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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.
It’s true that the rich will pay higher taxes under Obamacare. But they aren’t the only ones.
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Medicaid, the joint federal-state health care program for the poor, is in need of major structural reform.
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The 2012 Medicare Trustees report reinforces the need for serious reform. Learn what key facts seniors and taxpayers alike should keep in mind.
The Heritage Foundation has outlined a detailed and comprehensive approach to reforming health care in Saving the American Dream.
How does Obamacare affect everday Americans? Explore the answers in The Heritage Foundation’s re-launched version of “Obamacare in Pictures: Visualizing the Effects of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act”.
Entitlement spending, especially on Medicare, is putting the nation on a path to ruinous debt. There is no solution to America’s fiscal crisis without serious, structural Medicare reform.
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A study released by Charles Blahous once again shows that Obamacare increases federal deficits and significantly worsens the nation’s fiscal outlook.
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...
As director of the Center for Health Policy Studies, Nina Owcharenko oversees The Heritage Foundation’s research and policy prescription...
Kathryn Nix analyzes and writes about health policy and entitlement reform as a policy analyst in the Center for Health Policy Studies a...
Visiting fellow James C. Capretta analyzes and writes on a range of domestic and economic issues while specializing in health care refor...
Stuart M. Butler, a nationally recognized architect of public policy, directs the Center for Policy Innovation. This new division of The...
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