Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Podcast
In this episode of the Budget & Tax News podcast, Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions analyst Joe Nichols joins the show to explain how several states are trying to cheat the system and profit from Medicaid expansion.
From its inception, the Affordable Care Act (ACA)—popularly called Obamacare— has been touted as the necessary fix for the nation’s health care system needed prior to its passage. Yes, it’s going to cost nearly $2 trillion over the next decade that the nation doesn’t have. Yes, it’s going to radically transform the entire health care marketplace and lead to significant cost increases for families and taxpayers. But no matter what the costs, the Obama administration told us, Obamacare is necessary because there were roughly 49 million Americans without health insurance in 2010, and something had to be done about it.
“I’m sorry sir,” the polite Healthcare.gov customer-service agent said. “There’s nothing I can do. You’re either going to have to enroll in Medicaid or you’re going to have to pay the full health-insurance rate.”
Featured · Health Care · Politics · Regulation
The doctor for Frank Alfisi told his daughter Amy, ‘You can thank Mr. Obama for this.’ The death by Obamacare has already begun.
Environment/Energy · Health Care · Legal Affairs · Liberty · Politics · Regulation
It falls to the voters themselves to rescue the rule of law and the Constitution from the President Obama’s lawlessness.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Legal Affairs
Tax evasion is of course illegal, but tax avoidance is not.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Politics
At the end of 2013, after serving five years, Barack Obama is a complete failure as President, by his own standards, as reflected in his own words.
How long will the insurance industry abide being treated like shoe shine boys? Mr. Obama will not be in office forever. His regime is already coming to an end. What will these companies do then?
Watch this Google+ Hangout, sponsored by the Heritage Foundation, featuring Ben Domenech, senior fellow at The Heartland Institute.
Featured · Health Care · Politics · Regulation
I’d find a doctor who would take chickens and rhubarb pie as payment before I’ll submit to Obamacare.
Even as ObamaCare is trying to self destruct, its advocates suggest a détente in which “Republicans recognize the conservative nature of the law,” in the words of Austin Frakt in Bloomberg News. The Affordable Care Act (ACA), they point out, incorporates some ideas from a Heritage Foundation proposal and a law promoted by Mitt Romney. Those are not, however, conservative ideas, much less good ideas, and are not a “sound chassis” for anything.
Featured · Health Care · Podcast
The Obamacare “disaster” is everywhere. Recently, a poll in Transom showed that 42% of Indpendents trust democrats in regards to healthcare, whereas 58% trust Republicans. Ben Domenech, senior fellow from The Heartland Institute, says the poll shows a major shift in attitudes; historically, democrats have been viewed in favor regarding health care.
President Obama has done a lot of things I dislike, but ruining Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner is a bit much. And to let him be clear: that’s exactly what he’s doing.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Government · Health Care · Liberty · Regulation
Here is the reform plan to repeal AND REPLACE Obamacare that the Republicans should have long ago drafted, introduced and passed through the House of Representatives. Expand the tax preference now provided to employer provided health insurance to everyone through a universal, refundable tax credit for the purchase of health insurance equal roughly to $2,500 per person, $8,000 per family.
Featured · Government · Internet/Telecom
We are currently hobbled by a whole host of federal government debacles. An endless litany of Government Operator Errors (GOEs). Many are chronic.
We interrupt the collapse of the U.S. health insurance system to announce that Colorado’s health exchange did something dumb. Granted, the Front Range brain trust has set a low bar[…]
The lies about ObamaCare from the Administration and the Democrats are now being revealed in a fast and furious fashion.
The biggest failure of Obamacare isn’t the website.
The only reason Van Hollen can argue Obama’s delay applies only to 5% of employers is because the other 95% of employers were already exempted from the mandate.
Featured · Health Care · Liberty · Regulation
Angry about the reality of Obamacare? The Heartland Institute is the place to get knowledge so we can change things.
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