“Health care” on The Daily Caller

White House spokesman Jay Carney today hinted that the Obama administration might compromise on its Jan. 20 directive requiring religious groups to comply with federal sex-related health insurance mandates. (more)

“Repeal and replace” has been a conservative mantra ever since the Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010. But while the process of getting rid of the law is somewhat straightforward, there’s been no consensus on what to actually replace it with. (more)

As the race for the Republican presidential nomination has reached a point where opposition research has hit a fever pitch, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum is discovering that even he isn’t immune from vicious political attacks. (more)

In a previous piece, I discussed Epic Systems Corporation CEO Judy Faulkner’s efforts to prevent the implementation of semantic interoperability in the healthcare information technology (HIT) industry. This piece discusses how her stance on interoperability favors unions. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — The last time Mark Stella went to the dentist he didn’t need an insurance card. Instead, he pulled out a Groupon. (more)

Meet Judy Faulkner. She is the founder and CEO of Epic Systems Corporation in Wisconsin. She is also a member of the GAO Health Information Technology Policy Committee and an advisory board member of the Journal of Healthcare Information Management. She is also politically active. In 2008, Faulkner gave at least $110,000 to political organizations and candidates, including $57,000 to the Democratic National Committee and $2,300 to then-Senator Barack Obama, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. After Obama’s election, Faulkner continued giving to the Democrats, giving at least $85,000 through the 2010 midterm election. In 2010, Faulkner gave $60,000 to the Greater Wisconsin Committee, which was responsible for targeting conservative Wisconsin state Supreme Court Justice David Prosser for defeat. In 2011, Faulkner has given over $51,000 to Democrats. (more)

2011 was supposed to be a bad year for President Obama’s health care law, with House Republicans taking aim and federal lawsuits snaking their way through the judiciary. And although the House of Representatives has had limited success in dismantling the overhaul, key portions began to unravel all by themselves. (more)

As a result of President Obama’s health care reform law, some Americans are already losing their health insurance coverage before the law’s regulations even go into effect, according to a new report. (more)

Hollywood actress and activist Glenn Close told The Daily Caller that the federal government’s goal of building a national Electronic Health Records system poses “a danger” in terms of privacy. (more)

President Barack Obama’s health care reform law is already bleeding jobs from the nation’s high-tech, high-wage medical device industry, but Senate Democrats aren’t trying to close the wound, says Minnesota Republican Rep. Erik Paulsen. (more)

Republicans say the Supreme Court’s review of President Obama’s health sector takeover will help the GOP in 2012, even though the outcome will likely rest on a single unpredictable judge, Anthony Kennedy. (more)

Registered voters say President Barack Obama’s health care reform bill “has been bad for America” and half say their costs have gone up since its passage, according to a new poll set to be released Tuesday. (more)

New guidelines governing how long medical residents can be on duty were implemented this summer, but rather than solving a problem, these parameters jeopardize patient safety at our nation’s teaching hospitals. They do little more than pay lip service to curbing long shifts and fail to protect patients from fatigued, overworked residents. (more)

Insurance companies that don’t acquiesce to the president’s healthcare demands are soon in for a rude awakening: The Obama administration announced Friday that companies seeking to raise health premium rates by more than 10 percent will be exploited on a government website. (more)

Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele told The Daily Caller that it was a “very conservative” decision for 2012 Republican presidential candidate Gov. Rick Perry of Texas to give in-state college tuition rates to illegal immigrant students. (more)

A small-business group filed a petition with the Supreme Court, Wednesday morning, to expedite  review of the pending 26-state lawsuit against President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) is requesting that the Supreme Court strike down the entire law as unconstitutional — not just the individual mandate. (more)

Republican Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin showcased his policy credentials Tuesday at a speech at the Hoover Institution, optimistically making the case that Obama’s health care reform law can be repealed and replaced. (more)

Although the White House has been vocal about its childhood obesity concerns, a new report released this week shows that billions of taxpayer dollars are spent each year in federal subsidies to support food additives associated with unhealthy food. (more)

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A severe shortage of drugs for chemotherapy, infections and other serious ailments is endangering patients and forcing hospitals to buy life-saving medications from secondary suppliers at huge markups because they can’t get them any other way. (more)

Ron Suskind’s controversial new book, “Confidence Men” reveals how President Barack Obama came to embrace “RomneyCare” as a model of reform. (more)