Backgrounder posted November 10, 2010 by Lanhee Chen, Ph.D.
How Obamacare Burdens Already Strained State Budgets
Abstract: A growing number of state budgets are in danger of collapsing under multibillion-dollar deficits—and are about to be burdened with billions more in costs imposed by the new Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). Huge numbers of additional Medicaid enrollees and associated administrative costs will force states to raise taxes, go into even deeper…
Backgrounder posted August 26, 2003 by Lanhee Chen, Ph.D.
What Seniors Will Lose with a Universal Medicare Drug Entitlement
Millions of American seniors have worked
hard their entire lives in the belief that they would receive
health insurance benefits, including coverage for prescription
drugs, from their employer after retirement. But if Congress does
create a universal Medicare drug entitlement based on bills now
before a House-Senate conference, the retiree drug coverage many
seniors…