You only thought you wanted to keep your hospital
But you were wrong, you silly goose. You thought you wanted a Prada bag, too, didn’t you? My new article is up at PJ.
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The sad stories of Obamacare
It occurs to me that Obamacare is one of the few liberal policies that gives the Republicans the chance to highlight sob stories from ordinary people. Liberals think they own that approach, and so they find it hard to believe … Continue reading →
Obamacare and religious freedom: for who?
There have been a host of recent cases (and pending ones) involving the Obamacare mandates and religious freedom. This article explains that nonprofit religious employers (churches, for example) can be exempted from Obamacare and/or from the Obamacare penalty/tax if it … Continue reading →
Getting Obamacare straight
Last night I was reading this piece about Obamacare as a redistribution of wealth, and it occurred to me that even fairly decent articles about Obamacare seem to get some basic facts wrong. I’m not saying I’m the world’s greatest … Continue reading →
Customer “service” in the Obamacare era
Recently, in order to help a friend, I was trying to get health insurance information from Anthem. My questions were mainly about out-of-network benefits on individual policies—in particular whether the out-of-network deductibles and out-of-pocket caps were the same or different … Continue reading →
Giving people Medicaid does not decrease their ER visits
According to a study of the Medicaid expansion in Oregon—which offers particularly fertile ground for research because new Medicaid participants were selected randomly from among those eligible—giving people Medicaid increases ER use, rather than decreasing it as Obama and the … Continue reading →
By the way, in case you were wondering…
…this is the rule in California about illegal immigrants and Medicaid (known as “Medi-Cal” in that state): For Medi-Cal, immigration status only affects the scope of service. The services that Medi-Cal provides to undocumented immigrants include, but are not limited … Continue reading →
Did you know that Obamacare’s Pajama Boy…
…is so obviously Jewish, according to the Forward, that mockery of him is clearly anti-Semitism? Nope, I didn’t either. But I do know that the Forward has officially jumped the shark on this one. For what it’s worth, I hadn’t … Continue reading →
Ever hear of temporary health insurance?
Articles such as this one puzzle me somewhat: Nelson, who will be 62 in January, said he had been without health insurance since 2009 and is trying to get coverage for him and his wife… He was skeptical about Covered … Continue reading →
Hey, let’s have more government involvement in health care
Because it’s working out so well. It occurs to me that the category “health care reform,” which I created on this blog in 2009 and have since assigned to this post and to over three hundred others, seems more and … Continue reading →
Another day…
…another extension. Obamacare’s Secret Santa: One individual familiar with the unannounced [one-day] extension said that it is, in part, intended as a buffer in case the Web site has trouble if a last-minute surge of insurance-seekers proved more than the … Continue reading →
If you liked your neighbor’s health care plan…
…you can’t buy it, if it was grandfathered in. Not for any amount of money. Or anything like it. At least, in California, and probably in many other states. We already knew that Obamacare has led to many cancellations of … Continue reading →