Author: David Hogberg

Krugman Wrong Again? Death Spiral Rears Its Head

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In a new National Policy Analysis, I examine whether predictions of an insurance “death spiral” on the ObamaCare exchanges have been proven wrong. The first sign of a death spiral is insurance companies requesting big premium increases, usually in the ...
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ObamaCare Exchange Imposes Cap on Specialty Drugs: What Could Go Wrong?

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A while back I predicted that insurers on the ObamaCare exchanges would be able to charge large co-pays for high-priced speciality drugs indefinitely, since only a small number of people take specialty drugs. Given their small numbers they would not ...
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The Impact of King v. Burwell

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If the Supreme Court rules in favor of the plaintiffs in King v. Burwell, what impact will it have on our health care system and our economy more broadly? Obviously, many people in the 37 states using the federal ObamaCare ...
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Je Suis Pamela Geller

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If Pamela Geller doesn’t stand up for free speech, who will? That’s a serious questions we need to be asking ourselves, as it is deadly obvious that one of the biggest threats to free speech comes from radical Islam.  Adherents ...
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Health Care Odds & Ends: ObamaCare State Exchanges Disaster Edition

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According to a recent article in the Washington Post, “Nearly half of the 17 insurance marketplaces set up by the states and the District under President Obama’s health law are struggling financially.” Here are some of the worst: 1. Hawaii.  The Hawaii Health Connector ...
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Are More Young and Healthy People Signing up for ObamaCare? No.

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I got a call from One News Now the other day asking me if more young and healthy people, particularly those ages 18 to 34 who are often known as “young invincibles”, were signing up for ObamaCare.  What prompted the ...
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Medicare’s Victims: How the U.S. Government’s Largest Health Care Program Harms Patients and Impairs Physicians

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Two months from today, the National Center for Public Policy Research will be releasing my book, Medicare’s Victims: How the U.S. Government’s Largest Health Care Program Harms Patients and Impairs Physicians.  It is currently available for pre-order at Amazon. In ...
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Surprise! ObamaCare Medicaid Expansion Leads to Increase in ER Visits

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That title of this blog post, of course, is intended to be sarcasm.  That an expansion of Medicaid would lead to a rise in emergency room (ER) visits is about as unexpected as looking to the east sometime early in ...
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The Health Care You Get Will Depend on Your Political Clout–Specialty Drug Edition Redux

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Ben Boychuk of the Manhattan Institute is having trouble with ObamaCare.  Specifically, his son Benjamin needs injections of human growth hormone, a specialty drug.  According to Boychuk: My son Benjamin has a serious growth hormone deficiency. He’ll be 13 years old in ...
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ObamaCare’s Amazing Wayback Clause

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The above is the title of a piece by David Catron at the American Spectator.  The “Wayback Clause” in ObamaCare is responsible for the law’s ability to impact phenomena prior to the law going into effect.  Catron noted that “most ...
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