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What is the worst-case scenario for the coming months, if the issues with Obamacare’s roll-out aren’t fixed? Heartland’s Ben Domenech has the answers.
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The Manhattan Institute analyzed premiums in many states, including Texas, showing that young men are going to pay almost double for their health insurance under Obamacare, and women will pay 55 percent to 62 percent more.
Economics · Featured · Health Care · Liberty · Regulation · Taxes
It’s not a national healthcare system. It’s not the free market. It isn’t what we’ve had for the last forty years. So what is Obamacare? Maybe I am too late[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Health Care · Liberty · Politics
These anti-growth policies all explain why President Obama has suffered the worst recovery from a recession of any president since the Great Depression, 75 years ago! What is needed to restore booming American economic growth and prosperity is to reverse all of these policies with pro-growth policies.
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Stephen Colbert has gotten rich by sucking up to the rich and powerful. A brave comedian would make fun of them, but it pays much better to laugh at you.
Education · Featured · Health Care · Podcast
“Cover California,” Califronia’s Health Insurance Exchange, hands a million dollars in grants to LA Unified School District to teach its kids to reach out to family members in favor of the Obamacare.
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The House votes to delay the employer and individual mandates, teeing up a battle in the fall over the CR which could be explosive.
Economics · Featured · Health Care · Politics
Ben Domenech, Heartland’s Health Care Research Fellow, and Managing Editor of Health Care News, appeared on The Blaze TV yesterday as part of a panel to talk about President Obama’s campaign-like speech on Obamacare.
Much of the federal government’s communications core management and operations hasn’t changed since the General Services Administration created the Federal Telecommunications Service in 1960.
Featured · Health Care · Media
USA Today asked me to write a counterpoint to their editorial calling for the abolition of Fee-For-Service payment in health care. Their editorial is here, and my counter is here.
Unfortunately, USA Today did not show me the article I was responding to. Now that I have read it, I want to make a few other observations.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Health Care · Politics
The most significant entitlement increase since the Great Society will be operating on the honor system.
Featured · Health Care · Politics · Regulation
“This was a plan that was never designed to work. It was designed to pass.”
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The following statements from health care policy experts at The Heartland Institute – a free-market think tank – may be used for attribution.
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Don’t expect ‘better’ benefits to overcome rate shock.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Health Care
All along he intended for Obamacare costs to soar.
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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.
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
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.
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[...]
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.
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