Obamacare
Commentary
Republicans, Don’t Settle For Half-Hearted Tweaks To Obamacare
Members of Congress will return on September 5 from their recess. They have a lot on their agenda: reforming the tax code, repairing the nation’s crumbling infrastructure, and raising the debt ceiling. President Trump wants to add another item to that agenda. He recently implored Congress to “keep its promise, ...
Commentary
The False Promise Of ‘Medicaid For All’
“Medicaid for All” has suddenly become the darling of the health reform crowd. Nevada almost became the first state in the nation to adopt Medicaid for All this year — until Gov. Brian Sandoval vetoed the plan in June. Other states, including Massachusetts and Minnesota, are looking into it. These ...
Commentary
Trump must dump the unconstitutional health insurance industry bailouts from Obamacare
On August 17, the Trump administration announced it would dole out “cost-sharing reduction” subsidies to insurers on Obamacare’s exchanges for at least another month. The decision comes despite President Trump’s repeated threats to withhold the money, which he has correctly called a “bailout” for the insurance industry. Obamacare orders insurers ...
Health Care
Obamacare Enrollment Program Signed Up a Fraction of Those Who Canceled Coverage in 2017
The Affordable Care Act Enrollment Assistance Program helped 14,500 individuals enroll in the Obamacare exchanges, which represented only 0.007 percent of the 1.9 million individuals who decided to drop their Obamacare plan in 2017. The Obama administration established the Enrollment Assistance Program, which created storefronts and hired workers to help ...
Health Care
‘Obamacare’ opponent says ending CSR payments would weaken law
Targeting certain provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) may be the best way to weaken the legislation after the failure of repeal and replace, a longtime opponent of former President Barack Obama’s health care law argues. Sally Pipes, director of the conservative Pacific Research Institute, says to start with ...
Health Care
CBO: Eliminating Cost-Sharing Reduction Payments Will Increase Premiums by 20%
Eliminating the Affordable Care Act’s cost-sharing reduction payments will cause premiums to increase by 20 percent next year and may cause some insurers to withdraw from the exchanges, according to a report from the Congressional Budget Office. Cost-sharing subsidies were put in place by Obamacare to rein in the cost ...
Commentary
Expansion Of Health Savings Accounts Can Bend The Healthcare Cost Curve Downwards
More than six in ten Republican voters want Congress to keep trying to repeal and replace ObamaCare, according to a new Kaiser Family Foundation poll. Lawmakers won’t be able to do so in one fell swoop, given the Senate’s failure to agree on a comprehensive reform plan. But Republicans can ...
Commentary
Beware The Trojan Horses For Single-Payer Health Care
Republicans left Washington this month having failed to repeal and replace Obamacare. Many Democrats and their ideological allies are using the congressional recess to crow about the GOP’s defeat — and dream about replacing Obamacare with a bonafide single-payer system. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has promised to introduce a single-payer ...
Health Care
Employers Forecast Health Care Costs Per Employee To Exceed $14,000 Next Year
Large employers are projecting that health care costs for each worker they employ will rise to $14,156 next year, according to a survey from the National Business Group on Health. This year those health care costs, which include premiums and out-of-pocket costs for medical and pharmacy benefits, totaled $13,482 per ...
Commentary
Piecemeal Repeal Is The Least Bad Obamacare Option
The demise of the Senate’s “skinny” repeal of Obamacare may be a blessing in disguise. Nobody should have mistaken that measure for genuine repeal of the Affordable Care Act — much less for the free-market healthcare reform that most of the GOP has long clamored for. Yet the collapse of ...
Republicans, Don’t Settle For Half-Hearted Tweaks To Obamacare
Members of Congress will return on September 5 from their recess. They have a lot on their agenda: reforming the tax code, repairing the nation’s crumbling infrastructure, and raising the debt ceiling. President Trump wants to add another item to that agenda. He recently implored Congress to “keep its promise, ...
The False Promise Of ‘Medicaid For All’
“Medicaid for All” has suddenly become the darling of the health reform crowd. Nevada almost became the first state in the nation to adopt Medicaid for All this year — until Gov. Brian Sandoval vetoed the plan in June. Other states, including Massachusetts and Minnesota, are looking into it. These ...
Trump must dump the unconstitutional health insurance industry bailouts from Obamacare
On August 17, the Trump administration announced it would dole out “cost-sharing reduction” subsidies to insurers on Obamacare’s exchanges for at least another month. The decision comes despite President Trump’s repeated threats to withhold the money, which he has correctly called a “bailout” for the insurance industry. Obamacare orders insurers ...
Obamacare Enrollment Program Signed Up a Fraction of Those Who Canceled Coverage in 2017
The Affordable Care Act Enrollment Assistance Program helped 14,500 individuals enroll in the Obamacare exchanges, which represented only 0.007 percent of the 1.9 million individuals who decided to drop their Obamacare plan in 2017. The Obama administration established the Enrollment Assistance Program, which created storefronts and hired workers to help ...
‘Obamacare’ opponent says ending CSR payments would weaken law
Targeting certain provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) may be the best way to weaken the legislation after the failure of repeal and replace, a longtime opponent of former President Barack Obama’s health care law argues. Sally Pipes, director of the conservative Pacific Research Institute, says to start with ...
CBO: Eliminating Cost-Sharing Reduction Payments Will Increase Premiums by 20%
Eliminating the Affordable Care Act’s cost-sharing reduction payments will cause premiums to increase by 20 percent next year and may cause some insurers to withdraw from the exchanges, according to a report from the Congressional Budget Office. Cost-sharing subsidies were put in place by Obamacare to rein in the cost ...
Expansion Of Health Savings Accounts Can Bend The Healthcare Cost Curve Downwards
More than six in ten Republican voters want Congress to keep trying to repeal and replace ObamaCare, according to a new Kaiser Family Foundation poll. Lawmakers won’t be able to do so in one fell swoop, given the Senate’s failure to agree on a comprehensive reform plan. But Republicans can ...
Beware The Trojan Horses For Single-Payer Health Care
Republicans left Washington this month having failed to repeal and replace Obamacare. Many Democrats and their ideological allies are using the congressional recess to crow about the GOP’s defeat — and dream about replacing Obamacare with a bonafide single-payer system. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has promised to introduce a single-payer ...
Employers Forecast Health Care Costs Per Employee To Exceed $14,000 Next Year
Large employers are projecting that health care costs for each worker they employ will rise to $14,156 next year, according to a survey from the National Business Group on Health. This year those health care costs, which include premiums and out-of-pocket costs for medical and pharmacy benefits, totaled $13,482 per ...
Piecemeal Repeal Is The Least Bad Obamacare Option
The demise of the Senate’s “skinny” repeal of Obamacare may be a blessing in disguise. Nobody should have mistaken that measure for genuine repeal of the Affordable Care Act — much less for the free-market healthcare reform that most of the GOP has long clamored for. Yet the collapse of ...
