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Both of the current House and Senate health care bills disproportionately burden younger, healthier Americans with higher insurance premiums. To ensure that these young people buy health insurance anyway, Congress has decided to nudge them into purchasing insurance by enforcing a penalty for those who fail to buy coverage. Heritage Foundation analysts estimate that many under age 35 will opt out of buying insurance altogether, choosing to pay the penalty instead. If younger workers do not join t...

The Affordable Health Choices Act is a setback for bipartisan health care reform.

Christmas and New Years are almost here. As a result, as is always the case this time of year, we're being flooded with "year end" lists. These lists are a fun distraction that I actually rather look forward to as an amusing (and sometimes annoying) year end tradition. In particular, I'm a sucker for "best of the year" and "worst of the year" lists, particularly the latter. Unfortunately, I've usually been too lazy to construct such lists of my own, b...

President-elect Obama, during the campaign you pledged to build ahealth care system in which Americans can be assured of access to affordable health insurance.

/PRNewswire/ -- Today, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®)—an alliance of leading cancer centers—hosted its annual NCCN Patient Advocacy Summit....

In the name of patient protection, Congress is poised to make theproblems in America's current health care system even worse. 

Exploring solutions to America's health insurance problem.

At tonight's press conference, someone should ask President Obama why he's endorsing, and not threatening to veto, the 1,018-page House health-care reform bill now being rushed to passage: It breaks nearly all his core promises about health-care reform.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is the most consequential social legislation of our generation. Because this law directly affects literally every American citizen through the unprecedented imposition of individual and employer mandates and regulates in a highly prescriptive fashion the financing and delivery of health care in the United States, it will fundamentally alter the relationship between individual Americans and the federal government. It will also alter the relat...

Instead of building on bureaucratic structures or relying onoutmoded welfare programs, Congress can promote personal choice inhealth plans and benefits by transferring decisionmaking power inthe health care system to individuals and families.