Author: David Hogberg

No, 45,000 People Do Not Die Annually Because They Are Uninsured

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There were a number of issues I wanted to address during the Senate hearing at which I testified Tuesday, but for which time did not permit. One was the claim that 45,000 Americans die each year because they lack health ...
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What the U.S. Health Care System Can Learn from Single-Payer Countries

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I’ll be testifying today in from the Senate HELP Subcommittee on Primary Health And Aging.  The title of the hearing is Access and Cost: “What the U.S. Health Care System Can Learn from Other Countries.”  Although, based on the letter ...
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Death Spiral A-Comin’

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Two major takeaways from today’s exchange enrollment report from the Dept. of Health and Human Services. First, the number of “young invincibles,” those ages 18-34, didn’t increase as part of the overall risk pool.  It was 25 percent at the end ...
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Health Care Odds & Ends

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ObamaCare Beginning To Worry Insurers. Insurance companies that participate in the exchange are worried that the exchanges won’t be viable for long.  The recent announcement by the Obama Administration that people could keep their health plans through 2015 has only ...
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ObamaCare Exchanges: Less Choice, Higher Prices

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You may recall this apology from President Obama to people who lost their insurance.  At about the 45 second mark he claims the insurance on the exchanges will be cheaper and there will be more choice of policies: I have ...
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ObamaCare Exchanges: Less Choice, Higher Prices

ObamaCare Exchanges: Less Choice, Higher Prices

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Executive Summary Many supporters of ObamaCare insisted that the health insurance exchanges created by the law would result in consumers having a greater choice among insurance policies and lower prices. This study tests those claims by examining policies on the ...
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Doctors’ Lobbyists Are Still Lobbyists

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Organized groups of physicians here in D.C. are often referred to as “association” or “academy,” such as the American Medical Association or the American Academy of Pediatrics.  But a rose by any other name is still a lobbying group.  And like ...
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Health Care Odds & Ends: Quick Edition

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The Wall Street Journal takes stock of the impact ObamaCare will have on various sectors of the economy.  One area set to see growth are those that specialize in helping businesses navigate regulations: “At the same time, employment-benefit and IT companies, ...
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If You Like Your Cancer Medication, You Can Keep Your…Er, Never Mind

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Over the weekend Stephen Blackwood told the rather harrowing story of his mother and her experience with ObamaCare.  “Carcinoid, a form of neuroendocrine cancer,” Blackwood writes in the Wall Street Journal, “is a terminal disease but generally responds well to treatment ...
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Our New Policy May Be Worse Too

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I have an article today in the American Spectator looking at whether small-group health insurance cancellations will get the media attention that the cancellation of individual policies received.  In it I note that my fellow National Center for Public Policy Research ...
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