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Regulating 23andMe to Death Won’t Stop New Age of Genetic Testing

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“Often, incumbents’ only competitive response is to run to the regulators. That’s what’s has been happening to car-sharing services such as Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar; to private drone makers; and casual accommodation services such as Airbnb, to name just a few examples. And now it’s happening to 23andMe, one of hundreds of new startups aimed at giving healthcare consumers more and better information about their own bodies — information that has long been under the exclusive and increasingly expensive control of medical professionals.  Absent any real law on the subject, the agency has strained credulity to categorize 23andMe’s product as a diagnostic ‘device’.”

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2014/01/the-fda-may-win-the-battle-this-holiday-season-but-23andme-will-win-the-war/

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White House Granted Itself ‘High Security Risk’ Healthcare.gov Waiver

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“A memo the Obama administration turned over to the House Oversight Committee revealed that the White House granted itself a waiver to launch the faulty HealthCare.gov website with ‘a level of uncertainty.’  The waiver was granted four days before the Oct. 1 launch of the Obamacare website, even though it was ‘deemed as a high (security) risk,’ according to CBS News.  CBS News reports tests to secure customer information privacy on the federal health exchange website fell behind schedule, with a required top-to-bottom security test before the launch of the site never getting done.”

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/11/05/cbs-news-white-house-granted-itself-waiver-to-launch-obamacare-website-deemed-as-high-security-risk/

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New health law frustrates many in middle class

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“An analysis by The New York Times shows the cost of premiums for people who just miss qualifying for subsidies varies widely across the country and rises rapidly for people in their 50s and 60s. In some places, prices can quickly approach 20 percent of a person’s income.  Experts consider health insurance unaffordable once it exceeds 10 percent of annual income. By that measure, a 50-year-old making $50,000 a year, or just above the qualifying limit for assistance, would find the cheapest available plan to be unaffordable in more than 170 counties around the country, ranging from Anchorage to Jackson, Miss.”

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101291264

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Support for ObamaCare Falls to 35%.

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“As a symbolic gesture, President Obama has signed up for ObamaCare — a bronze plan. He signed up on the Washington, D.C. site. He did not try to sign up on the federal government’s problem-plagued healthcare site. The policy will cost $4,800 a year. It covers only him, not his family. In short, it’s a rotten policy. For $4,800 a year, he buys a policy with a $4,300 deductible.  If the White House thinks a policy like this is the fulfillment of a dream for low-income families, he is living in fantasy land.  Meanwhile, Senate Majority leader Harry Reid says that ObamaCare is going to be a blessing to Democrats running for re-election in November. He is sure of this.”

http://teapartyeconomist.com/2013/12/24/support-obamacare-falls-35/

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Bill Bonner: Why Democrats are Plotting Against Obamacare

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“Why would Congress exempt itself from the program? Because it knows it’s a bum plan.  Why would the law take more than 2,000 pages to explain? Because there are so many boondoggles and giveaways hidden in it.  Why isn’t there more resistance from insurance companies, drug manufacturers and the medical industry? Because they’re all in on it.  And another pertinent question: Why is the implementation so sloppy and incompetent?   Ah… glad you asked.  Apparently, a website that was meant to service a sector that accounts for one-sixth of US economic output was set up without any significant testing. It was almost as if they didn’t want it to work.”

http://www.bonnerandpartners.com/the-shocking-reason-democrats-are-plotting-against-obamacare/

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With Affordable Care Act, Canceled Policies for New York Professionals

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“Many in New York’s professional and cultural elite have long supported President Obama’s health care plan. But now, to their surprise, thousands of writers, opera singers, music teachers, photographers, doctors, lawyers and others are learning that their health insurance plans are being canceled and they may have to pay more to get comparable coverage, if they can find it.  Some have received notices already; others, whose plans have not yet expired, will soon receive letters in the mail. It is unclear exactly how many New Yorkers are affected; according to state health officials, as many as 400,000 independent practitioners get health insurance through job-related group plans.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/14/nyregion/with-affordable-care-act-canceled-policies-for-new-york-professionals.html?pagewanted=all

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When the FDA Declared War on a Texas AIDS Patient

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“One thing the movie does well is show how those in charge of these monopoly organizations have little concern for peoples’ welfare, and how real doctors and patients are unable to effectively fight the system. It also depicts the police, the IRS, and border agents are the enforcement arm of this crony capitalist system.  Most people never see the American medical establishment exposed for what it is. Dallas Buyers Club shows the system at its very worst, a crony capitalist combination of the profit motive armed with the vast enforcement power of the federal government.”

http://www.mises.org/daily/6607/When-the-FDA-Declared-War-on-a-Texas-AIDS-Patient

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Obama Amends the Constitution By Statute

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“The PPACA authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to make a proposal if the IPAB board does not do so by a set date. As with the board, if Congress does not provide an alternative to that proposal, then the Secretary is authorized to implement it unilaterally, and with appropriated funds if necessary. (Presumably, the funds would come from Medicare.) In short, a panel of 15 experts will assume the unprecedented power of making federal law and changing laws previously enacted by Congress. Or one woman will: Secretary of HHS Kathleen Sebelius.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/editorials/34815/Wendy-McElroy-Obama-Amends-the-Constitution-By-Statute/

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From Obamacare to Single Payer – We Told You So

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“An Internet facility that was supposed to deal with one-sixth of the US economy was produced without security and presented to the public without a thorough run-through.  This kind of incompetence is well beyond the norm even for the US federal government. President Obama himself nixed any possibility of extending the deadline, so obviously the timing was more important than performance. Or perhaps the excessive haste merely provided a kind of cover for the real intention, which was to produce a fatally flawed system. Perhaps the idea – as we speculated previously – is that the system is to offer evidence that quasi-market systems simply do not work. Enter single payer.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/34832/From-Obamacare-to-Single-Payer–We-Told-You-So/

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70% of California’s Physicians Will Opt Out of ObamaCare

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“The estimate is that 70% of California’s physicians will not participate in the program. If accurate, this will create a nightmare for ObamaCare.  The physicians in California are paid at Medicaid rates — far below costs. The physicians say they will not do it.  Will 70% hold firm? No one knows. Will they be squeezed if they capitulate? Yes. Their practices will be put under price controls. Price controls produce shortages. Always.  The people of California are going to get a firsthand look at what price controls also always produce: non-price rationing. People will sit in full doctors’ offices. They will pay with their lost time. Others will find that no physician will accept them.”

http://teapartyeconomist.com/2013/12/09/70-californias-physicians-will-opt-obamacare/

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