The CBO Report on Single Payer Isn’t the One We Deserve to See
On Wednesday, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a 30-page report analyzing a single-payer health insurance plan. While the publication explained some policy considerations behind such a...
View ArticleHow Democratic Health Proposals Will Take Your Coverage Away
Following her performance in last week’s Democratic presidential debates, California Senator Kamala Harris once again tripped up over the issue of health care. For a second time, Harris attempted to...
View ArticleThree Reasons You Won’t Keep Your Doctor Under Single Payer
Over Fourth of July week, liberal activists took solace in the results of a poll that they said demonstrates the popularity of a single-payer health system. The survey showed diminished support for a...
View ArticleJoe Biden’s Health Care Plan: SandersCare Lite
On Monday morning, former vice president Joe Biden released the health care plan for his 2020 presidential campaign. The plan comes ahead of a single-payer health plan speech by Sen. Bernie Sanders...
View ArticleThe Fundamental Dishonesty Behind Kamala Harris’ Health Plan
When analyzing Democrats’ promises on health care ahead of the 2020 presidential campaign, a researcher with the liberal Urban Institute earlier this year proffered some sage advice: “We should always...
View ArticleAnother Study Confirms Obamacare as the Unaffordable Care Act
Despite the high level of partisanship in the United States, both sides can agree on something even as controversial as health care: Both Democrats and Republicans believe Obamacare has failed to...
View ArticleThird Dem Debate Leaves Major Health Care Questions Unanswered
For more than two hours Thursday night in Houston, 10 presidential candidates responded to questions in the latest Democratic debate. On health care, however, most of those responses didn’t include...
View ArticleElizabeth Warren Has a Plan…For Avoiding Your Health Care Questions
She claims “I’ve got a plan for that” on just about every issue, but the proverbial cat got Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s tongue on health care. And you can bet that’s Warren’s plan. Rather than answering...
View ArticleSkyrocketing Premiums Show Obamacare’s Failure to Deliver
According to a recently released report, extending employer-provided health coverage to the average American family equates to buying that family a moderately-priced car every single year. This...
View ArticleIn Fourth Dem Debate, Warren Maintains Her Health Care Evasion
On Tuesday, Sen. Sherrod Brown—a notable leftist who has said he supports a single-payer health care system in theory—said in a CNN story that “it’s a terrible mistake if the Democratic nominee would...
View ArticleThe Broken Promises of Louisiana’s Medicaid Expansion
Some in Louisiana want to claim that the state’s expansion of Medicaid to able-bodied adults represents a success story. The facts indicate otherwise. Medicaid expansion has resulted in large costs to...
View ArticlePete Buttigieg’s Health Care Sabotage Strategy
After the most recent Democratic presidential debate, when South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg criticized Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren for evasiveness on her single-payer health plan,...
View ArticleWarren Asks What the Country Can Do for You
Elizabeth Warren’s release Friday of a more specific health-care platform only raised more questions about Medicare for All and its effects on the middle class. Conservatives as well as Ms. Warren’s...
View ArticleChristmas Eve Vote on Obamacare Showed Washington Still Has Shame
A decade ago this morning, 60 Senate Democrats cast their final votes approving the legislation that became Obamacare. The bill took a circuitous route to enactment after Scott Brown’s surprise victory...
View ArticlePete Buttigieg’s Plan to Tax the Middle Class
Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg claimed last month that “everything that we have proposed has been paid for, and we have proposed no tax increase on the middle class.” The South Bend,...
View ArticleJoe Biden’s Obamacare Gaffe Points to a Larger Truth
In Iowa just before the New Year, former Vice President Joe Biden had an interesting response to a voter’s concerns about Obamacare. The voter said his father had lost his coverage when the law’s major...
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