t is unfortunate that insults have replace substantive policy debate in the race for the Republican nomination because we should be enjoying a spirited debate over how to overhaul the tax code. Never before has there been a presidential campaign in which so many candidates put forward such well-developed, pro-growth tax reform plans. At one […]
Last year, Philip Klein of the Washington Examiner published an e-book, “Overcoming Obamacare: Three Approaches to Reversing the Government Takeover of Health Care,” that sheds some light on what conservatives are thinking about how to replace Obamacare. In his book, Klein argues that the main difference between the most common Obamacare alternatives is how much their […]
Michael Cannon of the Cato Institute believes that Senator Marco Rubio’s plan for health-care reform would be politically ruinous for those opposed to Obamacare. He urges conservatives to embrace his plan — for “Large HSAs,” as they are known — as being far preferable, analytically and politically. His argument is so weak that one is […]
Conservatives who support Marco Rubio and/or health-insurance tax credits reacted angrily when I wrote that Rubio’s proposal to replace Obamacare with a universal tax credit is an individual mandate. It’s not the first time. In the Manchester Union-Leader last year, I explained why Rubio’s tax credits are merely Obamacare-lite. In a forcefully worded blog post, the Conservative Reform […]
Few people have done more to advance the cause of Obamacare repeal than the Cato Institute’s Michael Cannon, the leading force behind the King v. Burwell challenge to Obamacare’s individual mandate. That’s why I was so…disappointed…to see an article just posted by Cannon over at NRO. Its title is “Marco Rubio’s Healthcare Plan Has an Individual […]