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PIPES: The White House wants feds to bail out insurers if they lose money on Obamacare

The Obama administration has taken a red pen to its signature health care reform law again — rewriting the measure without consulting Congress. This time, the White House wants to extend Obamacare’s “risk corridors,” which require the feds to bail out insurance companies if they lose too much money in ...
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The Pipes Proviso

When our oldest daughter was in second grade her best friend was a classmate who was the daughter of an ophthalmologist from Canada. He devoted much of his practice to treating Medicaid patients at the county hospital. The family moved to Ottawa at the end of the school year and ...
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This Is Obamacare ‘Working The Way It Should?’

At a town hall meeting earlier this month, President Obama declared that his signature health reform law “is working the way it should.” That’s news to employers, who are facing higher health costs and staggering administrative burdens thanks to the law. They’ve responded in part by cutting hours and cancelling ...
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Price of Obamacare ‘savings’

The Obama administration appears to have received a rare bit of good news from one of the agencies managing its overhaul of the American health care system. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just announced that the Accountable Care Organizations created by Obamacare in hopes of better coordinating seniors’ ...
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Obamacare “savings” come at a high price

The Obama Administration appears to have received a rare bit of good news from one of the agencies managing its overhaul of the American healthcare system. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just announced that the Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) created by Obamacare in hopes of better coordinating seniors’ ...
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ACA’s unaffordable consequences

Congress’s bean-counters have rendered their verdict on Obamacare’s economic impact – and it’s not good for the president. According to a Congressional Budget Office report released last month, the president’s health care law will reduce the number of hours Americans work by 1.5 to 2 percent – the equivalent of ...
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Access and Cost: What the U.S. Health Care System Can Learn from Other Countries

March 11, 2014 – Sally C. Pipes, president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute, a non-profit think tank based in San Francisco, was invited by the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging, to testify on the issue of “Access and ...
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Industry Succeeds Where Obamacare Fails

Walmart is about to get into the health insurance business. The retail giant’s Sam’s Club division just announced that it would launch a private health insurance exchange for its small-business customers. Business owners shopping at the wholesaler will effectively be able to pick up health insurance for their employees along ...
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Obamacare’s Exchanges Not Playing Well with the Young Crowd

Young people appear to have abandoned President Obama less than two years after sending him back to the White House. Only 41 percent of Americans 18 to 29 approve of his job performance, according to a recent poll from Harvard’s Institute of Politics. Even more — 56 percent — disapprove ...
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Not working just won’t work

Congress’s bean-counters have rendered their verdict on Obamacare’s economic impact — and it’s not good for the president. According to a new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report, the president’s healthcare law will reduce the number of hours Americans work by 1.5 percent to 2 percent — the equivalent of 2.5 ...
Commentary

PIPES: The White House wants feds to bail out insurers if they lose money on Obamacare

The Obama administration has taken a red pen to its signature health care reform law again — rewriting the measure without consulting Congress. This time, the White House wants to extend Obamacare’s “risk corridors,” which require the feds to bail out insurance companies if they lose too much money in ...
Commentary

The Pipes Proviso

When our oldest daughter was in second grade her best friend was a classmate who was the daughter of an ophthalmologist from Canada. He devoted much of his practice to treating Medicaid patients at the county hospital. The family moved to Ottawa at the end of the school year and ...
Commentary

This Is Obamacare ‘Working The Way It Should?’

At a town hall meeting earlier this month, President Obama declared that his signature health reform law “is working the way it should.” That’s news to employers, who are facing higher health costs and staggering administrative burdens thanks to the law. They’ve responded in part by cutting hours and cancelling ...
Commentary

Price of Obamacare ‘savings’

The Obama administration appears to have received a rare bit of good news from one of the agencies managing its overhaul of the American health care system. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just announced that the Accountable Care Organizations created by Obamacare in hopes of better coordinating seniors’ ...
Commentary

Obamacare “savings” come at a high price

The Obama Administration appears to have received a rare bit of good news from one of the agencies managing its overhaul of the American healthcare system. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just announced that the Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) created by Obamacare in hopes of better coordinating seniors’ ...
Commentary

ACA’s unaffordable consequences

Congress’s bean-counters have rendered their verdict on Obamacare’s economic impact – and it’s not good for the president. According to a Congressional Budget Office report released last month, the president’s health care law will reduce the number of hours Americans work by 1.5 to 2 percent – the equivalent of ...
Commentary

Access and Cost: What the U.S. Health Care System Can Learn from Other Countries

March 11, 2014 – Sally C. Pipes, president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute, a non-profit think tank based in San Francisco, was invited by the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging, to testify on the issue of “Access and ...
Commentary

Industry Succeeds Where Obamacare Fails

Walmart is about to get into the health insurance business. The retail giant’s Sam’s Club division just announced that it would launch a private health insurance exchange for its small-business customers. Business owners shopping at the wholesaler will effectively be able to pick up health insurance for their employees along ...
Commentary

Obamacare’s Exchanges Not Playing Well with the Young Crowd

Young people appear to have abandoned President Obama less than two years after sending him back to the White House. Only 41 percent of Americans 18 to 29 approve of his job performance, according to a recent poll from Harvard’s Institute of Politics. Even more — 56 percent — disapprove ...
Commentary

Not working just won’t work

Congress’s bean-counters have rendered their verdict on Obamacare’s economic impact — and it’s not good for the president. According to a new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report, the president’s healthcare law will reduce the number of hours Americans work by 1.5 percent to 2 percent — the equivalent of 2.5 ...
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