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Is Our Economy Truly Recovering From the Recession?
In yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, Mortimer Zuckerman, the Chairman of U.S. News and World Report, writes that “A Jobless Recovery is a Phony Recovery”. He points out that counting the people who...
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Is the Cost of Health Care Under Control?
Today’s New York Times reports that “Health Care Costs Climb Moderately, Survey Says”. The average annual insurance premium for a family rose 4% in 2013 compared with a 1.1% overall rate of...
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How Can We Boost Stagnant Wages?
Today’s Wall Street Journal has a column by Neil Shah, “Stagnant Wages Crimping Economic Growth”, pointing out that the average hourly pay for non-supervisory workers, adjusted for inflation, has...
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Private Health Care Reform is Getting Started!
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal has a very interesting article, “More Employers Overhaul Health Benefits”, which describes a movement just getting started whereby employers give their employees a...
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Beyond ObamaCare: Where Do We Go From Here?
Last Sunday’s Washington Post has an Op Ed column by Jon Kingsdale, “Beyond Healthcare.gov, Obamacare’s Other Challenges” which describes the many challenges confronting ObamaCare besides just the...
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Why Is Obamacare So Unpopular? Because It’s Too Coercive!
The individual mandate for health insurance, upheld by the Supreme Court a year and a half ago, is now leading to millions of policy cancellations in the individual insurance market. The mandate...
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Controlling the Cost of Healthcare
The New York Times is running a series of articles, “Paying Till It Hurts,” giving many examples of the very high cost of healthcare in the U.S. today. The latest article “As Hospital Prices Soar, A...
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Why Is American Healthcare So Expensive?
The U.S. spends almost 18% of GDP on healthcare costs, double what any other developed county spends. There are many reasons for our excessive healthcare spending. For example: As illustrated in the...
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An Off-Ramp from Obama Care
The Supreme Court will soon render an opinion in King v. Burwell, challenging the implementation of the Affordable Care Act which stipulates that subsidies can only be paid “through an Exchange...
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The Quality of American Health Care
One of the most common themes on this website is the high cost of American healthcare. What I am saying is that our annual deficits are way too high and that our accumulated debt is increasing too...
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