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The United States spends $2.6 trillion on health care, roughly 17 percent of the gross domestic product. Additionally, government is responsible for approximately 50 cents out of every dollar spent on health care because of the huge and rapidly growing government health care programs: Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP, and state and public health care programs. The result of so much government control is that health care is one of the most highly regulated sectors of the American economy. Government financing means government control, and government control means less personal freedom.
1.Transform private health insurance so that individuals and families are able to own and control their own policies and take them from job to job without tax or regulatory penalties. Currently, nine percent of Americans directly purchase their own health insurance. We want this figure to increase to 50 percent in 10 years.
2.Transform health care financing to create new opportunities for individuals and families so they control the flow of dollars into the system. Currently, only $3.50 out of every $100 is spent by individuals for the direct purchase of private coverage. We want to increase that amount to $50 out of every $100 over the next 10 years.
3.Transform Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP so that individuals and families have a broad choice of health plans and providers and that those providers are directly accountable to patients for their quality of care.
Obamacare’s contraception mandate tramples upon religious liberty and illustrates yet again the need to repeal the new health care law.
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Obamacare will not solve Medicare’s fiscal problem – instead, its tinkering with the current program will essentially end Medicare as we know it, removing consumer choice and competition.
Medicare premium support would give beneficiaries access to a wide range of health plans and providers, while controlling costs and reducing expensive bureaucracy and red tape.
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The CBO’s latest report reiterates the need for Congress to get serious about our nation’s debt and spending problems. It is past time to repeal Obamacare and get the country’s fiscal future back on track.
Learn more about the case before the Supreme Court and what it means for the controversial health care law.
Unless Congress addresses serious changes, Medicare physicians face drastic cuts to their payment for treating senior and disabled citizens.
The dramatic changes coming to Medicare via the Affordable Care Act—including its potential to limit seniors’ access to care—is worrying seniors and doctors alike.
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Since its passing, Obamacare has raised health care cost and reduced options for consumers.
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An expert in health care policy and markets at The Heritage Foundation, Edmund F. Haislmaier frequently is asked to help lawmakers d...
Robert E. Moffit, a seasoned veteran of more than three decades in Washington policymaking, is The Heritage Foundation’s senior fellow i...
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