Obamacare
Commentary
Iowa Is “Done” Waiting for Congress to Fix Obamacare
As goes Iowa, so goes the nation — or at least that’s the conventional wisdom during presidential elections. Let’s hope the same rule applies to healthcare reform. Earlier this month, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a law that takes advantage of a major loophole in Obamacare. The legislation, based on ...
Commentary
Idaho Can’t Ignore ObamaCare Completely — But It Can Pry Open These Loopholes
Last month, the Trump administration saved ObamaCare from destruction. It was a difficult decision — and the correct one. Administration officials shot down a daring plan from Idaho Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter that would have allowed Idaho insurers to ignore ObamaCare’s premium-inflating regulations. Under the proposal, insurers would have been able ...
Blog
Expanding Affordable Healthcare in the States, The Legal Way
In March, the Trump administration saved Obamacare in Idaho. It was a hard decision for administration officials, who harbor no love for the health law. But it was the right call. Idaho officials wanted to help residents who have been harmed by Obamacare’s premium-inflating regulations. So they planned to allow ...
Commentary
ObamaCare’s 8th Birthday is An Unhappy One for All Americans
When ObamaCare turns eight on Friday, the law will have exactly one impressive accomplishment to its name: surviving as long as it has. Americans are worse off than we were before ObamaCare was enacted. Health insurance premiums and deductibles are soaring, and consumers face a shrinking number of insurance options. More ...
Health Care
Sally Pipes Discusses Her New Book on Encounter Books Podcast
PRI’s Sally C. Pipes joins Ben Weingarten on the Encounter Books podcast to discuss her new Encounter Broadside “The False Promise of Single-Payer Health Care”, the state of Obamacare, how staggeringly wrong our politicians were about Medicare and Medicaid, and much more. To learn more about her new book, click ...
Blog
Single-Payer in California: Slowly, Slowly, Catchy Monkey
For now, California’s progressive politicians have judged single-payer as a bridge too far. But that doesn’t mean they’ve given up trying to take over health care. As my Canadian mother used to say, “slowly, slowly, catchy monkey” – or be patient. On March 14, Assembly lawmakers released a report by ...
Commentary
‘Medicare Extra’ Delivers Socialized Medicine In Slow Motion
The Center for American Progress, one of the nation’s most influential left-wing think tanks, just released a plan to repeal Obamacare. Unfortunately, the proposal would replace the law with something even worse — single-payer health care. CAP’s plan would impose single-payer gradually, over a period of at least eight years. But the ...
Commentary
Don’t Revive The Individual Mandate
Tax reform repealed Obamacare’s least popular provision, the individual mandate, starting in 2019. Now, at least nine states want to revive the mandate, which required all Americans to purchase health insurance or pay a fine. Obamacare’s proponents claim that state-level individual mandates would compel young and healthy people to buy ...
Commentary
The Constitution May Finally Catch Up With Obamacare
Obamacare’s future is once again in jeopardy, thanks to one of the law’s most stubborn opponents — the U.S. Constitution. Twenty states are suing the federal government in Texas on the grounds that, since Congress zeroed-out the penalty for the individual mandate, the law is no longer constitutional. They’re right. ...
Commentary
Medicare Drug Benefit is Weakened by Congressional Budget Deal
Congress has undermined the Medicare drug benefit that millions of older Americans depend on – one of the few federal health care programs that’s working well. The two-year federal budget deal passed recently shifts more of the program’s costs onto drug manufacturers starting in 2020. In the process, the change ...
Iowa Is “Done” Waiting for Congress to Fix Obamacare
As goes Iowa, so goes the nation — or at least that’s the conventional wisdom during presidential elections. Let’s hope the same rule applies to healthcare reform. Earlier this month, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a law that takes advantage of a major loophole in Obamacare. The legislation, based on ...
Idaho Can’t Ignore ObamaCare Completely — But It Can Pry Open These Loopholes
Last month, the Trump administration saved ObamaCare from destruction. It was a difficult decision — and the correct one. Administration officials shot down a daring plan from Idaho Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter that would have allowed Idaho insurers to ignore ObamaCare’s premium-inflating regulations. Under the proposal, insurers would have been able ...
Expanding Affordable Healthcare in the States, The Legal Way
In March, the Trump administration saved Obamacare in Idaho. It was a hard decision for administration officials, who harbor no love for the health law. But it was the right call. Idaho officials wanted to help residents who have been harmed by Obamacare’s premium-inflating regulations. So they planned to allow ...
ObamaCare’s 8th Birthday is An Unhappy One for All Americans
When ObamaCare turns eight on Friday, the law will have exactly one impressive accomplishment to its name: surviving as long as it has. Americans are worse off than we were before ObamaCare was enacted. Health insurance premiums and deductibles are soaring, and consumers face a shrinking number of insurance options. More ...
Sally Pipes Discusses Her New Book on Encounter Books Podcast
PRI’s Sally C. Pipes joins Ben Weingarten on the Encounter Books podcast to discuss her new Encounter Broadside “The False Promise of Single-Payer Health Care”, the state of Obamacare, how staggeringly wrong our politicians were about Medicare and Medicaid, and much more. To learn more about her new book, click ...
Single-Payer in California: Slowly, Slowly, Catchy Monkey
For now, California’s progressive politicians have judged single-payer as a bridge too far. But that doesn’t mean they’ve given up trying to take over health care. As my Canadian mother used to say, “slowly, slowly, catchy monkey” – or be patient. On March 14, Assembly lawmakers released a report by ...
‘Medicare Extra’ Delivers Socialized Medicine In Slow Motion
The Center for American Progress, one of the nation’s most influential left-wing think tanks, just released a plan to repeal Obamacare. Unfortunately, the proposal would replace the law with something even worse — single-payer health care. CAP’s plan would impose single-payer gradually, over a period of at least eight years. But the ...
Don’t Revive The Individual Mandate
Tax reform repealed Obamacare’s least popular provision, the individual mandate, starting in 2019. Now, at least nine states want to revive the mandate, which required all Americans to purchase health insurance or pay a fine. Obamacare’s proponents claim that state-level individual mandates would compel young and healthy people to buy ...
The Constitution May Finally Catch Up With Obamacare
Obamacare’s future is once again in jeopardy, thanks to one of the law’s most stubborn opponents — the U.S. Constitution. Twenty states are suing the federal government in Texas on the grounds that, since Congress zeroed-out the penalty for the individual mandate, the law is no longer constitutional. They’re right. ...
Medicare Drug Benefit is Weakened by Congressional Budget Deal
Congress has undermined the Medicare drug benefit that millions of older Americans depend on – one of the few federal health care programs that’s working well. The two-year federal budget deal passed recently shifts more of the program’s costs onto drug manufacturers starting in 2020. In the process, the change ...
