Obamacare’s not-so essential benefits
“As healthy young people flee the insurance market, sick patients will disproportionately fill insurance pools, driving premiums up across the
board.” Continue reading
Is ObamaCare’s medical-loss ratio mandate increase health insurance premiums
“[T]here are few signs that health care will become more affordable as a result of the law. Indeed, it increasingly looks as if the opposite could be true — that ObamaCare may be causing higher premiums rather than preventing them.” Continue reading
The Battle Of The Narrative: How Ordinary Americans Can Fight ObamaCare
As the problems of ObamaCare inevitably emerge, the big question will be whether they will be blamed on the residual free-market elements of our health system or on the new government controls. This will be the battle of the “narrative.” Continue reading
ObamaCare’s ‘Essential Health Benefits’: Few States Implement, HHS ‘Is in Clear Violation of the Law’
U.S. Health and Human Services flouts federal law in its attempt to have states define “essential health benefits.” Continue reading
Free-market solutions for pre-existing conditions, & without ObamaCare’s perverse incentives
Here are ten ways to deal with the problem of pre-existing conditions that give people good incentives instead of perverse incentives. Continue reading
Free-market solutions for pre-existing conditions, & without ObamaCare’s perverse incentives
Here are ten ways to deal with the problem of pre-existing conditions that give people good incentives instead of perverse incentives. Continue reading
Obamacare outlaws half of all individual plans sold
More than half of the people who had individual health insurance in 2010 were enrolled in plans that won’t pass the new standards set up by Obama’s law. Continue reading
What to do if Supreme Court overturns ObamaCare
Economist John Cochrane suggests free-market health care reforms that Congress should enact if the Supreme Court strikes down ObamaCare Continue reading
End birth-control coverage battle: Allow us to buy it without a prescription
Former Reason magazine editor Virginia Postrel argues that people should be able to buy birth control as they do condoms: Without a prescription. This would diffuse the controversy on government’s mandate that health plans cover birth control. Continue reading
Free Market Lessons from Contraception Fight
3 lessons: Health insurance should be uncoupled from employment Mandated benefits will become political footballs. We must fight for freedom as a principle. Continue reading
Mandated birth control coverage: It’s not about contraceptives, it’s about liberty
In a free society, we … allow individuals to pursue their individual goals according to their “different moral convictions.” We don’t force them into relationships, whether with employers or insurance companies or whomever, that offend those convictions. Continue reading
Contraception mandate: The Illiberality of ObamaCare
The non-compromise Obama floated does not reduce by one penny the amount of money he would force Catholics to spend on contraception. Worse, this mandate is just one manifestation of how the president’s health care law will grind up the freedom of every American. Continue reading
