health insurance
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GovernmentHealth Care
Government Is Awful at Insurance – and Certainly Shouldn’t Be Rewriting Policies
by Seton Motley May 30, 2020You don’t want government anywhere near any insurance policies you purchase.
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In its first decade, ObamaCare has failed to solve many of the health care problems it was supposed to address.
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Health Care
Medicare For All Would Require Huge Tax Hikes On The Middle Class
by Chris Talgo August 21, 2019In many cases, tax burdens would double, and for tens of millions of families, the increased taxes would far outweigh not needing to pay for health insurance premiums and out-of-pocket costs.
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FeaturedHealth Care
Medicare for All: More Taxes, Worse Health Care, and Much More Debt
by Chris Talgo August 13, 2019News flash: Medicare and Social Security, the nation’s two largest entitlement programs, are on the fast track towards bankruptcy.
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Health Care
Expanding HSAs Could Help Fix America’s Broken Health Insurance Model
by AnneMarie Schieber June 26, 2019A recent survey revealed only one in five people currently enrolled in an employer-sponsored health plan have a health savings account (HSA). More unsettling, few use them to save money for future health expenses.
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Health Care
States Should Abandon CON Laws And Put Patients First
by AnneMarie Schieber May 15, 2019For decades, states have had certificate-of-need (CON) laws that require health care investors to get permission from an appointed board before they can expand, purchase a new device, or offer new medical technology.
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Health Care
Trump’s ‘Skinny’ Insurance Plans Will Help Millions of Families
by Sarah Lee August 29, 2018On 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.
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GovernmentHealth CareRegulationTaxes
We Should Welcome the ‘Health Care Wars’
by Sarah Lee July 6, 2018In 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.
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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
The Trump Administration Throws a Lifeline to ObamaCare Victims
by Charles Katebi March 20, 2018Over the past four years, the cost of individual health insurance has more than doubled under the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare.
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Last spring Alabama’s legislature mandated coverage of autism therapy by health insurance plans. Such mandates provide benefits to people without spending our tax dollars, but threaten the viability of health insurance.
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Health Care
Medicaid Expansion Is a Prescription for Disaster in Maine
by Jesse Hathaway October 23, 2017In November, Maine residents will be confronted with a ballot question asking them to expand MaineCare.
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FeaturedHealth Care
Health Care Is So Expensive Because You Don’t Pay For It Yourself
by Greg Scandlen September 18, 2017Almost everyone involved in health care will tell you that the greatest problem in our system is that we pay on a fee-for-service basis. Almost everyone is wrong.