Archive - 2011

The Affordable Care Act may be anything but Affordable to many Americans if Sarah Kliff of the Washington Post is correct. Recent regulations have interpreted the Act, better known as Obamacare, to measure affordability without taking into consideration whether individuals have families that also need health care. Read more »

In his new book, Throw Them All Out: How Politicians and their Friends Get Rich Off Insider Stock Tips, Land Deals, and Cronyism that would Send the Rest of us to Prison, Peter Schweizer demonstrates the dangers of government control of healthcare from a different angle—the motivations of the congressmen who voted for it.

Schweizer reveals active trading by congressmen of healthcare stocks in the middle of the debate over Obamacare. Read more »

Today, Americans for Limited Government sent a Freedom of Information Act request to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration on Aging to find out how much money was wasted on an Obamacare program the Obama Administration already knew would not work. Read more »

Glitches in the Obamacare Statute endanger both the ability of Federal Health Insurance Exchanges to receive start up funding and its ability to give out health insurance tax credits. Read more »

HHS commissioned the Institute of Medicine at the National Academy of Science to recommend “the criteria and methods for determining and updating the essential health benefits package.” The IOM, as part of their determination process has invited comments from the public.

We obtained copies of all comments submitted to IOM online, and here's what we've found. Read more »