The Breathtaking Power of Medicare Contractors ©Jack Edward Urquhart The power wielded by private Medicare Contractors is breathtaking. But this secret is well hidden within the dense web of laws, regulations, guidelines, policies and practices that is our federal...
Year: 2012
Warning: FDA Whistleblower Idolatry is Associated with Adverse Reactions
“Whistle-blowers” are invaluable and their right to speak requires zealous protection. But too often the whistle-blower is deified before he or she is vetted. Reactive idolatry of FDA whistle-blowers is hazardous. The anointing of Dr. Robert Smith, an FDA...
The Affordable Care Act Reduces the National Debt (Part Two in a Series)
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) reduces the national debt according to the most reliable evidence. Howling about the cost of the ACA is misplaced. How can the ACA possibly reduce the deficit? Partisan hysterics shriek that the ACA insurance coverage provisions,...
Should Texas Accept or Reject the Medicaid Expansion? Part One
The Affordable Healthcare Act (ACA) expands Medicaid to all persons under age 65 with individual incomes of about $14,500 or less. Rejecting this ACA expansion would cost Texas about $52.5 billion in federal funds and leave 1.4 million low-income Texans without any...
The Affordable Health Care Act: The Next Chapter
United States Supreme Court Decision on the Affordable Health Care Act [1]: The Next Chapter © Jack Edward Urquhart July 12, 2012 Beirne, Maynard & Parsons, L.L.P. June 28, 2012, the United States Supreme Court resolved constitutional challenges to two provisions...
United States Supreme Court Rules on the Affordable Healthcare Act
© Jack Edward Urquhart June 29, 2012 The verdict is in: John Glover Roberts Jr. is a Chief Justice of uncommon skill. True, he rescued the Affordable Care Act[1] by breaking away from his fellow Republican appointees. But consider these significant features of his...
United States Supreme Court Shreds the Arizona “Immigration Law:” Does it Tip its Hand on Healthcare?
Arizona created its own immigration law in 2010. The federal government sued to declare this venture unconstitutional, arguing that the United States government, not Arizona, had the authority to set immigration policy. The federal district court sitting in Arizona...