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Idaho Sets Up State Exchange

Loren Heal
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May 17, 2013
Idaho Gov. “Butch” Otter—one of the most prominent opponents of Obamacare—announced his state would implement its own health insurance exchange under the law.

Kathleen Sebelius is an IPAB of One

Benjamin Domenech
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May 16, 2013
The non-partisan Congressional Research Service has confirmed that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who already has been invested with enormous power under President Obama's h

New Mexico Premium Costs Expected to Skyrocket

Rob Nikolewski
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May 16, 2013
Patients in New Mexico could take a big financial hit when the health care overhaul, known as Obamacare, takes effect.

Instead of Obamacare, How About Puppycare?

Benjamin Domenech
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May 13, 2013
Robert Samuelson has an interesting column on the Oregon Medicaid study and what it means, finding increased costs, increased use of care, but no improved health outcome

Human Face of Obamacare’s Broken Promises Becoming Visible

Dean Clancy
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May 09, 2013
Virtually all the costs of the so-called Affordable Care Act—Obamacare—have been invisible thus far. But that is beginning to change.

Ohio House Passes Budget Without Kasich’s Medicaid Expansion

Jason Hart
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May 08, 2013
The Ohio House of Representatives rejected Gov.

Rise of the Medicaid Truthers

Benjamin Domenech
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May 07, 2013
This week, the incredible health policy story was the new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine concerning Oregon’s Medicaid experiment.

Hundreds of Millions of Taxpayer Dollars Directed to Ineligible New York Co-Op

Kenneth Artz
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May 07, 2013
A new insurance entity created under the auspices of President Obama’s health care law may have been allocated millions of taxpayer dollars it was not qualified to receive.

How the Oregon Medicaid Study is Rocking Liberal Assumptions

Benjamin Domenech
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May 02, 2013
From the beginning, Obamacare’s largest expansion of coverage to the uninsured has come not through the form of subsidized insurance in the exchanges – a middle class entitlement – but through the
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