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There’s been a controversy within Republican circles as to whether or not the GOP should strive to preserve popular aspects of Obamacare if the Supreme Court strikes down the law. In particular, Capitol Hill Republicans wonder whether or not the GOP should preserve Obamacare’s “slacker mandate,” which forces insurers to include adult children, up to the age of 26, in family coverage. But a federal … [Read more...] about Avik Roy: Who Needs the ‘Slacker Mandate?’ UnitedHealth to Voluntarily Continue Under-26 Insurance Policies

Several Republicansreportedly want to retain certain provisions in ObamaCare, not because those provisions are good policy, but because they’re popular.  But if Republicans adopt the popularity standard, they will have to impose coercive government mandates that will drive up the cost of health insurance — just as they accuse President Obama and the Democrats of doing. One of the ObamaCare … [Read more...] about Merrill Matthews: Some Republicans Embrace ObamaCare Mandates

For the past two years, America has witnessed headline after headline reporting on flaws in President Barack Obama’s health care law. And as America learns more about this intolerable act, the opposition to Obamacare continues to grow. Yesterday, a new poll conducted by The New York Times and CBS News showed that more than two-thirds of Americans want to see the Supreme Court strike down Obamacare … [Read more...] about Morning Bell: After Obamacare

More than two-thirds of Americans hope the Supreme Court will overturn some or all of the 2010 health care law, according to a new poll conducted by The New York Times and CBS News. Just 24 percent said they hoped the court “would keep the entire health care law in place.” The Supreme Court is expected to decide a challenge to the law by the end of this month. Forty-one percent of those … [Read more...] about NY Times/CBS News Poll: The Supreme Court and the Health Care Law

All types of monopoly are not created equal in the U.S. economy. In a forthcoming study later this month for the American Enterprise Institute, Barak Richman of Duke Law School emphasizes that health care providers with market power enjoy substantially more pricing freedom than monopolists in other markets. Traditional antitrust enforcement tools have done little to halt extraordinary … [Read more...] about Tom Miller: Dueling forces in today’s health care markets

A new paper published by the Galen Institute warns that states which fall into lockstep with ObamaCare’s health insurance exchanges will end up in a bureaucratic morass with exchanges that won’t work, won’t increase access to affordable health care, and won’t improve health outcomes or increase value. Rita E. Numerof, Ph.D., writes in “What’s Wrong with Health Insurance Exchanges...” that the … [Read more...] about Why ObamaCare health insurance exchanges won’t work

The 2010 health care law has several new taxes designed to offset its costs. Many of the taxes seem to be narrowly targeted at sick people and the people who help them. There are taxes on prescription drugs, taxes on health insurance, extra taxes on high-benefit health insurance, and reduced tax deductions for people with high medical costs. In the news recently is the excise tax on medical … [Read more...] about Robert Book: The Medical Device Tax: Killing Jobs and Raising Premiums

When President Obama pushed through his health care bill, he cut more than $500 billion (over 10 years) in future Medicare spending in order to claim the bill was “paid for.” A better option would have been to aggressively target Medicare and Medicaid fraud, which could have provided the same amount of savings, and possibly more. Barely a day goes by without a major news story highlighting some … [Read more...] about Merrill Matthews: Medicare And Medicaid Fraud Is Costing Taxpayers Billions