Health Care & Entitlements Legislative Alerts
March 13, 2012 JHealth Care & Entitlements
Yesterday, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released its final rule governing the creation and operation of health care exchanges, a key component of the President’s health care law. As Americans for Prosperity has written on multiple occasions, we do not support the efforts by states to serve as the administrative arm of the federal government by creating an exchange.
March 13, 2012 JHealth Care & Entitlements
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released its final rule governing the creation and operation of health care exchanges, a key component of the President’s health care law. As Americans for Prosperity has written on multiple occasions, we do not support the efforts by states to serve as the administrative arm of the federal government by creating an exchange.
March 08, 2012 JHealth Care & Entitlements
Dear Representative Rokita,
On behalf of more than 1.9 million Americans for Prosperity activists in all 50 states, I write in strong support of your recently introduced State Health Flexibility Act, H.R. 4160. Your bill converts funding for Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP) into a block grant, giving states more flexibility to set their own eligibility criteria, control costs, and improve care quality through innovation.
March 08, 2012 JHealth Care & Entitlements
Dear Representative Rokita,
On behalf of more than 1.9 million Americans for Prosperity activists in all 50 states, I write in strong support of your recently introduced State Health Flexibility Act, H.R. 4160. Your bill converts funding for Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP) into a block grant, giving states more flexibility to set their own eligibility criteria, control costs, and improve care quality through innovation.
February 29, 2012 JHealth Care & Entitlements
As the Supreme Court prepares to hear oral arguments on the constitutionality of President Obama’s health care plan at the end of March, one of the president’s closest advisers has added to the weight of evidence that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is losing viability among lawmakers and the public.
Last week, while testifying before Congress, the president’s acting budget director Jeffrey Zients undercut one of the central legal defenses of the law, admitting that the penalty imposed on those who do not purchase health insurance does not constitute a tax.
This acknowledgement contradicts one of the most important arguments the administration is making before the court. The administration will argue that the mandate is constitutional because it is a tax, and the government has been granted the power to tax.
