Memo: Obamacare’s Risk-Corridor Slush Fund
It’s time for Congress to take a stand against corporate welfare and stand up for Main St. Americans by putting a stop to Obamacare’s risk-corridor slush fund.
It’s time for Congress to take a stand against corporate welfare and stand up for Main St. Americans by putting a stop to Obamacare’s risk-corridor slush fund.
Neurologist Kathryn Chenault explains how the bureaucratic burden of federally run health-care creates more red tape for physicians and limits valuable time spent with patients.
USA Today, June 22, 2014A national poll by McLaughlin & Associates (including 38% Democrats and 31% Republicans) finds that Americans overwhelmingly oppose Obamacare’s bailout provision for insurance companies and support the suspension of Obamacare’s individual mandate.
Republicans have an inviting opportunity to go after Obamacare’s risk-corridor slush fund and its unprecedented individual mandate—two things that voters want them to go after.
The Weekly Standard, June 23, 2014While the CBO projects there will be 31 million uninsured after 10 years of Obamacare, independent analysis projects that the number will be 40 million—roughly 10 percent more than today—as Obamacare will make insurance increasingly unaffordable.
Wall Street Journal, June 10, 2014Former Health and Human Services General Counsel Michael Astrue discusses the possible criminal misconduct of pro-Obamacare state officials, particularly in Massachusetts, who may have covered up the dysfunction of their Obamacare exchanges to keep federal funds flowing their way.
The Weekly Standard, June 9, 2014Polling finds that the most common reason people bought insurance under Obamacare is they were mandated to do so by law.
The Weekly Standard, June 4, 2014Polling finds that voters are eagerly awaiting the conservative alternative to Obamacare that can lead to full repeal, and they’re poised to reward those who champion it.
The Weekly Standard, May 26, 2014From 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, 2014The 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, 2014Government-run health care inevitably leads to rationed care.
National Review, May 18, 2014President 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, 2014Democrats 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, 2014When 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, 2014Obamacare’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