Anyone remotely acquainted with the laws of economics could have predicted this:
Health plans in at least four states have announced they’re dropping children’s coverage just days ahead of new rules created by the healthcare reform law.
And, as it happens, many did predict it:
Health plans and state insurance commissioners in July raised concerns that the new […]
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HEALTH INSURERS STOP OFFERING PLANS THAT COVER CHILDREN
OBAMACARE CAUSES PREDICTED INCREASES IN HEALTH INSURANCE PREMIUMS
A while back, I wrote a piece for the American Spectator in which I pointed out that health insurance premiums go up every time the government (state or federal) imposes benefit mandates.
This is not news to economically literate observers—a government entity requires an insurance carrier to provide new benefits in all of its policies and the carrier must raise premiums to cover the […]
WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THE AHA?!
Apparently, the American Hospital Association has learned nothing from the failure of the AMA’s quisling strategy. The organization that should be defending hospitals against bureaucratic intrusion has endorsed Donald Berwick, who promises to be the most radical and intrusive CMS head ever:
On Monday, 10 leading hospital groups representing the bulk of America’s hospitals, including the American Hospital Association, the Catholic Health Association of the […]
OBAMACARE REGS RELEASED AND EVEN THE NYT VIEWS THEM WITH A JAUNDICED EYE
Yesterday, the rules governing health insurance in the brave new world of Obamacare were released, and even the cheerleaders at the NYT view them with a jaundiced eye:
In some respects, the rules appear to fall short of the sweeping commitments President Obama made while trying to reassure the public in the fight over health legislation.
Sweeping […]
ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER OCARE LIE EXPOSED
During the Obamacare debate, the President’s most frequently repeated promise was that we would be able to keep our health insurance plans if we liked them. Philip Klein provides an exact quote from Obama’s AMA speech:
If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take […]
OBAMACARE TO KICK A MILLION LOW-INCOME WORKERS OFF THEIR HEALTH PLANS
Remember when the President promised that “reform” would not force workers off health plans with which they were satisfied? Well, we have yet more evidence that this was just another of Obama’s trademark lies:
Part of the health care overhaul due to kick in this September could strip more than 1 million people of their insurance coverage, violating a key […]
SEBELIUS TO INSURERS: FORGET THE LAW, I MAKE THE RULES NOW
If you’re still confused about who now runs the U.S. health care system, this should clarify things. Health insurers have been reading the recently-passed Obamacare legislation in an attempt to divine what it actually requires them to do.
And it turns out that the Obamacare bill doesn’t actually require them to sell insurance to children with pre-exiting conditions. But the […]
AETNA CEO: HEALTH PREMIUMS ARE GOING UP
A couple of days ago I highlighted the President’s oft-repeated promise that Obamacare would reduce annual health insurance premiums by $2,500 for the average family.
For anyone out there who actually believed that BS, I recommend this interview with Aetna’s CEO, Ron Williams. When asked if insurance premiums will go up, he provided this unequivocal response:
The answer is yes.
And […]
OBAMA PROPOSES NEW BUREAUCRACY TO IMPOSE PRICE CONTROLS ON INSURANCE
As part of the health reform plan his administration has finally cobbled together after a year in office, the President proposes price controls for the health insurance industry.
President Obama will propose on Monday giving the federal government new power to block excessive rate increases by health insurance companies.
This will be carried out by a new health […]
VIDEO: OBAMA’S CADILLAC TAX WHOPPER
The widespread indignation over the President’s broken C-SPAN promise, though entirely justified, has distracted our attention from a far more hypocritical and expensive whopper. During the 2008 campaign, he denounced John McCain for proposing a tax on health benefits, but now he’s ready to sign a “reform” bill that imposes just such a tax. In […]