affordable care act
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A New York Times report on ventilator production misses the point.
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Health Care
Would You Rather Save $10.46 or $500 on Healthcare?
by Jane M. Orient, M.D. November 4, 2019Elizabeth Warren and other Democrats have been promising universal healthcare, which will supposedly save more than the $30 trillion to $40 trillion it will cost. Or if the cost is Warren’s $52 trillion, we’ll import more (rich?) taxpayers.
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Stocks of hospital and Medicaid-contracted managed-care companies plunged on the announcement of Judge Reed O’Connor’s ruling that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is unconstitutional.
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Health Care
As Families Suffer, California Lawmakers Play Health Care Politics
by Sarah Lee November 1, 2018California Democratic legislators made it clear they would prefer residents go bankrupt paying for expensive Obamacare health insurance instead of allowing Californians to purchase more affordable, short-term plans.
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FeaturedHealth CarePodcast
In The Tank (ep138) – Can Donald Trump End Obamacare with a Tweet? Right to Try and More
by Donald Kendal May 4, 2018Donny Kendal, joined by Executive Editor Justin Haskins and Managing Editor Sarah Lee, present episode #138 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from The Heartland Institute, the Goldwater Institute, the Pacific Research Institute and the Pelican Institute.
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Health Care
How One State Is Trying to Make Health Insurance Affordable Again
by Arianna Wilkerson April 18, 2018Do 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”)?
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Health Care
States Should Not Wait for Congress to Fix Health Care
by Matthew Glans November 15, 2017Congress 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.
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A Call for “Do-Nothing” Presidents Without Legacies
by Richard Ebeling October 23, 2017Some in the news media and editorial page pundits are aghast that many of President Donald Trump’s executive orders and legislative proposals sent off to the United States Congress represent an attempt to undue the presidential “legacy” of Barack Obama.
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Health Care
Obamacare Can Be Dismantled Today—If The ‘Price’ Is Right
by Tim Huelskamp August 11, 2017After Donald Trump along with nearly every Republican candidate in 2016 promised a full repeal of Obamacare, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) headed down a separate path: a three-phase process to “repeal and replace Obamacare.”
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Health Care
John McCain and the Partisan Farce on “Healthcare Reform”
by Jane M. Orient, M.D. August 8, 2017Senator John McCain of Arizona sequentially played the role of superhero, villainous traitor (to Republicans), and savior (to ObamaCare) as the McConnell “skinny repeal” lost by one vote—his.
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It’s time to really cut, cut, cut ethanol and other renewable fuel mandates – maybe to zero.
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Congress should take a vote on simply repealing ObamaCare. Republicans should be forced to go on the record to show how they keep—or renege on—their campaign promises.
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Health CarePodcast
Heartland on the Radio: Peter Ferrara on How to Save Americans from the Obamacare Death Spiral
by Andy Singer July 12, 2017Peter Ferrara, senior fellow for entitlement and budget policy at The Heartland Institute discusses options for replacing Obamacare.