Here’s a simple idea to help lower healthcare costs: Publish prices. A bipartisan group of state lawmakers in Colorado is pushing a bill to do precisely that. The Comprehensive Health Care Billing Transparency Act would allow Coloradans to see the … Continue reading
President Trump touted his executive order on Obamacare that attempts to lower premium costs for younger Americans and others while cutting off federal subsidies to insurance companies, saying their “windfall” has ended. “Health Insurance stocks, which have gone through the … Continue reading
More and more Democrats are signing on for socialist Bernie Sanders’ “Medicare for All” plan. Single-payer: It’s coming. It has to come, because in the absence of a free market, there’s no other option. Remember the post office monopoly? Before … Continue reading
“From Anthem to Aetna, major health insurers are leaving ObamaCare marketplace,” reads a headline. Actually, what is a marketplace? A marketplace implies a context where two or more willing parties voluntarily make an exchange. The exchange is agreeable to both … Continue reading
Progressive Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO), spewing her propaganda on the practically state-run MSNBC, chastised President Trump and his supporters the other day: “[I]t would be the height of irresponsibility for this president to continue to threaten millions of Americans that … Continue reading
Senator John McCain, who cast the deciding vote to squelch the clean repeal of Obamacare, chided both sides for not being bipartisan over the last several years. McCain said, “I hope we can again rely on humility, on our need … Continue reading
Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), said he was disappointed with Republicans who wanted to keep Obamacare regulations and not trust the free market for solutions. Paul said, “The problem is Republicans can’t seem to … Continue reading
Compromise is a perfectly nice idea when two parties want the same thing. If two people want to eat dinner, they can negotiate or compromise on where. Chinese food tonight, Italian food tomorrow. If they both want to see a … Continue reading
Vice President Mike Pence highlighted the nearly 2 million Americans who have dropped Obamacare this year in a Tuesday speech to employees at U.S. Health and Human Services ahead of meetings with lawmakers at the White House and on Capitol … Continue reading
Is health care a right? No way. If health care were a right, then the person providing the medical care would have to be a slave. For you to say, “I have a right to health care” means, at the … Continue reading
U.S. Senator Tom Cotton wants to repeal Obamacare, and has pledged to rewrite the recently passed House bill when it comes to the Senate. Newsmax reports that, “Typically, Cotton has agreed with Trump’s conservative base, but on healthcare, he’s met … Continue reading
House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows, who had initially opposed the American Health Care Act, said Thursday, just hours before the measure was to come to a House vote, that he eventually changed his mind because there is now a … Continue reading