Galen Institute

In NFIB v. Sebelius, handed down last month, the Supreme Court upheld the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) against several constitutional challenges. Constitutionalists — partisans of limited, constitutional government — now face a critical decision: Should they acquiesce in the Sebelius decision and move on to campaign against Obamacare exclusively on policy grounds? Or … [Read more...] about Eric R. Claeys: Sebelius and the Election

There are many problems with Obamacare. But the law’s cruelest feature is what it will do to low-income Americans who are already struggling. Study after study shows that patients on Medicaid have far worse health outcomes than those with private insurance. The largest study of this type, conducted by the University of Virginia on nearly 1 million patients, found that surgical patients on Medicaid … [Read more...] about Avik Roy: How Obamacare Harms the Poor

An Indiana-based medical equipment manufacturer says it's scrapping plans to open five new plants in the coming years because of a looming tax tied to President Obama's health care overhaul law. Cook Medical claims the tax on medical devices, set to take effect next year, will cost the company roughly $20 million a year, cutting into money that would otherwise go toward expanding into new … [Read more...] about Fox News: Indiana company scraps plans for expansion over ObamaCare device tax

Earlier this week, the Congressional Budget Office released its revised estimates of what Obamacare will cost, now that the Supreme Court has weighed in. As I read the report, it occurred to me to ask: how have the CBO’s estimates changed over time? It turns out that, even when you compare the years that are common to each CBO report, a clear trend emerges. Today, the CBO believes that Obamacare … [Read more...] about Avik Roy: CBO: Obamacare Will Spend More, Tax More, and Reduce the Deficit Less Than We Previously Thought

“If you’ve got a business—you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen,” declared President Barack Obama at a campaign stop last week in Virginia. Evidently, the president believes that economic growth and job creation are largely the result of actions taken by benevolent government agencies. But while it is certainly the case that good governance is essential, entrepreneurs engaging in … [Read more...] about Ronald Bailey: Government Did Not Build Your Business

In the wake of the Supreme Court ruling that the Affordability Care Act meets the test of constitutionality in its most significant aspect, the individual mandate, the urgency for new, truthful leadership is obvious. The law intends to transform health care toward a European-style system by shifting nearly 20 million more people into a financially unsustainable and scandalously inadequate … [Read more...] about Scott Atlas: The Supreme Court’s Obamacare Calamity Calls For New, Truthful Leadership

The CBO will release its projection of the ACA budget baseline today in the aftermath of the Supreme Court decisions.  The new baseline is unlikely to be dramatically different from prior budgetary outlooks because CBO doesn’t yet have all the information needed to resolve the uncertainty. However, based on information already available to CBO and others,  Forum modeling found that the cost of … [Read more...] about Doug Holtz-Eakin, Stephen Parente, and Michael Ramlet: Congressional Budget Office Revision to the Affordable Care Act Baseline