Obamacare

Both parties and all candidates have deep flaws, and problems have no sound-bite solutions. But at this point in history, there is a civil war over foundational principles. The agenda of a candidate’s party counts.

Donny Kendal and John Nothdurft, with the help of Charlie Katebi, present episode #158 of the In The Tank Podcast. This week’s episode features work from the Cato Institute, the World Bank, The Heartland Institute, the Idaho Freedom Foundation, the Yankee Institute for Public Policy, and Pew Charitable Trusts.

On August 2, the Trump administration issued a proposed rule allowing the sale of short-term, limited-duration health insurance plans, also known as short-term plans.

The future of Obamacare is as tenuous as ever thanks to the Trump administration’s restoration of federalism.

In the wake of the new tax reform law, which eliminated the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) individual mandate, mainstream news reports might cause one to think the country’s health care system is on the verge of COLLAPSE.

Since Republicans failed to repeal and replace Obamacare when they had the chance in 2017, many have, rather wisely, decided to shift the battleground to the states.

A “right to healthcare” is a seductive idea that many Americans accept without thinking. But we need to take a closer look at what this means.

Do you remember this line by then-President Barack Obama: “If you like your health care plan, you can keep it”? The oft-repeated promise (read: “Lie of the Year”)?

Over the past five years, health care access has deteriorated in Idaho.

John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #129 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the Mercatus Center, the Heritage Foundation, and The Heartland Institute.

With the passage of the Tax Cut and Jobs Act in late 2017, Republicans implemented far-reaching tax cuts that will allow tens of millions of families to keep more of their own money and made a number of long overdue changes to the nation’s tax code.

I have a bit of Economics 101 knowledge for the collectivist Left.

Congress has failed to pass a replacement of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and Obamacare’s collapse is inevitable. To protect their citizens, state lawmakers should take the lead in passing free-market health care reforms.