Author: David Hogberg

Why Should The Administration Put Out Propaganda About ObamaCare When The L.A. Times Will Do It For Them?

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An article in yesterdays’ Los Angeles Times by Noam N. Levey states: As the law’s initial enrollment period closes, at least 9.5 million previously uninsured people have gained coverage. Some have done so through marketplaces created by the law, some through ...
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Can The Employer-Based Tax Exclusion Be Reformed?

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One of the biggest problems with the U.S. health care system is the tax exclusion for employer-provided insurance. It causes numerous inefficiencies, not the least of which is the purchase of more health insurance than is optimal resulting in higher health ...
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ObamaCare “Fix” Shows Democrats Are Clueless

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On Thursday five Democratic Senators—Mark Begich (AK), Heidi Heitkamp (ND), Mary Landrieu (LA), Joe Manchin (WV), and Mark Warner (VA)—introduced a plan to supposedly “fix” ObamaCare.  Joining them was Senator Angus King of Maine, an Independent who usually votes with ...
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Another Phony ObamaCare Milestone

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The Department of Health and Human Services reported today that enrollment in the ObamaCare exchanges had reached 6 million. On Wednesday the Administration said that the March 31 deadline would be extended into April for people who had trouble signing ...
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Guaranteed Issue For All Of 2014–Death Spiral Comin’ Faster

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You’d better sit down, because this is a shocker:  The Obama Administration has extended the deadline to sign up for insurance on the exchanges! Once you are done catching your breath, here are the details from the Washington Post: Federal ...
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ObamaCare’s 4th Anniversary: Winners and Losers and Losers and Losers and…

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Today is the 4th anniversary of President Obama signing ObamaCare into law.  And despite what Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi says, the accurate term is “ObamaCare.”  As for calling it the “Affordable Care Act,” what’s affordable about it? A few days ...
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45,000 People Die From Lack Of Insurance Because Michael Hiltzik Of The L.A. Times Says So

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Michael Hiltzik is a business columnist for the Los Angeles Times who has spent a good deal of the last few months blogging about ObamaCare.  I noticed that he recently used the discredited statistic that “45,000 Americans die annually because ...
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Death Spiral Still A Comin’

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While some on the left have emphatically claimed there won’t be a death spiral, the ObamaCare exchanges don’t appear to be listening: Health industry officials say ObamaCare-related premiums will double in some parts of the country, countering claims recently made by the administration ...
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Why No One Trusts The Obama Administration, Part MVIII

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Well, on Monday the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) trumpeted the news that 5 million people had enrolled in the ObamaCare exchanges.  Unfortunately, releasing data early is something that HHS can’t do lest the data be unreliable.  For ...
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Single-Payer Without Wait Times? Taiwan Is On Borrowed Time

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One other matter I didn’t get a chance to address during my testimony at the recent Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging hearing was the issue of why Taiwan, a single-payer health care system, does not use wait times to ...
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