The Obama administration’s new plan is to extralegally fund Obamacare’s risk-corridor slush fund through “user fees” that will increase Americans’ health insurance costs.
Forbes, June 20, 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, 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, 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, 2014A 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, 2014As 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
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, 2014With Obamacare premiums costing up to 10% of Millenials’ income, it’s no mystery why young adults are staying away from the exchanges.
Forbes, March 28, 2014Only two-thirds as many people have enrolled in Obamacare’s government-run exchanges as the CBO had projected—and that’s even counting those who haven’t paid.
The Weekly Standard, March 28, 2014Through extensions and secrecy, the administration seems to be avoiding coming clean about how many enrollees have actually paid for coverage.
Investor’s Business Daily, March 26, 2014
No amount of celebrity-driven advertising will make Obamacare attractive to the young.
The Weekly Standard, March 31, 2014The exorbitant penalties for offering non-compliant insurance under Obamacare make it clear that the administration’s primary concern is to regulate private plans—rather than to increase access to them.
The Weekly Standard, March 26, 2014