from Insurance May Not Save Lives, But It Saves Money by Megan McArdle in Bloomberg View: We shouldn’t minimize the financial benefit, however. Medical bankruptcy is nowhere near half of all bankruptcies, but it is not trivial, either. And the addition
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from Petterico’s Pontifications, King v. Burwell: Intentionalism Trumps Textualism, and the Rule of Law Dies: excerpt: There is much disagreement about this on both sides. The conservatives point to Jonathan Gruber, a central ObamaCare drafter. The lefties note that Gruber
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from Scott Atlas at the Wall Street Journal, Repairing the ObamaCare Wreckage Why is private health insurance so important? Insurance without access to medical care is a sham. And that is where the country is heading. According to a 2014
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from The Volokh Conspiracy, Let’s recall why the Affordable Care Act is so messed up by David Bernstein: Few people, including Senators and their staffs, had time to read the whole 2,700 page bill, much less note any possible weaknesses,
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From Holman Jenkins at The Wall Street Journal, ObamaCare Beyond the Handouts Excerpts: Of the eight million who have signed up, some 87% are receiving taxpayer subsidies. In other words, they are getting health care partly or wholly at someone
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From The Wall Street Journal Cliff Asness writes In Praising ObamaCare, They Bury It Excerpts: That more people would be insured was never in dispute. If you mandate that people buy something, penalize them if they don’t and give it
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from The New Yorker, a review on the book America’s Bitter Pill by Steven Brill. The review is by Malcolm Gladwell. excerpt: Goldhill takes a far more radical position than the economic team at the White House does. He believes that most
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from The New Yorker, a review on the book America’s Bitter Pill by Steven Brill. The review is by Malcolm Gladwell. excerpt: It is useful to read “America’s Bitter Pill” alongside David Goldhill’s “Catastrophic Care.” Goldhill covers much of the same ground.
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The ACA (Obamacare) was based on very distorted numbers about the number of uninsured, myopic predictions of its costs, outright deceptions in its presentations (Gruber), and a delusional faith in the competence of the resources to execute it. It would
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Robert Graboyes writes Why We Need to Liberate America’s Health Care Excerpts: Step into a time machine and travel back to 1989. Gather a group of people and tell them of the advances that medical science has made in 25 years
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from the Wall Street Journal, Shunning Obamacare by Andy Puzder excerpt: After two constitutionally dubious delays, ObamaCare’s employer mandate took effect on Jan. 1 for employers with 100 or more full-time employees. The last open-enrollment date for our company, CKE
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Robert Graboyes writes Why We Need to Liberate America’s Health Care Excerpts: Since World War II, the health care debate has been a struggle of left versus right. The left has tended to favor federal solutions, plus increased public provision
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from The New Yorker, a review on the book America’s Bitter Pill by Steven Brill. The review is by Malcolm Gladwell. excerpt: On May 2, 2009, Brill writes, the domestic-policy group at the White House blindsided the economic team with
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As Medicaid Rolls Swell, Cuts in Payments to Doctors Threaten Access to Care The Affordable Care Act provided a big increase in Medicaid payments for primary care in 2013 and 2014. But the increase expires on Thursday — just weeks
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From Jonah Goldberg in Townhall, Jonathan Gruber Should’ve Been Time’s Person of the Year For similar reasons, I think Time missed an opportunity in not putting Gruber on the cover. Tea partiers and Wall Street occupiers disagree on a great
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from Gruber’s Pathetic Congressional Testimony in The National Review by John Fund: Despite his constant memory lapses, what can we fairly deduce from the role of Jonathan Gruber in Obamacare? A person who advised the Congressional Budget Office in a formal capacity
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Ms. Lummis’s story during the Gruber hearing about her husband’s death demonstrates a tool often used by the left that the right needs to learn. It is not good enough to attack bad policies like Obamacare with theories and analysis
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Victor Davis Hanson writes in The National Review, Liberalism in Ruins Excerpts: Obamacare was, in the end, little more than a clumsy effort to take over the health-care system by redistributing resources from the supposedly too-well-off to the more noble
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From The Fiscal Times, Ed Morrissey writes How Obama Marginalized the Democratic Party Excerpt: The admission didn’t surprise Obamacare opponents, though. Those opposed to Obamacare since its inception know that Schumer offered no arguments that hadn’t been made repeatedly during
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from Jonah Goldberg on Foxnews GOLDBERG: I heard about it. But it was today doing my homework for this that I finally read up on it. I just got angrier and angrier about it. In a lot of ways this spectacle
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