AEI's Tom Miller challenges health economist Austin Frakt who wrote in a recent JAMA Forum article that the penalties in ObamaCare are high enough to get people to comply with the individual mandate. Many others have argued that the initial penalty of $95 a year in the Affordable Care Act is insufficient to get people to purchase a $5,000 health insurance policy, especially when people know other … [Read more...] about Massachusetts Apples – and Oranges
Archives for January 2013
Eye-popping Costs for Employer-Provided Health Insurance
Employees at larger companies are getting some eye-opening news in the W-2 statements they are receiving this month listing their 2012 income. The health overhaul law required employers to add a line reporting the total cost of employer-sponsored health-insurance coverage. “To some, it will be a surprise, perhaps even a shock,” Robert Pear reports in a New York Times piece, “To Open Eyes, W-2s … [Read more...] about Eye-popping Costs for Employer-Provided Health Insurance
Eye-popping Costs for Employer Provided Health Insurance
Employees at larger companies are getting some eye-opening news when they open their W-2 statements from their employers listing their 2012 income. The health overhaul law required employers to report information on the total cost of employer-sponsored health insurance coverage. “To some, it will be a surprise, perhaps even a shock,” Robert Pear reports in a New York Times piece, “To Open Eyes, … [Read more...] about Eye-popping Costs for Employer Provided Health Insurance
A Wise and Workable Strategy for Replacing Obamacare
Health-policy experts Jim Capretta and Jeff Anderson have a detailed game plan for battling Obamacare over the next four years in a new piece for The Weekly Standard, “Delay, Repeal, Replace. The Obamacare fight has just begun.” They explain: Obamacare . . . is a fight conservatives couldn’t walk away from even if they wanted to, because health policy is absolutely central to the struggle over … [Read more...] about A Wise and Workable Strategy for Replacing Obamacare
A Wise and Workable Strategy for Replacing ObamaCare
Health policy experts Jim Capretta and Jeff Anderson have a detailed game plan for battling ObamaCare over the next four years in a new piece for The Weekly Standard, “Delay, Repeal, Replace. The Obamacare fight has just begun.” They explain: Obamacare...is a fight conservatives couldn’t walk away from even if they wanted to, because health policy is absolutely central to the struggle over the … [Read more...] about A Wise and Workable Strategy for Replacing ObamaCare
With ObamaCare’s Repeal Blocked, Congress Works To Dismantle And Defund It
Facing a presidential veto pen blocking repeal of ObamaCare, the House is working to defund, dismantle, and delay implementation of the unpopular health overhaul law to avert at least some of its damage in the near term. The Fiscal Cliff deal chipped away at ObamaCare, eliminating one of its programs completely and cutting funding for another. Farewell, CLASS: The CLASS Act, a long-term-care … [Read more...] about With ObamaCare’s Repeal Blocked, Congress Works To Dismantle And Defund It
Avik Roy: How a GOP Governor Walked Arizona into Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion Trap
One of the most transformative aspects of Obamacare is that it conscripts state governments for the purpose of providing subsidized health insurance to their residents. Most red states have done their best to refuse, by declining to expand their Medicaid programs, and by passing up the opportunity to set up state-based insurance exchanges, through which Obamacare’s subsidies would flow. But a … [Read more...] about Avik Roy: How a GOP Governor Walked Arizona into Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion Trap
Why health costs are rising
Health insurance premiums will increase as much as 100% because of ObamaCare over the next year, with states that have been most responsible in regulating insurance being hit the hardest, according to health policy experts Merrill Matthews and Mark Litow. Their article in The Wall Street Journal entitled “ObamaCare's Health-Insurance Sticker Shock” explains that “congressional Democrats who … [Read more...] about Why health costs are rising