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, 2014The 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, 2014A 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, 2014In 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, 2012A 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
Coalescing around an Obamacare alternative that avoids two major political pitfalls can lead to the full repeal of Obamacare—and hence to “a crucial victory for the cause of America’s governing ideals in the 21st century.”
The Weekly Standard, May 5, 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, 2014President 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, 2014Now 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
The president doesn’t get to declare when public debates are over.
The Weekly Standard, April 2, 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, 2014Over 111 consecutive polls, Americans have shown they don't like Obamacare.
The Weekly Standard, April 1, 2014
When a conservative alternative that addresses both costs and coverage is put into play, Americans support the repeal of Obamacare by an overwhelming margin.
The Weekly Standard, April 4, 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, 2014