Proponents of the health control legislation, HR 3590, claimed it would reduce the federal deficit. First of all, this desirable if government cuts spending. In any case, Veronique de Rugy at the Mercatus Center shows that the health care bill's deficit reduction is tiny:
The above chart by Mercatus Center senior ...
In response to the health control legislation, HR 3590, a small health insurance companies that focused on selling high-deductible policies is closing its doors. So reports Richmond BizSense (emphasis added)
The hotly debated healthcare reform bill signed into law in March has killed a local insurance company.
At least that’s according ...
Merrill Matthews of the Council for Affordable Health Insurance suggests ways of curbing the harmful effects of the health control legislation, HR 3590, if repealing it is not an option:
Republicans have kicked off their ObamaCare “repeal and replace” campaign, but there will likely be neither repeal nor replace unless ...
Is it possible for health care to be both something you're entitled to and an individual responsibility? I think not. If you're "entitled" to health care, then other people are responsible for providing it to you. But if you are individually responsible for "payment of health care costs," then it's ...
From Dave Kopel:
Let’s begin by getting rid of the red herring that questioning the constitutionality of Obamacare requires denying the constitutionality of the New Deal and the Great Society. Orin asks:
In your view, which of the following federal programs or agencies are constitutional?
(a) Social Security
(b) The Federal Trade ...
A couple of updates on the legal challenged to ObamaCare health control legislation (HR 3590):
The first is by Ilya Shapiro at Cato:Update on the Legal Challenges to Obamacare. A particularly notable section:
At least one enterprising analyst [Greg Scandlen] has determined that the 2,400-page bill lacks a severability clause. ...
[Post updated in response to Max's comment. Thanks!]
The San Francisco Examiner reports:
Remember when Obama and congressional Democrats made a big show of dropping the public option government insurance program that was supposedly going to give private insurers competition and drive rates down? The truth is the public ...
This reminds me of a scene from The Big Lebowski. Do you see what happens? Do you see what happens when you let politicians control insurance? Do you see what happens when you #?*! with people's medical insurance?!
The Associated Press reports on one thing that happens:
Abortion opponents fought passage of ...
The health control legislation known as ObamaCare (HR 3590) has an employer mandate provision for those who hire more than 50 people, as I've written before, this is a terrible idea. Diana Furchtgott-Roth of the Manhatten Institute explains how the employer mandate harms low-skilled and part-time workers:
...come 2014, the ...
