Author: David Hogberg
King Obama Creates a Privileged ObamaCare Class
As I noted yesterday, Democrats have been beseeching the President for a special open enrollment period for the ObamaCare exchanges. The reason is that a lot of people will learn of the individual mandate penalty for the first time when ...
Democrats Made Their Individual Mandate Bed; Now They Can Lie in It
If a public policy requires quite a few substantial exceptions and alterations to get it to work, that’s usually a clue that it wasn’t a good policy to begin with. A case in point is ObamaCare’s individual mandate. The Internal ...
Obama Displays His Ignorance While Getting on High Horse
President Obama continues to display how little he really knows. After demonstrating his historical illiteracy last week by mouthing off about the Crusades, yesterday he upped the ignorance ante by attacking office supply company Staples. According to Obama, Staples is ...
ObamaCare: Patients Pay the Cost, Social Engineers Do Not
Aren’t social engineers great? They get to test their ideas without having to pay the cost if those ideas fail. Indeed, to the extent that the ideas are tested on us, we are the ones who suffer any hardship as ...
Three Ways Consumers Could Pay Exorbitantly Higher Premiums on the ObamaCare Exchanges in 2015
Executive Summary Because of the way the subsidy mechanism of the ObamaCare exchanges functions, many exchange consumers who qualify for subsidies could end up paying exorbitantly higher premiums this year or be faced with scrambling to find a new policy ...
New Study: Three Ways Consumers Could Pay Exorbitantly Higher Premiums on the ObamaCare Exchanges in 2015
Back in September, the Indiana Business Journal noted that, although some new insurers were offering lower-priced plans on Indiana’s ObamaCare exchanges, consumers wouldn’t necessarily save money: ”Because of wrinkles in how Obamacare’s generous tax subsidies are calculated, the entrance of new ...
IRS Gives ObamaCare Tax Delinquents Special Treatment
The Administration is granting more special privileges under the banner of ObamaCare. This time, it’s for people who owe taxes on the subsidy they received on the exchanges for 2014. From Kaiser Health News: Consumers who received too much in ...
CoOportunity Health: The Solyndra of ObamaCare
Under ObamaCare, health Co-Ops—non-profits that provide insurance—are allowed to receive federal grant money to start up operations in the ObamaCare exchanges. There are 23 such Co-Ops. CoOportunity Health, which serves Iowa and Nebraska, was the first one to collapse. The ...
HealthCare.Gov: Incompetence on a Massive Scale
Last Friday, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of Health and Human Services released its report on what went wrong with HealthCare.gov in 2013. (“You would have had a lot less to read if they’d just focused ...
Parody: Why All Good Christians Must Support ObamaCare’s Medicaid Expansion
People who do not support ObamaCare’s Medicaid expansion aren’t very good Christians. So says Ohio Governor John Kasich. Last Tuesday, when asked about his expansion of Medicaid, Kasich replied, “Now, if you ever read Matthew 25, I think, ‘I wanna ...
