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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

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

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

Newsweek, February 6, 2014 If Obamacare gets blown up by Congress later this year, you might want to thank (or blame, depending on your prejudices regarding the Affordable Care Act) the state of Vermont. If it can't make it there, some argue, it can't make it anywhere. On a warm day last July, a small group of Vermont state employees gathered eagerly in a conference room in Winooski, Vt., to … [Read more...] about Lynnley Browning: Doubling Down On Obamacare

The Weekly Standard, February 5, 2014 On Tuesday, the Congressional Budget Office released a new study finding that the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, will cause "a decline in the number of full-time-equivalent workers of about 2.0 million in 2017, rising to about 2.5 million in 2024." That doesn't mean that Obamacare will cause 2.5 million employees to be laid off, but rather that the … [Read more...] about John McCormack: Watch Out for Obamacare’s Subsidy Cliff: Earn $1 More in Wages, and You Could Pay $20,000 More for Insurance

Forbes, February 4, 2014 By my read, the report released today by the Congressional Budget Office is the first time that CBO explicitly acknowledes the impact of Obamacare on the wage-labor relationship and incentives for full-time work. In its new budget outlook, CBO very clearly states that Obamacare amounts to an implicit tax on work and workers. Here’s how the CBO arrives at its new … [Read more...] about Scott Gottlieb: Congressional Budget Office: Obamacare A Tax On Workers

Star Tribune, January 30, 2014 The Obama administration has invested considerable energy attempting to rebrand and relaunch healthcare.gov. On a near-weekly basis, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and her press office issue proclamations touting improving success in signing up more consumers through the website. But sign-ups are the wrong success metric. A Holy Trinity … [Read more...] about Steve Parente: Not so fast; here’s how to count health sign-ups

Forbes, January 29, 2014 Massachusetts is struggling under ObamaCare. In the state that “inspired” the Affordable Care Act (ACA), with almost universal coverage and a functional exchange, most would assume the transition to the federal law would be largely cosmetic. Yet many BayState insiders have been surprised by the number of brick walls the state has run into during early implementation and … [Read more...] about Josh Archambault: SURPRISE: Massachusetts Is Home To America’s Worst-Performing ObamaCare Exchange