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A Rx for Disaster: A Physician’s Diagnosis of the “Affordable Care Act”

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Tags: Health Care

It has been over three years since the Affordable Care Act was signed into law. As a physician I am the first to admit we must reform America’s health care system, but the way Congress and President Obama approached the challenge simply did not address the areas that needed improvement. Democrats were so eager to pass health care legislation—any health care legislation—that they settled for a rushed and ineffective law. Creating a system where Americans will pay more to get less.

MICHAEL BURGESS: Death Is Much Less Complicated Than The U.S. Tax Code

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Tags: Economy, Budget and Spending, Government Reform

While nothing in this world is certain except death and taxes, death at least, appears to be less complicated. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the federal income tax in America. Unlike a fine wine, the tax code has not aged well, and the current system has reached staggering levels of complexity. Just to give you an idea, every year Americans spend over 6 billion hours preparing their tax forms and well over $400 billion in compliance. Astonishingly, Americans spend about 30 percent of the total revenues collected by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) just to fulfill their responsibility of filing. Additionally, the IRS has over 2,000 forms and instructions listed on their website.

RICK PERRY & MICHAEL BURGESS: Adding millions to Medicaid system isn't the solution

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“We can’t simply put more people into a broken system that doesn't work.” Those words weren't uttered by a Republican foe of the Affordable Care Act, although they certainly have been echoed over time. Rather, they were spoken by President Obama himself in 2009, as he conceded the point that dumping millions onto Medicaid or Medicare was no real solution to health care reform. Yet, just four years later, here we are.