The Obama administration and the IRS act to ensure that employers don’t just dump people onto the exchanges: When employers provide coverage, their contributions, averaging more than $5,000 a year per employee, are not counted as taxable income to workers. … Continue reading →
Noemie Emery has a good summary of why intellectuals were attracted to Obama’s candidacy, and how Obamacare has threatened the entire liberal enterprise as well as the reputation of intellectuals themselves. Obamacare has even gotten a few of those intellectual … Continue reading →
There was a time, and not so very long ago, when the left sang the praises of the VA health care system. Take Paul Krugman, economist extraordinaire, back in 2006: I know about a health care system that has been … Continue reading →
Here are the results of a poll on who it is that Americans blame for the VA scandal: Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki and the VA (33 percent) receive more blame than either local VA hospitals (28 percent) or President … Continue reading →
At the moment, anyway. Polls taken in states with competitive Senate races and many contested Congressional districts indicate that people are leaning Republican for 2014. The reason seems to be Obamacare, Obamacare, Obamacare: As for Obamacare, only 16 percent favor … Continue reading →
But of course: The problem is that the income reported by more than a million consumers doesn’t match what the IRS has on file. And the procedure to match income with subsidy can’t be implemented because the back end of … Continue reading →
Says this article in the NY Times. Why, who would have thought it? But don’t worry, what you hated in the 90s you’ll love in the twenty-teens. Because you’ll have to. And because we’ll break you of the choice habit. … Continue reading →
…are not one and the same. This fact continually gets lost in discussions of Obamacare, which was supposed to improve both but may end up improving neither in any substantial way. In fact, as this piece points out, it may … Continue reading →
You might want to take a look at this summary of the varied ways in which Obamacare pays off the health insurance companies who play ball with the exchanges: risk adjustment, reinsurance, and risk corridors.
Continue reading →Obama says the debate is over and Republicans need to reach the grief stage of acceptance, but Jeffrey H. Anderson begs to differ: In short, [Obamacare is] bad because it raises health costs, undermines liberty, costs jobs, and seeks to … Continue reading →
…will make it hard to evaluate the effect of Obamacare. How very convenient: The Census Bureau, the authoritative source of health insurance data for more than three decades, is changing its annual survey so thoroughly that it will be difficult … Continue reading →
Now that Obamacare has been in operation for a while, and even though the government can’t seem to manage to tell us the demographics of the enrollees, some relevant data is nevertheless starting to roll in. So far the news … Continue reading →