Welcome to D4PC "Morning Rounds", your daily review of healthcare news and information from Washington, DC and around the nation. These briefings will keep you up to date on recent developments and our effort to replace the PPACA with patient-centered reforms that protect the doctor-patient relationship and preserve individual freedom of choice.
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D4PC "Morning Rounds", Thursday, March 29, 2012
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Wrap-Up From SCOTUS Arguments on Individual Mandate
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Today's oral arguments at the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) focused on the individual mandate. According to National Review Online's "Bench Memo's" Justice Kennedy seemed focused on ascertaining whether any limits existed to the exercise of government power in the form of future mandates. As many commentators have pointed out, the individual mandate is an unprecedented use of government authority because the government is not merely regulating people who are already engaged in interstate commerce but compelling citizens to engage.
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Conservatives and the Mandate, Wall Street Journal
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
The cumulative impact of government interventions has given us the health-care system we have. Because it subsidizes third-party payership, it destroys any hope of price-value comparisons by consumers. Because it commits the cardinal economic impossibility of trying to subsidize everybody, the end result is not better health but higher costs in the form of rising prices and the provision of services of questionable value.
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Obamacare's Flawed Economic Foundations, Wall Street Journal
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
The individual mandate and Medicaid expansions appear to many to be unconstitutional. They are certainly bad economic policy. When they go, the entire law must fall. The administration built an intricate, balanced policy on a flawed economic foundation. It is up to the Supreme Court to pull it down.
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D4PC "Morning Rounds" Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Welcome to D4PC "Morning Rounds", your daily review of healthcare news and information from Washington, DC and around the nation. These briefings will keep you up to date on recent developments and our effort to replace the PPACA with patient-centered reforms that protect the doctor-patient relationship and preserve individual freedom of choice.
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D4PC "Morning Rounds" Friday, February 10, 2012
Friday, February 10, 2012
Welcome to D4PC "Morning Rounds", your daily review of healthcare news and information from Washington, DC and around the nation. These briefings will keep you up to date on recent developments and our effort to replace the PPACA with patient-centered reforms that protect the doctor-patient relationship and preserve individual freedom of choice.
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D4PC "Morning Rounds" Monday, January 16, 2012
Monday, January 16, 2012
Welcome to D4PC "Morning Rounds", your daily review of healthcare news and information from Washington, DC and around the nation. These briefings will keep you up to date on recent developments and our effort to replace the PPACA with patient-centered reforms that protect the doctor-patient relationship and preserve individual freedom of choice.
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IRS Taking Steps to Ignore Congress and Re-Write ObamaCare
Monday, January 09, 2012
Dr. Hal Scherz, President of D4PC, and Sally Pipes, of the Pacific Research Institute, have teamed together to writing a very informative article about how the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is trying to impermissibly ignore the obvious language of ObamaCare, and therefore the Constitutional prerogatives of Congress, and "rewrite" the law as it sees fit.
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How ObamaCare Will Harm Low-Income Americans
Friday, October 28, 2011
According to The Washington Examiner, in testimony before a subcommittee in the House of Representives this week "Cornell University economics professor Richard Burkhauser showed that in 2014, millions of low-income Americans may be unable to get subsidized health insurance through the new health care exchanges." The culprit: the legislative language of ObamaCare.
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D4PC "Morning Rounds" Thursday, October 20, 2011
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Welcome to D4PC "Morning Rounds", your daily review of healthcare news and information from Washington, DC and around the nation. These briefings will keep you up to date on recent developments and our effort to replace the PPACA with patient-centered reforms that protect the doctor-patient relationship and preserve individual freedom of choice.
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