Thursday, December 10, 2020

This is What Presidential Leadership Really Looks Like

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Since it's been a long time since we've had it, I thought you would appreciate seeing this:  
Tuesday, November 24, 2020

What Does Kelly Loeffler's Health Plan Do to Coverage for Preexisting Conditions?

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I've been doing health policy for thirty years. I arguably know something about health insurance. For the life of me, I can't figure...
Tuesday, November 10, 2020

The Supreme Court Will Not Wreck Obamacare Because the "Plane Has Not Crashed"

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After hearing the Supreme Court's oral arguments this morning over the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), I can d...
Monday, November 9, 2020

The Supreme Court Will Not Wreck Obamacare

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This is an update of an article originally posted in September. With the Supreme Court due to hear arguments this week on a case brought by ...
Saturday, November 7, 2020

What a Biden Win Means to Health Care

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Biden has won.  Presuming the North Carolina and Alaska Senate seats remain in Republican hands,  the Senate will come out no better for Dem...
Thursday, September 24, 2020

Trump Claims to Be Able to Guarantee the Coverage of Preexisting Conditions by Fiat

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For more than twenty years we debated ways to protect people from preexisting conditions limitations in health insurance. We finally got tho...
Wednesday, September 23, 2020

The Supreme Court Will Not Wreck Obamacare

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Now that it appears certain that the Republicans will approve a new Supreme Court justice in the coming weeks, there is great concern among ...
Tuesday, September 8, 2020

Would the Biden Health Plan Work?

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IF the Democrats capture the White House, keep the House and take over the Senate the Biden health care outline stands a good chance of b...
Monday, August 24, 2020

Why Are Trump and the Republicans So Afraid of Competition When It Comes to Drug Prices?

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President Trump recently signed two executive orders directly related to prescription drug prices in the U.S. One order would allow the ...
Saturday, August 15, 2020

Kamala Harris Has Had Some Difficulty With the Health Care Issue

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Kamala Harris has had some notable difficulty with the health care issue. At a Democratic debate in June 2019 , the candidates were asked, ...
Sunday, August 9, 2020

Trump Calls for Making Permanent Cuts to Social Security Payroll Taxes

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President Trump said over the weekend, "If I'm victorious on November 3rd, I plan to forgive these [payroll taxes for Social Secu...
Friday, August 7, 2020

Well, That's a Fine Fiscal Mess They've Gotten Us Into––Fiscal Irresponsibility and Hard Hearted Republicans

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The Covid pandemic has led to extraordinary government spending. I have no doubt that it is necessary in order to avoid not only further eco...
Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Is the Federal Government Prepared to Give 300 Million Coronavirus Vaccine Injections in Early 2021?

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Are any of the world's governments and drug companies ready to give a billion or more injections in 2021? Anyone who believes that our...
Friday, April 3, 2020

Best Review of Practical Information on the Coronavirus I Have Seen

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Dr. David Price, an ICU physician at Weill Cornell Medical Center on the front lines in New York City, held an informal briefing for his fri...
Sunday, March 29, 2020

A Step By Step Plan to Manage the Pandemic and Reopen the Country

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I sense that the discussion on where we go next, among those who truly know what they are talking about, is centering on a phased approach t...
Monday, March 23, 2020

A Plan to Quickly Confront and Defeat Coronavirus Without Collapsing the Economy?

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What America lacks right now is a plan as we veer into one reaction to this pandemic after another. I am not an epidemiologist so I offer ...
Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Will the Trump Administration's Testing Snafus for Coronavirus Be Their Political Version of the Democrats' Catastrophic Launch of Obamacare?

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As I have watched the Trump administration fumble the ball on getting mass coronavirus testing available to communities, I am reminded of t...
Monday, February 24, 2020

Read "The Dispatch"

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A few months ago, Steve Hayes and Jonah Goldberg founded a news site. There are tons of those. This is different and worthy of your time....
Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Why Obamacare Supporters Should Favor the Trump Administration's Medicaid Block Grant Proposal

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Readers of this blog know that no one has been more critical of Obamacare's flaws––particularly over the impact the program has had on m...
Monday, February 10, 2020

Despite All of Its Efforts to Insure Everyone and Control Health Costs Things Are Getting Worse in Massachusetts

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Guest Post By:  Jeffrey Hogan Northeast Regional Manager  Rogers Benefit Group Few states have done as much as Massachusetts (MA)...