Author: David Hogberg
Just Because You Are Eligible For A Premium Subsidy Doesn’t Mean You Will Qualify–California Version
As I noted in a blog post about the DC Health Exchange last week, just because you are eligible for a premiums subsidy on the exchange doesn’t mean you will get one. Today I look at the average premiums in ...
Just Because You Are Eligible For A Premium Subsidy Doesn’t Mean You Will Get One–Lesson of the DC Exchange
Anyone who makes between 133% and 400% of the federal poverty level is eligible for a premium subsidy to purchase insurance on an ObamaCare exchange. However, just because you are eligible doesn’t mean you will qualify. Here’s why: The formula for ...
Oregon’s Coming Health Insurance Death Spiral
Oregon's ObamaCare health insurance exchange, "Cover Oregon," has received fawning media coverage similar to that initially given to California's now controversial exchange, "Covered California." For example, when Cover Oregon released its proposed insurance premiums in late May, the Huffington Post ...
California’s Coming Health Insurance Death Spiral
Will relatively young and healthy people purchase health insurance from the ObamaCare exchanges? After the release of alleged insurance premiums by California's ObamaCare-mandated health insurance exchange—"Covered California"—the participation of the Golden State's youth is the topic of serious debate. Covered ...
Single-Payer Causes Waiting Lists For Health Care
Over at the AARP, Dr. Aaron Carroll penned a missive purportedly debunking myths about about Canada’s health care system. One such myth is “Canada has long wait times because it has a single-payer system.” According to Carroll: The wait times that ...
The Single-Payer ‘Dance Of Nations’
When dealing with single-payer advocates, one has to be ready to deal with their tendency to promote whichever is the newest and, hence, least studied nation to adopt a single-payer health care system. People are usually unaware that single-payer advocates have ...
Yes, People Do Go Bankrupt From Medical Bills In Single-Payer Systems
Every time the link between medical costs and personal bankruptcy in the U.S. is discussed, the mythmakers are quick to assert that medical bankruptcy does not exist in single-payer health care systems. For example, Russell DeMott, a Charleston bankruptcy lawyer, ...
Health Care Odds & Ends: Single-Payer Edition
If ObamaCare proves to be a complicated mess, you can bet that many on the left will be pushing for a single-payer health care system to replace it. Thus, this Odds & Ends is dedicated to the, ahem, wonders of ...
Nice Try Democrats, But Oregonians Will Experience ‘Rate Shock’
Democrats on the Energy and Commerce Committee have released a report refuting “rate shock,” the claim that the costs of premiums on the exchange will be much higher than they currently are in the individual market. The poster-boy of the ...
2.2% Of Cancer Patients File For Bankruptcy
Most people would be inclined to yawn at the above headline. Thus, in reporting on this new study in Health Affairs, journalists wrote headlines such as “Cancer patients more than twice as likely to go bankrupt, study shows,” and “Cancer ...
