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Obamacare’s Ongoing Dysfunction
From a botched roll-out to widespread discrepancies in reported income and citizenship status, the Obamacare enrollment process has been, without question, an administrative failure.
National Review, May 23, 2014 -
The Myth of the Climate Change ‘97%’
While claiming to be pro-science, the left peddles a fictional statistic—“Ninety-seven percent of scientists agree [that] climate change is real, man-made, and dangerous”—that can’t withstand empirical analysis.
May 26, 2014 -
Better Health Care for the Poor
Unlike refundable tax credits, Obamacare’s expensive expansion of a broken Medicaid program doesn’t provide access to legitimate health insurance for the poor or near-poor.
The Hill, May 20, 2014 -
Federal Health-Care Subsidies May Be Too High or Too Low for More than 1 Million Americans
The latest round of gross incompetence from Health and Human Services and HealthCare.gov highlights the complications that arise not only from government-run health care but from income-based subsidies.
Washington Post, May 16, 2014 -
One Giant Leap … Down
In the wake of the Obama administration’s gutting of NASA’s budget and mission, the U.S. can no longer even pay Russia for a ride into space—leaving us to sit at home while others soar ahead.
The Weekly Standard, May 19, 2014 -
Lessons of the VA Scandal
Government-run health care inevitably leads to rationed care.
National Review, May 18, 2014 -
Get Ready for Big Bailouts for Insurers under Obamacare
President Obama’s health insurance allies say Obamacare’s risk-corridor program “should be operated without the constraint of budget neutrality”—that is, as an open-ended slush fund—but House Republicans should pass legislation saying otherwise and send it to the Senate.
Washington Examiner, May 18, 2014 -
America’s Increasingly Irrelevant ‘Unemployment Rate’
The unemployment rate is no longer a reliable barometer for the health of the labor market, as the employed and unemployed are increasingly being joined by a third category: the voluntarily jobless.
American Enterprise Institute, May 14, 2014 -
Obamacare Can’t Be Fixed
Democrats have little desire to “fix” Obamacare and no idea how to do so, in part because any “fix” must either keep Obamacare’s cornerstone—its despised individual mandate—or else send costs soaring still higher, as even the White House admits.
National Review, May 23, 2014 -
Obama Is ‘the President Richard Nixon Always Wanted To Be’
Liberal law professor Jonathan Turley warns that, under President Obama, “unfortunately, our system is changing, and it’s changing without a debate,” from a system that protects against “the concentration of power” to one where “the president can act unilaterally” and “not comply with federal law.”
Real Clear Politics, June 3, 2014 -
Obama Failed to Recruit ‘Young Invincibles’ into Obamacare
When young people bought mandatory Obamacare-compliant insurance, they disproportionately did so through a private website, eschewing HealthCare.gov.
National Center for Policy Analysis, May 16, 2014 -
The Media’s Abortion Problem
An incurious press corps allows a national scandal to continue under cover of darkness.
The Federalist, May 16, 2014 -
Where Have You Gone, George Bailey?
Crumbling under the weight of oppressive Dodd-Frank regulations, small community banks are being absorbed by “too big to fail” banks, as Washington favors Wall Street over Main Street.
National Review, May 13, 2014 -
Obamacare Insurer Subsidies in Action: The Case of Humana
Obamacare’s “Three R’s” are collectively masking the (already high) cost of insurance sold through the Obamacare exchanges, as money flows from everyday Americans to insurance companies that function as clients of the state.
The Weekly Standard, May 8, 2014 -
Time to Close the Books on U.S. Biofuels Policy
While biofuel companies benefit from EPA decrees requiring that more ethanol be used in our gas, the rest of America pays the price in engine damage, lower gas mileage, higher grocery bills, lost grasslands, and dirtier air.
The Hill, May 7, 2014