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Obamacare Implodes
As HSAs and similar plans have soared in the private market, health spending growth has plummeted. That is the result of market competition and incentives.
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Some Variety in Hospital Pricing Makes Sense
I’m no economist. But I was annoyed by a recent article in the Chicago Tribune reporting a new federal survey of hospital prices. I wanted Tribune readers to think a[...]
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Uninsured May Have Better Access to Care than Medicaid Patients, Survey Shows
Because it may cost more to file a claim than a physician can hope to collect, physicians may lose on every Medicaid patient, and lose less if they just see the patients for free.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Health Care · Podcast
Heartland Daily Podcast: The Harmful Effects of the Medical Device Tax
At the start of this year makers of medical devices became subject to a federal excise tax on their products. It’s an especially bad way to fund Obamacare, says the[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Health Care
Three Ways ObamaCare Is Failing
As I’ve noted before, there were three opportunities for those who oppose Obamacare to repeal and replace it. One path was at the ballot box, where opponents failed. The next[...]
Unlike ObamaCare, the Republican Plan Will Work
Ezra Klein has a lengthy piece taking apart my post from last July concerning the media’s oft-repeated “Republicans Have No Obamacare Replacement” myth. I’m glad he’s engaged on this point,[...]
We All Live in a Ninny Nanny Land
Anyone who still believes that the United States of America has a “free” market economy has obviously not taken a look at the health care sector lately. Speaking as a[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Education · Environment/Energy · FIRE
You Should Be Checking Out the Heartlander Digital Magazine
If you’re not regularly visiting the Heartlander digital magazine, you’re missing out on some of the best work from The Heartland Institute, one of America’s most influential free-market think tanks. Heartland[...]
Will Obama Delay Obamacare?
As the fiscal cliff discussions in Washington move forward, don’t be surprised if you soon hear about President Barack Obama requesting an extension on his signature legislative achievement. It turns[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Politics · Taxes
Replacing Speaker Boehner
John Boehner is a good man in a hard place. He has served in public office as a lifelong conservative, not a RINO. His position on the Obama tax increases[...]
Health Care · Liberty · Politics
Can You Immunize Yourself Against Obamacare?
The short answer is … no. Our Benjamin Domenech explained on Glenn Beck’s The Blaze TV the other day how you need to find a primary-care physician — and a young[...]
What Comes Next for Obamacare
[First published Nov. 15 at Ricochet.] Republican governors met in Las Vegas to sort out where they go from here on health care policy. They all face two key decisions post-election:[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Education · Environment/Energy · FIRE
Stories from the Must-Read Heartlander Digital Magazine
You’re a reader of this blog, so you are a part of the conversation at The Heartland Institute, one of America’s most influential free-market think tanks. The posts here reflect[...]
Heartland Reacts to Wisconsin’s Refusal to Set Up Obamacare Insurance Exchange
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) announced Friday that his state will not set up an insurance exchange under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The decision brings the list[...]
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Post-election Stories from the Must-Read Heartlander Digital Magazine
You’re a reader of this blog, so you are a part of the conversation at The Heartland Institute, one of America’s most influential free-market think tanks. The posts here reflect the exchange[...]
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- James Bovard: A Brief History of IRS Political Targeting - WSJ.com
- The IRS Scandal: the Future of Big Government Is Now « Commentary Magazine
- Lessons from the IRS scandal | Power Line
- On the AP-Justice Department Story - Ricochet.com
- Emptyage — Generation X Doesn't Want to Hear It
