cost about $2 trillion over its real first decade (2014 through 2023). The CBO also says that — despite its colossal cost and its unprecedented expansion of power and control over Americans’ lives — Obamacare would, as of a decade from now, leave 30 million people uninsured. 

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Obamacare's $17 Trillion Unfunded Liability, The New American

Thursday, April 05, 2012

Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, had asked his staff to compute the long-term costs of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare). After three months of combing through the hundreds of pages of the law and comparing their expected costs to the United States’ fiscal outlook for the next 75 years — just as the government currently does for other programs such as Social Security and Medicare — Sessions’ staff estimated that ObamaCare has created a $17 trillion unfunded liability for the U.S. government.

 

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Latest CBO Analysis Demonstrates Significantly Higher Costs Of Healthcare Law

Friday, March 16, 2012
 

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Healthcare's Vulture Capitalists, Physicians Practice

Monday, March 12, 2012

It has been quiet lately on the tort-reform front. So quiet, in fact, that one could be forgiven for thinking we had this problem licked.  

Suing doctors is getting easier to finance, too. Possibly the most disgraceful and little-noticed development of the last few years is the emergence of hedge funds that actually invest in large malpractice lawsuits, taking a big chunk of any award out of the patient’s pocket. According to Forbes, such investors injected $1 billion into lawsuits, including med-mal suits, in 2010.

 

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Obamacare's High Risk Pool Spending Doubles Government Estimates, Forbes.com

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

So, where are we now, almost two years after the law’s passage? A new report from the Department of Health and Human Services gives us the stats for the PPACA Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan, or PCIP. After Obamacare became law, in November 2010, government officials estimated that they would spend $13,026 per high-risk pool enrollee. Nine months later, in August 2011, they revised their estimate to $28,994 per enrollee: a 123 percent increase. 

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D4PC "Morning Rounds", Monday, January 23, 2012

Monday, January 23, 2012

Welcome to D4PC "Morning Rounds", your daily review of healthcare news and information from Washington, DC and around the nation. These briefings will keep you up to date on recent developments and our effort to replace the PPACA with patient-centered reforms that protect the doctor-patient relationship and preserve individual freedom of choice. 

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