The Latest From Operation Healthcare Choice

Feb 22, 2012

Last week the Gallup –Healthways Well Being Index released the second part of a new poll investigating recent trends in health insurance coverage in the United States. This publication focused specifically on health insurance coverage from employers, and may cause some heartache for the Obama Administration who continually claims that the number of people with affordable insurance will increase due to the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Feb 22, 2012

The wait is over…well, kind of. Last week the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released its guidelines for the approval pathway of biosimilar drugs to be introduced in the U.S.

Feb 21, 2012

Last Thursday, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a Question and Answer publication that addresses 22 commonly asked questions about essential health benefits (EHB) and the Bulletin HHS unveiled in December.

Feb 21, 2012

A “national moment of truth.”  That’s how President Obama’s fiscal reform commission characterized the state of the nation’s finances over one year ago.  Last year, the President kicked the commission’s bipartisan proposals into the gutter, put out a budget drenched in red ink, and was greeted with such outrage that he quickly gave speech tha

Feb 17, 2012

Today the House-Senate Conference Committee passed yet another extension to defer the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) cuts to physician payments in the Medicare program. The cuts, which have grown to roughly 28 percent, would have made it impossible for many physicians to continue treating Medicare patients.