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Tennessee Gov. Haslam has sent messages to the legislature opposing a bill by State Republican Rep. Jeremy Durham that would block Medicaid expansion, but the governor said he also opposes one by Senate Democrats that would allow expansion.  An aide to the governor said he wants to keep his options open. Michael Cannon of Cato and I were in Nashville last week, testifying before both houses of … [Read more...] about Tennessee Gov. undecided on Medicaid expansion

A picture is worth a thousand words, and, Lord knows, we’ve written thousands – actually, hundreds of thousands – of words about ObamaCare.  So on this third anniversary of the passage of this destructive law, we have put together links to resources to help explain the bureaucratic scale of ObamaCare in another way. The (short-form) application:  Here is the Obama administration’s draft of the … [Read more...] about ObamaCare Illustrated

Rep. Andy Harris, a Republican from Maryland, annihilated an administration official during a hearing earlier this week for overstating the effects of the sequester. The exchange that ensued is not to be missed! Byron York first captured the story for the Washington Examiner about questioning by Rep. Harris, a physician, during a hearing before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, … [Read more...] about Witness Squashed for Sequester Hype

The Obama administration has released a draft of the 21-page application form which people will have to fill out if they want to get subsidized health insurance through the ObamaCare exchanges. It looks like they went to the IRS for help in making the form “simple” and “user friendly.”   The state of California believes it will need 20,000 people just to help residents enroll in the insurance. … [Read more...] about Hot off the presses: 21-page ObamaCare application

David Hogberg makes a strong case in a Washington Examiner op-ed for repeal of the current ban on physician-owned hospitals.  ObamaCare banned new physician-owned hospitals, even though existing ones were among the top recipients of bonus payments from the new Hospital Value Based Purchasing Program – which rewards hospitals for providing higher quality of care. ObamaCare bans creation of any … [Read more...] about David Hogberg: Lift limits on physician-owned hospitals

House Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Eric Cantor, and other top House Republican leaders wrote President Obama on Tuesday to ask him to support their efforts to shore up the fund created in ObamaCare to help those with pre-existing conditions obtain health insurance. There was bi-partisan agreement that helping people with pre-existing conditions to get access to care should be a top … [Read more...] about House Republican leaders offer solution to depleted pre-existing condition fund

“Already, the Affordable Care Act is helping to slow the growth of health-care costs,” President Obama boasted during his State of the Union Address. Apart from the fact that the statement is untrue, the line will be a real howler next year, especially for the young people who so enthusiastically supported him. Doug Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, shows why.  AAF conducted a … [Read more...] about ObamaCare sticker shock: It gets worse

The Obama administration’s plan to implement insurance exchanges in time for Jan. 1, 2014, enrollment has met substantial state government opposition, raised more questions than answers and flashed warning signs of trouble ahead. A clear majority of states — 34 — still are not fully on board with running their own healthcare exchanges to comply with the dictates of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). … [Read more...] about Tom Miller: Bumpy ride ahead for insurance markets