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Commentary
Obamacare is just overly expensive catastrophic health insurance
Democrats are warning of a surge in the number of uninsured if costly enhanced subsidies for exchange coverage expire as planned at the end of next year. But exchange coverage is borderline useless to many enrollees. It requires beneficiaries to fork over huge sums before it kicks in and confines ...
Commentary
Enhanced Obamacare Subsidies Define Taking Without Giving
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is projecting that some 2.2 million people will become uninsured in 2026 if the enhanced premium subsidies that Democrats green-lit for exchange coverage expire as scheduled at the end of next year. Eventually, the CBO says, the end of those subsidies will result in 3.8 ...
Commentary
It Turns Out Americans Really Love Their Health Care
Are Americans truly sick and tired of their healthcare system? Social media has been alight with stories about insurance companies denying claims or limiting access to care in the wake of the assassination of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO earlier this month. But the public’s attitude toward health care in the real world ...
California
It’s a Blessing that California Democrats Are Limiting the Number of New Bills
It takes no effort for limited-government devotees to find fault with Sacramento. But on occasion, lawmakers in the supermajority come upon an idea that even the right will get behind. The most recent illustration is legislative leaders’ decision to cut the number of bills that can be introduced during the ...
assisted suicide
Mushrooming health subsidies are creating sick incentives for government to push suicide
Speaker Mike Johnson this month blasted the United Kingdom’s brand-new assisted suicide law, which will allow doctors to help terminally ill patients end their lives. “Any society that rejects that truth about life as a gift from our creator and adopts a culture of death . . . is in ...
California
$30 minimum wage would be an Olympian error for Los Angeles
The Los Angeles City Council is hiking the minimum wage for hotel and airport workers to $30 an hour. It will turn out to be a five-diamond mistake. The vote wasn’t even close. By a 12-3 margin, the Council decided to give a raise to workers they don’t employ and ...
California
Drivers Beware: California’s Road Diet to Grow Stricter in New Year
When the calendar turns over to 2025, parking in California cities will be even more of a hassle than it already is. Jan. 1 marks the day that cities can begin slapping tickets on cars parked too close to crosswalks. San Francisco is expected to lose nearly 14,000 street spaces. ...
Commentary
Compared to Other Nations, the U.S. Health Care System Isn’t So Bad
Following the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the mores of the farthest reaches of social media have made their way to Congress. Last week, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said, “The visceral response from people across the country who feel cheated, ripped off, and threatened by the vile practices of ...
Commentary
No to Socialized Medicine for Already Overburdened Veterans
A bill introduced by U.S. House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Chairman Mike Bost, R-Ill., last week promises to make private healthcare more accessible to veterans. The Complete the Mission Act expands on a similar measure signed into law in 2018 by President Trump. The GOP’s renewed interest in this issue ...
Commentary
Here’s What’s in Trump’s Healthcare Plan
The American people are about to find out what Donald Trump meant when he said he had “concepts of a plan” for healthcare reform. It’s reasonable to expect market-oriented changes that lead to more choices, lower costs and better stewardship of taxpayer dollars. One of the most important actions Trump ...
Obamacare is just overly expensive catastrophic health insurance
Democrats are warning of a surge in the number of uninsured if costly enhanced subsidies for exchange coverage expire as planned at the end of next year. But exchange coverage is borderline useless to many enrollees. It requires beneficiaries to fork over huge sums before it kicks in and confines ...
Enhanced Obamacare Subsidies Define Taking Without Giving
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is projecting that some 2.2 million people will become uninsured in 2026 if the enhanced premium subsidies that Democrats green-lit for exchange coverage expire as scheduled at the end of next year. Eventually, the CBO says, the end of those subsidies will result in 3.8 ...
It Turns Out Americans Really Love Their Health Care
Are Americans truly sick and tired of their healthcare system? Social media has been alight with stories about insurance companies denying claims or limiting access to care in the wake of the assassination of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO earlier this month. But the public’s attitude toward health care in the real world ...
It’s a Blessing that California Democrats Are Limiting the Number of New Bills
It takes no effort for limited-government devotees to find fault with Sacramento. But on occasion, lawmakers in the supermajority come upon an idea that even the right will get behind. The most recent illustration is legislative leaders’ decision to cut the number of bills that can be introduced during the ...
Mushrooming health subsidies are creating sick incentives for government to push suicide
Speaker Mike Johnson this month blasted the United Kingdom’s brand-new assisted suicide law, which will allow doctors to help terminally ill patients end their lives. “Any society that rejects that truth about life as a gift from our creator and adopts a culture of death . . . is in ...
$30 minimum wage would be an Olympian error for Los Angeles
The Los Angeles City Council is hiking the minimum wage for hotel and airport workers to $30 an hour. It will turn out to be a five-diamond mistake. The vote wasn’t even close. By a 12-3 margin, the Council decided to give a raise to workers they don’t employ and ...
Drivers Beware: California’s Road Diet to Grow Stricter in New Year
When the calendar turns over to 2025, parking in California cities will be even more of a hassle than it already is. Jan. 1 marks the day that cities can begin slapping tickets on cars parked too close to crosswalks. San Francisco is expected to lose nearly 14,000 street spaces. ...
Compared to Other Nations, the U.S. Health Care System Isn’t So Bad
Following the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the mores of the farthest reaches of social media have made their way to Congress. Last week, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said, “The visceral response from people across the country who feel cheated, ripped off, and threatened by the vile practices of ...
No to Socialized Medicine for Already Overburdened Veterans
A bill introduced by U.S. House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Chairman Mike Bost, R-Ill., last week promises to make private healthcare more accessible to veterans. The Complete the Mission Act expands on a similar measure signed into law in 2018 by President Trump. The GOP’s renewed interest in this issue ...
Here’s What’s in Trump’s Healthcare Plan
The American people are about to find out what Donald Trump meant when he said he had “concepts of a plan” for healthcare reform. It’s reasonable to expect market-oriented changes that lead to more choices, lower costs and better stewardship of taxpayer dollars. One of the most important actions Trump ...
