It’s been five years since the passage of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). In all that time Republicans have not produced a single, credible alternative to it that they can unite behind. Have you ever wondered why?
Big business is against it. So is big labor. Ditto for K Street. What do they want? The repeal of Obamacare’s tax on high cost health care plans.
Beginning in 2018, high-cost, private sector health plans will be subject to a special levy, popularly known as the “Cadillac plan” tax.
Recently, Dr. John Goodman spoke to a forum at Cato Institute about his newest book, A Better Choice: Healthcare Solutions for America, and alternatives to Obamacare.
Recently published on Health Affairs, Dr. John Goodman reviews Steven Brill’s latest book, America’s Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, And The Fight To Fix Our Broken Healthcare System.
Dr. John Goodman and Heartland Institute Senior Fellow Peter Ferrara will join the scheduled lineup of speakers at FreedomFest, convening this week in Las Vegas.
No matter how the Supreme Court rules on the legality of the subsidies in 34 states, there are other problems with the law that will require the president and the Congress to act. Among these are a mandate to buy a product whose cost is likely to grow twice as fast as your income.
A new book by Goodman Institute Senior Fellow Peter Ferrara argues that individual responsibility and the marketplace can solve problems much better than government transfer programs.
After five years of internal wrangling and bickering and inaction, it seems as though Republicans in Congress are inching closer to doing what most people had thought was impossible: a sensible, workable alternative to the Affordable Care Act.
The Supreme Court will soon rule on whether federal tax subsidies for health insurance are legal in 37 states where state governments are not running their own exchanges.