Obamacare Exchanges Launch: What You Need to Know
Today’s launch of Obamacare’s exchanges represents the start of sign-ups for the law’s two new entitlement programs. To guide individuals seeking to understand the process,… Read More
What You Need to Know About the Debt Limit
The Congressional Budget Office just dropped a budget update on Washington, and it’s not good. The U.S. government is spending recklessly—and Obamacare is adding fuel… Read More
Health Care Spending Crisis Coming; Obamacare Adding Fuel to the Fire
Today’s Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report reiterates the long-standing and obvious fact that there is a health care spending crisis approaching, resulting largely from the… Read More
Economy News
CBO Report’s Facts Speak Louder Than Obama’s Spending and Debt Crisis Denial
The release of today’s Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report on the long-term budget outlook sends one message loud and clear: The U.S. spending and debt… Read More
10 Ways Obamacare Isn’t Working
Obamacare is an unworkable law. It’s obvious because the Administration keeps trying to “fix” it—to no avail. It has delayed parts of the law, ignored… Read More
Liberal Group Makes the Case Against Obamacare
Yesterday, the Commonwealth Fund released a report attempting to argue that low-income individuals will benefit if states expand their Medicaid programs under Obamacare. But in… Read More
No Turning Back on Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion
Many states have chosen to take Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion expecting they can get out later if they wish. But that’s not the case. Some states… Read More
Reporters Should Get Their “PolitiFacts” Straight on Obamacare
Does calling a reporter a “fact checker” make him or her more even-handed? Hardly. PolitiFact is a case in point. It is a website of… Read More
The Most Effective Obamacare Delay Is Full Defunding
There is nothing controversial about stopping Obamacare. A majority of Americans dislike the law and want it repealed. Obamacare is disastrous for individuals, businesses, and… Read More
Planned Parenthood to Pay $1.4 Million in Medicaid Fraud Settlement
Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, which serves southeast Texas and Louisiana, agreed this week to pay $1.4 million to the state of Texas, settling claims that… Read More
The Royal Baby and Class-Based Health Care
On Monday, Duchess Kate gave birth to royal baby Prince George in a private suite in the posh Lindo Wing of St. Mary’s Hospital for… Read More
The Right Kind of Federalism
Regular elections are a critical feature of American democracy. If you don’t like the way your town, state, or federal government is headed, you know… Read More
This Just In: Obamacare Distorts Markets
A working paper recently published by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) evaluated the effect of a large disenrollment in the Medicaid population in… Read More
Morning Bell: Obamacare’s Dirty Dozen Implementation Failures
Last week, the Obama Administration attempted to spin its announcement of a one-year delay in Obamacare’s employer mandate as an effort to implement the law… Read More
Obamacare’s Shortcomings in Two Charts
Obamacare continues to fall short of the lofty predictions about it — and here are two new charts to prove it. The charts, included as… Read More
Obamacare: AMA’s Curious Support
In an interview with Bloomberg’s Bureau of National Affairs, Dr. Ardis Dee Hoven, incoming president of the American Medical Association (AMA), said the AMA will… Read More
Obamacare’s Insurance “Solution”: Medicaid for All
Even as the Left celebrates Obamacare’s expansion of health coverage, a Reuters story highlighted what kind of “insurance” people will receive under the law. First,… Read More
Morning Bell: Don’t Take the Money and Run
You may have heard that Obamacare’s main plan for getting people health insurance is to put them on Medicaid. Medicaid—which is supposed to be the… Read More
GUEST POST: History of Medicaid Expansion in Maine Foreshadows Failure
The states play an important role in protecting citizens against this flawed federal health care law–from challenging the health care law before the Supreme Court,… Read More
Morning Bell: Time to Shrink the Monster
Does the debt ceiling affect YOU? It does—in many ways. A new video by Bankrupting America uses humor to call attention to an issue that… Read More
Big Hospitals’ Obamacare Deal Betrays Seniors and the Poor
A backroom deal made during the writing of Obamacare will harm seniors and the poor, according to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). During their closed-room… Read More
Information Missing from Studies on the “Benefits” of State Medicaid Expansion
Advocates of the Obamacare Medicaid expansion have produced a number of studies in various states that project significant economic benefits if states adopt the expansion…. Read More
This Week’s Reasons to Repeal Obamacare
It has been over three years since Obamacare became law. This week, the House voted again to completely repeal it. There are plenty of reasons… Read More
Think Again: The Arkansas Plan for Medicaid Is Still a Bad Idea
In a desperate attempt to keep the Obamacare Medicaid expansion alive, supporters are trying to break the logjam by suggesting states pursue an “Arkansas model.”… Read More
WATCH: Heritage Hangout on Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion
One of the main ways Obamacare was supposed to extend health insurance was by putting more people on Medicaid, the federal-state health care program that… Read More
Medicaid Expansion May Be Forced into Law in Montana
The states play an important role in protecting citizens against this flawed federal health care law–from challenging the health care law before the Supreme Court,… Read More
VIDEO: Schumer Admits Obamacare Will Increase Health Care Costs
It’s been a rough week for Obamacare. First came President Obama’s laughable defense of the health-care law, then news spread about an outcry from local leaders… Read More
Obama: There Will Be “Bumps” and “Glitches” in Obamacare
In light of negative comments made by Congressional Democrats, President Obama discussed the implementation of Obamacare at a press conference this week, explaining that “even… Read More
Temporary Debt Paydown Just a Drop in the Bucket
Reports that the federal government will put a little bit of money toward the massive federal debt for the first time in six years make… Read More
Morning Bell: President Says Obamacare Is Going Great
Obamacare is “working fine,” President Obama said yesterday in his press conference. It’s made health insurance “stronger, better, more secure than it was before.” There… Read More
