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Forbes, March 28, 2014 Obamacare is still struggling to sign up young people. In order to offset the high cost of the older, and probably less healthy people who are joining Obamacare plans, the White House must coerce a sufficient number of thirty-somethings to also join. Problem is, the health plans are too pricey to make economic sense for many young adults. Just how costly are the … [Read more...] about Scott Gottlieb: How Much Does Obamacare Rip Off Young Adults? We Ran The Numbers. Here Are The Results.

American Thinker, March 28, 2014 You won’t read about the International Classification of Disease (ICD) on TMZ or hear it discussed on The View, but it has the potential to be an unpleasant October surprise in the health care world.  It is a list of codes that physicians and hospitals use when billing insurance companies.  These codes cover all manner of medical diagnoses for diseases, … [Read more...] about Brian Joondeph: The October Surprise that Could Cripple the Practice of Medicine

Wall Street Journal, March 26, 2014 One by one, the myths of the Affordable Care Act have been revealed. When the curtain on open enrollment falls on March 31, the last remaining big myth of ObamaCare will be fully exposed: The individual mandate has failed. After a last-ditch effort with President Obama himself encouraging "young invincibles" to sign up before the deadline, the … [Read more...] about Abby McCloskey And Tom Miller: The Individual Mandate Goes Poof

AEIdeas, March 26, 2014 March Madness moved to another arena on Tuesday morning at the US Circuit Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. The legal matchup involved private individuals and employers who are challenging an Internal Revenue Service rule issued in 2012 that authorized the distribution of federal tax credits for insurance premium assistance in the health exchange established by the … [Read more...] about Tom Miller: Halbig v. Sebelius: Courtside notes

This image was originally posted HERE on gop.com … [Read more...] about RNC Research: Just Winging It

National Center for Public Policy Research, March 2014 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 exchanges in metropolitan areas across 45 states for a single 27-year-old and a 57-year-old … [Read more...] about David Hogberg: ObamaCare Exchanges: Less Choice, Higher Prices

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

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