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CBO Is Playing with Obamacare’s Numbers Again
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #430 One of the ongoing debates about policy formation in Washington that has become far more prominent since the passage of Obamacare is the role of the Congressional Budget Office and the weight given its estimates and -
An Appeals Court Ruling Means Obamacare Will Head Back to SCOTUS
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #429 Welcome to the Consumer Power Report. -
Obamacare’s Pricetag Continues to Grow
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #428 One of the underrated facts about American health care is that in advance of the passage of Obamacare, the majority of Americans wanted a reform that tackled one thing above all others: price. -
Poll: Workers Fear the Exchanges
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #427 A new poll conducted by the Morning Consult finds workers are very, very worried about being pushed into Obamacare’s exchanges. -
Supreme Court Rejects Obamacare Contraception Mandate
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #426 On Tuesday the Supreme Court delivered another rebuttal of the Obama administration’s implementation of Obamacare by ruling against the controversial contraception mandate. -
The Premium Spikes Begin
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #425 The shoe is beginning to drop for consumers who purchased insurance under Obamacare: The premium hikes the president said would be mitigated by the law show no signs of abating. -
Is U.S. Health Care Terrible?
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #424 Is the U.S. health care system terrible compared to the rest of the world? -
We Have No Idea How Much Obamacare Costs
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #423 Remember back when Obamacare was supposed to be reducing the deficit? -
Will All the Exchanges End Up Federal?
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #422 Yesterday the Wall Street Journal reported on the burdens of troubled state health insurance exchanges, for which the costs are continuing to rise. -
The VA Scandal and Socialized Medicine
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #421 The continued scandal of the Veterans Health Administration provides a good example of the downside of government-run medicine. -
Mike Pence Tries to Make Obamacare Work
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #420 Indiana Gov. Mike Pence spoke at the American Enterprise Institute earlier this week in defense of his Medicaid expansion in Indiana. -
Obamacare Squandered $1.2 Billion on Failed Exchanges
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #419 Christopher Conover, Yevgeniy Feyman, and Katherine Restrepo try to figure out: So how much taxpayer money did Obamacare’s failed state exchanges squander? -
Obamacare and Romneycare
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #418 Following on the heels of the failure of the Obamacare exchange in Oregon, Massachusetts has announced its “first exchange in the nation” is also going under. -
How Obamacare Opponents Should Respond to Obama’s Failed Victory Lap
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #417 According to Aaron Blake at the Washington Post, the administration’s Obamacare victory lap looks more like a false start. -
Obamacare Future Is All About the Politics
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #416 The New York Times considers Obamacare’s political ramifications, which is essentially a consideration of the future of the law: When Franklin D. -
Kathleen Sebelius Runs for the Exits
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #415 Kathleen Sebelius is resigning, and Rachel Maddow is right not to be happy about it, not one little bit. For once, I completely agree with Maddow’s analysis. -
The Future of Health Policy After Obamacare
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #414 As we all know, when President Barack Obama sold his health care law to the American people, he sold it to them primarily on the basis of cost. -
Obamacare’s Magic Number Doesn’t Exist
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #413 Welcome to the Consumer Power Report. Have you heard? Obamacare survived! It got to that magic number it was looking for to make everything right! -
High Court Considers Obamacare’s Contraception Mandate
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #412 Earlier this week the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the most significant lawsuit to be brought against Obamacare since the challenges to the individual mandate and the Medicaid expansion: the challenge brought by craft -
The Battle Over Medicaid Expansion
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #411 The political battles over Medicaid expansion are continuing across the country as states take up warmed-over versions of the so-called private expansion in Arkansas. -
Obama Backs off Assault on Medicare Part D
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #410 On Monday, the Obama administration announced a rare surrender on an anti-market line of attack – this time, an attempt to warp the Medicare Part D prescription drug program into a more government-directed entity. -
Obamacare Is Affordable, So Long As It’s Outside Obamacare
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #409 So it turns out that there are cheap and plentiful insurance options available to the American people… if only they are looking for them outside the Obamacare exchanges. -
Rise of the Obamacare Denialists
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #408 Over the past few weeks, we’ve witnessed the rise of a new creature in media: the Obamacare denialists. -
Oregon’s Obamacare Disaster
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #407 The state of Oregon has for more than two decades been at the forefront of government-driven top-down health care reforms. How has it turned out? Not so great.
