Health CareCommentary
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
Health CareCommentary
We all know the feeling of falling into the same dinner routine. You’ve been making spaghetti every Tuesday night for the past two months. Today,… Read More
Health CareNews
Republicans in Congress are working to chip away at programs mandated under Obamacare following their inability to repeal the health care law. Rep. Mark Meadows,… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Only in Washington can removing a tax penalty be considered a tax increase. The proposed tax overhaul that is quickly making its way through Congress… Read More
Health CareNews
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
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
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 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
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, 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
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
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 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
