Kaiser Health News: “State regulators are cracking down on a health care product that targets the growing group of uninsured and underinsured Americans: the discount health plan…

The Health Care Ripple Effect The Daily Caller To sum it up, the (recent Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services health reform) analysis shows this bill will increase health care costs – causing a ripple effect – forcing millions to drop their current plan because they simply can’t afford it (Rep. Phil Roe, 4/29). Cost? [...]

Following announcements by leading health insurers that their firms would end the practice of rescission, or stripping the sick from their roles, the broader insurance industry followed suit, according to a letter from America’s Health Insurance Plans to congressional Democrats, Politico reports. “The decision to end rescission …

CongressDaily: “When House Minority Leader Boehner ranks wholesale repeal of healthcare reform as Republicans’ No. 1 priority, that thinking might be more wishful than pragmatic.” If the GOP scores significant gains in the upcoming midterm and 2012 elections, they could draw Democrats back to the table to renegotiate certain parts of the law…

This week’s focus on the federal deficit — at a fiscal summit that drew many major policy makers and at the opening of President Barack Obama’s bipartisan debt-reduction commission — has renewed interest in the economic effects of the new health care law, especially given Obama’s remarks that everything, even that law, would be under [...]