States like Texas made a clear choice not to go along with the ACA, and they should be allowed to remain free from it — all of it, including the subsidies and the regulations that make subsidies necessary.
According to a new poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation, 7 in 10 Americans have heard little or nothing about King v. Burwell, the U.S. Supreme Court case that will, any day now, decide the fate of Obamacare’s health insurance subsidies for millions of Americans.
The administration is conflating them in an effort to coerce state lawmakers into implementing the ACA Medicaid expansion against their better judgment—and against voters’ wishes.
In other words, the feds are attempting to force the hand of these states, which have declined to expand Medicaid.
Alas, just because a Republican governor says a policy is conservative does not make it so. A close look at Pence’s plan reveals what is perhaps the worst of all the Republican Medicaid expansion “alternatives” to date.
When conservatives and liberals talk about Texas, they are talking about two different things. Conservatives think Texas is important because its booming economy shows how limited government, low taxes and light regulation can create prosperity. Liberals, by contrast, see Texas as the poster child for conservatives’ refusal to provide a sufficient safety net for...
By utilizing a combination of new technologies and good old-fashioned common sense, there’s a lot state lawmakers can do next year to improve health care for all Texans — without waiting around for Washington bureaucrats.
ObamaCare to Increase Avg. Individual Premiums in Texas
This commentary originally appeared in Forbes on September 17, 2014. Glance at recent Obamacare headlines and you might think the healthcare law has turned out to be a smashing success, its initial glitches and legal foibles forgotten in the face of incontrovertible achievements. The proof is supposedly in the data, and we’re told the latest data is...
This commentary originally appeared in The Federalist on Sept. 4, 2014. Last week, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett became the ninth Republican governor to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. He will likely not be the last. Indiana Gov. Mike Pence is actively negotiating with the Obama administration, and GOP leaders in Tennessee and Wyoming are reportedly developing expansion proposals of their...
Davidson: Without true independence, the doctor-patient relationship breaks down and is replaced by other forces, the chief concerns of which are not necessarily what's best for the patient.
Davidson: In other words, getting rid of Obamacare will not solve our health care problems because our biggest problems predate the Affordable Care Act (ACA).