Obamacare
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 ...
Health Care
Sally Pipes Talks Covered California on Southern California Public Radio/KPCC
PRI’s Sally Pipes joined “AirTalk with Larry Mantle” on Southern California Public Radio/KPCC to talk about the potential for President Trump to cut cost sharing reduction (CSR) subsidies, and the debate in Washington over repealing and replacing Obamacare. She rebutted an earlier interview by State Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones, who ...
Commentary
Reports Of Obamacare Repeal’s Death Are Greatly Exaggerated
President Trump recently tweeted, “Unless the Republican senators are total quitters, Repeal & Replace is not dead!” He’s completely right that free-marketeers shouldn’t give up on health reform. But if we’re being honest, none of the bills that the Senate considered last week would have come close to fulfilling the ...
Commentary
The Tragic Demise Of Repeal And Replace
Anyone committed to repealing and replacing ObamaCare will not mourn the death of the Senate’s “skinny repeal” bill this past Friday morning. It retreated from nearly every health policy goal — from rolling back premium-inflating insurance regulations to modernizing Medicaid — that conservatives have championed since ObamaCare became law over ...
Commentary
Yes, We Should Block-Grant Medicaid
The Senate’s Better Care Reconciliation Act is effectively dead following the 57–43 no vote on July 25. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell also did not have the votes to pass the Obamacare-repeal bill that Congress passed in 2015 but President Obama vetoed; it was rejected the next day, 55–45. That’s mainly ...
Commentary
Free-Marketers Shouldn’t Give Up on Health Care Reform
The nation is watching to see whether the U.S. Senate repeals the Affordable Care Act (ACA), revises it, or even continues working in earnest to repeal Obamacare. No matter the outcome, free-market health care reformers will be disappointed. None of the legislation under consideration offers a full-fledged, consumer-driven alternative to ...
Health Care
Obamacare CO-OP Trade Association Now Appears Dead
After 20 of the 24 Obamacare non-profit health insurance cooperatives collapsed, despite the influx of $2.4 billion in taxpayer funds, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that its trade association would also fail. The National Alliance of State Health Cooperatives (NASCHO), the Obamacare co-op health insurance trade association, has quietly closed its ...
Health Care
Senate Votes to Move Health Care Debate Forward in 51-50 Vote
On Tuesday, Senate Republicans voted to begin debate on health care in a 51-50 vote with the goal of repealing and replacing Obamacare. Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.) returned from surgery to cast his “yes” vote and Vice President Mike Pence cast the tie-breaking vote. Two Republican senators, Susan Collins ...
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 ...
Sally Pipes Talks Covered California on Southern California Public Radio/KPCC
PRI’s Sally Pipes joined “AirTalk with Larry Mantle” on Southern California Public Radio/KPCC to talk about the potential for President Trump to cut cost sharing reduction (CSR) subsidies, and the debate in Washington over repealing and replacing Obamacare. She rebutted an earlier interview by State Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones, who ...
Reports Of Obamacare Repeal’s Death Are Greatly Exaggerated
President Trump recently tweeted, “Unless the Republican senators are total quitters, Repeal & Replace is not dead!” He’s completely right that free-marketeers shouldn’t give up on health reform. But if we’re being honest, none of the bills that the Senate considered last week would have come close to fulfilling the ...
The Tragic Demise Of Repeal And Replace
Anyone committed to repealing and replacing ObamaCare will not mourn the death of the Senate’s “skinny repeal” bill this past Friday morning. It retreated from nearly every health policy goal — from rolling back premium-inflating insurance regulations to modernizing Medicaid — that conservatives have championed since ObamaCare became law over ...
Yes, We Should Block-Grant Medicaid
The Senate’s Better Care Reconciliation Act is effectively dead following the 57–43 no vote on July 25. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell also did not have the votes to pass the Obamacare-repeal bill that Congress passed in 2015 but President Obama vetoed; it was rejected the next day, 55–45. That’s mainly ...
Free-Marketers Shouldn’t Give Up on Health Care Reform
The nation is watching to see whether the U.S. Senate repeals the Affordable Care Act (ACA), revises it, or even continues working in earnest to repeal Obamacare. No matter the outcome, free-market health care reformers will be disappointed. None of the legislation under consideration offers a full-fledged, consumer-driven alternative to ...
Obamacare CO-OP Trade Association Now Appears Dead
After 20 of the 24 Obamacare non-profit health insurance cooperatives collapsed, despite the influx of $2.4 billion in taxpayer funds, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that its trade association would also fail. The National Alliance of State Health Cooperatives (NASCHO), the Obamacare co-op health insurance trade association, has quietly closed its ...
Senate Votes to Move Health Care Debate Forward in 51-50 Vote
On Tuesday, Senate Republicans voted to begin debate on health care in a 51-50 vote with the goal of repealing and replacing Obamacare. Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.) returned from surgery to cast his “yes” vote and Vice President Mike Pence cast the tie-breaking vote. Two Republican senators, Susan Collins ...
