Grace-Marie Turner

The Op-Ed on Generic Drugs

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The whole point of providing a prescription drug benefit in any health plan is to make sure that patients have access to the right medicines to treat their specific illnesses. Why, then, would some analysts recommend that state officials limit the prescription drugs available through Medicaid just to generic drugs when evidence shows those may not be the right drugs for individual patients?

Resolute actions by GOP and Dem governors may yet save Medicaid for the poor

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The battle over Medicaid's proper role in health reform has been a hotly contested tug of war thus far, but that likely will change as more governors join the fray and flex their collective muscle.

PolitiFact’s assertion that ObamaCare isn’t a government takeover ignores the cold, hard facts

ALEXANDRIA. Va. — PolitiFact, which aspires to be the online oracle of all things true and untrue in the political debate, is wrong in saying it is the lie of the year when people call ObamaCare a “government takeover of health care.”

Slicing and Dicing ObamaCare

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The American people consistently have said they fear government control over their healthcare choices. And the more they learn about ObamaCare, the more they realize their fears are justified.

Judge Hudson made the right constitutional decision on the individual mandate

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The most unpopular provision in Obamacare — the mandate requiring individuals to buy healthcare plans from private insurers — has been declared unconstitutional on two crucial grounds in its first serious court test.

A resolute GOP can chop off the many heads of the ObamaCare hydra over the next two years

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A vote to repeal ObamaCare will be high on the agenda of the House of Representatives when the new Congress convenes in January, and the bill is very likely to pass the House with support from both Republicans and conservative — or at least frightened — Democrats.

In the end, anger over ObamaCare swamped Dems with a massive voter’s revolt

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The evidence is clear: Health reform was a serious liability on the campaign trail for Democrats who supported passage of the massive overhaul law.

ObamaCare’s mandates mean ever-rising costs for U.S. consumers

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A battle is breaking out between health insurers and the Obama administration over who is to blame for rising health insurance costs.

ObamaCare puts government-run monopoly on a rapidly accelerating fast-track

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi raised millions of eyebrows in early March when she told reporters, we have to pass the health reform bill "so that you can find out what is in it."

Doctors will flee Medicare’s low payments, onerous rules

Alexandria, Va. — The exodus of doctors from Medicare – and likely from private practice altogether – is accelerating.

Obamacare’s soaring costs break the bank for taxpayers, consumers and U.S. business

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans consistently said controlling health costs was their top priority for health reform. But Washington didn’t listen, and independent experts now say the new health law actually will drive up the cost of healthcare and insurance premiums.

Widely unpopular reform will be albatross around Democrats’ necks this November

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Health reform is the Holy Grail for Democrats, but it may turn out instead to be their political death march.

AARP’S Tacit endorsement of medicare cuts line its pockets but short changes senior

Why else would the nation’s largest lobbying organization, sworn to protect the interests of senior citizens, watch silently as Congress plans to cut Medicare spending by $400 billion to pay for its health reform legislation?

Expanding federal control of Healthcare will only raise costs and reduce quality

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — President Obama says we can’t afford not to pass health reform, even as our economy faces its biggest challenges in decades.

Private sector beats politicians in helping parents get best healthcare for their kids

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Few issues generate more political emotion than the need to provide health insurance for children. It is much less expensive to cover children than adults, and healthy children have the best chance of becoming healthy adults.