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The New York Times has a terrific graphic depiction today of the dramatic shift to the right in Tuesday's elections. The American people have been trying to tell Washington that we are a center-right country in every way they could -- from town hall meetings, marches on Washington, and electing Republicans in very blue states, to creation of an entirely new political movement. Washington didn't … [Read more...] about Support for ObamaCare Was a Death Knell for Candidates

We have to stay out of the political fray, yet we couldn't help but notice that it is the Democratic congressmen who switched from voting "No" to "Yes" on ObamaCare who are in the biggest trouble on the campaign trail. Pollsters Bill McInturff and Peter Hart found, in a pre-election survey on the Obama health plan and the 2010 elections, that health care is indeed a huge issue with voters. And … [Read more...] about ObamaCare Vote Haunts Congressional Candidates

You have to wonder whether embattled House Democrats who voted to pass ObamaCare just seven months ago would have stood up to their leadership and said "No!" if they had known what an albatross the law would become on the campaign trail. If a Democrat boasts about voting for the health overhaul law, it is such a rarity that it makes news. In all but a very few races, support for the law is a huge … [Read more...] about Top 10 Reasons ObamaCare is Unraveling

I am in Sundance, Utah, today attending a meeting of the Health Sector Assembly, so we thought we would use this issue of Health Policy Matters to send you a few of the many op-eds we have written for outlets around the country recently, along with a link to a terrific commentary in yesterday's Wall Street Journal by Scott Gottlieb and Tom Miller of AEI. They write about actions the states can … [Read more...] about Reporting from Sundance

ObamaCare's imprudence becomes more evident every day, most recently with the announcement that the administration was forced to waive one of its onerous new regulations so that up to a million workers don't lose their health insurance. Those of us who understood the economic disincentives that the health overhaul law set up warned of the dislocations it would create. And while we are glad these … [Read more...] about Tip of the Iceberg

The Obama administration is refusing to accept the disastrous dynamics it has set in play with its monstrous health overhaul law. Instead of recognizing the economic reality of what they've done, officials are railing at the companies and industries that are responding in perfectly rational ways to the incentive structures they have set up. Here's the latest avalanche of bad news for consumers … [Read more...] about Disastrous Dynamics

Employers are fighting mad about the huge costs and paperwork burdens that will hit them as a result of ObamaCare, as I heard first-hand over the last week in talks with employers from Washington D.C. to Washington State. In a talk Wednesday to the Association of Washington Business in beautiful Blaine, WA, (as far as you can go northwest and still be in the U.S.), employers are confused, … [Read more...] about The Red Tape Blues

The spike showing nearly 51 million were uninsured at some point last year is alarming but not surprising because it is another reflection of the recession and the nation's persistently high unemployment rate. The Census Bureau reported yesterday that 4 million more people were uninsured in 2009 than in 2008 when 47 million lacked coverage. The biggest drop was in the number of Americans with … [Read more...] about It's About Jobs