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J. D. Kleinke, my neighbor at the American Enterprise Institute, has written a New York Times op-ed that recycles a fact-challenged rewriting of health-policy history and combines flawed analysis with wishful thinking. Kleinke argues that the individual mandate and health exchanges of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) were, and should remain, sound conservative ideas meriting Republican support. He … [Read more...] about Tom Miller: A conservative case for Obamacare?

It’s not surprising that the New York Times snapped up an opinion piece entitled “The Conservative Case for Obamacare,” by my American Enterprise Institute colleague J. D. Kleinke. Finally, a truth-teller! But what is surprising is the obvious superficiality of Kleinke’s arguments. He either doesn’t understand Obamacare and the conservative case against it, or has willfully distorted his … [Read more...] about Jim Capretta: A Fantasy-Based Case for Obamacare

President Obama and his allies continue to repeat attacks on Gov. Mitt Romney and his running mate Rep. Paul Ryan that were long ago discredited as completely false. That Republicans want to “end Medicare as we know it” is a popular line from the Democrats, but there’s nothing in the Romney-Ryan plan that ends Medicare as anyone has known it. Indeed, the whole point of the Romney-Ryan reform is to … [Read more...] about Jim Capretta: The candidates’ positions on Medicare Advantage

Have you ever watched a football game in which a team runs the ball seemingly at will and wins in a rout? And then, in a rematch, that same team for no good reason throws the ball repeatedly, with little success? Meet Team Republican. In 2010, it ran Obama­care down the Democrats’ throats. The GOP won, 63-0. Now, in the rematch, the Republicans have changed strategy.  Confident in their ability to … [Read more...] about Jeffrey Anderson: The Obamacare Bowl

Jonathan Gruber, the MIT economist and Obama health-reform adviser, has been featured on these pages for, among other things, boldly predicting in 2010 that Obamacare would “for sure” reduce insurance premiums, while subsequently telling state governments that Obamacare would increasepremiums by as much as 30 percent. Apparently, however, that analytical foul-up has left Prof. Gruber unbowed. This … [Read more...] about Avik Roy: Jonathan Gruber’s New ‘Analysis’ of Obamacare and Romney’s Health-Reform Plan

"To say it as plainly as I can," President Obama told the American Medical Association in 2009. "Health care reform is the single most important thing we can do for America's long-term fiscal health. That is a fact." Considering that the explosive growth of Medicare and Medicaid spending are the driving forces behind our current deficits, Obama was dead right in that 2009 speech. But in 2010, … [Read more...] about The Examiner: Obamacare isn’t reducing health care costs