Category: Economic Freedom

The rules of Obamacare — indeed, the language of the law itself — have all the permanence of pencil. As of this editorial’s completion on Christmas Eve, members of the…

ObamaCare is speeding the decline in the quality of medical practice. by Dr. Marc Siegel ‘It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born,”…

by S.A. Miller and Geoff Earle Here comes the ObamaCare tax bill. The cost of President Obama’s massive health-care law will hit Americans in 2014 as new taxes pile up…

by Ike Brannon After a month of trying, I still can’t complete an application to join the D.C. Health Exchange. For a week, the Obamacare marketplace asked me to prove…

by Matt Naham When Margaret Thatcher passed from this world on April 8, myriad books followed. Consequently, an exclusively eulogistic feel characterizes many of these works. Catalogues of the Iron…

The federal government now runs the insurance market, dictating deadlines, procedures, rates, risk assessments and coverage requirements. It’s gotten so cocky it’s now telling insurers to cover the claims that,…

Obama uses misleading statistics that ignore taxes and transfer payments. Faster economic and job growth is what the poor really need. by Robert E. Grady In his widely noted speech,…

The country needs jobs, not more jobless benefits. Congress and the White House have completely lost sight of this. One blessing of the holiday season is upon us: The prospect that…

Economic growth benefits all. Obama’s focus on income brackets and disparity doesn’t create more growth, wealth or opportunity. It is merely focuses on redistribution.  If President Obama is to be…

Under pressure from Senate Democrats, the President partly suspends the individual mandate. It seems Nancy Pelosi was wrong when she said “we have to pass” ObamaCare to “find out what’s…

by Phil Kerpen With Democrats cratering in the polls over their collapsing health care law, they are trying to pivot to the only part of their policy agenda that still…

As the fifth year of the Obama presidency draws to a close, it may be time to examine the unspoken but powerful assumption behind the policies of the president and…

Now 72% say it is greater threat than big business or big labor Seventy-two percent of Americans say big government is a greater threat to the U.S. in the future…

First came the compliance burdens. Then came the expensive website woes, millions of policy cancellations and skyrocketing premiums. But if you thought Obamacare couldn’t be less popular, guess again. Here…

by William Bennett and Christopher Beach The unraveling rollout of the Affordable Care Act has provided an excellent, surprising, and little noticed lesson in the failures of big government. Although…