Author: David Hogberg

ObamaCare’s $11 Billion Bailout (At Least)

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That the Obama Administration has been a bevy of crony capitalism is well established, and ObamaCare is no exception.  A recent report from the House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform exposes the rather cozy relationship between various White House ...
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Obama & Income Inequality: Killing The Goose That Lays The Golden Egg

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Note: This post was written by NCPPR’s intern, Scott Alford. One of the rhetorical centerpieces of Obama’s second term in office has been reducing income inequality. President Obama called income inequality “the defining challenge of our time.” From talk of raising ...
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Heritage: ObamaCare Increases Private Coverage By Only Half Million

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A new analysis of health insurance data by the Heritage foundation finds that ObamaCare’s reduction of the uninsured via private insurance was relatively miniscule. Through the first quarter of 2014, only 520,402 people gained coverage via the individual market. As ...
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You’ll PAYE Even More For College

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Note: This post was written by NCPPR’s intern, Scott Alford. When my father decided to pursue his college degree, mowing lawns and repairing circuit boards gave him more than enough to pay his own way. For a student attending college ...
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Jonathan Gruber: Hero of the Republic

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I’ve previously dubbed Jonathan Gruber as “Society’s Spokesman.”  I’m now also conferring on the MIT professor and architect of ObamaCare the title Hero of the Republic.  The reason is back in 2012 he stated that ObamaCare only permitted premium subsidies ...
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ObamaCare: How’s That ‘Honor System’ Working Out For You?

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In July of last year, the Dept. of Health and Human Service admitted that it wouldn’t have the capabilities to check an applicant’s income eligibility for the premium subsidies on the ObamaCare exchanges. Instead, HHS decided it would “accept the applicant’s ...
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4th Circuit Agrees: No Evidence Of Congressional Intent. But…

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The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals decision in King vs. Burwell in effect agrees with the D.C. Circuit Court about the evidence of Congressional intent regarding whether premium subsidies should be available on federal exchanges (p. 29): …we cannot discern ...
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Lies, Damned Lies, And ObamaCare Statistics

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With apologies to Mark Twain, there are lies, there are damned lies, and then there are ObamaCare statistics. Case in point is a column written by Vicki Simons touting the supposed positive effects of ObamaCare: The positive results of ACA: ...
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Halbig vs. Burwell: As D.C. Circuit Correctly Noted, There Was No Evidence Of Congressional Intent

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In Halbig vs. Burwell, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals got it right.  People who get their insurance through a federal exchange under ObamaCare are not eligible for premium subsidies.  (For some background on the case, go here.) Arguably the ...
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The VA Scandal: Longman’s Other Bad Idea

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Phillip Longman’s book Best Care Anywhere: Why VA Health Care Is Better Than Yours contributed to the current VA scandal by creating a sense of complacency among those in the Congress and the Obama Administration who were charged with overseeing ...
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