Morning Bell: After Obamacare
For the past two years, America has witnessed headline after headline reporting on flaws in President Barack Obama’s health care law. And as America learns… Read More
Medicare Part D Proves That Competition Lowers Health Care Spending
Some policymakers have difficulty understanding competition’s role in health care. There is a historical reason: With a legacy of third-party micromanagement, something like Medicare Part… Read More
Free Market Reforms Rescue Maine from Obamacare-Like Problems
Maine’s new market-based health care reform is bringing insurance premiums down by as much as 60 percent in the individual market. Elected in 2010, Governor… Read More
Obamacare’s Five Most Damaging Effects on Seniors
In anticipation of the Supreme Court’s Obamacare decision, it is important to remember that the constitutionality of the individual mandate isn’t the only problem with… Read More
New Regulation Forces Private Insurers to Advertise Obamacare
Obamacare’s medical loss ratio (MLR) provision began this year and requires insurers in the individual and small-group markets to spend 80 percent of premiums—85 percent… Read More
Online Chat on Medicare
How bad is Medicare’s financial condition? What will happen to taxpayers and seniors if the program is not reformed? What solutions have been proposed in… Read More
Liberals Plan Propaganda Campaign to Sway Media After Obamacare Ruling
A month before the Supreme Court is expected to rule on the constitutionality of Obamacare, liberal supporters are already planning an aggressive propaganda campaign to… Read More
Top Five Ways Obamacare Crushes the Middle Class
President Obama has repeatedly claimed that he is “going to keep on fighting for what matters to middle class families.” Well, in this “fight,” the… Read More
VIDEO: Senator Tom Coburn on the “Debt Bomb”
“The problem isn’t that we haven’t agreed, the problem is that we’ve agreed way too much,” explained Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) in a recent interview… Read More
Leahy Lectures Chief Justice on Obamacare
It’s not every day that a member of one branch of the federal government tries to be the boss of the leader of a separate… Read More
Morning Bell: Catholic Institutions Sue to Stop Obamacare’s Religious Liberty Violation
Three years ago, the University of Notre Dame invited President Barack Obama to deliver a commencement address and conferred on him an honorary law degree…. Read More
Medicare at Risk: Visualizing the Need for Reform
Medicare at Risk: Visualizing the Need for Reform View more presentations from The Heritage Foundation Heritage’s new chart series, “Medicare at Risk: Visualizing the Need… Read More
Can You Hear Us Now? 43 Organizations Sue over HHS Mandate
Twelve separate lawsuits were filed today in district courts around the country on behalf of 43 separate religious organizations against the Obamacare anti-conscience mandate. The… Read More
Fighting Irish Fight for Religious Freedom
Today the University of Notre Dame filed a legal challenge against an Obamacare regulation that requires health care plans to include abortion-inducing drugs, contraceptives, and… Read More
Chart of the Week: Taxes Soaring Past Highest Level Ever
Americans are facing an unprecedented $494 billion tax hike on Jan. 1, 2013. It’s been dubbed “Taxmageddon” given the economic devastation it would cause. Conventional… Read More
Side Effects: Obamacare’s CO-OPs Put Taxpayer Dollars at Risk for No Good Reason
Yet another provision of Obamacare is expected to cost taxpayers more than they expected. The House Energy and Commerce Committee recently sent a letter to… Read More
Franciscan University Stands Strong for Faith and Freedom
Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio, recently announced that it would no longer offer a student health insurance plan because it cannot do so under Obamacare… Read More
Side Effects: Another Obamacare Initiative Bites the Dust
On Monday, the Obama Administration signaled that another part of its signature health care law may not be working out as planned. The Centers for… Read More
Hercules Takes on the Obamacare Hydra
The contraception mandate has met yet another foe. On Monday, the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) filed a complaint against Secretary of Health and Human Services… Read More
Side Effects: Employees Lose Insurance and Taxpayers get the Bill Under Obamacare
The House Ways and Means Committee just released a report that shows that the most successful companies would save billions of dollars if they stopped… Read More
Medicare Reform: Premium Support Is Bipartisan
The House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health held a hearing last Friday to discuss the bipartisan effort behind competing premium support plans. These plans… Read More
Medicare: Admitting You Have a (Structural) Problem Is the First Step
A new study by the Urban Institute reconfirms a vital fact: Medicare’s massive increase in enrollment, largely attributable to retiring baby boomers, is driving its… Read More
Chart of the Week: Entitlement Spending Will Nearly Double by 2050
President Obama has called Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget “an attempt to impose a radical vision on our country,” but as this week’s chart illustrates, if… Read More
Opening the Door to Health Care Rationing Under Obamacare
One of the biggest fears Americans have about Obamacare is who will ultimately control health care decisions: the government or patients and their doctors. New… Read More
Side Effects: The $8.35 Billion Attempt to Fool Seniors
A new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) shows that a demonstration program created by the Obama Administration in Medicare Advantage (MA) is primarily… Read More
Regrets on the Left: Democrats Second-Guessing Obamacare
Earlier this week we learned that former Obama Administration official Elizabeth Warren is calling for a repeal of one of Obamacare’s many taxes, and today… Read More
Democrat Senate Candidate Wants to Repeal (Part of) Obamacare
There are millions of Americans who want to see Obamacare repealed, and with good reason. But it’s a rare day indeed when a Democratic candidate… Read More
Virginia Protects Adoption Agencies’ Religious Liberty
Virginians witnessed an important victory for religious liberty last week. On Monday, Governor Bob McDonnell (R) signed legislation that affirms the conscience rights of the… Read More
Top 10 Most Expensive Obamacare Taxes and Fees
Yesterday was tax day, serving as a special reminder of how big the federal government has become. As Heritage has warned before, Obamacare is on… Read More
Premium Support Proposals: Key Elements and a Comparison
A new poll by Reason-Rupe shows that Americans support the structural reform of a premium support model for Medicare. The current Medicare program has made… Read More
