Category: National Policy Analysis
Despite ObamaCare Supporters’ Claims, Health Insurance Plans Prior to ObamaCare Exchanges Were Neither “Crappy” Nor “Substandard”
Executive Summary When millions of people in the individual health insurance market lost their health plans in late 2013, ObamaCare supporters claimed those lost plans were "substandard" or "crappy." However, they failed to support that contention. This study examines the ...
Government Health Care Rewards Failure
A key problem afflicting government programs is that it is very difficult to hold government employees accountable for failure. Unless powerful political interests are harmed by that failure, government employees often face no penalties for incompetence or misdeeds. In fact, ...
Veterans Will Suffer Another Scandal As Long As Bureaucracy Runs Their Health Care
The Federal Office of Special Counsel recently revealed that a mental patient at the Veterans Affairs facility in Brockton, Massachusetts, had to wait eight years before he received a psychiatric evaluation.1 This was while he spent those eight years actually ...
Intellectuals and the VA: How A Bad Idea and Bad Reporting Contributed to a Health Care Catastrophe
In all the finger-pointing over the Department of Veterans Affairs scandal, one group has thus far largely escaped accountability: intellectuals. The people whose work begins and ends with ideas — academics, policy wonks and, to some extent, journalists — helped ...
Top Ten Reasons Washington Should Not Impose New Global Warming Laws or Regulations
Top ten reasons why Washington should not inflict major new laws or regulations to combat global warming: 1. The world isn't warming. Scientists measuring surface temperatures and atmospheric temperatures using satellites - including scientists who believe in the global warming ...
A Slacking Figure: Despite What President Obama and the Los Angeles Times Say, 3.1 Million Young Adults Have Not Received Coverage via Their Parents’ Insurance
Yesterday President Obama claimed that "more than 3 million young adults... have gained insurance under this law by staying on their family's plan."1 Indeed, the number of young people who can now stay on their parents' insurance plans until age ...
A Quick Guide to ObamaCare’s HHS Contraceptive Mandate and Why the Supreme Court Should (and Will) Throw It Out
Should the federal government force the charity "Priests for Life" to pay for early abortion drugs? Supporters of ObamaCare's HHS abortion drug and contraception mandate, which requires covered employers to provide contraception and early abortion drug coverage to their employees, ...
ObamaCare Exchanges: Less Choice, Higher Prices
Executive Summary Many supporters of ObamaCare insisted that the health insurance exchanges created by the law would result in consumers having a greater choice among insurance policies and lower prices. This study tests those claims by examining policies on the ...
The Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2014 is Unsound Policy
Legislation Unjustly Discriminates Against White Voters and Creates Opportunities for Special Interests to Determine Voting Laws On January 16, Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI), Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) and Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), introduced legislation, the "Voting Rights Amendment Act of ...
Rep. Lee Terry’s H.R. 3362 Counters Administration’s Refusal to Release Missing ObamaCare Exchanges Data
On January 13 the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) finally released an enrollment report on the ObamaCare exchanges that not only listed the number of people who had selected a private plan or enrolled in Medicaid, but also ...
