Health Care
Commentary
O-Day is January 1, 2014
What are the best tactics to prepare for repeal before that potentially catastrophic date? I contribute to a discussion over at National Review Online .
Commentary
Obamacare’s Popularity Hits All-Time Low
The survey also confirms that “health care voters” were central to the Republicans’ overwhelming victory in the midterms. Such voters – defined by Kaiser as “those who named health care or health care reform as one of the top two factors in deciding their vote for Congress” – overwhelmingly supported ...
Commentary
American Health Care and American Productivity: An International Comparison
Key Points Domestic critics claim that U.S. health care is a drag on productivity, but the United States is the world’s most productive nation. American productivity leads to much higher national income than in other countries, suggesting that our high health spending as a share of GDP is not out ...
Business & Economics
Puerto Rico’s epic tax blunder
Let’s say you’re an elected leader faced with a tough decision about how to revive the lagging economy. Your predecessors had tremendous success spurring growth by making the local tax environment exceptionally friendly to investment. However, in recent years, as the global economy has contracted, so has yours. GDP has ...
Commentary
Should Your State Establish an Obamacare Health Insurance Exchange?
Obamacare is unpopular, unwieldy, expensive, likely unconstitutional, and will shortly be a prime target for repeal. Obamacare is unpopular, unwieldy, expensive, likely unconstitutional, and will shortly be a prime target for repeal. And the worst is yet to come: Obamacare expects states to do much of the law’s dirty work. ...
California
ObamaCare to debut in Calif. – will it fly?
An expert on healthcare policy thinks ObamaCare must fail in at least one state at taxpayers’ expense before Democrats realize it won’t work. California will lead the nation in implementing the new healthcare law with a $10-billion plan, approved by the Obama administration, to grant citizens Medicaid waivers. The new ...
Commentary
It’s time to start dismantling Obamacare
Last week, voters nationwide delivered a stinging rebuke of President Obama’s big-government vision for the country. A primary reason for the “shellacking,” as the president termed the Democrats’ defeat, was Americans’ disgust with the new health reform law. Indeed, a Rasmussen poll released on Election Day found that 58 percent ...
Health Care
Beyond ObamaCare: The Ninth and Tenth Amendments and the “Right to Health Care”
Key Points: Libertarians and conservatives need not fear a “right to health care,” because defining such a right prevents ObamaCare and similar federal interference, according to the Ninth and Tenth Amendments. A number of legislators and attorneys general have decided to challenge ObamaCare on constitutional grounds, citing the Tenth Amendment, ...
Commentary
Federal lawsuit against BCBSM illustrates Obamacare’s hypocrisy
The new federal health care legislation promotes consolidation among providers and insurers, yet its advocates touted their desire to reduce costs. DOJ says BCBSM’s use of MFNs has reduced competition in the sale of health insurance in markets throughout Michigan by inhibiting hospitals from negotiating competitive contracts with Blue Cross ...
Commentary
San Francisco Bans Happy Meals for Kids
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O-Day is January 1, 2014
What are the best tactics to prepare for repeal before that potentially catastrophic date? I contribute to a discussion over at National Review Online .
Obamacare’s Popularity Hits All-Time Low
The survey also confirms that “health care voters” were central to the Republicans’ overwhelming victory in the midterms. Such voters – defined by Kaiser as “those who named health care or health care reform as one of the top two factors in deciding their vote for Congress” – overwhelmingly supported ...
American Health Care and American Productivity: An International Comparison
Key Points Domestic critics claim that U.S. health care is a drag on productivity, but the United States is the world’s most productive nation. American productivity leads to much higher national income than in other countries, suggesting that our high health spending as a share of GDP is not out ...
Puerto Rico’s epic tax blunder
Let’s say you’re an elected leader faced with a tough decision about how to revive the lagging economy. Your predecessors had tremendous success spurring growth by making the local tax environment exceptionally friendly to investment. However, in recent years, as the global economy has contracted, so has yours. GDP has ...
Should Your State Establish an Obamacare Health Insurance Exchange?
Obamacare is unpopular, unwieldy, expensive, likely unconstitutional, and will shortly be a prime target for repeal. Obamacare is unpopular, unwieldy, expensive, likely unconstitutional, and will shortly be a prime target for repeal. And the worst is yet to come: Obamacare expects states to do much of the law’s dirty work. ...
ObamaCare to debut in Calif. – will it fly?
An expert on healthcare policy thinks ObamaCare must fail in at least one state at taxpayers’ expense before Democrats realize it won’t work. California will lead the nation in implementing the new healthcare law with a $10-billion plan, approved by the Obama administration, to grant citizens Medicaid waivers. The new ...
It’s time to start dismantling Obamacare
Last week, voters nationwide delivered a stinging rebuke of President Obama’s big-government vision for the country. A primary reason for the “shellacking,” as the president termed the Democrats’ defeat, was Americans’ disgust with the new health reform law. Indeed, a Rasmussen poll released on Election Day found that 58 percent ...
Beyond ObamaCare: The Ninth and Tenth Amendments and the “Right to Health Care”
Key Points: Libertarians and conservatives need not fear a “right to health care,” because defining such a right prevents ObamaCare and similar federal interference, according to the Ninth and Tenth Amendments. A number of legislators and attorneys general have decided to challenge ObamaCare on constitutional grounds, citing the Tenth Amendment, ...
Federal lawsuit against BCBSM illustrates Obamacare’s hypocrisy
The new federal health care legislation promotes consolidation among providers and insurers, yet its advocates touted their desire to reduce costs. DOJ says BCBSM’s use of MFNs has reduced competition in the sale of health insurance in markets throughout Michigan by inhibiting hospitals from negotiating competitive contracts with Blue Cross ...
San Francisco Bans Happy Meals for Kids
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