Author: David Hogberg

The Health Care You Get Will Depend On Your Political Clout–Specialty Drug Edition

ConservativeBlog.org /
A previous blog post pointed out that one of the drawbacks of any government-run health-care system is that the care you get will depend in part on how much political power you have.  This is particularly bad news for those ...
READ MORE

About That ‘Shorter’ ObamaCare Application

ConservativeBlog.org /
Grace-Marie Turner of the Galen Institute has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal showing that the supposed reducition in the size of the form for applying for insurance on the ObamaCare exchanges is not quite what it seems: During ...
READ MORE

Health Care Odds & Ends

ConservativeBlog.org /
1. Having previously given grief to PapaJohn’s and Five Guys for complaining about how ObamaCare regulations will hurt business and jobs, the Huffington Post has now reported what only the fiercest ObamaCare partisans won’t admit:  ObamaCare is going to reduce ...
READ MORE

IPAB’s Non-Existence Is A Problem Too

ConservativeBlog.org /
Over at the Washington Post, Sarah Kliff notes that the Independent Payment Advisory Board is out of the woods for now: “IPAB would only come into effect when Medicare’s per-enrollee spending grew faster than the average of overall price growth…a few ...
READ MORE

Is ObamaCare ‘Government-Run’ Health Care? Of Course Not…

ConservativeBlog.org /
In one of my recent blog posts I claimed that the problem with a “government run health-care system is that the people who are in most need of health care, the sick, seldom have the political clout necessary to change ...
READ MORE

ObamaCare’s Medicaid Expansion–Reality Intercedes

ConservativeBlog.org /
Over at the Cato Institute, Michael Cannon writes that a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine, “throws a huge ‘STOP’ sign in front of ObamaCare’s Medicaid expansion.”  Aaron Carroll and Austin Frakt disagree, saying that the study ...
READ MORE

Health Care Odds & Ends

ConservativeBlog.org /
Some interesting pieces on health care policy, in no particular order: 1. “Obamacare’s backers and critics increasingly seem to agree that the president’s health law is in for a rocky start,” writes Peter Suderman at Reason.  He reviews Ezra Klein ...
READ MORE

ObamaCare: Where’s The Lefty Outrage? Part V

ConservativeBlog.org /
The evidence keeps piling up that ObamaCare is going to have some very unpleasant effects for employees and employers.  And the left stays silent.  To wit: -Adjunct professors at Virginia’s community colleges are going to see their weekly hours cut ...
READ MORE

Why Is IPAB M.I.A.?

ConservativeBlog.org /
The Independent Payment Advisory Board, also known affectionately as the death panel, may be in its early death throes.  From my article at the American Spectator: If a government actuary conducts an analysis but the committee that is supposed to ...
READ MORE

Congress Creates Privileged Class Under ObamaCare

ConservativeBlog.org /
A Politico story that has apparently jumped the gun claims Congress is trying to exempt itself from ObamaCare. Ezra Klein dispels that, but then goes on to miss something, well, kind of important: …the federal government is the largest employer ...
READ MORE

The National Center for Public Policy Research is a communications and research foundation supportive of a strong national defense and dedicated to providing free market solutions to today’s public policy problems. We believe that the principles of a free market, individual liberty and personal responsibility provide the greatest hope for meeting the challenges facing America in the 21st century.