It’s been six years since the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) and it’s still unpopular with the voters. Hardly a week goes by without the discovery of new problems and new victims. Yet Republicans in Congress still don’t have a credible alternative.
COMMENTARIES
Can the Government Make Doctors Better Doctors?
You can take this to the bank. Every innovation in the production of every good or service – anything that lowers costs or increases quality – originates on the supply side of the market. There has never been a successful innovation that originated on the demand side.
How a Little Common Sense Could Save Billions in Government Health Care Spending
Imagine that you could make a change in an entitlement program that reduces the cost to the taxpayers and enhances the value of the program for the beneficiaries – at the same time. Who could possible object to that?
Kotlikoff to the Washington Post: Lucrative Social Security Option About to Expire
The clock is ticking thanks to a decision Congress made last year to eliminate the strategy [which] … provided an advantage to married couples by allowing them to collect some cash while their own retirement benefits grew.
Roth Health Savings Accounts: What the World Needs Now
Health Alert. Here are four pieces of bad news: Even though (1) the Obamacare out-of-pocket limits are outrageously high, (2) 80 percent of exchange plans are incompatible with a Health Savings Account, (3) new regulations will virtually outlaw HSAs for the remaining 20 percent, and (4) the Obama administration has no clue about how to merge health savings with insurance, even if the desire were there.
Better Care at a Fraction of the Cost – Only a Plane Ride Away
Have you ever wondered why hospitals don’t compete on quality?
Radical Reform Labor Law, Part II
In business after business and industry after industry, buyers and sellers of labor services are increasingly facing a difficult problem: should workers be treated as “employees” or as “independent contractors”?
It’s Time to Abolish the Legal Term “Employment”
Have you ever thought about how many laws and regulations, how many taxes, how many mandated benefits and how eligibility for so many social insurance programs are dependent on whether or not a worker is an “employee”?
Why Do None Of The GOP Presidential Candidates Have A Credible Health Plan?
It’s been six years since the passage of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). You would think that in all that time Republicans could surely come up with something better. Yet in the race for the presidency, they haven’t.
How Donald Trump Could Win The Election By Reforming Healthcare And The Tax Code
Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have made two important contributions in this electoral cycle. Both have pointed out that (1) millions of middle class households are being left behind as our country climbs out of the Great Recession and that (2) mainstream politicians in both political parties have no idea what to do about it.