Here is another good news/bad news column about the 112th Congress.

Which politicians do you trust more to micromanage your health care: federal or state? That’s the false choice presented by two versions of “federalism” intended to divide responsibility for health policy between the national government and the states.

Two months ago, the House adopted a budget resolution that outlines the Republican majority's ambitious plans to slow the growth of federal entitlement spending. If implemented properly, entitlement spending restraint can address the long-term fiscal imbalance in a way that promotes economic growth and freedom.

The same money can't be spent twice. ObamaCare tries to do precisely that, and the government will have to borrow the difference.

Real health reform is needed at both the state and federal levels. It will take a few more shovels first to bury most, if not all, of the Affordable Care Act and then to dig a way out to a market-based solution that relies on state-level policy innovation in key areas.  

President Obama promised that the brunt of any financial reckoning will fall mostly only on those making more than $250,000 annually. Under his healthcare plan, the economic agony starts at income levels that fall much lower than that.

Joseph Antos' analysis of Medicare's fiscal crisis and reform options that could make the program sustatainable; a response to a request from 16 health professionals elected to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives for public comment on Medicare reform. 

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