Author: David Hogberg
ObamaCare’s ACOs Saving Medicare A Pittance
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are supposed to be one of the great innovations in ObamaCare that will save money for Medicare and improve quality for beneficiaries. There are two ACO programs under Medicare, the Pioneer Program and the Medicare Shared ...
How Many Are Still Enrolled In The ObamaCare Exchanges? People Who Care About The Truth Would Like To Know
Here is one of my not-so-good predictions: [Various] factors will cause the eight million figure [of enrollees in the ObamaCare exchanges] to be revised downward as the year goes on. Each time that happens in the coming months, the media ...
Until Now, I’ve Been Sneezing In My Hands And Touching Every Doorknob I Could Find
Thanks goodness for our elected officials! Without them, we’d be so much more unsanitary! At a press conference yesterday, Senator Dean Heller (R-NV) and Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) reminded us to wash our hands. “It’s amazing how such a ...
Meet Pam Hopmann–ObamaCare Made Her Coverage Worse
I followed up my study on the quality of policies on the ObamaCare exchanges with an op-ed in RARE. It began with the story of Pam Hopmann: Like millions of Americans, Pam Hopmann of Chesterfield, Missouri received a notice cancelling ...
ObamaCare Has Harmed The Quality Of Insurance
Most of you remember late last year when millions of people were losing their insurance plans in the individual market. At the time, many ObamaCare apologists, including the president himself, tried to excuse the cancellations by saying that the health plans ...
Despite ObamaCare Supporters’ Claims, Health Insurance Plans Prior to ObamaCare Exchanges Were Neither “Crappy” Nor “Substandard”
Executive Summary When millions of people in the individual health insurance market lost their health plans in late 2013, ObamaCare supporters claimed those lost plans were "substandard" or "crappy." However, they failed to support that contention. This study examines the ...
Great Moments In Single-Payer Health Care
1. Will It Be A Best Seller? Angela Johnson, president of Medical Confidence, Inc., has just released a new book entitled “Step by Step Guide to Navigating your way through Canada’s Health Care System and Minimizing Your Wait Time.” The press release ...
9 + 6 = Our Friend ’10’ Because 6 Is 1 + 5 And If You Take The 1 And Add It To 9 You Get 10 And Then Add In That 5 = 15
Is that headline a wee bit confusing? Welcome to Common Core math! Enjoy the decline of our education system: Hat tip: Townhall.com ...
Did George W. Bush Deregulate? No.
One of the other points of contention between Ben Cohen and myself on Thom Hartmann’s show the other night was whether President George W. Bush deregulated. Cohen claimed there was a “massive binge of deregulation” under Bush. When I insisted ...
