Author: David Hogberg
Health Care Odds & Ends: The Ugly, The Bad, and The Good
Okay, having given Clint Eastwood a bit of a smack with the last blog post, let’s give him some due with this one and use his contribution to categories to look at some the recent goings on in health care ...
The End Of Free Checking? Thank Dick Durbin
This morning on my drive in to work I was listening to WTOP, 103.5 FM, when a story about the possible end of debit cards came up. The hosts interviewed a reporter from the Wall Street Journal who said that ...
Why The “Young Invincibles” Won’t Participate In The ObamaCare Exchanges and Why It Matters
Executive Summary If the ObamaCare health insurance exchanges are to function properly, it is crucial that a substantial number of people ages 18-34 join them. This age group that is young and relatively healthy must purchase health insurance on the ...
A Clear Case Of Projection
I stopped reading Paul Krugman a while ago as his column has descended into all out hackery. But his most recent piece appeared in my Google Alert for “health care” and seeing the first few lines of it, I couldn’t ...
Maybe We Should Have Lost Detroit?
In the 1970s author John Fuller published a book entitled “We Almost Lost Detroit,” about the 1966 near meltdown of a nuclear reactor about 30 miles from the Motor City. After Detroit’s declaration of bankruptcy (or, apparently, an unconstitutional bankruptcy), ...
Employer Mandate Delayed Until 2015? Must Be An Election In 2014
Today the Obama Administration announced that the ObamaCare employer mandate that was supposed to take effect in 2014 will be delayed until 2015. In case you don’t recall, beginning in 2014 employers with 50 or more full-time employees, “full-time” defined ...
ObamaCare Is Reducing Projected Costs! Actual Costs, Not So Much…
The Administration and its propaganda arms are touting a new analysis by Avalere Health that purports to show that premiums on the ObamaCare exchanges are quite cheaper than expected. For example, here is ThinkProgress: A new analysis of health care premiums proposed under ...
Oregon Health Exchange’s Coming Death Spiral
From my article in the American Spectator today: Thus, the Oregon exchange will likely suffer the same fate as California’s, a death spiral. As the younger and healthier people realize that the price of insurance is more than the fine and ...
GAO Says Exchanges Will Be Ready By…Um, Well, We’re Not Sure
From a new report out today by the Government Accountability Office on how the federal and state ObamaCare exchanges are progressing: Much progress has been made, but much remains to be accomplished within a relatively short amount of time. [The Centers ...
