Author: David Hogberg

Vermont First State To Reveal Big Incentive For People To NOT Buy Insurance

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Vermont is the first state to reveal what insurers will likely be charging for policies on its exchange.  That also makes Vermont the first state to reveal that many individuals and families will have a big financial incentive to forego ...
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Obamacare: A Promise Betrayed

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My newest article at The Daily Caller recounts the travails of Washington D.C. resident Natalie Powell who may lose both her primary-care physician and insurance thanks to ObamaCare.   Natalie is facing the prospect of neck surgery which, naturally, is ...
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Let's Take the Wind Out of ObamaCare's Medical Device Tax

Let’s Take the Wind Out of ObamaCare’s Medical Device Tax

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Introduction Although ObamaCare was rammed through Congress on an almost entirely partisan basis, bipartisan opposition to various parts of the law has developed since it was signed into law over three years ago. One such part is the 2.3 percent ...
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Thomas Sowell On Intellectuals and Race, Part 2

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The American Spectator runs the second part of my interview with economist Thomas Sowell today.  Sowell has just written a provocative new book entitled Intellectuals and Race.  Here is part of the interview: AmSpec: In the book you have a definition ...
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Thomas Sowell On Intellectuals and Race, Part 1

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Economist Thomas Sowell has a new book out entitled Intellectuals And Race that, as usual, challenges the convential wisdom of the liberal intelligentsia.  I interveiwed Sowell recently about the issues surrounding the book, and part one of that interview is now ...
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Don’t Delay ObamaCare

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Chris Conover has written a piece in National Review Online this morning arguing for a one-year delay in implementing ObamaCare. I admit that I’m a bit reluctant to respond, since I admire Conover a lot (if you are remotely interested ...
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ObamaCare: Where’s The Lefty Outrage? Part III

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As noted in two previous blog posts, much of the political left has gone silent as the evidence has piled up that businesses and even some universities are going to have to cut back on workers hours due to ObamaCare ...
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Elizabeth Warren’s Efforts At Spreading Ignorance Very Productive

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Massachusetts continues its proud tradition of electing quality candidates to the U.S. Senate.  At a hearing the other day, Sen. Elizabeth Warren blurted out this little gem: If we started in 1960, and we said that, as productivity goes up ...
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Silly Small Businesses! Health Insurance Decisions Are For The Anointed

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It’s not clear if Wendell Potter was a man of the left before he jumped ship from an insurance company to become one of ObamaCare’s biggest apologists.  If not, he’s certainly absorbed many of the left’s mannerisms since then. At ...
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Electronic Health Records Heading For Iceberg. HHS Says ‘Full Steam Ahead!’

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Last week the Dept. of Health and Human Services announced its “2013 agenda to bring down costs and improve quality of care through implementation of health information technology.”  That included “setting the goal of 50 percent of physician offices using ...
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