Obamacare
Commentary
Short-Term Insurance Plans Offer A Much-Needed Escape From Obamacare
Several patient advocacy groups recently sued the Trump administration to overturn an August 2018 rule that expands access to short-term health insurance plans. They argue that short-term plans, which they deride as “junk insurance,” violate the Affordable Care Act. The courts ought to toss this meritless lawsuit. The new rule is legal ...
Commentary
Democrats Bet Their Midterm Fortunes On Failed Health Care Policy
Health care has been the most-mentioned issue in Democratic advertisements in the run-up to this month’s midterm elections. Many Democrats are making Medicare for All the centerpiece of their pitch to voters. Cearly, Democrats didn’t learn their lesson in 2010, when their previous effort at government micromanagement of the health ...
Commentary
Misleading voters on Medicare for All
By Hal Scherz and Sally C. Pipes Health care is the number one issue on voters’ minds as the midterm elections approach. Half of all Democratic campaign ads have focused on it. Democratic candidates are not merely defending Obamacare. Many are proudly running on a platform of Medicare for All, ...
Health Care
Sally Pipes Comments to Heartland News on Gavin Newsom’s Health Care Proposals
California Considers Taxpayer-Funded Health Care for Illegal Immigrants By Leo Pusateri Gavin Newsom, the former mayor of San Francisco and current California Democratic gubernatorial candidate, is calling for taxpayer-funded free health care for illegal immigrants. Touting the universal health care model he introduced as mayor of San Francisco, Newsom says ...
Commentary
President Trump didn’t sabotage Obamacare
Four U.S. cities just sued President Trump for failing to faithfully execute the Affordable Care Act. The governments of Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati and Columbus accuse the Trump administration of “waging a relentless campaign to sabotage” Obamacare by cutting its advertising budget, shortening the open enrollment period and ending some legally dubious subsidies. None ...
California
California’s Leaders Ban Affordable Health Coverage
California just outlawed a form of health insurance that could save thousands of its residents millions of dollars. Late last month, Governor Jerry Brown signed SB 910, which bans the sale of short-term health plans — those that last less than a year and don’t have to comply with Obamacare’s ...
Commentary
Good news about Obamacare premiums can’t hide long-term pain Donald Trump is trying to fix
Health & Human Services Secretary Alex Azar recently announced that premiums for a benchmark Affordable Care Act 2019 plan on the federal exchange will drop 2 percent nationally compared with 2018 premiums — the first reduction since the law’s implementation. While this is encouraging news, it is no cause for a major celebration. When Obamacare’s ...
Commentary
Trump must let Obamacare implode under its own weight
The Trump administration has a $10 billion decision to make. It’s debating whether to continue Obamacare’s “risk-adjustment” program, which redistributes revenue from insurers with healthier-than-average customers to those with disproportionately sick enrollees. In early July, the administration halted the program after a court ruled it legally dubious. Later that month, it reversed course and ...
Commentary
The problem with single-payer? Eventually, you run out of other people’s money
Democrats have made a complete government takeover of the healthcare system the linchpin of their pitch to voters in this fall’s elections. Former President Obama, who supported single payer before he was against it when promoting Obamacare, is now for it again. In a September 7 speech at the University ...
Commentary
Despite Obamacare, healthcare spending is spiraling out of control
Former President Barack Obama promised the Affordable Care Act would bend “the cost curve and [start] to reduce costs for families, businesses, and government.” But his pledge has gone unfulfilled – patients and taxpayers are spending record amounts on healthcare. This year, total healthcare spending will increase 5.3 percent, according ...
Short-Term Insurance Plans Offer A Much-Needed Escape From Obamacare
Several patient advocacy groups recently sued the Trump administration to overturn an August 2018 rule that expands access to short-term health insurance plans. They argue that short-term plans, which they deride as “junk insurance,” violate the Affordable Care Act. The courts ought to toss this meritless lawsuit. The new rule is legal ...
Democrats Bet Their Midterm Fortunes On Failed Health Care Policy
Health care has been the most-mentioned issue in Democratic advertisements in the run-up to this month’s midterm elections. Many Democrats are making Medicare for All the centerpiece of their pitch to voters. Cearly, Democrats didn’t learn their lesson in 2010, when their previous effort at government micromanagement of the health ...
Misleading voters on Medicare for All
By Hal Scherz and Sally C. Pipes Health care is the number one issue on voters’ minds as the midterm elections approach. Half of all Democratic campaign ads have focused on it. Democratic candidates are not merely defending Obamacare. Many are proudly running on a platform of Medicare for All, ...
Sally Pipes Comments to Heartland News on Gavin Newsom’s Health Care Proposals
California Considers Taxpayer-Funded Health Care for Illegal Immigrants By Leo Pusateri Gavin Newsom, the former mayor of San Francisco and current California Democratic gubernatorial candidate, is calling for taxpayer-funded free health care for illegal immigrants. Touting the universal health care model he introduced as mayor of San Francisco, Newsom says ...
President Trump didn’t sabotage Obamacare
Four U.S. cities just sued President Trump for failing to faithfully execute the Affordable Care Act. The governments of Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati and Columbus accuse the Trump administration of “waging a relentless campaign to sabotage” Obamacare by cutting its advertising budget, shortening the open enrollment period and ending some legally dubious subsidies. None ...
California’s Leaders Ban Affordable Health Coverage
California just outlawed a form of health insurance that could save thousands of its residents millions of dollars. Late last month, Governor Jerry Brown signed SB 910, which bans the sale of short-term health plans — those that last less than a year and don’t have to comply with Obamacare’s ...
Good news about Obamacare premiums can’t hide long-term pain Donald Trump is trying to fix
Health & Human Services Secretary Alex Azar recently announced that premiums for a benchmark Affordable Care Act 2019 plan on the federal exchange will drop 2 percent nationally compared with 2018 premiums — the first reduction since the law’s implementation. While this is encouraging news, it is no cause for a major celebration. When Obamacare’s ...
Trump must let Obamacare implode under its own weight
The Trump administration has a $10 billion decision to make. It’s debating whether to continue Obamacare’s “risk-adjustment” program, which redistributes revenue from insurers with healthier-than-average customers to those with disproportionately sick enrollees. In early July, the administration halted the program after a court ruled it legally dubious. Later that month, it reversed course and ...
The problem with single-payer? Eventually, you run out of other people’s money
Democrats have made a complete government takeover of the healthcare system the linchpin of their pitch to voters in this fall’s elections. Former President Obama, who supported single payer before he was against it when promoting Obamacare, is now for it again. In a September 7 speech at the University ...
Despite Obamacare, healthcare spending is spiraling out of control
Former President Barack Obama promised the Affordable Care Act would bend “the cost curve and [start] to reduce costs for families, businesses, and government.” But his pledge has gone unfulfilled – patients and taxpayers are spending record amounts on healthcare. This year, total healthcare spending will increase 5.3 percent, according ...
