Robert Emmet Moffit, PhD., is a Senior Research Fellow in Health and Welfare Policy at the Heritage Foundation, and coeditor of Modernizing Medicare: Harnessing the Power of Consumer Choice and Competition from Johns Hopkins University Press.
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The next time Sen. Bernie Sanders or his progressive Senate allies tout their proposal for total federal control of health care, just remember the case… Read More
Health CareCommentary
With the collapse of choice and competition in the Obamacare health insurance exchanges, combined with major premium and deductible increases, “progressives” in Congress are looking… Read More
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This week, congressional leaders withdrew legislative language that would have bailed out Obamacare’s health insurance companies as part of the $1.3 trillion, 2,232-page omnibus spending… Read More
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This month could mark a turning point in national health policy. Big insurance companies have been pressuring Congress for a bailout—in the form of more… Read More
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It appears that Congress, backed by powerful special interests in the health care industry, is getting ready to bail out, once again, Obamacare’s failing health… Read More
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Alex Azar, the new secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, outlined an ambitious health policy agenda this week in a major address… Read More
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With the enactment of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which repealed the tax penalty for the individual health insurance mandate, many Americans… Read More
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The White House’s Office of Management and Budget just released its annual budget proposal—and on health policy, it’s sending massively mixed messages. The Trump administration’s… Read More
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With his Twitter account, President Donald Trump jumped into the national health care debate this week, tweeting: The Democrats are pushing for Universal HealthCare while… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Arnold Steinberg works in the business of politics and fights in the battle of ideas. He is a campaign consultant, and “Whiplash! From JFK to… Read More
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In 2018, millions of middle-class Americans, particularly those unsubsidized enrollees in the states’ individual health insurance markets, are rightfully anxious about the future of their… Read More
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The prospect that Congress might zero-out Obamacare’s individual mandate penalty in the pending tax bill has sent Obamacare defenders into flights of pessimistic rhetoric, up… Read More
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Congressional repeal of Obamacare’s individual insurance mandate penalty is not tantamount to pressing the button on the doomsday machine. Critics of the Senate tax bill… Read More
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Obamacare’s individual mandate to buy federally standardized health insurance is a tax, courtesy of the Supreme Court’s elaborate exercise in creative writing: National Federation of… Read More
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Forget good intentions. Remember bad results. The Washington Post recently published a heart-wrenching story of two Virginia families caught up with the consequences of a… Read More
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The late, great Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman said it best: “There’s no such thing as a free lunch.” Friedman’s pithy proverb reminds us that… Read More
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Finding bipartisan agreement on any issue today is rare, and on health reform, essentially nonexistent. So what’s getting both Democrats and Republicans on the same… Read More
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The Senate’s failure to pass even a watered-down version of health care reform was compounded by its decision to leave Washington rather than finish the… Read More
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Enough is enough. The Senate needs to get back to work and deliver a health care reform bill. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump needs to shut… Read More
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The Senate health care bill (the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017) would fundamentally reform federal Medicaid payment. As Washington Post columnist George Will has… Read More
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On Thursday, the Senate Republican leadership unveiled an updated version of the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017. While it is an imperfect legislative product,… Read More
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While the ongoing congressional effort to reform health care is falling short of repealing Obamacare, it is critical that Congress maximize every opportunity to undo… Read More
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The Senate plans to release a draft of its counterpart to the House-passed American Health Care Act Thursday. The House bill contains a number of… Read More
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The House Ways and Means subcommittee on health will host a hearing this week on promoting integrated and coordinated care for Medicare beneficiaries. The committee will… Read More
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Medicaid, the huge government health program for the poor and the indigent, is broken. Both the Trump administration’s recent budget submission and the House-passed American… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Americans today are facing an epidemic of chronic illness, including arthritis, diabetes, and heart disease. In fact, chronic illness is now the biggest single driver… Read More
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A major insurance company has decided to entirely withdraw from all of Obamacare‘s health insurance exchanges in 2018. According to the Washington Examiner, the experience… Read More
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By passing the American Health Care Act by a vote of 217-213, the U.S. House of Representatives has taken a major step in the process… Read More
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New developments on the American Health Care Act may finally break the legislative logjam on the bill and make progress toward repealing and replacing Obamacare…. Read More
SocietyCommentary
I first met Kate O’Beirne, my new colleague at the Department of Health and Human Services, in 1986. At the time she was the deputy… Read More
