Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives took a bold first step on the journey to saving health care.
Waivers from ObamaCare's minimum annual limit provision now cover over 2 million individuals.
By Chris Andriesen
12/01/2010
The Problem Encouraging volunteerism among Illinois’s senior citizens is a worthy goal, with many benefits for both individual volunteers and those they serve. Illinois’s Foster Grandparents Program, housed in the Illinois Department of Aging, is meant to connect “volunteers” with “opportunities for seniors to work with children with exceptional needs.” However, the program’s structure leads...
By Chris Andriesen
11/15/2010
by Kate Piercy Bureaucracy deciding who gets exemptions from a law and who does not: Here is the list of the lucky 111 groups (including unions and health care providers) exempt from the burden of the Obama administration’s onerous health care plan, buried six clicks deep on the Health and Human Services website and posted last Friday. Nice...
By Chris Andriesen
11/12/2010
by Amanda Griffin-Johnson While some of the provisions of the massive federal health care legislation don’t go into effect for some time, their impact is already being seen across the country. Last month, McDonald’s, the United Federation of Teachers Welfare Fund, and 29 other firms, representing nearly one million workers, received waivers from the Department of Health...
On March 4, Kristina Rasmussen testified before the Illinois House of Representatives Family & Children Services Committee about Medicaid transparency.
A federal government study says the (federal) Head Start program isn't working.
