Jay Cost & Jeffrey H. Anderson
President Obama is effectively using the “Three R’s”—risk adjustment, reinsurance, and risk corridors—to funnel billions of taxpayer dollars to his insurance allies who might otherwise balk at his lawless implementation of Obamacare.
The Weekly Standard, May 12, 2014
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Jeffrey H. Anderson
Polls that say voters care more about the economy than about health care aren’t asking the right question—yes, voters care more about the economy, but the Obama initiative they most oppose is Obamacare.
The Weekly Standard, April 29, 2014
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Jeffrey H. Anderson
One would think the fact that Americans have opposed Obamacare in 119 consecutive polls would give Republican leaders sufficient willpower to advance a winning alternative and fight for full repeal.
The Weekly Standard, April 28, 2014
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Jared Meyer & Jason Russell
Under Obamacare’s sky-high implicit marginal tax rates, some people can earn extra money yet actually be worse off financially.
e21, April 16, 2014
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Jeffrey H. Anderson
President Obama’s own administration isn’t abiding by his signature legislation.
The Weekly Standard, April 24, 2014
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Jay Cost
The case against Obamacare is as strong as ever: It has smoke-and-mirrors funding, creates a socially perverse array of winners and losers, undermines jobs and prosperity, restricts choices, and increases costs.
The Weekly Standard, April 21, 2014
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Jeffrey H. Anderson
The American people’s opinion on Obamacare hasn’t changed—they hate it as much as they did four years ago and are ready for an alternative.
The Weekly Standard, April 18, 2014
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Charles Blahous
A public trustee for Social Security and Medicare explains why Obamacare may well be “the greatest act of fiscal irresponsibility ever committed by federal legislators”—and why it’s getting even worse during implementation.
Mercatus Center, April 17, 2014
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Charles Blahous
In the real world—as opposed to the peculiar world of federal score-keeping conventions—adding Obamacare to existing federal health-care entitlements like Medicare won’t lower the deficit but will explode it by hundreds of billions of dollars.
e21, April 10, 2012
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Megan McArdle
A self-professed “data-driven” administration makes it essentially impossible to use Census figures to examine the effects of the most consequential legislation of our day.
Bloomberg, April 15, 2014
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Scott Gottlieb
As Obamacare’s costly regulations have started to kick in, a survey of health insurance brokers shows a sharp increase in rates—averaging 11 to 12 percent in the past quarter alone—for those purchasing individual or small group plans.
American Enterprise Institute, April 8, 2014
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Jeffrey H. Anderson
President Obama is right: “In the end, history is not kind to those who would deny Americans their basic economic security.”
The Weekly Standard, April 7, 2014
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Yuval Levin
Now that the private sector has rescued the government’s Obamacare rollout, the government can continue its takeover of private-sector health care.
National Review, April 3, 2014
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William Kristol
The president doesn’t get to declare when public debates are over.
The Weekly Standard, April 2, 2014
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Christopher J. Conover
Originally projected to reduce the number of uninsured by three-eighths by 2014, Obamacare now appears to have reduced that number by only one-eighth (with most of those on Medicaid)—while hiking millions of Americans’ premiums.
Forbes, April 1, 2014