Record-High Health Care Spending Hits $3.2 Trillion in 2015
by Ali Meyer • Washington Free Beacon Health care spending in the United States grew 5.8 percent in 2015, hitting a record high of $3.2 trillion, according to the latest…
Health Insurers Approve of Repealing Obamacare’s Individual Mandate
by Ali Meyer • Washington Free Beacon Health insurers approve of repealing Obamacare’s individual mandate, the part of the law that forces Americans to purchase health insurance or pay a…
Vast Majority of Americans Want Changes to Obamacare
by Ali Meyer • Washington Free Beacon The vast majority of Americans want to change the Affordable Care Act regardless of whether they support the law or want it repealed,…
The EPA’s Chicanery Harms Americans
In 2012, the Obama Administration pushed through a dramatic increase in Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards — jumping the fleet average mileage mandates to 54.5 miles per gallon by…
Conservative Agenda: Tax Reform, Replacing Obamacare
Rep. Brady touts tax code built for growth by Ali Meyer • Washington Free Beacon Rep. Kevin Brady (R., Texas), the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said…
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…