Pitfalls of Medicaid Expansion
Medicaid expansion is an expensive endeavor that studies show does not provide better or more-affordable health care. Many of the expansion plans that Pennsylvania legislators are considering would use federal[...]
Tagged: affordable care act
This #TaxDay, Let’s Also Look to Rid Ourselves of Global Anti-Free Trade Tariffs
It’s Tax Day in America. Which brings to mind one of the late, great Ronald Reagan’s many great lines: “Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the Democrats believe every day is April 15.”
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Featured · Government · Health Care
Can Anyone Tell How Obamacare is Doing?
I don’t agree with the New Republic’s Jonathan Cohn very often, but in a recent article he said, “everybody should be cautious about making firm pronouncements about how the Affordable Care Act is doing.” Amen to that.
Of course, Mr. Cohn can’t help himself. He uses that reasonable statement as a launching pad for attacking, “…Cruz, Barrasso, and all the other hard-core Obamacare opponents on the right.” He just can’t imagine why these people might be skeptical of Administration claims about enrollment.
Education · Featured · Government · Health Care
Twin ‘Botched’ Government Programs: Obamacare and Common Core
Who could forget about the botched ObamaCare roll out of last fall by the Obama administration when on September 26 Obama said, “… most of the stories you’ll hear about how ObamaCare just can’t work is just not based on facts. Every time they have predicted something not working, it’s worked.” But when people did start shopping for insurance coverage on October 1, Healthcare.gov crashed.
Ezra Klein’s Misleading Explainer on the Individual Mandate
Ezra Klein recently released a 2-minute clip explaining the need for individual mandates under Obamacare. Man, does that guy talk fast!
Mr. Klein gets most of his explanation about right, with one big exception. He says that a family making $80,000 a year will (eventually) be penalized $2,000 for failing to buy coverage — “less money than health insurance will usually cost you, but you don’t get anything for that money,” he says. Uh, that’s understating things quite a bit. A family insurance policy costs $16,351 according to the most recent employer benefits survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
In Defense of the Uninsured
Health insurance is the most important thing on the face of the earth — more important than food, more important than clothing, or housing, or a job, and certainly more important than cell phones and cable TV, according to the President.
With this contemptuous attitude towards the people the elite is trying to “help” perhaps it is not surprising that the helpees are not behaving the way the helpers would like them to. Amy Goldstein writes in the Washington Post that “Health insurance marketplaces (are) signing up few uninsured Americans…”
New Rules Could Undermine Successful Medicare Part D Program
A new effort by the Obama Administration to change the Medicare Part D prescription drug program by imposing new rules on how the plans are set up and managed risk[...]
The Buck Stops – Where?
Writing in the National Journal, Sam Baker tries his darnedest to minimize some of the effects of Obamacare.
Health Care · Legal Affairs · Politics
Now Obama Really is Bypassing Congress
Manipulating large-scale legislative policies, duly enacted, around election schedules goes beyond the parameters of executive discretion.
Economics · Featured · Health Care · Politics
CBO Report Shows Obamacare’s Economic Damage
Obama’s implied tax and subsidy penalties for success are so high that it won’t be worth a lower-income person’s effort to try to climb up the income ladder.
Obama’s State Of The Union Formula For Economic Stagnation
President Obama paints pretty pictures with flowery pro-growth and populist rhetoric. But the results are consistently the opposite of his promises.
The Next Wave of Obamacare Cancellations
Bad news: Employers are already starting to get the same cancellation letters that went to millions of people in the individual market late last year.
Featured · Health Care · Regulation
Heartland Daily Podcast: The Future of Obamacare
We live in a post-Obamacare world now. The only questions are what we do about it. Avik Roy and Benjamin Domenech discuss the future of Obamacare in this cross-post to the[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · FIRE
Where the U.S. Economy Is Going, and Why
The full bill for Obama’s failed economic policies has yet to arrive. But no such explosion of debt has ever escaped a day of reckoning, and no such monetary surge has ever had a happy ending.
Economics · Featured · Health Care · Liberty
Obama’s 2014 Big Lie: Income Inequality
Income inequality will be the theme of Obama’s forthcoming State of the Union speech, but like everything else he says it will be a Big Lie.
Featured · Politics · Regulation
Obama vs. the Constitution
“If you like your health plan, you can keep it,” is the Lie of the Year, according to PolitiFact. But Barack Obama has been operating under an even more momentous lie for his entire presidency.
The Supreme Court is Undermining Science and Society
The Supreme Court has taken up another case based on the Environmental Protection Agency’s campaign of lies that carbon dioxide is the cause of “climate change” and claims about the quality of air in the United States. The Court is composed of lawyers, not scientists.
WSJ: Obama Repeals Obamcare
For weeks, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney derided the policies people liked and could afford as “junk.” Today, that “junk” is apparently treasure.
Featured · Health Care · Politics · Regulation
Heartland Institute Experts React to Latest Delay in Obamacare Mandates
The president’s latest decision to effectively exempt a portion of the American people from the individual mandate is the most egregious and unlawful step he has yet taken in the failed rollout of his health care law.
Featured · Health Care · Podcast
Heartland Daily Podcast: Dr. Chad Mathis- Obamacare and His Run for Congress
Dr. Chad Mathis joins The Heartland Institute to discuss his campaign for Congress in the state of Alabama. Mathis is also a surgeon, so he has a lot to speak of in regards to Obamacare; an issue that is increasingly concerning among the citizens of Alabama.
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