Obama Administration Health Care Rule Making Is a Disordered Mess
The Obama administration “overrode the normal checks and balances used to ensure that federal regulations impose the smallest possible burden on the private sector.” Continue reading
Costs of “slacker mandate” – extending dependent coverage to age 26
Obamacare encourages young adults to enroll in dependent coverage and drop their own coverage, causes employers to stop offering coverage, and will likely increase premiums. Continue reading
Health Care Plan Rebates Have Hidden Costs
“Although health insurers will pay some rebates this year, the cash should be treated as a short-term benefit with a long-term cost. Rebates will likely disappear in the future as the companies become more familiar with the regulation and learn how to game it.” Continue reading
Health Care Plan Rebates Have Hidden Costs : Roll Call Opinion
“Although health insurers will pay some rebates this year, the cash should be treated as a short-term benefit with a long-term cost.” Continue reading
ObamaCare’s lower-price “bronze” plans: bells & whistles w/o catastrophic coverage
‘ObamaCare[‘s ‘bronze’] policy would be a lousy deal for someone who needs catastrophic coverage but not all the mandatory bells and whistles.” Continue reading
ObamaCare’s lower-price “bronze” plans: bells & whistles w/o catastrophic coverage
‘ObamaCare[‘s ‘bronze’] policy would be a lousy deal for someone who needs catastrophic coverage but not all the mandatory bells and whistles.” 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
Access to birth control has nothing to do with actual insurance
In other words, lack of insurance coverage for contraception is equivalent to being forced not to use contraception. That is some strange argument, but it’s what we’ve come to expect from members of the “world’s greatest deliberative body.” So the question remains: What has this got to do with insurance? Continue reading
ObamaCare Regulations Reduce Choice in Health Insurance
Premium increases have not slowed down, price controls on premiums do not work, and “New evidence continues to support the conclusion that Obamacare will lead to less choice of health insurance.” Continue reading
Mitt #Romney & Massachusetts health care price controls
Romney’s claim that the Massachusetts plan didn’t include price controls may have been technically true at the time the law was passed. But he helped create an unsustainable system that has quickly and predictably led to price controls — with still more to come. Hence, Romney’s claim is disingenuous if not downright misleading. Continue reading
Mitt #Romney & Massachusetts health care price controls
Romney’s claim that the Massachusetts plan didn’t include price controls may have been technically true at the time the law was passed. But he helped create an unsustainable system that has quickly and predictably led to price controls — with still more to come. Hence, Romney’s claim is disingenuous if not downright misleading. Continue reading
#ThanksObamacare for ineffective authoritarian health plan rate review
Progress Now and the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative “thank Obamacare” for allowing “states to require insurance companies to justify premium increases. But data on insurance premiums does not show that these controls lower premiums. Yet, they do violate our rights to free-trade & have potential harmful consequences. Continue reading
