Commentary: Jindal Taking Right Approach to Affordable Care Act

By Kevin Kane

07/13/2012

Supporters of the law argue that states should move quickly to create state insurance exchanges in order to ensure a higher level of state control, but this notion is an illusion. The law’s provisions would actually require Louisiana and its citizens to cede decision-making power to the federal government.

TAGS: Bobby Jindal, Budget, Health Care, Health Care Reform, Louisiana, ObamaCare, patient protection and affordable care act

Doctors in the House: Cassidy and Fleming Call for “Price Transparency”

By Kevin Mooney

09/27/2011

Republicans did not do enough to advance free market reforms within the health care system when they last controlled both houses of Congress, some of the medical doctors who now serve in the House have said. Rep. Fleming and Rep. Cassidy are both calling for reforms built around "price transparency."

TAGS: Bill Cassidy, Health Care, John Fleming, Medicaid, medicaire, ObamaCare, patient protection and affordable care act, U.S. Supreme Court

Unelected Board Could Impose Medicare Cuts Without Congressional Approval

By Kevin Mooney

09/08/2011

Unelected bureaucrats could be empowered with unchecked authority to set rates for Medicare reimbursement and block access to prescription drugs, a new lawsuit against ObamaCare warns.

TAGS: Arizona, Diane Cohen, Goldwater Institute, Independent Payment Advisory Board, ObamaCare, patient protection and affordable care act, Rep. John Fleming

ObamaCare Opponents Differ Sharply Over Strategy at ALEC Conference

By Kevin Mooney

08/08/2011

A dispute over the merits and potential defects of health care exchange systems continued to rage last week at the American Legislative Exchange Council’s (ALEC) annual meeting in New Orleans as state officials expressed concern over ObamaCare’s Medicaid mandates.

TAGS: American Legislative Exchange Council, Cato Institute, health care exchanges, Heritage Foundation, Judge Roger Vinson, Medicaid, ObamaCare, patient protection and affordable care act

Commentary: Obama’s Pre-Existing Conditions Plan Looking Like An Early Failure

By Jamison Beuerman

02/04/2011

"Rather than allow the states to continue to administer their own insurance policies, the federal government instead duplicaed a state service at a massive cost, and has little to show for it now"

TAGS: Health Care Reform, Louisiana Health care, ObamaCare, patient protection and affordable care act, preexisting condition

A Tax Plan for Our Brighter Future

A Tax Plan for Our Brighter Future paper-digital In Louisiana’s Comeback: A Tax Reform for Our Brighter Future, the Pelican Institute identifies the state’s significant tax problems and proposes a path to set the state in a brighter direction, including flattening the personal and corporate income taxes to 3.5% rates, reducing the number of tax preferences, eliminating...

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