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The latest polling on Obamacare is the worst it has ever been, with majorities of Americans saying they expect their family will be worse off under it and majorities saying it would be better to go back to the pre-Obamacare health care system. A Fox News poll found only 26 percent of voters say their health care situation ...

Benjamin Domenech interviews Michael Ramlet of The Morning Consult regarding the latest polling on Obamacare. ...

Amidst all the other scandals capturing Washington’s attention at this moment, the forgotten one is also one of the most obviously egregious: Health & Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’s solicitation of donations from entities she holds enormous power over through the regulatory state. Alana Goodman reports: Health and ...

It’s official: We have another significant delay in the implementation of Obamacare. A few months back, the Obama administration took flak for initial plans to delay part of Obamacare’s small-business exchange. The idea, floated in regulations last month, wouldn’t put off the Small Business Health Options Program, or SHOP ...

In an attempt to find a middle ground between accepting the Medicaid expansion under President Barack Obama’s law and rejecting it, the Arkansas legislature passed a bill with the intent of using Medicaid dollars to allow recipients to purchase a form of private insurance. The proposal relies heavily on two assumptions: that ...

Benjamin Domenech talks to Devon Herrick of the NCPA about plastic surgery and price transparency in health care. ...

In the wake of reports that the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative and libertarian nonprofits for additional scrutiny based on their political views, some in Congress are pushing for restrictions on the agency in advance of its implementation of President Obama’s individual mandate. Republican Congressman Tom Price of ...

We all know the stories about what price transparency can do within the health care marketplace. It’s amazing how, unlike any other industry, the simple act of posting prices online is worthy of a news story. One great example of how health care marketplaces can work, if only they’re allowed to, is within the realm of ...

If President Obama's administration has its way, health care providers will soon be forced into a massive new government coding scheme where they will have to distinguish for filing purposes between whether your injury was caused by walking into a lamppost, having your water skis light on fire, and whether you were struck ...

One talking point about Obamacare that has received little pushback is that whatever you can say about what the law will do to premium costs, or taking away a plan and a doctor you like, it’s going to put you on a better – meaning more comprehensive – insurance plan at the end of the day. Jonathan Cohn probably uses ...

The non-partisan Congressional Research Service has confirmed that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who already has been invested with enormous power under President Obama's health care law, is essentially empowered as the rationer in chief should the Independent Payment Advisory Board fail in its mission. The ...

Benjamin Domenech talks with attorney Andy Schlafly about the latest small business lawsuit against Obamacare. ...

Robert Samuelson has an interesting column on the Oregon Medicaid study and what it means, finding increased costs, increased use of care, but no improved health outcomes. The most overlooked finding is that the uninsured already receive considerable health care. On average, the uninsured had 5.5 office visits annually, used ...

This week, the incredible health policy story was the new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine concerning Oregon’s Medicaid experiment. In 2008, Oregon expanded its Medicaid program, but because the state could not cover everybody, lawmakers opened up a lottery that randomly drew 30,000 names from a waiting ...

Benjamin Domenech discusses the important new Oregon Medicaid study. ...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is listening to his Democratic colleagues, and what he's hearing are loud concerns about the implementation of Obamacare. Reid's answer? We need more money to implement it: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) says he shares colleagues’ concerns that the Affordable Care Act could become ...

From the beginning, Obamacare’s largest expansion of coverage to the uninsured has come not through the form of subsidized insurance in the exchanges – a middle class entitlement – but through the expansion of Medicaid, the health program with outcomes which largely vary between the subpar and the terrible. Liberal supporters ...

This Obamacare thing is not going as well as some had hoped. Democratic senators, at a caucus meeting with White House officials, expressed concerns on Thursday about how the Obama administration was carrying out the health care law they adopted three years ago. Democrats in both houses of Congress said some members of ...

Benjamin Domenech discusses Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus's warning against the coming Obamacare train wreck. ...

Benjamin Domenech speaks with Curtis Dubay from The Heritage Institute about Internet Taxes. ...