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Time Is Running Out To Enact A True Repeal Of The Affordable Care Act
On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell delayed a vote on his healthcare bill after realizing it couldn’t pass in its current form. Thank goodness. The bill leaves many of the Affordable Care Act’s core components in place—including a system of state and federal insurance exchanges that are on the ...
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Republicans Shouldn’t Wince At That CBO Score
Senate Republicans just delayed a vote on their health care bill. The decision came less than a day after the Congressional Budget Office officially “scored” the bill and found that 22 million people would lose coverage if the legislation passes. There are plenty of reasons to object to the Senate ...
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GOP Health Reform Is Hardly Sweeping
Listen to the critics of the GOP’s healthcare reform effort, and you might think Republicans are intent on personally cancelling the insurance policies of 300 million Americans. Earlier this month, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., referred to the Senate’s Obamacare replacement, which became public June 22, as “a bill that’s going ...
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The Senate Health Care Bill Is Just Obamacare Lite
After weeks of closed-door negotiations, the Senate Republican leadership on Thursday released its bid to repeal and replace Obamacare. It’s the product of a 13-member Senate working group. The bill is a disappointment. It’s little more than repeal in name only. And its ideas for replacement are almost indistinguishable from ...
Business & Economics
Assembly Bill 20 Would Worsen California’s Public Pension Crisis
The average credit card debt in 2016 was $16,048 per household that carries a balance. Paying off this debt is an important financial goal. Obviously, this beneficial goal would be more difficult to meet if the Legislature imposed arbitrary restrictions on the types of jobs households with credit card debts ...
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Senate Republicans Embrace Obamacare In Their Healthcare Bill
Today, the Senate Republican leadership released its draft of a bill that would supposedly repeal and replace Obamacare. It does neither. With this bill, Senate Republicans are betraying the promises they made on the campaign trail for the better part of seven years. If it passes, the GOP will have ...
Business & Economics
Policymakers Ignore Long-Term Consequences Of California Minimum Wage Hike
They were warned and they knew better but they did it nonetheless. It’s become the California Way. Continually legislate, never bother to contemplate. In 1992, economists David Card and Alan B. Krueger published a National Bureau of Economic Research paper that claimed, “Relative to stores in Pennsylvania, fast food restaurants ...
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Health Insurer Bailouts Have Gone On Long Enough
For years, Democrats have ignored the Constitution in order to prop up Obamacare’s collapsing insurance exchanges. Now, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, wants to let them off the hook. Brady recently encouraged Congress to continue making cost-sharing reduction payments to marketplace insurers. These subsidies reimburse coverage ...
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Dream Of Single Payer Would Be A Nightmare
Fully government-run health care may be coming to the Empire State. The State Senate will soon consider the New York Health Act, a bill that would sweep every New Yorker into a single, government-funded health plan. The Assembly green-lit the bill in mid-May. On paper, the measure seems like a ...
Business & Economics
The Best Way To Help Patients Afford Health Care Is To Make Health Care More Affordable
Cultures from biblical times to the ancient Chinese have all expressed some form of the wisdom that the best form of charity is to prevent poverty in the first place. This wisdom is lacking today, particularly with respect to the U.S. health care sector. A recent analysis by investment research ...
Time Is Running Out To Enact A True Repeal Of The Affordable Care Act
On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell delayed a vote on his healthcare bill after realizing it couldn’t pass in its current form. Thank goodness. The bill leaves many of the Affordable Care Act’s core components in place—including a system of state and federal insurance exchanges that are on the ...
Republicans Shouldn’t Wince At That CBO Score
Senate Republicans just delayed a vote on their health care bill. The decision came less than a day after the Congressional Budget Office officially “scored” the bill and found that 22 million people would lose coverage if the legislation passes. There are plenty of reasons to object to the Senate ...
GOP Health Reform Is Hardly Sweeping
Listen to the critics of the GOP’s healthcare reform effort, and you might think Republicans are intent on personally cancelling the insurance policies of 300 million Americans. Earlier this month, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., referred to the Senate’s Obamacare replacement, which became public June 22, as “a bill that’s going ...
The Senate Health Care Bill Is Just Obamacare Lite
After weeks of closed-door negotiations, the Senate Republican leadership on Thursday released its bid to repeal and replace Obamacare. It’s the product of a 13-member Senate working group. The bill is a disappointment. It’s little more than repeal in name only. And its ideas for replacement are almost indistinguishable from ...
Assembly Bill 20 Would Worsen California’s Public Pension Crisis
The average credit card debt in 2016 was $16,048 per household that carries a balance. Paying off this debt is an important financial goal. Obviously, this beneficial goal would be more difficult to meet if the Legislature imposed arbitrary restrictions on the types of jobs households with credit card debts ...
Senate Republicans Embrace Obamacare In Their Healthcare Bill
Today, the Senate Republican leadership released its draft of a bill that would supposedly repeal and replace Obamacare. It does neither. With this bill, Senate Republicans are betraying the promises they made on the campaign trail for the better part of seven years. If it passes, the GOP will have ...
Policymakers Ignore Long-Term Consequences Of California Minimum Wage Hike
They were warned and they knew better but they did it nonetheless. It’s become the California Way. Continually legislate, never bother to contemplate. In 1992, economists David Card and Alan B. Krueger published a National Bureau of Economic Research paper that claimed, “Relative to stores in Pennsylvania, fast food restaurants ...
Health Insurer Bailouts Have Gone On Long Enough
For years, Democrats have ignored the Constitution in order to prop up Obamacare’s collapsing insurance exchanges. Now, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, wants to let them off the hook. Brady recently encouraged Congress to continue making cost-sharing reduction payments to marketplace insurers. These subsidies reimburse coverage ...
Dream Of Single Payer Would Be A Nightmare
Fully government-run health care may be coming to the Empire State. The State Senate will soon consider the New York Health Act, a bill that would sweep every New Yorker into a single, government-funded health plan. The Assembly green-lit the bill in mid-May. On paper, the measure seems like a ...
The Best Way To Help Patients Afford Health Care Is To Make Health Care More Affordable
Cultures from biblical times to the ancient Chinese have all expressed some form of the wisdom that the best form of charity is to prevent poverty in the first place. This wisdom is lacking today, particularly with respect to the U.S. health care sector. A recent analysis by investment research ...
