Author: David Hogberg
Does Britain Have Medical Bankruptcies? Yes.
Score one for this side of the pond! Last night I was on Thom Hartmann’s “The Big Picture” with Ben Cohen of the Daily Banter. Cohen, who is from Great Britain, suggested that I didn’t know how his home country’s ...
Philadelphia Fed: ObamaCare Hurting Workers and Consumers
The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia just released its Business Outlook Survey for August. Here’s a table that appears on page 2: First the good news (yes, there is some). Only three percent of employers are dropping coverage because of ...
It Should Be Repealed Anyway
A report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration found that ObamaCare’s medical device tax generated about $300 million less than what was expected. The IRS expected that it would take in $1.2 billion from the tax in the first half of ...
Government Health Care Rewards Failure
Today I have a new National Policy Analysis up entitled “Government Health Care Rewards Failure.” A version has also been published at Rare. In it I examine recent events at the ObamaCare exchanges in Maryland and Massachusetts and the waiting ...
Government Health Care Rewards Failure
A key problem afflicting government programs is that it is very difficult to hold government employees accountable for failure. Unless powerful political interests are harmed by that failure, government employees often face no penalties for incompetence or misdeeds. In fact, ...
Slate’s Emily Bazelon Misleads In Order To Hype Racism
One of the unstated assumptions among leftist intellectuals is that absent racism, different racial groups would have roughly equal outcomes. If statistics show that different racial groups have different outcomes, then racism must be afoot. That was the assumpton that ...
Health Care Odds & Ends: Leaving The ObamaCare Exchanges
1. Down 44%? My former colleague at Investor’s Business Daily, Jed Graham, reports that new evidence on exchange enrollment “could require quite a come-down from those lofty claims” of 8 million enrollees in the ObamaCare exchanges. Aetna, the nation’s third-largest health ...
Barney Frank: We Know What’s Best For You
Last Friday the Huffington Post reported that former Democratic Congressman Barney Frank said the Obama Administration “lied to people” when it claimed that you could keep your health insurance plan if you liked it. While that got most of the ...
ObamaCare: Rewarding Failure Again
Apparently, the reward for failure at the Massachusetts exchange isn’t as good as the reward for failure at the Maryland exchange. It’s better! From the editorial page of the Fitchburg, Massachusetts Sentinel & Enterprise: The latest example of government’s Mouseketeers Club ...
ObamaCare: Rewarding Failure
So, what happens when you botch an ObamaCare exchange? You get a very soft landing. From the Baltimore Sun: Dr. Joshua M. Sharfstein said Wednesday he plans to leave his post as secretary of the state Department of Health and ...
