Author: David Hogberg
Fixing Veterans Health Care
About two weeks ago Concerned Veterans for America released a report on how to reform veterans health care. The title of the report doesn’t exactly inspire confidence: “Fixing Veterans Health Care: A Bipartisan Policy Taskforce.” Bipartisan is too often a ...
The VA Scandal May Be Much Worse
From USA Today: The Department of Veterans Affairs’ [Office of Inspector General] has not publicly released the findings of 140 health care investigations since 2006, potentially leaving dangerous problems to fester without proper oversight, a USA TODAY analysis of VA ...
A Lefty Admits That ObamaCare Has Made Us More Dependent on Government
If you are a conservative or libertarian and are in a particularly generous mood, send a thank you note to Bloomberg’s Joshua Green. He recent piece entitled “Is Washington Ready for the Death of Obamacare?” gives us a preview of the ...
King v. Burwell–Will Kennedy Swing Left?
After yesterday’s hearing of King v. Burwell, it appears that Justice Anthony Kennedy is the swing vote. Kennedy worried that if the plaintiffs are correct, that subsidies can only flow to exchanges established by a state, then it puts states ...
King v. Burwell: End of ObamaCare?
Today the Supreme Court is hearing King v. Burwell, a case that has the potential to unravel ObamaCare. If the plaintiffs win, then about 6 million people in federal exchanges would lose their premium subsidies. That would give Congress an ...
If Plaintiffs Prevail in King v. Burwell, Conservatives and Libertarians Have Many Health Care Reform Options Ready to Help People who Lose ObamaCare Subsidies
On Wednesday, March 4, the United States Supreme Court will hear arguments in the King v. Burwell case. The plaintiffs in King v. Burwell contend that ObamaCare allows premium subsidies only on state-based exchanges. If the plaintiffs prevail, millions of ...
Republicans Usually Ask for Higher Spending During “Members’ Day.” This Year, Some Called for Cuts
I worked for the House of Representatives from 2007-2008. While there, I attended the 2008 “Members’ Day” hearing at the House Budget Committee. Members’ Day is when the Budget Committee gives representatives a chance to testify about their own priorities ...
The Dashing Federal Budget
Yesterday the House Budget Committee held “Members’ Day.” I’ll write more about that tomorrow, over the weekend, Monday, Tuesday. For the time being, enjoy what happens when a committee staffer handling the computer forgets that even during an intermission the ...
ObamaCare Taxes the Poor
This, apparently, is the new ObamaCare theme song: From the press release for an H&R Block report: So far in the 2015 tax season, H&R Block, the world’s largest consumer tax services provider, is seeing a majority (52 percent) who enrolled in ...
ObamaCare Exchanges: Goal-Post Shifting And Glitches
Just before the ObamaCare exchanges re-opened in November of last year, the Obama Administration predicted that about 9.1 million people would be enrolled in the exchanges through 2015. Last week the Administration announced that 11.4 million people had signed up ...
