Obamacare
Commentary
Don’t Buy the Administration’s Spin on Exchange Enrollment Figures
The open enrollment period for Obamacares insurance exchanges drew to a close last Monday. Sort of. The administration had previously announced that folks who were unable to enroll by the deadline because of technical difficulties would have until April 15 to sign up. Thirteen of the 14 states with their ...
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Four Years of Obamacare Failures Is Long Enough
President Obama marked the fourth anniversary of the passage of Obamacare this week by promising to spend the next year working to implement and improve on it. He has his work cut out for him. Four years on, the Affordable Care Act has failed to deliver what its name formally ...
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PIPES: The White House wants feds to bail out insurers if they lose money on Obamacare
The Obama administration has taken a red pen to its signature health care reform law again rewriting the measure without consulting Congress. This time, the White House wants to extend Obamacares risk corridors, which require the feds to bail out insurance companies if they lose too much money in ...
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The Pipes Proviso
When our oldest daughter was in second grade her best friend was a classmate who was the daughter of an ophthalmologist from Canada. He devoted much of his practice to treating Medicaid patients at the county hospital. The family moved to Ottawa at the end of the school year and ...
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This Is Obamacare ‘Working The Way It Should?’
At a town hall meeting earlier this month, President Obama declared that his signature health reform law is working the way it should. Thats news to employers, who are facing higher health costs and staggering administrative burdens thanks to the law. Theyve responded in part by cutting hours and cancelling ...
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Price of Obamacare ‘savings’
The Obama administration appears to have received a rare bit of good news from one of the agencies managing its overhaul of the American health care system. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just announced that the Accountable Care Organizations created by Obamacare in hopes of better coordinating seniors’ ...
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Obamacare “savings” come at a high price
The Obama Administration appears to have received a rare bit of good news from one of the agencies managing its overhaul of the American healthcare system. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just announced that the Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) created by Obamacare in hopes of better coordinating seniors’ ...
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ACA’s unaffordable consequences
Congress’s bean-counters have rendered their verdict on Obamacare’s economic impact and it’s not good for the president. According to a Congressional Budget Office report released last month, the president’s health care law will reduce the number of hours Americans work by 1.5 to 2 percent the equivalent of ...
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Access and Cost: What the U.S. Health Care System Can Learn from Other Countries
March 11, 2014 Sally C. Pipes, president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute, a non-profit think tank based in San Francisco, was invited by the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging, to testify on the issue of Access and ...
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Industry Succeeds Where Obamacare Fails
Walmart is about to get into the health insurance business. The retail giants Sams Club division just announced that it would launch a private health insurance exchange for its small-business customers. Business owners shopping at the wholesaler will effectively be able to pick up health insurance for their employees along ...
Don’t Buy the Administration’s Spin on Exchange Enrollment Figures
The open enrollment period for Obamacares insurance exchanges drew to a close last Monday. Sort of. The administration had previously announced that folks who were unable to enroll by the deadline because of technical difficulties would have until April 15 to sign up. Thirteen of the 14 states with their ...
Four Years of Obamacare Failures Is Long Enough
President Obama marked the fourth anniversary of the passage of Obamacare this week by promising to spend the next year working to implement and improve on it. He has his work cut out for him. Four years on, the Affordable Care Act has failed to deliver what its name formally ...
PIPES: The White House wants feds to bail out insurers if they lose money on Obamacare
The Obama administration has taken a red pen to its signature health care reform law again rewriting the measure without consulting Congress. This time, the White House wants to extend Obamacares risk corridors, which require the feds to bail out insurance companies if they lose too much money in ...
The Pipes Proviso
When our oldest daughter was in second grade her best friend was a classmate who was the daughter of an ophthalmologist from Canada. He devoted much of his practice to treating Medicaid patients at the county hospital. The family moved to Ottawa at the end of the school year and ...
This Is Obamacare ‘Working The Way It Should?’
At a town hall meeting earlier this month, President Obama declared that his signature health reform law is working the way it should. Thats news to employers, who are facing higher health costs and staggering administrative burdens thanks to the law. Theyve responded in part by cutting hours and cancelling ...
Price of Obamacare ‘savings’
The Obama administration appears to have received a rare bit of good news from one of the agencies managing its overhaul of the American health care system. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just announced that the Accountable Care Organizations created by Obamacare in hopes of better coordinating seniors’ ...
Obamacare “savings” come at a high price
The Obama Administration appears to have received a rare bit of good news from one of the agencies managing its overhaul of the American healthcare system. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just announced that the Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) created by Obamacare in hopes of better coordinating seniors’ ...
ACA’s unaffordable consequences
Congress’s bean-counters have rendered their verdict on Obamacare’s economic impact and it’s not good for the president. According to a Congressional Budget Office report released last month, the president’s health care law will reduce the number of hours Americans work by 1.5 to 2 percent the equivalent of ...
Access and Cost: What the U.S. Health Care System Can Learn from Other Countries
March 11, 2014 Sally C. Pipes, president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute, a non-profit think tank based in San Francisco, was invited by the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging, to testify on the issue of Access and ...
Industry Succeeds Where Obamacare Fails
Walmart is about to get into the health insurance business. The retail giants Sams Club division just announced that it would launch a private health insurance exchange for its small-business customers. Business owners shopping at the wholesaler will effectively be able to pick up health insurance for their employees along ...
