“Health care” on The Daily Caller

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at a speech at the Hoover Institution, optimistically making the case that Obama’s health care reform law can be repealed and replaced.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)

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)