If you can’t explain it to a 6th grader, perhaps you’re hiding something? ============= There have been dozens of ObamaCare delays or major revisions via administrative fiat, including four so far this year, but there’s one in particular that the Health and Human Services Department prefers to keep hidden: the individual mandate waivers that we exposed Wednesday. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius also happened... Read more
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ObamaCare and My Mother’s Cancer Medicine
February 24 | Posted by mrossol | ObamaCareOne more data point… In case anyone is tracking data points. =========== By Stephen Blackwood Feb. 23, 2014 7:10 p.m. ET When my mother was diagnosed with carcinoid cancer in 2005, when she was 49, it came as a lightning shock. Her mother, at 76, had yet to go gray, and her mother’s mother, at 95, was still playing bingo in her nursing home.... Read more
The ObamaCare Carnival of Perverse Incentives
January 24 | Posted by mrossol | Economics, ObamaCareIncentives matter. M. Barrett =========== With fewer glitches to deter them, millions of Americans are now logging on to the ObamaCare health-insurance-exchange websites. When they get there, many are discovering some unpleasant surprises: The deductibles are higher than what most people are used to, the networks of doctors and hospitals are skimpier (in some cases much skimpier), and lifesaving drugs are often not... Read more
The Young and the ObamaCare-less
January 23 | Posted by mrossol | ObamaCare“All evidence suggest that the law is working!” ======= ObamaCare’s defenders say its troubles are over as more people sign up and, by the way, stop griping because the law is here to stay. Much evidence says otherwise, to the extent that the embroidered information the White House is willing to release counts as evidence. Lifting the veil of secrecy last week, the... Read more
A Legal Poison Pill for ObamaCare
January 14 | Posted by mrossol | Obama, ObamaCare, US Constitution“Legal scholars have questioned whether the Constitution permits President Obama to categorically suspend valid laws based on political or administrative convenience.” … Maybe Congress is dysfunctional because any political capital they spend on legislation may come to naught if the President [Obama] can select which laws he will or will not enforce. ========= By Brian Callanan The Obama administration is in... Read more
