Sally C. Pipes
Commentary
GOP: Appeal SCOTUS’s Obamacare decision to the American people
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court saved Obamacare for a second time by siding with the executive branch in King v. Burwell. The decision allows the Internal Revenue Service to distribute health insurance subsidies to about 6.4 million people in 34 states who use the federally operated Healthcare.gov exchange. But ...
Commentary
The Supreme Court Has Made Obamacare The Defining Issue Of 2016
President Obama says he’s “feeling pretty good” about the Affordable Care Act in the wake of King v. Burwell, the June 25 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that upheld the flow of means-tested subsidies through the federally operated health insurance exchange, HealthCare.gov. Without those subsidies, HealthCare.gov, which serves consumers in the ...
Commentary
Obamacare’s True Costs Are Finally Coming To Light
State regulators typically use their power to review health insurance premiums to limit rate hikes. But in Oregon, officials are ordering insurers to raise premiums — in many cases by double digits. The regulators pointed out that insurers spent over $100 million more than they took in last year. Any ...
Commentary
ACA Medicaid expansion drives up health care costs
Emergency room usage has spiked sharply in recent years. That’s the depressing finding from a new survey by the American College of Emergency Physicians – and it’s putting those who need emergency care at grave risk. The survey concluded that three in four emergency room doctors have experienced a surge ...
Commentary
A GOP plan for life after Obamacare
The U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide King v. Burwell, a case that will determine the future of the Affordable Care Act. A ruling against the law would strip away federal health insurance subsidies for more than 6 million Americans in the 37 states using the federal website Healthcare.gov. That ...
Commentary
Two More Pieces Of Obamacare May Be On Their Way Out
House Republicans have launched another assault on Obamacare. This time, they have some support from their foes on the other side of the aisle. Two bipartisan bills that would repeal parts of Obamacare are scheduled to reach the House floor this week. One would get rid of a job-killing tax ...
Commentary
GOP has to act quickly after Court rules on Obamacare
he Supreme Court holds the future of the Affordable Care Act in its hands. Later this month, the court will issue a ruling in King v. Burwell, a case challenging the legality of federal health insurance subsidies in 37 states. A ruling against the ACA could mean the end of ...
Commentary
Obamacare’s ‘Accountable Care’ experiment is all hype, no substance
Good news about Obamacare keeps coming out of the White House. In May, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that the law’s “Pioneer Accountable Care Organizations” have saved Medicare $385 million. HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell proudly proclaimed that this “innovative payment model”has produced “substantial savings,” so she’s now ...
California
California doesn’t need to be selling health insurance
It’s taken longer than it should have, but Covered California, California’s Obamacare health insurance exchange, is finally being exposed as a billion-dollar boondoggle. In 2013, as news about the glitches and scandals in other Obamacare exchanges became impossible to avoid, the New York Times’ Paul Krugman, former Princeton professor and ...
Commentary
State-Run Obamacare exchanges careening toward disaster
This year was supposed to be the first wherein Obamacare’s state-based insurance exchanges would be self-sufficient. By now, the law’s architects assured, the exchanges would be thriving, competitive marketplaces, where all Americans could secure affordable coverage. It hasn’t worked out that way. Two of the original 17 state exchanges have ...
GOP: Appeal SCOTUS’s Obamacare decision to the American people
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court saved Obamacare for a second time by siding with the executive branch in King v. Burwell. The decision allows the Internal Revenue Service to distribute health insurance subsidies to about 6.4 million people in 34 states who use the federally operated Healthcare.gov exchange. But ...
The Supreme Court Has Made Obamacare The Defining Issue Of 2016
President Obama says he’s “feeling pretty good” about the Affordable Care Act in the wake of King v. Burwell, the June 25 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that upheld the flow of means-tested subsidies through the federally operated health insurance exchange, HealthCare.gov. Without those subsidies, HealthCare.gov, which serves consumers in the ...
Obamacare’s True Costs Are Finally Coming To Light
State regulators typically use their power to review health insurance premiums to limit rate hikes. But in Oregon, officials are ordering insurers to raise premiums — in many cases by double digits. The regulators pointed out that insurers spent over $100 million more than they took in last year. Any ...
ACA Medicaid expansion drives up health care costs
Emergency room usage has spiked sharply in recent years. That’s the depressing finding from a new survey by the American College of Emergency Physicians – and it’s putting those who need emergency care at grave risk. The survey concluded that three in four emergency room doctors have experienced a surge ...
A GOP plan for life after Obamacare
The U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide King v. Burwell, a case that will determine the future of the Affordable Care Act. A ruling against the law would strip away federal health insurance subsidies for more than 6 million Americans in the 37 states using the federal website Healthcare.gov. That ...
Two More Pieces Of Obamacare May Be On Their Way Out
House Republicans have launched another assault on Obamacare. This time, they have some support from their foes on the other side of the aisle. Two bipartisan bills that would repeal parts of Obamacare are scheduled to reach the House floor this week. One would get rid of a job-killing tax ...
GOP has to act quickly after Court rules on Obamacare
he Supreme Court holds the future of the Affordable Care Act in its hands. Later this month, the court will issue a ruling in King v. Burwell, a case challenging the legality of federal health insurance subsidies in 37 states. A ruling against the ACA could mean the end of ...
Obamacare’s ‘Accountable Care’ experiment is all hype, no substance
Good news about Obamacare keeps coming out of the White House. In May, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that the law’s “Pioneer Accountable Care Organizations” have saved Medicare $385 million. HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell proudly proclaimed that this “innovative payment model”has produced “substantial savings,” so she’s now ...
California doesn’t need to be selling health insurance
It’s taken longer than it should have, but Covered California, California’s Obamacare health insurance exchange, is finally being exposed as a billion-dollar boondoggle. In 2013, as news about the glitches and scandals in other Obamacare exchanges became impossible to avoid, the New York Times’ Paul Krugman, former Princeton professor and ...
State-Run Obamacare exchanges careening toward disaster
This year was supposed to be the first wherein Obamacare’s state-based insurance exchanges would be self-sufficient. By now, the law’s architects assured, the exchanges would be thriving, competitive marketplaces, where all Americans could secure affordable coverage. It hasn’t worked out that way. Two of the original 17 state exchanges have ...
