Uh-oh. Don’t look now, but some Democrats are beginning to call for relief from ObamaCare’s individual mandate. The latest is Colorado’s Jared Polis: Health insurance rates are so high in Colorado’s mountain resort areas that U.S. Rep. Jared Polis plans to ... READ MORE
After 18 days of waiting due to the government slowdown (the Bureau of Labor Statistics was a shuttered agency), today’s release of the September jobless numbers ended up being much ado about nothing. In a word, used throughout the BLS ... READ MORE
As praise and a raise is bestowed upon the federal workforce in the wake of the government slowdown that only actually furloughed a small percentage of the total federal payroll, Project 21 member Derryck Green wonders why President Obama doesn’t ... READ MORE
As the federal government reopens, some workers at the Environmental Protection Agency may soon find their powers to choke the American economy – seemingly their primary mission under President Obama – is limited. That is because a Texas-sized fight over federal ... READ MORE
I managed to create an account at the Connecticut ObamaCare exchange, Access Health CT. Unfortunately I had to give my exact age, so I couldn’t compare policies for a 27-year-old as I usually do. So, let’s just say we’ll be ... READ MORE
I recently posted a comment at John Goodman’s Health Policy Blog in response to a remark from Don McCanne. Usually I don’t make blog comments the subject of my own blog posts, but Dr. McCanne is a Senior Health Policy ... READ MORE
With pieces like this in the New York Times, the disaster that is the roll out of the ObamaCare exchanges continues. Here’s a few more bits: 1. Bluegrass Bad News? According to USA Today, the Kentucky ObamaCare exchange, Kynect, had ... READ MORE
Last week, liberal commentator Tavis Smiley delivered a stinging rebuke to the White House regarding the Obama Administration’s handling of the economy. Smiley, who regularly focuses on the quality of life of black Americans, gave President Obama low marks in ... READ MORE
Earlier this month I teased Slate for trying to spin the government's partial shutdown so hard it lurched into satire – trying to start a pity party because some college women who are getting free money from the taxpayers might ... READ MORE
Our Jeff Stier's excellent article "With Its Soda Tax, Mexico Repeats The Mistakes Of Mayor Bloomberg" in the Chicago Tribune yesterday drew the ire of a hostile commenter, who responded to Jeff's piece about the usefulness (not) of soda taxes ... READ MORE
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