affordable care act

With Democrats having a majority of seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, it will be nearly impossible for federal lawmakers on either side of the aisle to replace the Affordable Care Act in the next two years.

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.

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.

Donny 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.

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

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.

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) taxes Americans without health insurance.  The unpopular individual mandate violates personal freedom and was targeted by Congressional Republicans in their recent “Obamacare” repeal efforts.

After 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.”

Why do single-payer health care supporters treat it like an unassailable good?

It’s time to really cut, cut, cut ethanol and other renewable fuel mandates – maybe to zero.

Republicans have not done a good job explaining their Obamacare Liberation bill to the American people.  But the Republican bill would actually be far better for the middle class, working people, and the poor than Obamacare.

Peter Ferrara, senior fellow for entitlement and budget policy at The Heartland Institute discusses options for replacing Obamacare.

Listen to the whole hour with Tony Katz. Tim comes in starting at the 12:34 mark, when Tony sets him up.