The power granted to the IRS to enforce ObamaCare’s mandates, taxes, penalties, reporting, and other requirements is unprecedented. The Government Accountability Office counts 47 new responsibilities assigned to the IRS under the health law. IRS officials themselves have acknowledged the huge…
Avik Roy: Oregon Study: Medicaid ‘Had No Significant Effect’ On Health Outcomes vs. Being Uninsured May 2, 2013
For three years, an incredibly nerdy—but consequential—debate has raged among health policy researchers regarding Medicaid, America’s government-run health-care program for the poor. Piles of studies have shown that people on Medicaid have health outcomes that are no better, and often…
IBD: Just how ignorant is Obama about ObamaCare? May 2, 2013
Investor’s Business Daily editorial At his press conference this week, President Obama tried to reassure Americans about ObamaCare. Instead, he displayed either an incredible lack of understanding about his own law, or something far worse. Asked about increasing Democratic concern…
Why is IPAB M.I.A.? April 30, 2013
by David Hogberg for The American Spectator. If a government actuary conducts an analysis but the committee that is supposed to receive that analysis doesn’t exist, does the analysis make a sound? The Chief Actuary of the Centers for Medicare…
Grace-Marie Turner on Radio America: Baucus to Blame for ‘Train Wreck’ April 25, 2013
Grace-Marie Turner talks with Greg Corombos about the Obamacare legacy of Max Baucus and the implementation nightmare still to come. Listen to the podcast…