Barack Obama’s Anti-Democratic Speech
In Miami on Thursday afternoon, President Obama gave a speech ostensibly updating the American people on the status of his health care law. But beneath the wonky explanations lay several dark—one might...
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On Health Care, It’s the Costs, Stupid
At his first post-election press conference Monday, President Obama attempted to sound gracious on the topic of repealing his signature health law, while simultaneously laying down a clear policy...
View ArticleJohn Cornyn Illustrates Republicans’ Obamacare Problem in One Tweet
As the Senate’s second-ranking Republican, John Cornyn holds significant sway in policy-making circles. In his third term, and serving on both the judiciary and finance committees—the latter of which...
View ArticleHow to Repeal Obamacare–And What Comes Next
Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price’s confirmation early Friday morning marks both an end and a beginning. While his installation after a bitter nomination battle formally begins the...
View ArticleHow A Meghan Trainor Song Explains the Obamacare Debate
Meghan Trainor may not be known as a policy wonk, but her lyrics could prove surprisingly useful for health care analysts. In constructing an Obamacare alternative, the debate really is all about that...
View ArticleA Fiscally Irresponsible Bill
Last week the Wall Street Journal, in endorsing House Republicans’ American Health Care Act, highlighted the legislation’s “fiscal bonus.” Yes, the bill’s Medicaid reforms warrant praise as a good...
View ArticleThree Ways Kathleen Sebelius Sabotaged the Rule of Law
Of all the people crying “sabotage” when it comes to Obamacare, Kathleen Sebelius might be the most qualified on the subject. Presiding over the disastrous “launch” of healthcare.gov in the fall of...
View ArticleElizabeth Warren’s Single-Payer Falsehood: If You Like Your Obamacare, You...
Note to PolitiFact: We’ve found your “Lie of the Year” for 2021. Or 2025. Or the next year Democrats take the levers of power in Washington. We submit a claim made Wednesday by one Elizabeth Warren...
View ArticleCBO, The Individual Mandate, and Tax Reform
This week, word that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) was preparing to re-estimate the fiscal impact of repealing the individual mandate prompted consternation among Republican ranks. Sen. Mike...
View ArticleHow Obama “Sabotaged” Obamacare
To paraphrase Mark Twain, rumors of the demise of bipartisanship in health care are greatly exaggerated. While Republicans and Democrats claim different principles on health policy, their actions...
View ArticleLessons of the AHCA Collapse
Like the British evacuation of Dunkirk more than seven decades ago, Friday’s abrupt decision to halt proceedings on the American Health Care Act (AHCA) prior to a House vote represented victory only in...
View ArticleElizabeth Warren Promises to “Defend” Obamacare While Sponsoring a Bill to...
Note to Politifact: We’ve found your “Lie of the Year” for 2021. Or 2025. Or the next year Democrats take the levers of power in Washington. We submit a claim made Wednesday by one Elizabeth Warren...
View ArticleCBO, the Individual Mandate, and Tax Reform
This week, word that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) was preparing to re-estimate the fiscal impact of repealing the individual mandate prompted consternation among Republican ranks. Sen. Mike...
View ArticleHow Barack Obama “Sabotaged” Obamacare
To paraphrase Mark Twain, rumors of the demise of bipartisanship in health care are greatly exaggerated. While Republicans and Democrats claim different principles on health policy, their actions...
View ArticleRepealing Obamacare Is about the Regulations, Stupid
As Congress considers repealing Obamacare’s individual mandate as part of tax reform, some conservatives believe doing so would “fulfill [Republicans’] promise to the American people” by “return[ing]...
View ArticleCongress Needs to Eat Its Spinach
The tax bill’s effective repeal of Obamacare’s individual mandate briefly reprised the “broccoli mandate”—whether, as Justice Antonin Scalia asked during Supreme Court oral arguments on Obamacare in...
View ArticleLiberal Think-Tank Admits Obamacare’s Failures
Once again, the movement to expand government-run health care continues apace. No sooner had one think tank published a paper calling for the return of an individual mandate at the federal level than...
View ArticleHow the Obama Administration Hid Facts to Pass Obamacare
Over the weekend, Politico ran a report about how a “Trump policy shop filters facts to fit his message.” The article cited several unnamed sources complaining about the office of the Assistant...
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Do Democrats Want Obamacare to Fail under Donald Trump?
In their quest to take back the House and Senate in November’s midterm elections, Democrats have received a bit of bad news. The Hill recently noted: Health insurers are proposing relatively modest...
View ArticleKamala Harris Discovers Liberals’ New Health Care Motto
More than a decade ago, Barack Obama ran for president repeatedly pledging that under his health care platform, “If you like your plan, you can keep it.” Of course, that promise turned out not to be...
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