Health Care

Budget Battles

  • Hospitals Launch New Push to Slash Labor Costs

    By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

    Faced with the prospect that the Affordable Care Act’s Medicare cost control http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2011/06/09/Medicare-Cost-Control-... measures will remain in place even if the...

  • Pharma Takes Hit As 'Blues' Drugs Fade to Black

    By Kate Kelland and BEN HIRSCHLER, Reuters

    The development of a novel antidepressant ground to a halt this week when researchers found it did not make patients feel any better than the pills they were already taking.The drug firms took the...

  • If Mandate Goes, How Much Goes With It?

    By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

    Declaring other insurance sections of health care reform law void because the individual mandate is unconstitutional would plunge the Supreme Court into a difficult process of determining which...

  • How Obamacare Derailed the Economic Recovery

    By Liz Peek

    Here we go again. All eyes are on the Supreme Court as it wrestles with whether or not President Obama’s healthcare bill is constitutional. The country is divided on the merits of the law, but this...

  • The Entitled States of America: We Want More!

    By Charles Sykes, Wisconsin Policy Institute

    Milton Friedman may have argued that there is no such thing as a free lunch, but you’d have a hard time convincing millions of Americans of that today. They know better – or at least they think they...