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Healthcare Reform Should Take Aim at Hidden Prices
Effective healthcare reform should address the persistent problem of a system that hides prices, shields middlemen like pharmacy benefit managers and insurers from accountability, and leaves patients with little real leverage. Reforms can lower healthcare costs by increasing transparency, expanding competition, and reducing the influence of middlemen whose practices operate ...
Commentary
Enhanced Obamacare subsidies are gone. They deserve to stay that way
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO) took to the chamber’s floor last week to voice his opposition to legislation that would extend the pandemic-era enhanced premium subsidies for Obamacare plans for three years. Unfortunately, his wise counsel fell on deaf ears, as all Democrats and 17 Republicans ...
Commentary
Enhanced Obamacare subsidies are the problem
Democrats are refusing to reopen the federal government unless Congress extends the enhanced Obamacare premium subsidies scheduled to expire at the end of this year. Their ultimate goal is to make those subsidies permanent. The shutdown’s architects say that failing to renew these tax credits will threaten the finances of ...
Commentary
How Obamacare Set In Motion Today’s Premium Crisis
Democrats are panicking about a looming 75% average increase in the out-of-pocket cost of insurance premiums next year for the roughly 6% of the population that shops for coverage on Obamacare’s exchanges. Their panic led them to shut down the government at the end of September. The increase is a ...
Commentary
Shut down the enhanced Obamacare subsidies, not the government
Is it worth shutting down the government to keep billions in federal cash flowing to health insurers? That’s a question Republicans should be asking Democrats every chance they get. The minority party has brought business in Washington to a halt as part of a wrongheaded strategy to obscure the out-of-control ...
Commentary
Republicans Must Stand Their Ground On Enhanced Obamacare Subsidies
A group of Republican lawmakers is trying to preserve one of the worst mistakes of former President Biden’s tenure—the enhanced subsidies for health insurance sold through Obamacare’s exchanges. The subsidies—which were first enacted on an explicitly temporary basis during the pandemic before being renewed in 2022—are set to expire at ...
Commentary
Thanks to Obamacare, Insurance Fraud Irresistible
Something strange is afoot on the Obamacare exchanges. According to a new study by the Paragon Health Institute, an astounding number of patients with premium-free exchange plans filed no claims whatsoever last year. It’s possible that none of these individuals required medical care in 2024. Read the op-ed here.
Commentary
Let the Obamacare subsidies expire
As members of Congress return to their districts this month, they may receive earfuls about extending the Biden administration‘s enhanced subsidies for Obamacare, which are scheduled to expire at the end of this year. Pundits warn that, unless Congress extends the subsidies, premiums in the individual market could increase by ...
Commentary
Obamacare Premiums Are Climbing Again. But Americans Finally Have An Alternative
Get ready to pay more for insurance coverage through Obamacare’s exchanges. The median premium increase for plans from 105 insurers in 19 states and the District of Columbia will be 15% in 2026, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. That’s more than double the median premium increase of 7% this ...
Commentary
Thank Obamacare for America’s insurance fraud boom
The number of Americans enrolled in marketplace plans either fraudulently or improperly reached 6.4 million in 2025 — an increase of more than one-quarter, according to an analysis published last month by the Paragon Health Institute. All of this wrongdoing will cost American taxpayers an estimated $27 billion this year. ...
Healthcare Reform Should Take Aim at Hidden Prices
Effective healthcare reform should address the persistent problem of a system that hides prices, shields middlemen like pharmacy benefit managers and insurers from accountability, and leaves patients with little real leverage. Reforms can lower healthcare costs by increasing transparency, expanding competition, and reducing the influence of middlemen whose practices operate ...
Enhanced Obamacare subsidies are gone. They deserve to stay that way
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO) took to the chamber’s floor last week to voice his opposition to legislation that would extend the pandemic-era enhanced premium subsidies for Obamacare plans for three years. Unfortunately, his wise counsel fell on deaf ears, as all Democrats and 17 Republicans ...
Enhanced Obamacare subsidies are the problem
Democrats are refusing to reopen the federal government unless Congress extends the enhanced Obamacare premium subsidies scheduled to expire at the end of this year. Their ultimate goal is to make those subsidies permanent. The shutdown’s architects say that failing to renew these tax credits will threaten the finances of ...
How Obamacare Set In Motion Today’s Premium Crisis
Democrats are panicking about a looming 75% average increase in the out-of-pocket cost of insurance premiums next year for the roughly 6% of the population that shops for coverage on Obamacare’s exchanges. Their panic led them to shut down the government at the end of September. The increase is a ...
Shut down the enhanced Obamacare subsidies, not the government
Is it worth shutting down the government to keep billions in federal cash flowing to health insurers? That’s a question Republicans should be asking Democrats every chance they get. The minority party has brought business in Washington to a halt as part of a wrongheaded strategy to obscure the out-of-control ...
Republicans Must Stand Their Ground On Enhanced Obamacare Subsidies
A group of Republican lawmakers is trying to preserve one of the worst mistakes of former President Biden’s tenure—the enhanced subsidies for health insurance sold through Obamacare’s exchanges. The subsidies—which were first enacted on an explicitly temporary basis during the pandemic before being renewed in 2022—are set to expire at ...
Thanks to Obamacare, Insurance Fraud Irresistible
Something strange is afoot on the Obamacare exchanges. According to a new study by the Paragon Health Institute, an astounding number of patients with premium-free exchange plans filed no claims whatsoever last year. It’s possible that none of these individuals required medical care in 2024. Read the op-ed here.
Let the Obamacare subsidies expire
As members of Congress return to their districts this month, they may receive earfuls about extending the Biden administration‘s enhanced subsidies for Obamacare, which are scheduled to expire at the end of this year. Pundits warn that, unless Congress extends the subsidies, premiums in the individual market could increase by ...
Obamacare Premiums Are Climbing Again. But Americans Finally Have An Alternative
Get ready to pay more for insurance coverage through Obamacare’s exchanges. The median premium increase for plans from 105 insurers in 19 states and the District of Columbia will be 15% in 2026, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. That’s more than double the median premium increase of 7% this ...
Thank Obamacare for America’s insurance fraud boom
The number of Americans enrolled in marketplace plans either fraudulently or improperly reached 6.4 million in 2025 — an increase of more than one-quarter, according to an analysis published last month by the Paragon Health Institute. All of this wrongdoing will cost American taxpayers an estimated $27 billion this year. ...
