Category: National Policy Analysis
ObamaCare Exchanges: Just Because You Are Eligible For a Subsidy Doesn’t Mean You Will Qualify for One, by David Hogberg, Ph.D. and Sean Parnell
Executive Summary The ObamaCare exchanges are supposed to subsidize the health insurance of everyone earning between 138 percent ($15,856 for an individual) and 400 percent ($45,960) of the federal poverty level (FPL) in a state that has expanded Medicaid and ...
Why The “Young Invincibles” Won’t Participate In The ObamaCare Exchanges and Why It Matters
Executive Summary If the ObamaCare health insurance exchanges are to function properly, it is crucial that a substantial number of people ages 18-34 join them. This age group that is young and relatively healthy must purchase health insurance on the ...
The Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA): A Cartel that Threatens Innovation and Competitiveness
The rise of the administrative regulatory state over the past several decades has prompted George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley to speak of a de facto fourth branch of government, characterized by "sprawling departments and agencies that govern with ...
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 ...
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 ...
It’s Time for North Carolina to Scuttle Its Renewable-Energy Mandate
With its April 24 vote rejecting legislation to repeal North Carolina’s renewable-energy mandate, the House Public Utilities Committee has dealt a temporary setback to efforts to undo the state's ill-conceived and self-defeating law requiring utilities to produce a certain percentage ...
Let’s Take the Wind Out of ObamaCare’s Medical Device Tax
Introduction Although ObamaCare was rammed through Congress on an almost entirely partisan basis, bipartisan opposition to various parts of the law has developed since it was signed into law over three years ago. One such part is the 2.3 percent ...
The EPA’s Pebble Mine Assessment Puts Politics Above Sound Science
A regulatory battle underway in a remote area of Alaska could have profound implications for the rest of the country. Its outcome will determine whether the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) power can be used for political ends or whether ...
Conservation Easements and the Anti-Farm Farm Bill, by Dana J. Gattuso
The September 30th deadline has come and gone, and Congress has not passed a new farm bill. And while farm special interests bemoan that Congress fiddled while Rome burns, the outcome is actually good for American taxpayers who would have ...
The Wind Production Tax Credit: Corporate Welfare at its Worst
Americans will soon learn whether the political class in Washington is serious about cleaning up the dirty acts of favoritism and cronyism that are business as usual in the nation's capital. From loan guarantees for the well-connected to subsidies for ...
