Obamacare
Commentary
Obamacare: A never-ending money pit
UnitedHealth — the largest insurance company in the country — recently announced that it might quit Obamacare’s healthcare exchanges in 2017. The CEO of another major insurer, Cigna, just made clear that his company hasn’t yet decided if it’ll stick around. That’s what losing hundreds of millions of dollars on ...
Commentary
Socialized medicine a global failure
Single-payer health care is back in the news. Activists in Colorado just secured enough signatures to put single-payer on the state ballot next fall. Last month, a state legislator from Philadelphia introduced legislation that would, if passed, install single-payer in Pennsylvania. And then there’s Democratic presidential hopeful U.S. Sen. Bernie ...
Commentary
Obamacare Bloats U.S. Healthcare System
Last month, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a developed-country think tank, released its latest estimates of how much the rich world spends on health care. Yet again, the United States took the top spot. Our nation spends $8,713 per person on health care — more than double the ...
Commentary
The Health Care Sector Needs Innovation, Not Regulation
While problems with the U.S. health care system persist, the recent failures of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) illustrate that greater government regulation cannot cure what ails the U.S. health care industry. Deregulation that empowers private sector health care innovation can. In fact, private sector innovations, such as Dental Service ...
Commentary
Clinton would drive up health care costs
Five years and nine months after its passage, the federal government has issued more than 10,000 pages of regulations related to the implementation of Obamacare. Get ready for several thousand more pages if Hillary Clinton takes the White House. She’s proposing a raft of new government mandates to “protect the ...
Business & Economics
Increasing Benefits Without Reducing Jobs
Thought leaders on the left believe we can save federal government dollars by making employers pay more to their employees. Ralph Nader’s recent blog on the Huffington Post cites a Center for American Progress study that welfare rolls would drop by 6 percent if a minimum wage of $10.10 were ...
Commentary
If UnitedHealth Can’t Afford ObamaCare, Then Who Can?
ObamaCare just claimed its highest-profile victim — America’s largest health insurer. UnitedHealth Group announced last month that it was considering pulling out of the federal health care exchanges in 2017. The industry giant expects to lose more than $700 million there this year. So it was no surprise to hear ...
Health Care
Too Soon To Start Writing Obamacare’s Death Certificate
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) insisted Tuesday that the individual health insurance markets under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have a strong future, despite a warning from one of the nation’s biggest insurers that it may drop out of the markets due to unsustainable losses. United Health ...
Commentary
Obamacare’s Exchanges Begin To Implode
Need proof that Obamacare is imploding? Look to its exchanges. The largest U.S. insurer, UnitedHealth Group, just announced that it may withdraw from the exchanges in 2017. The insurer currently offers plans in 34 states and covers more than 500,000 people through the online marketplaces. But it’s expecting $700 million ...
Obamacare: A never-ending money pit
UnitedHealth — the largest insurance company in the country — recently announced that it might quit Obamacare’s healthcare exchanges in 2017. The CEO of another major insurer, Cigna, just made clear that his company hasn’t yet decided if it’ll stick around. That’s what losing hundreds of millions of dollars on ...
Socialized medicine a global failure
Single-payer health care is back in the news. Activists in Colorado just secured enough signatures to put single-payer on the state ballot next fall. Last month, a state legislator from Philadelphia introduced legislation that would, if passed, install single-payer in Pennsylvania. And then there’s Democratic presidential hopeful U.S. Sen. Bernie ...
Obamacare Bloats U.S. Healthcare System
Last month, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a developed-country think tank, released its latest estimates of how much the rich world spends on health care. Yet again, the United States took the top spot. Our nation spends $8,713 per person on health care — more than double the ...
The Health Care Sector Needs Innovation, Not Regulation
While problems with the U.S. health care system persist, the recent failures of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) illustrate that greater government regulation cannot cure what ails the U.S. health care industry. Deregulation that empowers private sector health care innovation can. In fact, private sector innovations, such as Dental Service ...
Clinton would drive up health care costs
Five years and nine months after its passage, the federal government has issued more than 10,000 pages of regulations related to the implementation of Obamacare. Get ready for several thousand more pages if Hillary Clinton takes the White House. She’s proposing a raft of new government mandates to “protect the ...
Increasing Benefits Without Reducing Jobs
Thought leaders on the left believe we can save federal government dollars by making employers pay more to their employees. Ralph Nader’s recent blog on the Huffington Post cites a Center for American Progress study that welfare rolls would drop by 6 percent if a minimum wage of $10.10 were ...
If UnitedHealth Can’t Afford ObamaCare, Then Who Can?
ObamaCare just claimed its highest-profile victim — America’s largest health insurer. UnitedHealth Group announced last month that it was considering pulling out of the federal health care exchanges in 2017. The industry giant expects to lose more than $700 million there this year. So it was no surprise to hear ...
Too Soon To Start Writing Obamacare’s Death Certificate
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) insisted Tuesday that the individual health insurance markets under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have a strong future, despite a warning from one of the nation’s biggest insurers that it may drop out of the markets due to unsustainable losses. United Health ...
Obamacare’s Exchanges Begin To Implode
Need proof that Obamacare is imploding? Look to its exchanges. The largest U.S. insurer, UnitedHealth Group, just announced that it may withdraw from the exchanges in 2017. The insurer currently offers plans in 34 states and covers more than 500,000 people through the online marketplaces. But it’s expecting $700 million ...
