“Health care” on The Daily Caller

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

Three years ago, Burlington, Vt. resident Rachel Phillips pulled a muscle in her shoulder. As a professional ballet dancer who had danced with The Royal Ballet in London, injuries like this were common.  (more)

Watson, IBM’s latest technological marvel, was first introduced to the public on the Jeopardy! game show. But after it decisively walloped 75-day champion Ken Jennings, the supercomputer set its sights on the health care industry.  (more)

(Reuters) – The powerful healthcare industry hopes a congressional “super committee” tasked with slashing America’s debt will fail and is lobbying instead for automatic spending cuts that will kick in if the panel deadlocks. (more)

Last Sunday, The Peterborough Players, of Peterborough, New Hampshire, brought down the curtain on a two-week run of Jules Romains’s “Doctor Knock.” On opening night, artistic director Gus Kaikkonen introduced the Players’ rendition of the 1923 comedy as the French equivalent of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town.” Perhaps he aimed to please the locals, who take great pride in their town being the inspiration for Wilder’s American classic. But however many French high school productions of “Doctor Knock” have been staged since 1923, it is a play with great resonance for 21st-century Americans. It is about health care. (more)

For conservatives, health care and education aren’t “sexy” policy issues, at least compared to defense and taxes. But Arnold Kling and Nick Schulz argue persuasively in the current issue of National Affairs that conservatives need to immerse themselves in the details of health care and education spending if they want to control the future growth of government. (more)

The White House wasted no time before it denounced Friday’s federal court decision that the individual mandate portion of President Obama’s much-touted health care reform law is unconstitutional. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s health care tab is on track to hit $4.6 trillion in 2020, accounting for about $1 of every $5 in the economy, government number crunchers estimate in a report released Thursday. (more)

One in eight small businesses have had or expect to have their health insurance plans terminated since the passage of President Obama’s health care reform. (more)

James Verone said he hoped his $1 bank robbery would earn him a three-year jail sentence, during which he could undergo surgery on his back and his foot and have a painful lump on his chest diagnosed and treated. After that, the 59-year-old from Gastonia, N.C., would move to Myrtle Beach to collect his social security, he told local reporters. (more)

Sure she wears tu tu’s adorned with sequins and dyes her hair blue, but “California Girl” Katy Perry opened up to Rolling Stone about serious issues, like health care, in the cover story of this month’s issue. Backstage at her candy-coated ‘California Dreams Tour,’ Perry spoke candidly to the mag about everything from body image to politics. (more)

In one of the first concrete steps to remake the way medical care is delivered, hospitals are competing to hire primary-care physicians, trying to lure them from their private practices to work as salaried employees alongside specialists. (more)

In what’s appearing to be a last-minute move to avoid scrutiny, President Barack Obama’s administration announced late Friday that it is doing away with Obamacare waivers. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Removing a potential political distraction ahead of next year’s elections, the Obama administration Friday announced an early end to a health care waiver program that has come under fire from congressional Republicans. (more)

The Democratic National Committee is attacking Tim Pawlenty for giving a paid speech on healthcare reform to America’s Health Insurance Plans’ annual conference Thursday in San Francisco, accusing him of being in the pocket of the health insurers. (more)

The Obama administration is ready to announce Friday that Medicaid benefits will be extended to cover same-sex couples. (more)

Oral arguments were heard Wednesday in the lawsuit brought by Florida and 25 other states challenging the constitutionality of the individual mandate in the health care law.  (more)

The Daily Caller has learned the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) never had the authority to issue waivers from Obamacare’s annual limit requirements. (more)

Voters are still reeling from President Barack Obama’s overhaul of the nation’s health care system, so it’s no surprise that as they begin examining in earnest the records of his would-be Republican replacements, they will devote a great measure of their time to health care reform. In the record of former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, with whom I worked closely as the speaker of Utah’s House of Representatives, voters will find the marketplace reforms that our national health care system desperately needs. (more)

It’s getting personal now. In a shift still evolving, federal enforcers are targeting individual executives in health care fraud cases that used to be aimed at impersonal corporations. (more)