Author: David Hogberg

Success Stories Of ObamaCare Exchange Show Why It Will Fail

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The Health Care Blog at the Health and Human Services website routinely recounts the experiences of people signing up for health insurance on the ObamaCare exchanges. But what HHS often considers a “success story” is in fact an example of ...
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Random Thoughts On SOTU

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Read it here this morning. 2. Maybe the Hatch-Burr-Coburn health plan did do some good. I don’t think much of their health care plan for reasons I list here.  But, perhaps by releasing it a day before SOTU, it prevented ...
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The Senate GOP’s Cadillac And Honda Civic Plan Tax

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Yesterday Republican Senators Orrin Hatch (UT), Richard Burr (NC) and Tom Coburn (OK) released a proposal for health-care reform. Some commentators are suggesting that Hatch-Burr-Coburn is an incremental approach in that while it “would not usher in a free market ...
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If Administration Released ObamaCare Enrollment Data Early, It Must Be Good

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Late last week the Obama Administration announced that 3 million people had enrolled* in private plans on the ObamaCare exchanges.  Although such data about January enrollment was supposed to be released in mid-February—Administration lackeys have previously said that data released ...
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Friday Laugh Provided By Krugman

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Going back through some of my past blog posts, I found this one from late July of last year about a Paul Krugman column.  Here’s a quote from Krugman’s missive sure to generate a chuckle: Yet even as Republican politicians ...
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ObamaCare Critics On Target

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Target has announced “after much thoughtful consideration…to discontinue part-time health insurance coverage for [their] stores’ part-time team members, beginning April 1, 2014.”  It further states in a press release: Target has dedicated substantial resources to guide our team through every ...
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Yes, The ObamaCare ‘Risk Corridors’ Are An Insurance Company Bailout

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Jonathan Cohn at The New Republic takes issue with conservatives who dub the ObamaCare “risk corridors” a “bailout.”  (If you are unfamiliar with a “risk corridor,” see a full explanation at the end of the post.  For now, it is taxpayer ...
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ObamaCare Exchanges Not Doing Much To Reduce The Uninsured

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A new article from the Wall Street Journal takes stock of various surveys and finds that most of the people who signed up through the ObamaCare exchanges were not previously uninsured: -Only 11% of consumers who bought new coverage under ...
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Health Care Odds & Ends

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1. ObamaCare has increased Medicaid coverage by 3.9 million—NOT SO FAST!  If one examines closely the recent ObamaCare exchange enrollment report, you’ll notice that about 27% of the enrollment in Medicaid is in states that did not expand Medicaid under ...
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House Votes To Force Obama Admin. To Release Exchange Data

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Around noon today the House of Representatives approved H.R. 3362, the “Exchange Information Disclosure Act,” a bill authored by Representative Lee Terry (R-NE).  The vote was 259 to 154 with 33 Democrats joining 226 Republicans to vote aye. As I explore ...
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