The Heartland Institute

So it turns out the whole Arkansas Medicaid expansion alternative is looking more and more like one big April Fool’s joke, and one in poor taste to boot. The restrictions indicated by the administration’s newly released rule on the subject illustrate the problems. What’s inside it? Unfortunately, a lot of buzzkilling. A ...

James Capretta makes an argument on the Medicaid strategy states ought to use that is worth considering and warns against accepting the Arkansas deal without knowing what’s in it: The GOP governors engaged in these direct negotiations with the White House are playing a loser’s game, and throwing away a historic opportunity ...

When is a compromise not a compromise? When only one side thinks it’s a compromise. The Obama administration said Friday that it will not provide broad exceptions to the contraception mandate in its signature healthcare law. The Health and Human Services Department rejected calls to let any employer opt out of the mandate ...

Welcome to the Consumer Power Report – the final issue of 2012. It’s been a pleasure writing for you this year, and hearing from many of you. You have my sincerest wishes for a Merry Christmas and prosperous New Year! We all know about President Barack Obama’s repeated promise that he would bring health insurance premium ...

This piece by Jonathan Cohn in The New Republic is amazing for a number of reasons. It lays blame for Obamacare’s potential failure at the hands of a few think-tank critics, particularly (and deservedly so) Cato’s Michael Cannon. Clearly worried about the future of the law’s implementation, Cohn says states that respond to ...

Multiple states and other plaintiffs are continuing their lawsuits against President Obama’s administration over his mandate that employers provide coverage for contraception and abortifacients, despite being rebuffed by a federal judge. Seven states, three organizations, and two individuals are continuing their fight against the contraceptive ...

In response to the Obama administration’s federal contraceptive mandate, 43 religious institutions have now filed 12 lawsuits against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, claiming the mandate violates their religious liberties. The mandate, put in place by a provision in President Obama’s health care law, requires ...

When HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the administration would require the coverage of contraceptives and abortifacients as preventive care under President Barack Obama’s health care law, I pointed out there was a simple and logical ramification of this: Institutions would choose to drop coverage rather than abide by the ...

A Catholic university in Ohio is the first institution to announce it will drop health insurance coverage for students rather than accept the demands of President Obama’s administration to pay for abortifacients and contraception services. In response to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’s decision to deem ...

How much could shifting to consumer directed health plans save? A great deal, according to this new study by RAND researchers, published in Health Affairs : Enrollment is increasing in consumer-directed health insurance plans, which feature high deductibles and a personal health care savings account. We project that an increase ...

The controversy of the mandate announced by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius requiring all employers providing insurance to cover the costs of contraception, sterilization, and abortion-inducing drugs has begun to move to the courts. Grace-Marie Turner, president of the Galen Institute, notes ...