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Your DNA and Your Healthcare
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The Supreme Court ruled that law enforcement can routinely obtain your DNA as if it were fingerprints. Are you aware that fingerprints are required of all doctors in Delaware an...[read more] |
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Who is at Fault for High Healthcare Costs?
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I want to point out an article by Elisabeth Rosenthal in the New York Times "The $2.7 trillion Medical Bill" (http://nyti.ms/13bPXcm) wh...[read more] |
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Full CMS Medicare report
This is the full 2013 Medicare report from the CMS Medicare Board of Trustees. This document outlines the current state of Medicare and the future of Medicare/Medicaid, as studied by insurance actuaries working with or for CMS.
http://go.cms.gov/18S2l5Y |
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Say Goodbye to Medicare and Private Health Insurance
When Paul Ryan proposed Medicare entitlement reform, there were advertisements showing him dumping an elderly woman out of a wheelchair over a cliff. These were run by the Democratic National Committee to demonize the efforts of the...[read more] |
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Healthcare Costs for Families- A Looming Financial Disaster
The Affordable Care Act was passed with the intent of insuring 700,000 uninsured and functionally cost-prohibitively uninsurable patients because of pre-existing conditions. By the end of 2012, 78,000 were insured. The AP reported last week over 100,000 were insured via the program at the end of Feb...[read more] |
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Delaware Cannot Manage a Single-Payer Healthcare System
A press release by State Reps. John Kowalko and Earl Jacques (“State Should Move to Single-Payer”, News Journal, 12/11/12) supporting a single-payer healthcare system for Delaware is intriguing, but it incorrectly assumes the economic world is stagnant.
They think the insurance indust...[read more] |
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Heed the Warnings and Fear Nothing
10/25/2012
The core argument upon which the health care political campaigns rest is based on mis-information, emotion, jealousy, greed, fear and empty promises. It is a perfect political issue. One side professes to provide free health care for all, forever with no cost to the user (unless ...[read more]Read Document Here |
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Why Can't We Fix Health Care?
10/23/2012
Healthcare reform is a very complicated issue, filled with questionable motivations, many special interests, a lack of funding with a distorted supply/demand ratio, and plenty of hyperbole just for good measure.
...[read more]Read Document Here |
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The Truth About Health Care Affordability
9/11/2012
With the elevation of Paul Ryan to the national stage, the debate about national healthcare policy is front and center. At the core of the debate is affordability. The 2010 healthcare reform legislation known as the "Affordable Care Act", or "Obamacare" by its ...[read more]Read Document Here |
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The Health Care Debate at the Supreme Court
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday the Supreme Court heard oral arguments over the constitutionality of the PPACA, the patient protection and affordable care act. This is President Barack Obama’s centerpiece legislation of his political career and in many ways defines his presidency.
What th...[read more]Read Document Here |
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The Constitutionality of the Health Care Individual Mandate
Caesar Rodney Institute briefs the constitutionality of the health care individual mandate before the U.S. Supreme Court
On February 13, 2012, the Caesar Rodney Institute filed an amicus curiae or “friend of the court” brief with the U. S. Supreme Court challenging ...[read more]Read Document Here |
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Medicaid Busting the Delaware Budget
Delaware has the eighth highest Medicaid expense per capita of the continental states according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. It is expected the state will spend $680 million in the 2012 fiscal year, 40% higher than the $487 million spent in ...[read more]Read Document Here |
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Competition in Delaware's Healthcare Industry
From Adam Smith forward, the one major insight on which all economists can agree is “competition is good!” More effectively than government regulations or price ceilings or user permits, competition results in, as if by an “invisible hand”, lower prices and lower cos...[read more]Read Document Here |
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Caesar Rodney Institute Amicus Brief on Health Care Law
Here is the actual Brief filed with the Courts.Read Document Here |
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CRI Amicus Brief on Health Care Law
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
On May 11, 2011, the Caesar Rodney Institute filed an amicus curiae or “friend of the court” brief before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in State of Florida, by and through Attorney General Pam Bondi, et al. v....[read more]Read Document Here |
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