LPA Foundation

Issues Forum: Health Care

Advisor Veronique de Rugy

Advisor Veronique de Rugy

How Obamacare Will Do Even More Damage to the Labor Market than the CBO Said

October 15, 2014

This morning, the Wall Street Journal has a piece on “Obama Deniers” — those Democrats running for reelection who are trying their best to distance themselves from the president. More specifically, very few Democrats are running for reelection on the greatness of the ACA or Obamacare. Why? Because there’s not much to say. And that’s even though, as insurance expert Robert Laszewski explained this week […]

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Advisor Casey Mulligan

Advisor Casey Mulligan

How Obamacare Begets Gender Inequality

October 7, 2014

In the past four decades, millions of American women have entered the workforce, sought out new occupations, and embarked on professional careers. In fact, by 2013, just 18 percent of working women worked only part time. This marks a sharp reversal of conditions in 1975, when men did the vast majority of full-time work, while […]

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Advisor Casey Mulligan

Advisor Casey Mulligan

The Myth of Obamacare’s Affordability

September 8, 2014

Whether the Affordable Care Act lives up to its name depends on how, or whether, you consider its consequences for the wider economy. Millions of people pay a significant portion of their income for health insurance so they and their families can get good health care when they need it. The magnitude of their sacrifices […]

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Health Care

Health Care

A health reform framework: Breaking out of the Medicaid model

July 10, 2014

A primary aim of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is to expand insurance coverage, especially among households with lower incomes. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that about one-third of the additional insurance coverage expected to occur because of the law will come from expansion of the existing, unreformed Medicaid program. The […]

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Advisor Sally Pipes

Advisor Sally Pipes

Here’s how to create a better health policy than Obamacare

One in 2 Americans now opposes Obamacare. It’s not hard to see why. Premiums will increase this year by an average of 7.5 percent for the law’s midlevel “silver” plans. More than half of Obamacare’s nonprofit insurance co-ops have failed, forcing 740,000 people to find new, often more expensive insurance. Almost 8 million people have […]

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