Health CareNews
Seniors Face Return of Obamacare Tax in 2018
The clock is ticking for the return of an Obamacare tax that opponents say will hit older Americans on fixed incomes particularly hard, costing them… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Doomsday Will Not Follow Repeal of Obamacare’s Individual Mandate
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
Health CareCommentary
The Senate Voted to Kill Obamacare’s Individual Mandate. Why That Was a Wise Call.
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
Health CareCommentary
Senate Should Repeal Regressive Tax on the Uninsured
Senate Democrats who fret over the distributional effects of tax cuts should thank their GOP colleagues for giving them the chance this week to vote… Read More
Health CareCommentary
How Fewer Obamacare Options Hurt a 4-Year-Old
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
Health CareCommentary
Democrats in Meltdown Mode as Obamacare Individual Mandate Moves Toward Extinction
Democrats, of course, oppose the tax cuts moving through Congress. They believe government knows how to spend your money better than you do. But what… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Senate Makes Bold Move, Includes Repeal of Obamacare’s Individual Mandate in Tax Bill
News broke on Tuesday that the Senate will include repeal of Obamacare’s individual mandate in its final tax bill. This is something President Donald Trump… Read More
Health CareNews
Conservative Senator Renews Calls for Transparency After CBO Revises Obamacare Mandate Estimate
The Congressional Budget Office significantly revised its estimate on how much repealing the individual mandate in Obamacare would reduce deficits in the federal budget. “I… Read More
Health CareCommentary
The Ugly Consequences of Single-Payer Health Care
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
Health CareCommentary
Trump Right to Scale Back Obamacare’s Recruitment Mechanism
Wednesday, Nov. 1 will mark the beginning of the next open enrollment period in the Obamacare exchanges. This will be the first enrollment season since… Read More
Health CareAnalysis
Fact Check: Do Drug Overdoses Kill More Americans Than Gun Homicides and Motor Vehicles?
During a speech Thursday on the opioid epidemic, President Donald Trump said that “more people are dying from [drug] overdoses today than from gun homicides… Read More
Health CareNews
Conservative Lawmakers Oppose Bill to ‘Bail Out Insurance Companies’
Conservative lawmakers say they oppose the Alexander-Murray health care legislation because it would bail out health insurance companies. The congressmen discussed the issue Tuesday at… Read More
Health CareCommentary
This Child Health Care Program Ties the Hands of Parents. Now Is Congress’ Chance to Make a Change.
If you’re a parent, you want your child to be healthy. You’ll do whatever it takes to get your child the care he or she… Read More
Health CareNews
2 States Ravaged by Opioids Show Difference Faith Makes
HANOVER, N.H.—There is a strong correlation between lack of religious attendance and illicit drug use, research shows in contrasting two states hit hard by the… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Why the New Obamacare ‘Fix’ Is a Dud, and Why the Narrative Justifying It Is Wrong
While President Donald Trump’s response to the bipartisan health care proposal on Capitol Hill has slid from optimistic to negative, and then back to optimistic,… Read More
Health CareNews
3 Senators Talk Next Steps on Health Care
As two Senate lawmakers float yet another plan to fix problems with Obamacare, another wants to revisit legislation that he says would more substantially repeal… Read More
Health CareNews
Trump Says ‘I Can’t Support Bailing Out’ Insurance Companies Profiting From Obamacare
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he could not support the bipartisan proposal to shore up Obamacare and stabilize the health insurance markets through 2019…. Read More
Health CareNews
House Conservative Leader Calls Obamacare Bailout Bill ‘Unacceptable’
The latest attempt at a legislative fix to Obamacare was met with a mixture of hesitance and outright opposition by Republicans who have repeatedly vowed… Read More
Health CareNews
Trump Backs Temporary Obamacare Fix, but Thinks Votes Are There for Obamacare Replacement
President Donald Trump said Obamacare is “virtually dead,” but appears ready to keep it on life support for another two years. Just days after ending… Read More
Health CareCommentary
This Unelected Board Would Have Put Seniors’ Health Care at Risk. Now, It’s on the Chopping Block.
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
Health CareNews
Trump Admin Will Cease Paying Critical Obamacare Subsidies
The Trump administration announced Thursday night that it will cease making payments to a subsidy that helps low- to moderate-income individuals purchase Obamacare health insurance… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Why Trump’s Executive Order on Health Care Is a Positive Step
President Donald Trump signed a new executive order on Thursday that moves health care a step in the right direction. The executive order instructs the… Read More
Health CareNews
Trump, Paul Forge Alliance on ‘Biggest Free-Market Reform of Health Care in Generation’
Unable so far to achieve even a partial rollback of Obamacare from Congress, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that could make it… Read More
Health CareNews
Conservatives Eye Obamacare Repeal in 2018
Despite Republicans’ inability to repeal Obamacare, President Donald Trump and some conservative leaders have not given up on calling for renewed efforts to repeal or… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Universal Coverage? My Fourth Health Care Plan Just Died Thanks to Obamacare
Cue the funeral bagpipes. My fourth health insurance plan is dead. Two weeks ago, my husband and I received yet another cancellation notice for our… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Trump Administration Undoes Obamacare’s Egregious Assault on Religious Freedom, Conscience Rights
The Trump administration issued interim final rules Friday that will provide much-needed relief to those with moral or religious objections to one of Obamacare’s most… Read More
Health CareNews
Tom Price Resigns as HHS Secretary
President Donald Trump accepted the resignation of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price on Friday, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced late… Read More
Health CareNews
Obamacare Repeal Isn’t Dead, House Conservatives Insist
Despite “fake news” claims that Republicans’ chance to repeal and replace Obamacare ends Saturday, that isn’t necessarily true, a conservative House member said Tuesday. Obamacare… Read More
Health CareCommentary
How the GOP Can Make Graham-Cassidy a Success
Over the weekend, Republican senators released a new version of “Graham-Cassidy,” their latest effort to undo Obamacare’s damage. It’s far from clear the bill can… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Think Obamacare Is Bad? ‘Medicare for All’ Would Make Things Even Worse.
As Republican senators look to scrape together the votes for a deal on health care, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is pushing his own proposal. He… Read More
