If the ACA was such a wonderful, helpful, useful and loveable piece of legislation, why all this horse pucky? ================ ObamaCare’s implementers continue to roam the battlefield and shoot their own wounded, and the latest casualty is the core of the Affordable Care Act—the individual mandate. To wit, last week the Administration quietly excused millions of people from the requirement to purchase... Read more
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Sebelius vs. Accuracy
March 12 | Posted by mrossol | ObamaCareIf 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
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
