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  • Obamacare

    Commentary

    ObamaCare’s Imposition Will Lead To An Unhealthy State Of Wellbeing

    The federal government has produced yet another study stating the obvious about health care — that having insurance coverage is better than not having it. Yet some wonks are hailing this report from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) as “the most important health-care policy experiment since the 1970s.” ...
    Health Care

    Health Insurance Exchanges: What If They Issued 347 Pages of Regulations and Nobody Cared?

    The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has issued regulations governing Health Benefits Exchanges and Small-Business Health Options Exchanges under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). • These regulations are poorly defined, confirming that the exchanges will empower state functionaries to reduce choice and competition in health ...
    Health Care

    Bust or Bailout? The Future of Private Health Plans Under ObamaCare

    A new research study released by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a California-based free-market think tank, shows how ObamaCare threatens the solvency of private health plans, which will significantly reduce consumer choice and increase costs. The ultimate result will likely be either a massive taxpayer bailout of private health plans ...
    Business & Economics

    Small-Business Health Care Tax Credits Are having a Miniscule Impact

    The Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council recently surveyed 304 small business owners about how satisfied they were with the new healthcare reform law’s tax credits. Nearly 90% had not applied for the credits. Some had no idea they existed, others were deemed ineligible, and more than a fifth found that ...
    Commentary

    Medicaid Mess-up

    Last week, government officials discovered that up to 3 million middle-class Americans — with annual incomes as high as $64,000 — could qualify for Medicaid, the government health insurance program for the poor, thanks to Obamacare. Medicare’s chief actuary, Richard Foster, summed the situation up nicely: “[T]hat just doesn’t make ...
    Commentary

    Price Caps Will Only Cap Availability of Insurance

    Earlier this month, the California Assembly voted to give the state insurance commissioner the power to reject health insurance rate hikes that he deemed “excessive.” The state senate must now take up the measure, known as AB 52. A week later, AB 52 effectively went national. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) ...
    Commentary

    Will Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Survive Obamacare?

    Reports from consulting firms don’t normally make national news. Then again, most such reports don’t predict the downfall of the American health care system. Earlier this month, the consulting group McKinsey projected that tens of millions of Americans could find themselves without the health coverage they now get through their ...
    Commentary

    Path Dependency in Medicare Reform

    Arguments will not change this fact: People change when the pain of not changing becomes greater than the pain of changing, but not before. This can be the only explanation for the majority of respondents to polls (described here) which ask the foolish question whether “Medicare should remain as it ...
    Business & Economics

    Federal Health Reform and Stock Market Returns of Health Insurers

    The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) would not have passed without the support of business interests in the health sector. • Stock prices of for-profit health plans have significantly outperformed the broader stock market since President Obama’s election in 2008, but also since the Republican “wave” of 2010. ...
    Commentary

    Even Obamacare’s Supporters Don’t Support the Rationing Board

    The House Energy and Commerce Committee just scheduled hearings for next month on one of the most controversial components of ObamaCare — the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). This 15-member, unelected Board will be charged with making recommendations for reducing Medicare spending if costs exceed a specified cap. Those recommendations ...
    Commentary

    ObamaCare’s Imposition Will Lead To An Unhealthy State Of Wellbeing

    The federal government has produced yet another study stating the obvious about health care — that having insurance coverage is better than not having it. Yet some wonks are hailing this report from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) as “the most important health-care policy experiment since the 1970s.” ...
    Health Care

    Health Insurance Exchanges: What If They Issued 347 Pages of Regulations and Nobody Cared?

    The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has issued regulations governing Health Benefits Exchanges and Small-Business Health Options Exchanges under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). • These regulations are poorly defined, confirming that the exchanges will empower state functionaries to reduce choice and competition in health ...
    Health Care

    Bust or Bailout? The Future of Private Health Plans Under ObamaCare

    A new research study released by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a California-based free-market think tank, shows how ObamaCare threatens the solvency of private health plans, which will significantly reduce consumer choice and increase costs. The ultimate result will likely be either a massive taxpayer bailout of private health plans ...
    Business & Economics

    Small-Business Health Care Tax Credits Are having a Miniscule Impact

    The Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council recently surveyed 304 small business owners about how satisfied they were with the new healthcare reform law’s tax credits. Nearly 90% had not applied for the credits. Some had no idea they existed, others were deemed ineligible, and more than a fifth found that ...
    Commentary

    Medicaid Mess-up

    Last week, government officials discovered that up to 3 million middle-class Americans — with annual incomes as high as $64,000 — could qualify for Medicaid, the government health insurance program for the poor, thanks to Obamacare. Medicare’s chief actuary, Richard Foster, summed the situation up nicely: “[T]hat just doesn’t make ...
    Commentary

    Price Caps Will Only Cap Availability of Insurance

    Earlier this month, the California Assembly voted to give the state insurance commissioner the power to reject health insurance rate hikes that he deemed “excessive.” The state senate must now take up the measure, known as AB 52. A week later, AB 52 effectively went national. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) ...
    Commentary

    Will Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Survive Obamacare?

    Reports from consulting firms don’t normally make national news. Then again, most such reports don’t predict the downfall of the American health care system. Earlier this month, the consulting group McKinsey projected that tens of millions of Americans could find themselves without the health coverage they now get through their ...
    Commentary

    Path Dependency in Medicare Reform

    Arguments will not change this fact: People change when the pain of not changing becomes greater than the pain of changing, but not before. This can be the only explanation for the majority of respondents to polls (described here) which ask the foolish question whether “Medicare should remain as it ...
    Business & Economics

    Federal Health Reform and Stock Market Returns of Health Insurers

    The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) would not have passed without the support of business interests in the health sector. • Stock prices of for-profit health plans have significantly outperformed the broader stock market since President Obama’s election in 2008, but also since the Republican “wave” of 2010. ...
    Commentary

    Even Obamacare’s Supporters Don’t Support the Rationing Board

    The House Energy and Commerce Committee just scheduled hearings for next month on one of the most controversial components of ObamaCare — the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). This 15-member, unelected Board will be charged with making recommendations for reducing Medicare spending if costs exceed a specified cap. Those recommendations ...
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