Author: David Hogberg

Shaming Insurers Into Declining Taxpayer Funds Might Not Work–And That’s A Shame

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Last week at Humana’s shareholder meeting I asked CEO Bruce Broussard whether he would promise not to take any taxpayer money from ObamaCare’s risk corridors.  (Humana declined.)  Christopher Flavelle of Bloomberg criticizes our efforts, saying we are “trying a new tactic to ...
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Health Care Odds & Ends: How Many ObamaCare Enrollees?

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1. Only Two-Thirds Of Exchange Enrollees Have Paid First Premium, But…  New research released by Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee shows that only 67 percent of people who have signed up on the federal exchanges have paid ...
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New ObamaCare Enrollment Report Shows Death Spiral Is Likely

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HHS has just released the latest enrollment report for the ObamaCare exchanges.  A few notable statistics: -8,019,763 people have signed up for a plan on the exchanges. -About 3.8 million of those signed up in the last month of the ...
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If Politicians Care About Liberty, They Need To Fight For It

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Alas, the GOP is not called the stupid party for nothing.  If Republicans are really serious about restoring liberty in health care, then they need better tactics than talking without first thinking and preemptive surrender. The first case in point is ...
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ObamaCare Whac-A-Mole!

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The “skinny networks” of physicians and hospitals in many ObamaCare exchange plans are really beginning to rankle patients, so much so that the political class feels increasingly compelled to do something. In Washington State, Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler said “companies need ...
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ObamaCare Protects Widows and… Whoops!

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Over two dozen widows of Madison County, Alabama employees received health insurance via their deceased husbands’ policies.  Then along came ObamaCare’s grandfather regulations.  Here’s WHNT with the rest of the story: A few widows—wonder why they couldn’t get an exemption ...
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Obama’s Enrollment Triumph A Pyrrhic Victory

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Today I have an article in The Federalist titled “Why Obamacare’s Enrollment Triumph Will Prove Fleeting.”  In it a look at many of the same issues I did in yesterday’s blog post on Obama’s phony numbers.  But I expand it ...
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More Medicaid Melarky

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Sally Kohn of the Daily Beast points to some new state polls showing that majority in those states favor Medicaid expansion.  From this she concludes: “A core part of Obamacare is popular in states from Kansas to Georgia where Republicans are ...
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Obama Administration Uses Bogus Insurance Coverage Figures

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Well, put on your shocked faces my friends.  The Obama Administration sent out an email about an hour ago touting all of the accomplishments of ObamaCare and—are you sitting down for this?—the email contained phony statistics! You can see the ...
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Myth: America Had A Free-Market Health Care System Prior To ObamaCare

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It appears that the second greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing lots of Americans that they had a free-market health care system prior to ObamaCare.  That became evident after I received this tweet the other day: That fact ...
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