Obamacare
Commentary
Employer Health Insurance: A Bargain Compared to Government-Sponsored Coverage
After years of slowing growth, employer health costs are forecast to climb at a faster pace next year, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers. Even with that projected growth, employers are spending much less per person than is the government about 60 percent less, concludes a new study from the American Health ...
Commentary
How ObamaCare will kill job-based plans
Americans aren’t all that optimistic about ObamaCare, according to a recent Kaiser Family Foundation poll: Fifty-seven percent say the law isn’t working as planned. That number will shoot even higher if employer health insurance vanishes, as an S&P Capital IQ report predicts. The financial-research firm forecasts that 90 percent of ...
Commentary
The High and Rising Costs of the HealthCare.gov Fiasco
The final verdict on Obamacare has yet to be written. But earlier this month, Republican staffers from the Senate Finance and Judiciary Committees offered a first installment on the botched rollout of the federal health insurance exchange HealthCare.gov. It wasnt pretty. The Committees 34-page report explains just how bad ...
California
Covered California’s Big Budget Blowout Is Coming
Only by Obamacares standards could Covered California, Sacramentos state-run Obamacare exchange, be considered a success. Outside California, Obamacare is fading fast in the states. Some led by Oregon and Maryland intend to abandon their Obamacare health-insurance exchanges and let the federal government takeover. Covered California, however, is firing ...
Commentary
State healthcare exchanges show flaws of Obamacare
Obamacare‘s most loyal proponents are dropping like flies. Of the 14 states and the District of Columbia that established their own health insurance exchanges, no less than seven remain completely broken or dysfunctional. One has already been taken over by the federal government. The others may soon be. Obamacare envisioned ...
Commentary
Repeal and Replace Remains the Goal
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently admitted that it has no idea what Obamacare will end up costing taxpayers. The budget agency has quietly gone back on its initial claim that the law would lower the deficit by $120 billion over the next decade. The reason? It cant track the ...
Drug Pricing
Hospitals Making Hundreds of Millions Off Program for Poor
Affluent hospitals are ginning up hundreds of millions of dollars in ill-gotten gains every year by exploiting a federal health care program intended to help poor and vulnerable Americans. That’s the conclusion of a report from the inspector general at the federal Department of Health and Human Services. The hospitals ...
Commentary
Even the Labor Unions Are Souring on Obamacare
President Obama’s health reform law may have claimed a new victim organized labor. Thanks to Obamacare, labor unions are facing higher health insurance costs as well as steeper out-of-pocket bills and wage cuts. Consequently, these erstwhile allies of the president appear to be signing on with the majority ...
Commentary
Drug Discount Program Drives up Costs, Discounts the Poor
American cancer patients have never had a better chance of beating the disease than they do today. In the last quarter-century, cancer death rates have declined by more than one-fifth. But these gains in the fight against cancer havent come cheaply. Cancer drug prices have doubled in the past decade. ...
Commentary
Obamacare rate shocks are coming
Next year has already arrived for health insurers. The Obama administration has asked that insurers submit their proposed premiums for 2015 within the next month even as they attempt to collect payment from about 1 million of the 8 million people who signed up for coverage in the exchanges ...
Employer Health Insurance: A Bargain Compared to Government-Sponsored Coverage
After years of slowing growth, employer health costs are forecast to climb at a faster pace next year, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers. Even with that projected growth, employers are spending much less per person than is the government about 60 percent less, concludes a new study from the American Health ...
How ObamaCare will kill job-based plans
Americans aren’t all that optimistic about ObamaCare, according to a recent Kaiser Family Foundation poll: Fifty-seven percent say the law isn’t working as planned. That number will shoot even higher if employer health insurance vanishes, as an S&P Capital IQ report predicts. The financial-research firm forecasts that 90 percent of ...
The High and Rising Costs of the HealthCare.gov Fiasco
The final verdict on Obamacare has yet to be written. But earlier this month, Republican staffers from the Senate Finance and Judiciary Committees offered a first installment on the botched rollout of the federal health insurance exchange HealthCare.gov. It wasnt pretty. The Committees 34-page report explains just how bad ...
Covered California’s Big Budget Blowout Is Coming
Only by Obamacares standards could Covered California, Sacramentos state-run Obamacare exchange, be considered a success. Outside California, Obamacare is fading fast in the states. Some led by Oregon and Maryland intend to abandon their Obamacare health-insurance exchanges and let the federal government takeover. Covered California, however, is firing ...
State healthcare exchanges show flaws of Obamacare
Obamacare‘s most loyal proponents are dropping like flies. Of the 14 states and the District of Columbia that established their own health insurance exchanges, no less than seven remain completely broken or dysfunctional. One has already been taken over by the federal government. The others may soon be. Obamacare envisioned ...
Repeal and Replace Remains the Goal
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently admitted that it has no idea what Obamacare will end up costing taxpayers. The budget agency has quietly gone back on its initial claim that the law would lower the deficit by $120 billion over the next decade. The reason? It cant track the ...
Hospitals Making Hundreds of Millions Off Program for Poor
Affluent hospitals are ginning up hundreds of millions of dollars in ill-gotten gains every year by exploiting a federal health care program intended to help poor and vulnerable Americans. That’s the conclusion of a report from the inspector general at the federal Department of Health and Human Services. The hospitals ...
Even the Labor Unions Are Souring on Obamacare
President Obama’s health reform law may have claimed a new victim organized labor. Thanks to Obamacare, labor unions are facing higher health insurance costs as well as steeper out-of-pocket bills and wage cuts. Consequently, these erstwhile allies of the president appear to be signing on with the majority ...
Drug Discount Program Drives up Costs, Discounts the Poor
American cancer patients have never had a better chance of beating the disease than they do today. In the last quarter-century, cancer death rates have declined by more than one-fifth. But these gains in the fight against cancer havent come cheaply. Cancer drug prices have doubled in the past decade. ...
Obamacare rate shocks are coming
Next year has already arrived for health insurers. The Obama administration has asked that insurers submit their proposed premiums for 2015 within the next month even as they attempt to collect payment from about 1 million of the 8 million people who signed up for coverage in the exchanges ...
