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  • Increase in Dependent Health Coverage Is Actually a Failure to Create Jobs
    Posted in The Prescription Pad on June 19, 2012 | Preview rr
    Tags: Health , Human Resources, Full Committee

    The Obama Administration today hailed the Democrats’ health care law for allegedly helping 3.1 million young Americans gain insurance coverage under a provision permitting young adults to stay on their parents’ health insurance plan until they turn age 26.  However, what the Administration is unlikely to reveal is the reason so many young adults are finding it… Read more

  • New Report Confirms Health Care Costs Continue to Rise
    Posted in The Prescription Pad on June 18, 2012 | Preview rr
    Tags: Health , Full Committee

    The Kaiser Family Foundation is out with a new report that reinforces the broken promises associated with the Democrats’ health care law.  Despite repeated claims by President Obama and Congressional Democrats that health care costs would decrease, this latest report finds that individuals and employees of small businesses are actually being hit with higher costs – and… Read more

  • The Left Back Tracks on the Mandate
    Posted in The Prescription Pad on June 15, 2012 | Preview rr
    Tags: Health , Full Committee

    Nearly two-thirds of Americans are hoping that the U.S. Supreme Court will overturn some or all of the Democrats’ health care law.  The Obama Administration and their allies are already walking away from the arguments they made to the Supreme Court about how the requirement that Americans purchase health insurance, even if they cannot afford it, is “essential” to making ObamaCare… Read more

  • Obama Administration Officials Again Confirm that Obamacare Will Increase Health Care Spending
    Posted in The Prescription Pad on June 12, 2012 | Preview rr
    Tags: Health , Full Committee

    Today’s release of a report by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) detailing national health care expenditures confirms that, despite the Obama Administration’s promises to the contrary, health care costs continue to increase. THEN: “We agree on reforms that will finally reduce the costs of health care.  Families will save on their premiums; businesses that will… Read more

  • Democrats’ Health Law is Bad News for the Majority of Americans
    Posted in The Prescription Pad on June 7, 2012 | Preview rr
    Tags: Health

    Earlier today, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi attempted to defend the Democrats’ unpopular health law saying that it would allow people to leave their jobs to “pursue happiness” without the threat of losing their ability to obtain health insurance. Unfortunately, the more than 160 million Americans who obtain their health insurance through the employer-sponsored system continue… Read more

  • President Obama Continues His “Say One Thing, Do Another” Tour
    Posted in The Prescription Pad on May 29, 2012 | Preview rr
    Tags: Health

    What a difference just a few days makes.  In April, President Obama traveled to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) to wax poetic about “college affordability.”  Not surprisingly, left out of the conversation was any mention that students’ health insurance premiums were about to skyrocket, in part, because of ObamaCare. According to a May 1 article in the… Read more

  • ObamaCare's Impact on the Economy: Layoffs, U.S. Jobs Shipped Overseas, Plans to Create New U.S. Jobs Canceled
    Posted in The Prescription Pad on May 10, 2012 | Preview rr
    Tags: Health , Full Committee

    In today’s Washington Post, George Will highlights the ways in which the Democrats’ health care law is already contributing to job loss and inhibiting economic growth here at home - leaving job creators and employees alike worried about whether the trend will continue as more and more provisions of the law take effect.   Mr. Will’s piece focuses on the new medical device tax in the… Read more

  • Analysis: 65 Million People Could Lose Employer-Sponsored Coverage
    Posted in The Prescription Pad on May 8, 2012 | Preview rr
    Tags: Health , Full Committee

    This week, the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions highlighted an analysis conducted by the group last fall which found that up to 65 million Americans could lose their employer-sponsored health insurance because of ObamaCare's employer mandate requirement.  The analysis noted that while employers of every size are affected, small- and mid-sized companies are the most likely to… Read more

  • Premium Support: A Timeline
    Posted in The Prescription Pad on April 27, 2012 | Preview rr
    Tags: Health , Full Committee

    If you listen to any of the Democrat attacks on Medicare Premium Support, you may think that the idea was a partisan plan crafted behind closed doors.  But when you look at the true history behind Premium Support, the facts reveal long-standing bipartisan support for this plan to save Medicare. 1993 – Alain Enthoven the “father of managed competition” and former health care… Read more

  • America’s Next Generation of Doctors: ObamaCare is Bad Medicine
    Posted in The Prescription Pad on April 13, 2012 | Preview rr
    Tags: Health , Full Committee

    A recent survey shows that physicians under the age of 40 are pessimistic about the future of the U.S. health care system, citing the Democrats’ health care law as the main reason why.  One respondent noted that the Democrats’ law could jeopardize patients’ access to care saying, “There will be an increased shortage of physicians to provide primary care and decreased access to… Read more