Category: Entrepreneurial & Regulatory Freedom

As Jonathan Gruber knows, the health-care law is a tax machine. The ‘Cadillac’ levy will hit the middle class and hit it hard.  by Tevi Troy     •  …

by Charles Krauthammer    •   Washington Post It’s not exactly the Ems Dispatch (the diplomatic cable Bismarck doctored to provoke the 1870 Franco-Prussian War). But what the just-resurfaced Gruber Confession…

by George Landrith A recent study conducted by NetNames found that in one month alone more than 430 million unique Internet users sought or downloaded copyright infringing music, movies, book,…

In a newly surfaced video, one of Obamacare’s architects admits a “lack of transparency” helped the Obama administration and congressional Democrats pass the Affordable Care Act. “Lack of transparency is a…

by Kate Bachelder    •   Wall Street Journal  A hallmark of progressive politics is the ability to hold fervent beliefs, in defiance of evidence, that explain how the world…

The law’s ‘accountable care’ experiment is a bust so far. by Editorial Board   •   Wall Street Journal A major claim of ObamaCare’s political salesmen is that it will…

This time, small-group plans used by small employers are being especially hard hit. by Tim Phillips   •   USAToday Last fall, millions of Americans breathed a sigh of relief…

by the Oklahoman Editorial Board Barack Obama has always seen himself as an agent of change, a la Ronald Reagan. His goal was to do for progressive politics what Reagan…

by Robert E. Moffit     •     National Interest On November 15, open enrollment in the Obamacare exchanges begins again. Before the second act of our national healthcare…

by The Washington Examiner A year ago this week, Healthcare.gov launched and set a new standard for costly technological disasters. The portal for obtaining private insurance under Obamacare proved completely…

by Tom Steward   •   Daily Signal Nothing strikes fear into developers and property owners more than a new critter on the federal list of endangered species. Case in point:…

Three new Fed surveys highlight damage to the labor market. Wall Street Journal Editorial Most of the political class seems to have decided that ObamaCare is working well enough, the…

by Thomas Sowell    •    Pittsburgh Tribune-Review While we talk about democracy and equal rights, we seem increasingly to let both private and government decisions be determined by mob…

by Michael Barone    •    Washington Examiner “Twentieth-century technology,” writes economic historian Joel Mokyr in the Manhattan Institute’s excellent City Journal, “was primarily about ‘large’ things.” Large in physical size,…

The law’s perverse incentives will have the nation working fewer hours, and working those hours less productively. By Casey B. Mulligan     •     Wall Street Journal Whether…