Rasmussen Reports, March 3, 2014 One-in-three U.S. voters now says his or her health insurance coverage has changed as a result of Obamacare, and the same number say the new national health care law had a negative personal impact on them. Forty percent (40%) of Likely U.S. Voters have at least a somewhat favorable opinion of the health care law, while 56% regard it unfavorably, according to … [Read more...] about Rasmussen Reports: Health Care Law
Fresh ideas and a new vision for health reform – Handouts
The following are the handout materials from our Feb. 27 conference, Fresh ideas and a new vision for health reform American Enterprise Institute: A Senate GOP Health Reform Proposal: The Burr-Coburn-Hatch Plan By James Capretta and Joseph Antos http://www.aei.org/article/health/healthcare-reform/a-senate-gop-health-reform-proposal-the-burr-coburn-hatch-plan/ Conservative Health-Care Reform: A … [Read more...] about Fresh ideas and a new vision for health reform – Handouts
Obama administration in denial on Part D
By Grace-Marie Turner After the Affordable Care Act’s disastrous rollout, the Obama administration might well have learned that excessive bureaucratic meddling in the design of health plans will not be well received by the American people. But instead, the agency that runs the Medicare program -- the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) -- is doubling down. CMS proposed a rule in … [Read more...] about Obama administration in denial on Part D
Glenn Kessler: Obama’s claim that 7 million got ‘access to health care for the first time’ because of his Medicaid expansion
Washington Post, February 24, 2014 “We’ve got close to 7 million Americans who have access to health care for the first time because of Medicaid expansion.” – President Obama, remarks during dinner with the Democratic Governors Association, Feb. 20, 2014 The Fact Checker has written several times about the fuzziness of the Medicaid numbers issued by the Obama administration. But it is … [Read more...] about Glenn Kessler: Obama’s claim that 7 million got ‘access to health care for the first time’ because of his Medicaid expansion
Gary Alexander: Resisting the Medicaid-expansion temptation
The Washington Times, February 14, 2014 Thanks to the Supreme Court’s 2012 ruling, states are no longer required to liberalize Medicaid eligibility, one of the strategies of Obamacare to improve health care access among lower-income Americans. Yet that doesn’t mean the 25 states that have resisted turning the means-tested welfare program into a default health care plan for working-age, … [Read more...] about Gary Alexander: Resisting the Medicaid-expansion temptation
Lou Dobbs Tonight: ObamaCare enrollment meeting expectations?
Grace-Marie Turner joins Lou Dobbs on Fox Business to discuss ObamaCare's latest struggles and underwhelming enrollment numbers. Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com … [Read more...] about Lou Dobbs Tonight: ObamaCare enrollment meeting expectations?
Andrew McCarthy: Obama Adds Irrationality To Lawlessness — While Threatening Prosecution
National Review Online, February 12, 2014 It is wearying to catalogue President Obama’s lawlessness – his systematic, blatant violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws (you know, those statutes that Congress writes) be faithfully executed. But this last Obamacare rewrite is especially worth noting. I am not just talking about the president’s (latest) illegal waiver of … [Read more...] about Andrew McCarthy: Obama Adds Irrationality To Lawlessness — While Threatening Prosecution
Thirty-five Changes to ObamaCare…So Far
By Tyler Hartsfield and Grace-Marie Turner The president’s recent decision to delay the employer mandate – again – is another of the Obama administration’s actions that have significantly changed the health overhaul law since it was enacted nearly four years ago. By our count at the Galen Institute, this is the 18th major change to the law that the administration has made unilaterally and … [Read more...] about Thirty-five Changes to ObamaCare…So Far