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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 ...

There are, it seems to me, two basic perspectives on the right regarding the Medicaid expansion under Obamacare. Last week saw one perspective from Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who understands that it is enormously important to keep from expanding Medicaid, announcing a policy that will shift many in Wisconsin onto the federal ...

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, head of the Republican Governors Association, has called for a meeting of governors with President Obama over the issue of Medicaid. Writing in a January 28th oped in The Washington Post, Jindal made the case that the Medicaid expansion mandated by Obama's health care law would not serve poor Americans ...

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 ...

So why is it that the governors of Alabama, Alaska, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming have all said no to a state-implemented health insurance exchange? Scott Walker’s letter explaining ...

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 ...

Once the United States Supreme Court reminds our constitutional lawyer professor-turned-President of the existence of the Tenth Amendment and the limits of the Commerce Clause, thereby repealing Obamacare, the natural question becomes, what’s next? All of the problems that existed before President Obama, then-Speaker Pelosi, and ...

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 ...

Let’s pause from our normal breakneck pace of waivers and reviews, court challenges and approvals, to take a moment to assess three lessons from the year in health policy. These are by no means the only lessons, or even the most important lessons, but they seem significant to me. The Feds run everything . Regardless of the ...

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 ...

One of the enduring questions asked by and of opponents of President Barack Obama’s health care law is how they plan to go about repealing the matter. The good news, as I see it, is that this is an easier political matter than you might think from the media’s coverage of it. A key answer on the part of Republican presidential ...

In the wake of President Barack Obama’s re-election, I explained the fallout for governors and the states. The chief issues to keep in mind are questions over the implementation of exchanges, the expansion of Medicaid, and the ramifications of continued legal fights against key aspects of the law. But, you may ask, what ...

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 ...