Author: David Hogberg

Alter: Obama ‘Fumbled’ Debut Of ObamaCare

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Liberal Jonathan Alter examines the lead up to the roll out of HealthCare.gov, and concludes that: …whatever happens to the ACA, the many mistakes made with the rollout have tarnished the president’s reputation for competence. Obama will always have to ...
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And The Quality Of Your Doctor May Get Worse Too

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Via American Interest, I came across this article in the New York Times about a health care trend that probably isn’t a welcome one: American physicians, worried about changes in the health care market, are streaming into salaried jobs with ...
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Health Care Odds & Ends: Deluxe Edition

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1. Trial Lawyers Bonanza!  Economist and president of the National Center for Policy Analysis John Goodman notes the following about the new regulations on ObamaCare’s employer mandate: The new delay in the employer mandates only apply to employers who don’t ...
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Young People And That First Premium: Why The ObamaCare Risk Pool Is Worse Than You Think

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With the the Dept. of Health and Human Services set to release the next enrollment report on the ObamaCare exchanges this afternoon, I can’t help but wonder if this will be the report in which we finally get some data on ...
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Hatch-Burr-Coburn Still A Cadillac Tax Plan

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About two weeks ago I criticized the Hatch-Coburn-Burr health care plan for the way it treated the tax exclusion for employer-based health insurance: The Hatch-Burr-Coburn…“caps the tax exclusion for employee’s health coverage at 65 percent of an average plan’s costs” (italics ...
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Obama Flouts The Rule Of Law… Again

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It’s getting to be a sad joke.  Any provision of ObamaCare that the Administration finds politically inconvenient is suspended regardless of whether the president has the authority to do so.  The latest is the decision to suspend the employer mandate in 2015 ...
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Benen: Putting More Lipstick On The ObamaCare Pig

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Jonathan Cohn wasn’t the only one who tried to make the Congressional Budget Office’s Budget and Economic Outlook look rosy, despite the fact that it was a major blow against ObamaCare. Steve Benen, producer of the Rachel Maddow show, dutifully repeated all the ...
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Cohn: Putting The Lipstick On The ObamaCare Pig

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When the Congressional Budget Office released its Budget and Economic Outlook on Monday that was pretty devastating for ObamaCare, numerous progressives did their best to make it look rosy. The New Republic’s Jonathan Cohn showed us how it’s done.  And he ...
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More Health Care Odds & Ends

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1. Administration Officials Insist There Have Been No Known Violations Of HealthCare.gov Security…Um, Uh, Hey, Look At That Cute Puppy! Cyber-security expert David Kennedy “recently claimed that ‘gaining access to 70,000 personal records of Obamacare enrollees via HealthCare.gov took about 4 ...
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The ObamaCare ‘Risk Corridors’ Are STILL An Insurance Company Bailout

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Two more noted writers, both in Forbes and both conservatives, have argued that the “risk corridors” in ObamaCare are not an insurance company “bailout.”  (If you don’t know what a risk corridor is, go here and scroll to the end.) ...
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