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Links to Commentary and real JournalismNovember 6, 2018

What The Press Isn’t Telling You About The Politics Of Pre-Existing Conditions

By The Editor

By Christopher Jacobs: The left and media assume if you don’t support Obamacare, then you cannot want to protect individuals with pre-existing conditions. False.

Links to Commentary and real JournalismNovember 1, 2018

There is operatively no difference between Republicans and Democrats on pre-existing conditions

By The Editor

By Philip Klein: The battle over coverage for pre-existing conditions has become a central front in the 2018 midterm elections, but however heated their rhetoric and whatever their positions have been in the past,…

Information WarOctober 27, 2018

A Proposed Republican Pledge on Health Care

By The Editor

Newt Gingrich lays out an excellent — and rather detailed pledge — that congressional Republicans should make: The 2018 midterm elections are less than two weeks away, and many polls show there is a…

Links to Commentary and real JournalismOctober 26, 2018

The GOP Is Making Health Care Great Again

By The Editor

By Deroy Murdock: The good news about Republicans and health care may be the midterms’ biggest secret.

Links to Commentary and real JournalismOctober 19, 2018

Obamacare-Inflated Health Costs Are Sucking Away Tax Reform’s Success For Families

By The Editor

By Chip Roy: Despite good economic news, the high costs of health care remain the most pressing and worrisome domestic issue for families and individuals.

Links to Commentary and real JournalismOctober 19, 2018

ObamaCare Failed To Make Health Care Affordable; Here’s A Plan That Will

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An Investor’s Business Daily editorial: A group of free-market health care reformers have developed a reform that would sharply reduce premiums for individuals, wouldn’t cause millions to lose coverage, and would save taxpayers money. Read…

Links to Commentary and real JournalismOctober 16, 2018

Congressional Democrats Want to Take Away Your Doctor, Outlaw Your Private Insurance, and Put Bureaucrats In Charge of Your Healthcare

By The Editor

From President Trump: “We oppose efforts from Democrats to raid Medicare to fund socialism, robbing seniors of their benefits.”

Information WarOctober 15, 2018

What’s Wrong with Government-Run Healthcare?

By The Editor

As I’ve noted often over the years, Republicans and conservatives have had a couple of decades to reach Americans with information about the problems with government-run healthcare and have failed miserably. Here is a…

Links to Commentary and real JournalismOctober 12, 2018

After All These Years, Republicans Still Need a Health Plan

By The Editor

By Brian Mark Weber: Costs are still skyrocketing, Obamacare repeal failed, and the GOP can’t agree on a strategy.

Links to Commentary and real JournalismOctober 11, 2018

Cut Pharmaceutical Costs with a Tried-and-True Approach: The Free Market

By The Editor

By Tom Coburn: Wherever the government interferes with a market, we see a decrease in choice and innovation, and an increase in prices.

Links to Commentary and real JournalismOctober 6, 2018

A Short History of American Medical Insurance

By The Editor

By John Steele Gordon: Adjusted for inflation, per capita medical costs in the United States have risen by a factor of 30 in 90 years.

Links to Commentary and real JournalismOctober 5, 2018

Congress Can Slash the Cost of Health Care Premiums by as Much as a Third. Here’s How.

By The Editor

By Doug Badger: A proposal to repeal Obamacare entitlements and replace them with grants to states would reduce premiums for individual coverage by as much as 32 percent, according to an analysis by the Center…

Links to Commentary and real JournalismOctober 3, 2018

Several States Have Found Ways To Mitigate Obamacare’s Damage To Their Health Insurance Markets

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By Grace-Marie Turner: A few states have found a key to undoing some of Obamacare’s damage to their individual health insurance markets by redirecting some federal funding to help sick people. These states are…

Links to Commentary and real JournalismSeptember 28, 2018

Why Hospital Monopolies Are What’s Wrong With American Health Care

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By Christopher Jacobs: Obamacare’s crony capitalism—allowing hospitals to grow their operations in exchange for political endorsements—continues to contribute to higher premiums.

Links to Commentary and real JournalismSeptember 28, 2018

Why Hospital Monopolies Are What’s Wrong With American Health Care

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By Christopher Jacobs: Obamacare’s crony capitalism—allowing hospitals to grow their operations in exchange for political endorsements—continues to contribute to higher premiums.