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Given the continuing unpopularity of the Affordable Care Act and the possibility of the Supreme Court ruling it unconstitutional later this year, some see an opportunity to do away with the health care reform legislation in Massachusetts that inspired the ACA. Given the state’s politics, though, such an effort will be much more difficult than the campaign to undermine the ACA.
In 2006, Republican Gov. Mitt Romney signed into law a bill establishing sweeping health care reform in the Bay State....
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How much could shifting to consumer directed health plans save? A great deal, according to this new study by RAND researchers, published in Health Affairs:
Enrollment is increasing in consumer-directed health insurance plans, which feature high deductibles and a personal health care savings account. We project that an increase in market share of these plans--from the current level of 13 percent of employer-sponsored insurance to 50 percent--could reduce annual health care spending by about $57...
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Once the United States Supreme Court reminds our constitutional lawyer professor-turned-President of the existence of the Tenth Amendment and the limits of the Commerce Clause, thereby repealing Obamacare, the natural question becomes, what’s next? All of the problems that existed before President Obama, then-Speaker Pelosi, and Senate Majority Leader Reid forced through a bill to raise hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, cut Medicare spending, and create yet another...
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