Washington Examiner

The ACA fault line: Individual patient care vs. the insurer

By Naomi Lopez Bauman
07/24/2014
According to cancer-patient advocate Robert Goldberg, “The latest innovation in cancer care isn’t a medical breakthrough but an app to ration new drugs. It’ll measure care in terms of what it costs health plans, instead of what it means for patients’ lives.” This “innovation” may be used to conceal the best-available cancer treatment options from...

AFL-CIO headed for a breakup?

By Paul Kersey
09/05/2013
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka presides over a union establishment that continues to lose members – more than 1.6 million between 2002 and 2012. The Obama administration’s more union-friendly posture hasn’t helped much – union members made up 12.4 percent of the workforce in 2008, but that declined to 11.2 percent in 2012. Making matters worse,...

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Medicaid expansions have already failed in Illinois

By Jonathan Ingram
09/07/2012
To mark the second anniversary of President Obama’s health care overhaul, voters should turn to his home state of Illinois to see how it will deliver on its promise of quality health care for the most vulnerable. When they do, they will probably not like what they see. As a state senator, President Obama sponsored...