Healthcare & Policy News

Since we reported that Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber admitted to purposely deceiving the American people—and then calling them “stupid”—the story has been trending nonstop on social media. We gathered some of the best tweets about the infamous man with a microphone. Pelosi In 2009: Americans Should Read Jonathan Gruber’s ObamaCare …: http://t.co/BaDvBfdz7y via @YouTube @GenGSPatton…

Ah, the individual mandate. In 2015, if you don't have health insurance, get ready to fork over $325 or a whopping 2 percent of your income (up from 1 percent in 2014), whichever is higher. Health insurance companies are fully aware of this new reality—and the ka-ching opportunities the individual mandate provides. At least one…

The Supreme Court’s decision to hear the King v. Burwell case exposes another potential weakness in the health care law. In the King case, the Supreme Court will consider whether the Internal Review Service has the authority to expand the application of healthcare subsidies to federal exchanges. The subsidies are a key tool used under…

In a newly surfaced video, one of Obamacare’s architects admits a “lack of transparency” helped the Obama administration and congressional Democrats pass the Affordable Care Act. The conservative group American Commitment posted Jonathan Gruber’s remarks, reportedly from an Oct. 17, 2013, event, on YouTube. “Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage,” says the MIT…

The U.S. Supreme Court announced today it will hear King v. Burwell, a challenge to the Internal Revenue Service’s authority to subsidize health coverage purchased through insurance exchanges run by the federal government. It’s likely the court will schedule oral argument in early 2015 and issue a decision by the end of June. Section 36B…

Ted Cruz thinks the Republicans won on Tuesday because of candidates’ positions on Obamacare and immigration reform. “If you look at what Senate candidates ran on all over the country, the number one issue was stopping Obamacare and the number two issue was stopping President Obama’s amnesty [for illegal immigrants],” the Republican senator from Texas…

Even before voters headed to the polls on Tuesday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz had begun to downplay the midterm elections. “Nothing to see here” no doubt has begun to be scribbled into the talking points regarding every hard-fought blue-state campaign. Despite the political spin, you can…

Dr. Ben Carson, a successful pediatric neurosurgeon and conservative activist, sat down with The Daily Signal to talk to us about what he thinks should be done about Ebola, his perspective on the damage Obamacare has done to our health care system, and how to win the minority vote.

Veteran public opinion guru Scott Rasmussen says the biggest issue driving the 2014 election cycle is not just President Obama’s low approval rating but his signature policy achievement, Obamacare. And, Rasmussen says, this is an issue that isn’t going away. Obama won’t be on the ballot in 2016, but he believes Obamacare will be. Steve…

“Is the Affordable Care Act Working?” reads a recent headline in The New York Times. The editors then consider a series of questions, the first of which is pretty basic: “Has the percentage of uninsured people been reduced?” Their answer: yes. So, problem solved, right? Not quite. The devil, as they say, is in the…

Get ready to be inundated with a fresh round of Obamacare propaganda. President Obama’s health care law will be back in the news next month when open enrollment begins Nov. 15. The government is already gearing up to recruit more enrollees. But based on what we know already, the Affordable Care Act isn’t panning out…