Author: David Hogberg
‘Young Invincibles’ Still Won’t Get Subsidies On ObamaCare Exchange
Today the Department of Health and Human Services released premium data on the 36 federal exchanges. The data largely confirms what was found in our recent study, “ObamaCare Exchanges: Just Because You Are Eligible For A Subsidy Doesn’t Mean You ...
Health Care Odds & Ends: Exchanges, Exchanges…And Some Good News
-NCPPR study. Pardon me for starting this by tooting my own horn. Sean Parnell and I have written a new study titled, “ObamaCare Exchanges: Just Because You Are Eligible For a Subsidy Doesn’t Mean You Will Qualify for One.” It’s ...
ObamaCare Exchanges: Prepping The Scapegoats
Well, another leftist has missed the point of my recent study, “Why The ‘Young Invincibles’ Won’t Participate In The ObamaCare Exchanges and Why It Matters.” This time it’s Joshua Holland at Bill Moyer’s “Connecting the Dots”: …the reality is that, ...
ObamaCare Exchanges: Just Because You Are Eligible For a Subsidy Doesn’t Mean You Will Qualify for One, by David Hogberg, Ph.D. and Sean Parnell
Executive Summary The ObamaCare exchanges are supposed to subsidize the health insurance of everyone earning between 138 percent ($15,856 for an individual) and 400 percent ($45,960) of the federal poverty level (FPL) in a state that has expanded Medicaid and ...
“Medicare DME” or “How NOT To Run Competitive Bidding”
Medicare’s program for paying for “DME”—sometimes called DMEPOS for Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Supplies—is turning into disaster. The legislation that created Medicare Part D also established a competitive bidding program for DMEPOS. And if you listen to suppliers ...
Four Words You Won’t Hear At MLK Commemoration: “Lower The Minimum Wage”
Many civil rights activists have lamented the lack of jobs among many African Americans leading up to today’s set of speeches at the Lincoln Memorial commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s stirring oratory. There is much to be ...
Did Their Spouses Like Their Insurance?
If you’ve been paying any attention to health care news over the last 24 hours, you are aware that both the United Parcel Service and the University of Virginia will, in some cases, not be providing health insurance to the spouses of their ...
ObamaCare Exchanges Will Increase Lack of Insurance Among The Young and Healthy
My recently released study on the incentives “young invincibles” will face on the ObamaCare exchanges received considerable criticism from the left. Interestingly, what most of it had in common was that it could have doubled as a description of present-day ...
How We Pay For Health Care More Important Than How Much We Pay
I got into a Twitter debate the other day with The New Republic’s Jonathan Cohn over whether the problems in Britain’s health care system are due to the nature of its single-payer system or the amount the government spends on ...
Orszag and Medicare: Grand Claims, Scant Evidence
Peter Orszag is at it again, defending the death panel Independent Payment Advisory Board against an attack by, of all people, Howard Dean. However, what’s most interesting about the article is Orszag’s contention about the causes of the recent slowdown, ...
