By Elizabeth Vlock Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) told the Center for American progress Tuesday that the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) delivery system reform clauses have the potential to reduce health care spending by 700 billion to 1 trillion annually by cutting “drivers of unnecessary and excess cost in the United…

Is Obamacare being used to suppress religious freedom? That’s what American Catholics are being told in letters read from the pulpit. They’ve angry about the latest government edict, requiring employer-provided health insurance to cover all forms of government-approved contraception, including methods that chemically abort a newly-conceived fetus. Clergy in a…

Once again, another study confirms that federal workers are overpaid compared to the private sector. The Congressional Budget Office reports that federal employees on average are paid 2 percent more than people who work for businesses. But when you factor in the fringe benefits—health care, retirement, paid vacation, and so…

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