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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 ...

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 ...

This new report from The Heritage Foundation outlines the incentives for each state to expand or not expand Medicaid . It simply charts the Urban Institute assumptions out over the next decade, illustrating the Medicaid expansion really amounts to an enormous bailout for the state of New York and a raw deal for red states ...

Much of the conversation during this election season has revolved around the word “access,” particularly within the health care space. What you ought to understand by now is that when most liberal politicians say “access,” what they mean is “taxpayer subsidies.” This is not exclusively the terminology of the left, but it is ...

Yesterday, at the Republican National Convention, former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice gave a superb speech covering many important issues. One issue she touched on that regrettably hasn’t been talked about enough this campaign season is education reform. For the United States to have sustained economic prosperity ...

One of the aspects of Obamacare the administration has seen fit to highlight repeatedly is the so-called “slacker mandate,” which allows individuals up to age 26 to remain on their parents’ health insurance plans. Analysis by the Commonwealth Fund has found the mandate to be particularly popular , with millions of young adults ...

The policy centerpiece of House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) budget proposal this year is his Medicare reform. While Ryan’s approach builds on prior efforts, it differs in important ways from his prior legislative solutions, including last year’s Path to Prosperity. Ryan’s modified approach is essentially the same as one ...

Here’s a simple question: How large will Medicaid be under Obamacare? And a simple answer: We have no idea. A new Health Affairs article deals with this problem , describing “major uncertainties” for policy makers in expectations about Medicaid enrollment. We created a simulation model using two nationally representative ...

Some critics claim these clinics sacrifice quality for expediency, and collectively pose a threat to high standards of care offered in a traditional doctor’s office setting. However, this Research & Commentary package demonstrates: Retail health clinics actually help doctors’ offices by decreasing the burden associated with treatment ...

Affordable, convenient health care has become more available to average Americans as a result of the proliferation of so-called "retail clinics." A resurgence of the failed effort to establish "store-front clinics" in the 1980s, retail clinics are growing in number across the nation. These clinics, which offer basic acute care ...