A First Step For Health Reform
ANALYSIS/OPINION: It’s beginning to look like the Republicans have pretty much abandoned their promise to “repeal and replace” Obamacare. Considering they don’t have the votes to do it this does…
ObamaCare Is The Real Junk Insurance, And It’s Killing People
Investor’s Business Daily We keep hearing about how short-term health plans are “junk insurance.” Really? Compared to ObamaCare’s high-deductible HMOs, or Medicaid’s long and often deadly waits? A new study…
One State Pursues ‘End of ObamaCare’
By Fred Lucas • Fox News Texas AG Ken Paxton and Wisconsin AG Brad Schimel on the lawsuit to end ObamaCare and the future of DACA. Idaho has become ground…
Liberals Have A New Plan To Take Over The Health Care System. What You Need To Know.
By Christopher Jacobs • The Federalist The Center for American Progress proposed a plan for government-run health care Thursday, which the liberal think tank calls “Medicare Extra.” Unlike Bernie Sanders’…
Trump Pushes Low-Cost, ObamaCare Alternative Health Plans
Fox News The Trump administration moved Tuesday to allow health insurers to sell lower-cost, less-comprehensive medical plans as an alternative to those required under ObamaCare – in a plan that…
The Ground Is Shifting Under Obamacare
By Scott Rasmussen • Real Clear Politics President Trump has perfected the art of antagonizing his opponents with provocative tweets. He demonstrated this skill recently in declaring that the tax…
Study Suggests Medicaid Is A ‘Persistently Inferior’ Form Of Health Coverage
By Christopher Jacobs • The Federalist How many individuals would knowingly want to enroll in a form of health coverage with “persistently inferior” outcomes? It’s a good question, as a…
CBO: Repealing Obamacare’s Individual Mandate Would Reduce Deficit By $338 Billion
By Ali Meyer • Washington Free Beacon Repealing the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate would reduce the federal deficit by $338 billion in the next decade, according to a projection…
Analysis: Obamacare premiums to rise by average of 34 percent in 2018
by Kimberly Leonard • Washington Examiner The price of premiums for Obamacare’s mid-level plans are set to rise by an average of 34 percent next year, according to an analysis…
Unless Congress Acts, Delayed Obamacare Tax On Health Insurance Takes Effect Next Year
By John Daniel Davidson • The Federalist At the risk of interrupting our endless culture wars with some boring policy health policy news, congressional Republicans are on track to allow…
Obamacare’s Out-of-Pocket Costs for Specialty Drugs Increases 16% in One Year
by Ali Meyer • Washington Free Beacon Out-of-pocket costs for specialty drugs under the Affordable Care Act increased 16 percent from 2016 to 2017, according to a report from HealthPocket.…
Obamacare lies resurfacing
By Stephen Moore • Washington Post The danger of a Republican bailout of Obamacare is mounting with every passing day. A group of “moderate” Republicans calling themselves the Problem Solvers…
GOP Tweaks To Pre-Existing Conditions Will Likely Affect Just 0.5 Percent Of Americans
By Scott Ehrlich • The Federalist On the day the American Health Care Act passed the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, the hashtag #IAmAPreExistingCondition was trending on Twitter. At the time…
The ‘Conservatives Are Doomed’ Gambit
Wall Street Journal Barack Obama emerged from his short-lived political retirement on Sunday to call on Members of Congress to show the “political courage” to preserve ObamaCare. But wait. That…
Aetna to Exit All Obamacare Exchanges in 2018 After Experiencing Hundreds of Millions in Losses
By Ali Meyer • Washington Free Beacon Aetna, one of the nation’s largest health insurers, has announced that it will exit all Affordable Care Act exchanges in 2018 after experiencing…