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By John Tamny The alleged failure of Republicans to repeal the misnamed Affordable Care Act (ACA) predictably has the conservative punditry up in arms. “Why Can’t Republicans Get Anything Done?” was one of many frustrated headlines…
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By Jeffrey Tucker Who or what is at fault? People blame partisanship, special interests, public opinion, plots, bad leadership, annoying lobbyists, feckless careerism, the Democrats, the moderates, the conservatives, the CBO, the…
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By Charles Blahous Passions are high in the national health care debate. Some supporters of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have taken to asserting that hundreds of thousands of “people will die” if it is repealed or significantly…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXks1-MbWhk&feature=youtu.be The US House of Representatives recently passed a bill to repeal and replace ObamaCare, known as the American Health Care Act (AHCA), by narrow margins. The 217 to 213 vote…
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By Jeffrey Tucker You want to know why the “freedom caucus” has balked at passing the Trump-backed Ryancare health care proposal? Because the package does not address the core problem of the existing system. They are leaning –…
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After 7 years, Republicans finally have the chance to fulfill their promise of repealing Obamacare. With Republicans in control of all 3 branches of the federal government, the only thing standing in their way is themselves, apparently…
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By Jeffrey Tucker It’s now clear where this “repeal and replace” thing is headed. A small cadre of the GOP House leadership hammered out a few tweaks of Obamacare in secret. All the essentials of Obamacare were left in place: the…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxfRNgRajjM&feature=youtu.be Michael Cannon, director of health policy studies at the Cato Institute has been a formidable opponent of ObamaCare; so formidable, in fact, that he has been described by…
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The American Left is fond of presenting the state of American healthcare in the most dire and precarious terms. We are told that before the wondrous implementation of the Affordable Care Act (commonly referred to as ObamaCare) that the…
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EspañolIt is well known that one of the main campaign promises of US President-elect Donald Trump is the repeal of the Federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. Trump promised to find a way to…
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By John R. Graham An extremely thorough analysis of changes in incomes and mortality in the United States, 2001 through 2014, presents sobering findings for those who think fixing our health system will make us healthier. The study,…
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By John R. Graham The Obama Administration refuses to concede defeat in its struggle to save Obamacare’s exchanges. The exchanges lost one-quarter of their members in 2015. The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association has reported its…
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