Category: Health
California Health Insurance Exchange Headed for a Death Spiral
"Covered California" Will Not Attract Enough Young and Healthy People To Keep Rates Low California's Will Be Just One Of Many ObamaCare Exchanges To Fail Washington, D.C. - "Covered California," the ObamaCare exchange in the Golden State, is headed for ...
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Are Popular Food Activists Giving us Good Advice?
In a piece (pdf) for the Summer issue of the Cato Institute journal, Regulation, Dr. Henry I. Miller joins me in questioning whether the advice we get from popular food activists is actually valid. This matters in terms of policy, since ...
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Just Because You Are Eligible For A Premium Subsidy Doesn’t Mean You Will Get One–Lesson of the DC Exchange
Anyone who makes between 133% and 400% of the federal poverty level is eligible for a premium subsidy to purchase insurance on an ObamaCare exchange. However, just because you are eligible doesn’t mean you will qualify. Here’s why: The formula for ...
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How Liberals Undermine Public Health: 1 of 2
Boston University’s Dr. Michael Siegel sums up our view on how liberals undermine public heath, with a piece on his blog, titled, The Problem with the Tobacco Control Movement: Ideology Has Overtaken Science. First, some background. Then, as he always ...
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Stopping Race, Sex-Based Abortions is “Discriminatory” to the Left
In Arizona, a local NAACP chapter and the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF) — with the legal representation of the ACLU — are suing in a federal court to overturn a law that criminalizes abortions that are performed ...
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Oregon’s Coming Health Insurance Death Spiral
Oregon's ObamaCare health insurance exchange, "Cover Oregon," has received fawning media coverage similar to that initially given to California's now controversial exchange, "Covered California." For example, when Cover Oregon released its proposed insurance premiums in late May, the Huffington Post ...
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California’s Coming Health Insurance Death Spiral
Will relatively young and healthy people purchase health insurance from the ObamaCare exchanges? After the release of alleged insurance premiums by California's ObamaCare-mandated health insurance exchange—"Covered California"—the participation of the Golden State's youth is the topic of serious debate. Covered ...
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Single-Payer Causes Waiting Lists For Health Care
Over at the AARP, Dr. Aaron Carroll penned a missive purportedly debunking myths about about Canada’s health care system. One such myth is “Canada has long wait times because it has a single-payer system.” According to Carroll: The wait times that ...
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The Single-Payer ‘Dance Of Nations’
When dealing with single-payer advocates, one has to be ready to deal with their tendency to promote whichever is the newest and, hence, least studied nation to adopt a single-payer health care system. People are usually unaware that single-payer advocates have ...
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Yes, People Do Go Bankrupt From Medical Bills In Single-Payer Systems
Every time the link between medical costs and personal bankruptcy in the U.S. is discussed, the mythmakers are quick to assert that medical bankruptcy does not exist in single-payer health care systems. For example, Russell DeMott, a Charleston bankruptcy lawyer, ...
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