Conservative Agenda: Tax Reform, Replacing Obamacare
Rep. Brady touts tax code built for growth by Ali Meyer • Washington Free Beacon Rep. Kevin Brady (R., Texas), the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said…
Populist rhetoric doesn’t repeal or replace ObamaCare
The headlines are awash with stories of huge ObamaCare premium cost increases. Some have even referred to the news as an “October Surprise.” But for those of us who read…
Putting Obamacare Out of Its Misery
Trump’s health care opportunity. By Michael Astrue • Weekly Standard Discontent with Obamacare—and with the delivery of health care more broadly—unites most Americans across our other divisions. That discontent creates…
GOP Bill Hikes Taxes, Helps Raise Obamacare Premiums but Doesn’t Kill Obamacare
by Crystal Wright • Morning Consult Just when you thought the disastrous Obamacare literally couldn’t get any sicker or more costly to Americans, think again. However, this time it…
A doctor asks: Was ObamaCare designed to fail?
By Jeffrey I. Barke • The Hill As ObamaCare’s troubles mount, I’ve heard my patients and my peers in healthcare ask: How could the law’s authors not have seen this coming?…
Expert: Obama Administration Could Bail Out Obamacare Insurers
by Ali Meyer • Washington Free Beacon The Obama administration could bail out Obamacare insurers through its risk-corridor program, according to an expert from the Mercatus Center. The risk-corridor program…
Audit: Obamacare Enrollees Had Trouble Affording and Accessing Care
by Ali Meyer • Washington Free Beacon Obamacare enrollees had trouble affording and accessing health care as well as understanding how to use their plans, according to a report from…
Tax the Private Sector, Increase the Size of the Federal Government and Hand the White House a Big Victory in a Scheme to Kill Obamacare
Instead of attempting an outright repeal of Obamacare, some in Congress are abdicating conservative principles and throwing the private sector under the bus in a reckless effort to kill the…
Another ACA failure
New Hampshire Union Leader New Hampshire residents will have even fewer choices for health insurance next year as Community Health Options announced last week that it is dumping the Granite…
Obamacare is unsustainable — the backbone could collapse, expert warns
by Abigail Stevenson • CNBC If politicians don’t fix the Affordable Care Act, then the vulnerable Blue Cross and local HMO plans — which serve as the backbone of Obamacare…
ObamaCare Is Failing Exactly The Way Critics Said It Would
Aetna’s decision to abandon its ObamaCare expansion plans and rethink its participation altogether came as a surprise to many. It shouldn’t have. Everything that’s happened now was predicted by the…
Report: Administration Officials Circumvented Constitution to Make Obamacare Payments
Administration stonewalled Congress, refusing to comply with subpoenas by Ali Meyer • Washington Free Beacon Obama administration officials circumvented the Constitution and appropriations laws in sending taxpayer…
Health Care Premiums: Up, and Rising Again
By M. Anthony Mills • RealClearPolitics In presidential politics, party professionals on both sides of the aisle live in fear of the dreaded “October surprise” that…
Judge rules in favor of House Republicans in Obamacare lawsuit
Says administration usurped Congress’s power of the purse By Tom Howell Jr. • The Washington Times A federal judge dealt President Obama and his health care…
Former Obama speechwriters laugh at ‘you can keep your plan’ promise
By T. Becket Adams • Washington Examiner Charlie Rose and a trio of former Obama speechwriters laughed it up this week at the mention of the president’s…