Research/Policy Issues
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Health Policy Digest - October 27, 2009
October 27, 2009
Middle-income families will face a big marginal tax rate increase under ObamaCare, say observers...
CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE/WALL STREET JOURNAL
Why do ObamaCare supporters want to put 90 million Americans on the welfare rolls?...
HERITAGE FOUNDATION
If the Baucus bill were to become law, in a couple of years Congress would be forced to take up the issue again to clean up the mess the bill will have created, say observers...
NATIONAL REVIEW
SWISS HEALTH CARE: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY
One of the good things about the Swiss health care system is that it is predominantly private; individuals are required to buy insurance and almost all of them do, says John C. Goodman, President, CEO and the Kellye Wright Fellow with the NCPA...
NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS
WHY HEALTH CARE IS SO EXPENSIVE IN NEW YORK
New York's private individual insurance market is among the nation's most expensive and highly regulated, say Stephen T. Parente, a professor of finance at the University of Minnesota, and Tarren Bragdon, an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute and chief executive officer of the Maine Heritage Policy Center...
WALL STREET JOURNAL
IF IT'S SO URGENT, WHY WOULD TWO ELECTIONS PASS BEFORE HEALTH REFORM TAKES EFFECT?
By the time Americans experience the effects of ObamaCare (except for the tax increases), not only will President Obama have run for re-election, but so will two-thirds of the senators -- and every House member will have been up for re-election twice, says researcher Robert A. Book...
HERITAGE FOUNDATION