Category: Health

USA Today reports that cardiologists, one of, if not the, most elite of surgical specialties, have filed suit against Kathleen Sebelius and the Health and Human Services department in hopes of heading off the Obama administration’s plans to make deep cuts in the amount of money Medicare will pay for life-saving heart exams and surgeries….

MIT professor Jonathan Gruber says that a plan to tax so-called “Cadillac” health care plans isn’t a tax at all. But what else could it be given Gruber’s own analysis of the Senate plan: It would reduce the incentives for employers to provide excessively generous insurance, leading to more cost-conscious use of health care and,…

In a straight party-line vote, Democrats in the U.S. Senate today passed a health care system reform bill through their side of Congress, despite the fact that a sizable majority of voters oppose the measure. While it’s possible that the bill, which is over 2000 pages long at this point, may come apart in negotiations…

Sarah Palin is making waves by saying that the Democrats’ mega-healthcare plan – which seems likely to pass the House at any moment – will give government the power of life and death over the elderly and infirm. Of course this is true. Of course it is. It’s simple common sense that whoever controls the…

Paul Krugman wonders how health care will work after the Democrats’ proposed reforms pass through Congress.  That question may be premature, although it’s a good bet that they will pass something “ugly”, in the words of Steven Hayes. Here’s my prediction: If Democrats succeed in forcing a publicly-funded health care plan into law, it will…