Remember Obamacare? President Obama and Congress do: It is not often that a president announces his decision not to enforce a law as written, the House of Representatives responds by offering to restore the rule of law by amending that … Continue reading →
Another untruth in the selling of Obamacare emerges: “Depending on the plan you choose in the Marketplace, you may be able to keep your current doctor.” The bottom line is that Obamacare guarantees neither. Doctors may be only available through … Continue reading →
…it’s the honor system for Obamacare income subsidies. Oh, that’ll work just fine. Unbelievable. And yet at this point, ever so believable: The White House seems to regard laws as mere suggestions, including the laws it helped to write. On … Continue reading →
Part-time yes, full-time no. People are not dumb. They get around a law if they can. And Obamacare is a terrible, terrible law, passed in a terrible manner.
Continue reading →Let’s see: Congress passes the health insurance law that comes to be known as “Obamacare.” Obama seems to have taken the name to heart: it’s his law and he can do what he wants with it. So by executive fiat, … Continue reading →
…is that her getting it means that someone else won’t get one right now. Another unpleasant truth about lung transplants (and transplants in general) is that, until we can grow new organs in labs, there will be a finite number … Continue reading →
Megan McArdle analyzes how premiums might shake down for the young, unattached Californian who makes more than $25,000 or $30,000 a year. I said my piece in the matter a couple of days ago, here. But I want to add … Continue reading →
A week ago pundits on the left were crowing about the news released by Peter Lee, director of the Obamacare exchange in California, that the effect of Obamacare on individual health insurance rates in the state would be far better … Continue reading →
From 2009 to 2012 Sarah Hall Ingram was commissioner of the IRS tax-exempt organization office. You know, the one that, under her aegis, targeted the right for some very special tender loving care. But some time after that, Ingram was … Continue reading →
Please please do yourself a favor and read Megan McArdle’s comprehensive and penetrating analysis of that Medicaid outcome study. And afterward, please send it to some other people whom you think might actually be inclined to read it.
Continue reading →The blogosphere is chattering about a study that purports to show that covering more people under Medicaid hasn’t resulted in any significant health benefits after all, or certainly only minor ones. There was a small reduction in the incidence of … Continue reading →
A doctor describes how billing codes have changed the medical profession: Hospitals’ reimbursements for their Medicare-patient treatments were based on another coding system: the Diagnosis Related Group (DRG). Each diagnostic code is assigned a specific monetary value, and the hospital … Continue reading →