Health Care
Commentary
Obamacare rationing coming to health care near you
Many Americans began this month with new health coverage purchased through Obamacares exchanges. At least, they thought they did scores did not receive insurance cards or other confirmation that they actually had coverage. The hang-up was largely a function of the technical glitches that have plagued the exchanges. Fortunately, ...
Commentary
Obamacare isn’t working, but here’s something that is
Congressional Republicans appear increasingly interested in taking President Obama up on the health care challenge he issued in December: “If you’ve got good ideas, bring them to me.” Indeed, House Speaker John Boehner said earlier this month that House Republicans would release a plan to replace Obamacare this year. The ...
Health Care
The Broken State of American Health Insurance Prior to the Affordable Care Act
Summary (download the full report) The health insurance system in America is plagued with problems, such as continually rising premiums and the difficulty of finding coverage. The Obama administrations diagnosis of the situation was clear: health insurance companies have too much freedom. The solution, therefore, is for the government to ...
Commentary
The Peculiarities Of Obamacare: Politicians Must Sue President Obama To Get Him To Enforce The Law
This past week, on January 13, freshman Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Green Bay, Wisconsin, against the federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM). With his suit, Johnson hopes to get the Obama Administration to enforce portions of the federal health reform law it ...
Commentary
No ‘new day’ for Obamacare
The first insurance policies sold through Obamacares exchanges went into effect this month. As they did so, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius proclaimed a new day in health care for millions of Americans. But the actual numbers tell a different story. Lets start with the figure most frequently ...
Business & Economics
Businesses Threatened By Raft Of New ObamaCare Taxes
As 2014 dawns, ObamaCare’s most disruptive changes to the health care system are just now getting under way. For American businesses, that means a raft of new taxes that will pose devastating consequences for their employees and the broader economy. Paramount among them is a new tax on health insurers ...
Commentary
The Many Failures of Single Payer
Vermonts incumbent governor, Peter Shumlin, wants his state to become the first to launch a government takeover of its health-care system. But the results of last months election could give him pause. He was unable to secure a majority of votes this November after winning 58 percent of the ...
Commentary
Killing with caution: Feds fumble on meningitis
Princeton University and UC-Santa Barbara are both reeling from outbreaks of bacterial meningitis. The strain afflicting the two campuses cant be prevented by the vaccine that college freshmen typically get before heading to school. But a new vaccine can stop the spread of this particular strain if the government ...
California
California’s consumer hotline won’t cure Obamacare ills
Nationwide, many (including New York Times columnist Paul Krugman) seem to think that California got Obamacare right. Given the fiasco of the Obamacare launch in other states, that’s a low bar. At least, the Covered California website works. And so it should. Whereas development of the federally operated insurance exchange, ...
Commentary
Don’t Be Fooled By Kathleen Sebelius’s Healthcare.gov ‘Progress’ Report
This month, Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius trudged up to Capitol Hill for her second public grilling over the flaws with the Obamacare healthcare exchanges. Sebelius was insistent that HealthCare.gov has vastly improved since its October launch, noting that about a quarter of a million new people signed up in November. ...
Obamacare rationing coming to health care near you
Many Americans began this month with new health coverage purchased through Obamacares exchanges. At least, they thought they did scores did not receive insurance cards or other confirmation that they actually had coverage. The hang-up was largely a function of the technical glitches that have plagued the exchanges. Fortunately, ...
Obamacare isn’t working, but here’s something that is
Congressional Republicans appear increasingly interested in taking President Obama up on the health care challenge he issued in December: “If you’ve got good ideas, bring them to me.” Indeed, House Speaker John Boehner said earlier this month that House Republicans would release a plan to replace Obamacare this year. The ...
The Broken State of American Health Insurance Prior to the Affordable Care Act
Summary (download the full report) The health insurance system in America is plagued with problems, such as continually rising premiums and the difficulty of finding coverage. The Obama administrations diagnosis of the situation was clear: health insurance companies have too much freedom. The solution, therefore, is for the government to ...
The Peculiarities Of Obamacare: Politicians Must Sue President Obama To Get Him To Enforce The Law
This past week, on January 13, freshman Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Green Bay, Wisconsin, against the federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM). With his suit, Johnson hopes to get the Obama Administration to enforce portions of the federal health reform law it ...
No ‘new day’ for Obamacare
The first insurance policies sold through Obamacares exchanges went into effect this month. As they did so, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius proclaimed a new day in health care for millions of Americans. But the actual numbers tell a different story. Lets start with the figure most frequently ...
Businesses Threatened By Raft Of New ObamaCare Taxes
As 2014 dawns, ObamaCare’s most disruptive changes to the health care system are just now getting under way. For American businesses, that means a raft of new taxes that will pose devastating consequences for their employees and the broader economy. Paramount among them is a new tax on health insurers ...
The Many Failures of Single Payer
Vermonts incumbent governor, Peter Shumlin, wants his state to become the first to launch a government takeover of its health-care system. But the results of last months election could give him pause. He was unable to secure a majority of votes this November after winning 58 percent of the ...
Killing with caution: Feds fumble on meningitis
Princeton University and UC-Santa Barbara are both reeling from outbreaks of bacterial meningitis. The strain afflicting the two campuses cant be prevented by the vaccine that college freshmen typically get before heading to school. But a new vaccine can stop the spread of this particular strain if the government ...
California’s consumer hotline won’t cure Obamacare ills
Nationwide, many (including New York Times columnist Paul Krugman) seem to think that California got Obamacare right. Given the fiasco of the Obamacare launch in other states, that’s a low bar. At least, the Covered California website works. And so it should. Whereas development of the federally operated insurance exchange, ...
Don’t Be Fooled By Kathleen Sebelius’s Healthcare.gov ‘Progress’ Report
This month, Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius trudged up to Capitol Hill for her second public grilling over the flaws with the Obamacare healthcare exchanges. Sebelius was insistent that HealthCare.gov has vastly improved since its October launch, noting that about a quarter of a million new people signed up in November. ...
