The Entrepreneurial Way to 4% Growth
Trump should set a goal: fix the business climate so a million Americans a year can start companies. By Carl J Schramm • Wall Street Journal This week more than…
Populist rhetoric doesn’t repeal or replace ObamaCare
The headlines are awash with stories of huge ObamaCare premium cost increases. Some have even referred to the news as an “October Surprise.” But for those of us who read…
Putting Obamacare Out of Its Misery
Trump’s health care opportunity. By Michael Astrue • Weekly Standard Discontent with Obamacare—and with the delivery of health care more broadly—unites most Americans across our other divisions. That discontent creates…
Hillary’s Economically Clueless Plans Will Create Poverty
by Daniel J. Mitchell • Foundation for Economic Education Hillary Clinton has an editorial in the New York Times entitled “My Plan for Helping America’s Poor” and it is so…
There is No Such Thing as Trickle-Down Economics
by Steven Horwitz • Foundation for Economic Education Critics of liberalism and the market economy have made a long-standing habit of inventing terms we would never use to describe ourselves.…
A doctor asks: Was ObamaCare designed to fail?
By Jeffrey I. Barke • The Hill As ObamaCare’s troubles mount, I’ve heard my patients and my peers in healthcare ask: How could the law’s authors not have seen this coming?…
Expert: Obama Administration Could Bail Out Obamacare Insurers
by Ali Meyer • Washington Free Beacon The Obama administration could bail out Obamacare insurers through its risk-corridor program, according to an expert from the Mercatus Center. The risk-corridor program…
Audit: Obamacare Enrollees Had Trouble Affording and Accessing Care
by Ali Meyer • Washington Free Beacon Obamacare enrollees had trouble affording and accessing health care as well as understanding how to use their plans, according to a report from…
Tax the Private Sector, Increase the Size of the Federal Government and Hand the White House a Big Victory in a Scheme to Kill Obamacare
Instead of attempting an outright repeal of Obamacare, some in Congress are abdicating conservative principles and throwing the private sector under the bus in a reckless effort to kill the…
Another ACA failure
New Hampshire Union Leader New Hampshire residents will have even fewer choices for health insurance next year as Community Health Options announced last week that it is dumping the Granite…
Social Security Paid Dead Government Workers $1.7 Million
by Elizabeth Harrington • Washington Free Beacon The Social Security Administration has paid dead federal workers $1.7 million in recent years, with the deceased receiving benefits an average of seven…
The EU is trying to rob Americans
The European Union (EU) has ruled that Apple, one of the world’s top technology companies, must pay $14.5 billion in taxes to Ireland, despite the fact that Ireland has determined…
CBO: Federal Debt to Hit $28.2 Trillion Over Next Decade
by Ali Meyer • Washington Free Beacon Outstanding federal debt is projected to hit $28.2 trillion over the next decade, according to a report from the Congressional Budget Office. At…
D.C. Restaurants Lose Eight Jobs a Day as Wage Hikes Take Effect
by Bill McMorris • Washington Free Beacon Restaurants in the nation’s capital experienced their worst hiring period in 15 years, fueling speculation that wage hikes are reducing employment opportunities. Employment…
Obamacare is unsustainable — the backbone could collapse, expert warns
by Abigail Stevenson • CNBC If politicians don’t fix the Affordable Care Act, then the vulnerable Blue Cross and local HMO plans — which serve as the backbone of Obamacare…