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ObamaCare on the Brink
The most significant entitlement increase since the Great Society will be operating on the honor system.
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Featured · Health Care · Politics · Regulation
Watch: Heartland’s Ben Domenech Blasts Obamacare on Blaze TV
“This was a plan that was never designed to work. It was designed to pass.”
Featured · Health Care · Politics
Heartland Institute Experts React to Delay of Obamacare Employer Mandate
The following statements from health care policy experts at The Heartland Institute – a free-market think tank – may be used for attribution.
Featured · Health Care · Politics
Chevy, Cadillac, and Obamacare
Don’t expect ‘better’ benefits to overcome rate shock.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Health Care
Obama’s Unaffordable Act
All along he intended for Obamacare costs to soar.
Featured · Health Care · Politics
ObamaCare and the Young and Healthy
Anecdote isn’t the singular of data. But it’s not an exaggeration to say the political success or failure of Obamacare’s model hinges on whether or not young and healthy people behave the same way as I did.
Lies, Damned Lies, and the “Affordable Care Act”
Now that the Congress has passed the Orwellian monstrosity that is Obamacare — and Ms. Pelosi and the rest of us have found out what’s in it —President Obama’s rhetorical “guarantees” have proved as phony as a three-dollar bill.
Economics · Featured · Health Care · Politics
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.
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[...]
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[...]
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Readable Links- Major Sports Organizations Discuss Climate Change with Bicameral Task Force
- Will Liberalism Implode? | RealClearPolitics
- Obama’s Humpty Dumpty fix: Health insurance market should put itself back together again
- Millennials: Obama Thinks You’re Stupid | FreedomWorks
- The Bureaucracy on Autopilot
- Jonah Goldberg - Obamacare Schadenfreudarama
- House Democratic Leaders: We Will Not Apologize to Americans Losing Their Health Insurance
