Health CareCommentary
8 Reasons to Still Hate Obamacare
Remember Obamacare? The fight is far from over on the future of the Obama-era health insurance overhaul. Republicans are making a list-ditch effort this year… Read More
Health CareNews
New Jersey Imposes State Obamacare-Style Individual Mandate
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has signed into law a measure that preserved the Obamacare mandate requiring state residents to buy health insurance. Starting next… Read More
Health CareCommentary
States Are Offering Relief From Rising Health Care Costs. Here’s How Congress Can Help.
Middle-class Americans, stuck in Obamacare’s insurance “markets,” are desperate for relief from skyrocketing health insurance costs. Innovative state governors and legislators, as The Heritage Foundation… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Obamacare Is Shrinking the Individual Health Insurance Market
New data from insurance company regulatory filings show that enrollment in the individual health insurance market declined significantly last year—by 10 percent, or 1.8 million… Read More
Health CareCommentary
The Sad Case of Alfie Evans: A Sordid Lesson in Government-Controlled Health Care
The next time Sen. Bernie Sanders or his progressive Senate allies tout their proposal for total federal control of health care, just remember the case… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Congressional Liberals’ Latest Attempt to Push Americans Out of Private Health Care
With the collapse of choice and competition in the Obamacare health insurance exchanges, combined with major premium and deductible increases, “progressives” in Congress are looking… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Here’s the Path Forward for Health Reform in 2018
An open letter to the American public from over 35 conservative leaders, whose names are listed at the end. Congressional leaders were poised last month… Read More
Health CareNews
Americans Are Backing Away From Obamacare
Roughly 400,000 fewer people signed up for Obamacare in 2018, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma announced Tuesday afternoon. “11.8 million consumers… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Congress Should Get Past Obamacare, Forget Bailouts, and Embrace Real Health Reform
This week, congressional leaders withdrew legislative language that would have bailed out Obamacare’s health insurance companies as part of the $1.3 trillion, 2,232-page omnibus spending… Read More
Health CareAnalysis
Podcast: The Upcoming Obamacare Bailout
Why is a GOP-controlled Congress about to spend billions of taxpayer dollars propping up Obamacare? The Heritage Foundation’s Marie Fishpaw joins us to discuss. Plus:… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Congress Should Provide Obamacare Opt-Outs, Not Bailouts
This month could mark a turning point in national health policy. Big insurance companies have been pressuring Congress for a bailout—in the form of more… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Americans Don’t Want Obamacare Bailouts
The Republican Congress that was elected to repeal Obamacare is now considering bailing it out. It shouldn’t. Earlier this month, America’s Health Insurance Plans, the… Read More
Health CareCommentary
States Win Another Major Case Against Obamacare
In a decision that has gotten almost no media attention, six states led by Texas have won another round against the Obama administration implementation of… Read More
Health CareNews
Idaho Tried to Solve Obamacare Price Hikes. Here’s What Happened
The Trump administration has rejected a health insurance initiative by Idaho that some saw as an affordable model for challenging the dominance of Obamacare. “Taking… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Obamacare Bailouts Will Not Save Money and Lower Premiums, Despite Contrary Claims
Congress appears poised to bail out Obamacare with new federal money in the omnibus package next week. Advocates of this bailout say it’s a good… Read More
Health CareAnalysis
Senate May Fund Obamacare Subsidies With This Sneaky Move
Republicans campaigned for roughly a decade, promising voters they would dismantle former President Barack Obama’s landmark health care legislation; but one of their own senators… Read More
LawCommentary
Without the Individual Mandate’s Tax, Obamacare Should Fall Apart in Court
When Congress enacted President Donald Trump’s landmark tax reform plan in December, one media outlet proclaimed: “The GOP Tax Bill Kills Obamacare’s Individual Mandate.” Turns… Read More
Health CareCommentary
3 Questions Congress Should Answer Before Bailing Out Obamacare
Having failed last year to pass legislation undoing Obamacare’s damage, congressional Republicans now are reportedly looking to spend billions of additional tax dollars bailing out… Read More
Health CareCommentary
More Taxpayer Bailouts Will Only Paper Over Obamacare’s Many Failures
It appears that Congress, backed by powerful special interests in the health care industry, is getting ready to bail out, once again, Obamacare’s failing health… Read More
Health CareCommentary
New Health Secretary Offers Bold Vision for Reform. But the Devil’s in the Details.
Alex Azar, the new secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, outlined an ambitious health policy agenda this week in a major address… Read More
Health CareCommentary
How Congress Can Provide Relief From Looming Obamacare Mandates
President Donald Trump’s historic tax reform legislation repealed, among other things, Obamacare’s individual mandate tax penalty. Effective in 2019, the IRS will no longer penalize… Read More
Health CareNews
20 State AGs Contend Obamacare Unconstitutional, Launch New Lawsuit
Now that Obamacare lacks the individual mandate tax that prompted the Supreme Court to hold it constitutional, 20 attorneys general are again challenging the law…. Read More
Health CareCommentary
How Congress Can Kill the Individual Mandate Penalty for This Tax Year
With the enactment of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which repealed the tax penalty for the individual health insurance mandate, many Americans… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Some Virginia Lawmakers Want to Expand Medicaid. Why That’s a Bad Idea.
Every year, we see renewed efforts to push states to adopt Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion. Virginia drew national attention this year when its House of Delegates… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Podcast: Conservatives Gather at CPAC
The Daily Signal went to the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday, where attendees heard from Vice President Mike Pence, Sen. Ted Cruz, and other… Read More
Health CareCommentary
New Trump Health Policy Would Make Coverage Options More Affordable
The Trump administration moved on Tuesday to deliver affordable health care to millions of Americans with a proposed rule that would expand the availability of short-term,… Read More
SocietyAnalysis
Podcast: The Week in Review, Plus Ben Carson’s Positive Influence on Trump
Welcome to the first Friday edition of The Daily Signal’s podcast. We take a look at the top news stories of the week—including health care,… Read More
Health CareCommentary
New White House Budget Would Bail Out Obamacare
The White House’s Office of Management and Budget just released its annual budget proposal—and on health policy, it’s sending massively mixed messages. The Trump administration’s… Read More
Health CareCommentary
The GOP’s Coming Obamacare Capitulation
Congressional Republicans were elected to repeal Obamacare. They may run this year as the politicians who saved it. Since late last year, GOP leaders have… Read More
Health CareCommentary
To Offer Americans an Alternative to ‘Single-Payer’ Health Care, Republicans Must Act This Year
With his Twitter account, President Donald Trump jumped into the national health care debate this week, tweeting: The Democrats are pushing for Universal HealthCare while… Read More
