Viewpoints: Ron Paul, USA Today on individual mandate; NYT’s Greenhouse on court challenges to health law

USA Today: Editorial: Everyone Should Be Required to Have InsuranceMassachusetts leads the nation in health insurance coverage of its citizens (5% or fewer are uninsured), and Texas is dead last (26% have no coverage). You’d think that former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney would be bragging about his role in making his state No. 1, and that…

Viewpoints: Opposing views of HHS’ contraception rule; Health care costs and the liberal agenda

Los Angeles Times: In Defense Of Family PlanningThe administration’s rule leaves the decision in the hands of patients, where it belongs, while respecting the rights of religions. It holds true to the original and wise idea that access to preventive medicine is a good idea for the nation’s physical and financial well-being (1/22).

The Washington Post: Respecting…

Viewpoints: ACOs might replace health insurers; Losing a job while pregnant; Barring smokers from the workplace

The New York Times: The Opinionator: The End Of Health Insurance CompaniesHere’s a bold prediction for the new year. By 2020, the American health insurance industry will be extinct. Insurance companies will be replaced by accountable care organizations -; groups of doctors, hospitals and other health care providers who come together to provide the full range…

Viewpoints: Censoring flu research; Assailing Komen’s move to cut Planned Parenthood funding

The New York Times: Don’t Censor Influenza ResearchIn December, the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity made an unprecedented request: it asked the editors of the journals Nature and Science not to publish certain details in two papers describing experiments in which scientists created a highly transmissible form of the deadly H5N1 influenza virus. … Such caution, though well intentioned, is misplaced. The…

Viewpoints: The ‘need’ to repeal CLASS; Squaring Romney’s poverty and tax promises

Politico: Repeal Ponzi Scheme Known As CLASSAs a physician, I treated hundreds of patients who needed long-term care including ones with Alzheimer’s. More than 13.5 million seniors could have this disease by 2040. Middle-class families remain dangerously unprepared for these costs. Some people will likely spend more than $ 100,000 on care. The fictional CLASS daily benefit…