Author: David Hogberg
Medicare’s Victims: Available One Week from Today
My book, Medicare’s Victims: How the U.S. Government’s Largest Health Care Program Harms Patients and Impairs Physicians, will be available next Monday, July 6. You can pre-order now at Amazon.com. Both paperback and Kindle versions are available. In the coming ...
The Patient Freedom Act: A Roadmap for ObamaCare Opponents if Plaintiffs Win in King v. Burwell
If the U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of the plaintiffs in the soon-to-be announced decision on King v. Burwell, over 7 million people in the 37 states without state-based exchanges will lose their subsidies.1 That's because the plaintiffs in ...
Medical Records: Got Privacy?
Twila Brase is a public health nurse and the founder of the Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom. CCHF specializes in protecting medical privacy and in ways to opt out of ObamaCare and other government programs. (For example, check out CCHF’s ...
Health Care Odds & Ends: ObamaCare Exchanges One Problem For Another
1. First the “Front End” of the ObamaCare website was a problem. Now the “Back End” is. The Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services released a report stating that the Center for Medicare & ...
ObamaCare Premium Hikes for 2016—Ignore Them at Your Own Risk
Today the National Center is releasing my latest National Policy Analysis entitled “ObamaCare Premium Hikes for 2016—Ignore Them at Your Own Risk.” It examines in depth the requested premium increases for individual policies on the ObamaCare exchanges for 2016 that ...
Ambulance Transport and Medicare’s Victims
On July 6, I have my first book coming out entitled Medicare’s Victims: How the U.S. Government’s Largest Health Care Program Harms Patients and Impairs Physicians. One of the main themes of the book is that patients and physicians who ...
ObamaCare Premium Hikes for 2016: Ignore Them at Your Own Risk
In early June, the federal government released data on the premium increases that health insurers in 45 states and the District of Columbia are requesting for 2016.1 The numbers were eye-popping, with many requests exceeding 20 percent and a few ...
Montana: More Evidence Death Spiral Bearing Down on ObamaCare Exchanges
More evidence that the ObamaCare exchanges are heading for a death spiral, this time from Montana: Health insurers selling individual policies on Montana’s Affordable Care Act marketplace say rate increases are likely next year after they suffered losses they attribute ...
Someone Should Ask Sen. Sanders If Ben and Jerry’s Offers Too Many Choices of Ice Cream
By my rough count, Ben and Jerry’s sells over fifty flavors of ice cream. Thus, it’s ironic that Ben and Jerry helped Senator Bernie Sanders kick off his campaign for president given the Senator’s recent remarks about having choices: You ...
The ObamaCare Death Spiral Rears Its Head
Even if the King v. Burwell case fails at the U.S. Supreme Court next month, the future for the ObamaCare exchanges is still far from assured. Even if people on the 37 federal exchanges get to keep their subsidies, chances ...
