Health Care

First, Professor Avraham goes the way of many clever people who have a good idea, but become frustrated that society does not immediately adopt it: He proposes that the federal government mandate that physicians purchase (or license) appropriate guidelines from for-profit companies! If there’s one thing we’ve learned from Obamacare, ...

With respect to Mr. Krasny, I was debating Herb Schultz, an Obamacare employee who runs the west coast for Kathleen Sebelius, the U.S. Secretary of Health & Human Services. Mary Agnes Carey of Kaiser Health News set up the discussion with a report on the state of Obamacare. It went ...

Some are just strange: Aetna received an exemption for plans that it offers to firms with more than 209,000 enrollees. So, what happens when a firm with 210,000 enrollees closes a plant and the headcount drops to 200,000? It loses its waiver, too? Also, note that these waivers are for ...

As I discussed a few days ago, Georgia governor Deal also took some time to make a final decision on a Health Benefits Exchange. But he eventually made the right decision: No exchange. Read more here.

In pressing his case for the overhaul, the president made several lofty promises — and assured Americans it would expand access to health care while improving quality and reducing costs. Throughout the past year, Obamacare’s efforts to expand coverage have fallen flat — even as it has raised the cost ...

Governor Deal has undoubtedly realized that any collaboration with the Obamacrats merely allows Obamacare’s roots to grow deeper into the soil. Now instead of wasting time on a Health Benefits Exchange, Georgia’s legislators can spend their time considering more effective health reforms, a task which they appear to be taking ...

Key Points The government forces most Americans to take health “benefits” chosen by HR managers who work for their employers. This leads to fragmentation, frustration and bureaucracy. Giving individuals ownership of their health dollars relies on reforming the federal tax code to give the tax benefits of health insurance to ...

Because Governor Daniels has been shaky on this front (as I’ve already described), Cannon’s arguments against the Healthy Indiana Plan (HIP) and against Governor Daniels’s accepting federal Obamacare grants have blurred together into an almost ad hominem criticism of Daniels. Turner, on the other hand, not only supports HIP but ...