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Ordinary Consumers Are Paying For ObamaCare’s ‘Savings’

April 9, 2015

Federal programs rarely come in under budget. Consider Medicare, which will soon celebrate its 50th anniversary. In 1967, lawmakers projected that annual spending in the program would reach $12 billion in 1990.The actual tab that year? A cool $110 billion. A new report from the Congressional Budget Office says that ObamaCare will buck the trend. […]

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Obamacare’s ‘Gobbledygook’ Defense Sets A Frightening Precedent

March 9, 2015

Justice Antonin Scalia provided the most memorable bon mot from last week’s oral arguments in King v. Burwell — the latest and most important Supreme Court challenge to Obamacare since 2012. “How can the federal government establish a state exchange?” he asked Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. “That’s gobbledygook.” Scalia’s question strikes at the […]

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Sen. Warren’s pharmaceutical bill will rob patients of cures

February 7, 2015

Last year set a high-water mark for pharmaceutical innovation. And some of the most promising new drugs will treat major diseases, including diabetes, lung cancer, Hepatitis C, and leukemia. Unfortunately, Congress is considering legislation that could halt this progress. The misnamed “Medical Innovation Act,” sponsored by Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), will burden drug makers with hefty new fees. By reducing […]

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Health Cost Holiday Will Soon Be Over

December 15, 2014

Federal officials recently reported that health spending inched up 3.6 percent in 2013. That’s the lowest annual rate of growth in decades — and the fourth time in the past five years that health inflation has been under 4 percent. The Obama administration was quick to take credit. “The recent slow growth in the cost […]

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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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