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Obamacare “savings” come at a high price

The Obama Administration appears to have received a rare bit of good news from one of the agencies managing its overhaul of the American healthcare system. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just announced that the Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) created by Obamacare in hopes of better coordinating seniors’ ...
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ACA’s unaffordable consequences

Congress’s bean-counters have rendered their verdict on Obamacare’s economic impact – and it’s not good for the president. According to a Congressional Budget Office report released last month, the president’s health care law will reduce the number of hours Americans work by 1.5 to 2 percent – the equivalent of ...
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Access and Cost: What the U.S. Health Care System Can Learn from Other Countries

March 11, 2014 – Sally C. Pipes, president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute, a non-profit think tank based in San Francisco, was invited by the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging, to testify on the issue of “Access and ...
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Industry Succeeds Where Obamacare Fails

Walmart is about to get into the health insurance business. The retail giant’s Sam’s Club division just announced that it would launch a private health insurance exchange for its small-business customers. Business owners shopping at the wholesaler will effectively be able to pick up health insurance for their employees along ...
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Obamacare’s Exchanges Not Playing Well with the Young Crowd

Young people appear to have abandoned President Obama less than two years after sending him back to the White House. Only 41 percent of Americans 18 to 29 approve of his job performance, according to a recent poll from Harvard’s Institute of Politics. Even more — 56 percent — disapprove ...
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Not working just won’t work

Congress’s bean-counters have rendered their verdict on Obamacare’s economic impact — and it’s not good for the president. According to a new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report, the president’s healthcare law will reduce the number of hours Americans work by 1.5 percent to 2 percent — the equivalent of 2.5 ...
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ObamaCare Resorts To Gimmicks To Get Young To Sign On

President Obama hasn’t been able to convince young Americans to sign up for insurance coverage through his health reform law’s exchanges. So he’s enlisting the help of two new groups he hopes young adults won’t ignore — kittens and celebrities. Enroll America, a nonprofit aligned with the Obama administration and ...
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The Pacific Research Institute and the Cato Institute File Amicus Brief Against Extending Tax Subsidies to Purchasers of Insurance in Federal Exchanges (HealthCare.gov)

The Pacific Research Institute and the Cato Institute File Amicus Brief Against Extending Tax Subsidies to Purchasers of Insurance in Federal Exchanges (HealthCare.gov) DOWNLOAD BRIEF February 18, 2014 – The Pacific Research Institute and the Cato Institute issued the following statements after filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals ...
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Senate GOP Health Reform Plan Has Room For Improvement — But Still Better Than Obamacare

In his recent State of the Union address, President Obama threw down a gauntlet for Republicans opposed to his health reform law. “If you have specific plans to cut costs, cover more people, increase choice, tell America what you’d do differently,” he said. “Let’s see if the numbers add up.” ...
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Against The Evidence Obama And Liberal Media Push For More Government Preschool

In his State of the Union speech, Barack Obama made a renewed push for his Preschool for All plan, which would increase federal funding for government preschool programs. With congressional Democrats pushing legislation to implement the plan, the liberal media has dubbed universal government preschool as the new “in” thing ...
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Obamacare “savings” come at a high price

The Obama Administration appears to have received a rare bit of good news from one of the agencies managing its overhaul of the American healthcare system. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just announced that the Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) created by Obamacare in hopes of better coordinating seniors’ ...
Commentary

ACA’s unaffordable consequences

Congress’s bean-counters have rendered their verdict on Obamacare’s economic impact – and it’s not good for the president. According to a Congressional Budget Office report released last month, the president’s health care law will reduce the number of hours Americans work by 1.5 to 2 percent – the equivalent of ...
Commentary

Access and Cost: What the U.S. Health Care System Can Learn from Other Countries

March 11, 2014 – Sally C. Pipes, president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute, a non-profit think tank based in San Francisco, was invited by the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging, to testify on the issue of “Access and ...
Commentary

Industry Succeeds Where Obamacare Fails

Walmart is about to get into the health insurance business. The retail giant’s Sam’s Club division just announced that it would launch a private health insurance exchange for its small-business customers. Business owners shopping at the wholesaler will effectively be able to pick up health insurance for their employees along ...
Commentary

Obamacare’s Exchanges Not Playing Well with the Young Crowd

Young people appear to have abandoned President Obama less than two years after sending him back to the White House. Only 41 percent of Americans 18 to 29 approve of his job performance, according to a recent poll from Harvard’s Institute of Politics. Even more — 56 percent — disapprove ...
Commentary

Not working just won’t work

Congress’s bean-counters have rendered their verdict on Obamacare’s economic impact — and it’s not good for the president. According to a new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report, the president’s healthcare law will reduce the number of hours Americans work by 1.5 percent to 2 percent — the equivalent of 2.5 ...
Commentary

ObamaCare Resorts To Gimmicks To Get Young To Sign On

President Obama hasn’t been able to convince young Americans to sign up for insurance coverage through his health reform law’s exchanges. So he’s enlisting the help of two new groups he hopes young adults won’t ignore — kittens and celebrities. Enroll America, a nonprofit aligned with the Obama administration and ...
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The Pacific Research Institute and the Cato Institute File Amicus Brief Against Extending Tax Subsidies to Purchasers of Insurance in Federal Exchanges (HealthCare.gov)

The Pacific Research Institute and the Cato Institute File Amicus Brief Against Extending Tax Subsidies to Purchasers of Insurance in Federal Exchanges (HealthCare.gov) DOWNLOAD BRIEF February 18, 2014 – The Pacific Research Institute and the Cato Institute issued the following statements after filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals ...
Commentary

Senate GOP Health Reform Plan Has Room For Improvement — But Still Better Than Obamacare

In his recent State of the Union address, President Obama threw down a gauntlet for Republicans opposed to his health reform law. “If you have specific plans to cut costs, cover more people, increase choice, tell America what you’d do differently,” he said. “Let’s see if the numbers add up.” ...
Commentary

Against The Evidence Obama And Liberal Media Push For More Government Preschool

In his State of the Union speech, Barack Obama made a renewed push for his Preschool for All plan, which would increase federal funding for government preschool programs. With congressional Democrats pushing legislation to implement the plan, the liberal media has dubbed universal government preschool as the new “in” thing ...
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