News
National Journal | Small Business Owners Can't Buy Obamacare
The federal health insurance exchange for small business owners has yet to launch, and the uncertainty has some debating whether they will offer insurance at all, The Washington Post reports.
CNN Money | Decoding the Obamacare 'marriage penalty'
There's a lot to recommend marriage. But if you're trying to score the biggest break on the new Obamacare insurance exchanges, it could make sense to say "I don't."
National Journal | Unions Say Plans Won't Qualify for Obamacare Tax Relief
Unions and businesses said Wednesday they would not benefit from the Obama administration's plans to exempt self-insured, self-administered plans from the Affordable Care Act's reinsurance fee in 2015 and 2016.
Econ Comments & Analysis
WSJ | How ObamaCare Rips Off the 'Young Healthies'
When ObamaCare is under attack, its defenders retreat to several well-worn claims. Among them is a provision that compels insurance companies to allow parents to keep their "children" ages of 21 to 26 on their family policies.
Real Clear Markets | Ten Lessons of ObamaCare
The lessons of that failure will not be new lessons. They're the ones we should have learned in the 20th century, when we had plenty of examples to draw from. But a generation has grown up that doesn't remember the 1970s, the failures of socialism, or the depredations of Communism. And because those topics are not yet part of a standard school curriculum, we've had to relearn them in the School of Hard Knocks, with Professor Obama giving us a refresher course.
Washington Times | Obamacare’s problem isn’t just growing pains
The reviews are in for HealthCare.gov, Obamacare’s much-ballyhooed online health insurance marketplace, which launched earlier this month. The government-run exchange is a “disaster,” “really bad,” “a failure,” “terrible” and “an absolute train wreck of a website.”
Mercatus | American Medicine: Closing of the Frontier?
In the 1930s, the United States gave birth to the most innovative health care system in human history. In every decade since, American doctors continued to introduce medical miracles of greater and greater significance to the rest of the world. Now it is 2013, and every young health care professional ought to ask, “Are our laws, regulations, institutions, and politics bringing this age of innovation to a close?”
Blogs
Heritage Foundation | Canceled: Loyal Obama Supporters Lose Their Health Insurance Plan
Every day, it’s becoming clear that no one in the individual insurance market (who bought a plan after Obamacare passed) is safe from the dreaded cancellation notices.
