Health CareCommentary
President Donald Trump’s historic tax reform legislation repealed, among other things, Obamacare’s individual mandate tax penalty.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
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
With the enactment of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which repealed the tax penalty for the individual health insurance mandate, many Americans… Read More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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
EconomyNews
The Congressional Budget Office’s overestimation of future enrollment in Obamacare raises questions about the agency’s commitment to nonpartisanship, one of the Senate’s prominent budget experts… Read More
Health CareNews
Congress needs to finish the job of repealing and replacing Obamacare in 2018, Sen. Ted Cruz says. Republicans in Congress last year failed to craft… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Lawmakers may have gotten rid of the individual mandate, but the crushing weight of Obamacare still has not been lifted. Thanks to Obamacare, in 2018,… Read More
Health CareCommentary
In 2018, millions of middle-class Americans, particularly those unsubsidized enrollees in the states’ individual health insurance markets, are rightfully anxious about the future of their… Read More
Health CareAnalysis
The Heritage Foundation’s Marie Fishpaw joins us to discuss why it’s not enough for Republicans to repeal the rest of Obamacare. There’s more to be… Read More
Health CareNews
Many states are eager to reverse the damage from Obamacare in 2018, but in some cases, they will need help from Congress, leading health care… Read More
Health CareNews
President Donald Trump and the Republican Congress should support and prioritize conservative policies this year, including killing off Obamacare and standing tough on illegal immigration,… Read More
Health CareCommentary
An open letter to President Donald J. Trump, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and House Speaker Paul Ryan. As you meet this weekend at Camp… Read More
Health CareNews
Small businesses and sole proprietors will be able to band together under a new federal rule to create employee health plans that would expand coverage… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Conservatives, we have our work cut out for us this year. Mind you, 2017 definitely had its ups. Neil Gorsuch is on the Supreme Court…. Read More
Health CareNews
Americans signed up at record rates during the 2018 open enrollment period for former President Barack Obama’s signature health care law, Adam Hodge, former Democratic… Read More
Health CareNews
President Donald Trump claimed the GOP tax bill that Congress passed Wednesday “essentially” repeals Obamacare. “We—I hate to say this—but we essentially repealed Obamacare because we got rid of… Read More
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
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
EconomyCommentary
Obamacare’s individual mandate survived the Supreme Court’s 2012 ruling on the Affordable Care Act solely because the court interpreted the insurance requirement as a “tax.”… 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
