Health Care Policy

By Christopher Jacobs: Do Republicans hope conservatives forgot when Republicans actually put taxpayers ahead of health insurers, rather than trying to shovel them more money?

By Chris Woodward: A new paper finds Medicaid expansion amounts to bad medicine.

By Robert E. Moffit: Congress, backed by powerful special interests in the health care industry, is getting ready to bail out, once again, Obamacare.

By Monica Showalter: When Obamacare enabled Medicaid expansion, it resulted in mismanagement, depriving the most needy and rewarding the able-bodied.

By Doug Badger and Rea Hederman: Washington broke insurance markets. It should let states try to fix them.

By Christopher Jacobs: The hyperventilation over cost-sharing payments sends the wrong message to financial markets.

By Jordan Candler: A new lawsuit highlights tax reform in an attempt to derail the health care law in its entirety.

By Rick Moran: The Democratic Party has shifted even farther leftward since the 2016 election.

By Christopher Jacobs: The plan would put Medicaid under federal control, reinstate the individual mandate, and make middle-class families pay more for insurance.

By Sally Satel: Doctor-prescribed painkillers are not the biggest threat.

By Christopher Jacobs: Now that it has proposed this rule, the administration should take regulatory action on another front.

By Mark J. Perry: Canada’s wait times for medically necessary treatments are longer than they’ve ever been.

By Ted Noel, M.D.: Suppose that the government declared that private jets were free. Everyone would want one.

By Tim Worstall: The answer to monopolistic costs imposed upon consumers is competition.

By Doug Badger, Marie Fishpaw and Mike Needham: Congressional Republicans were elected to repeal Obamacare. They may run this year as the politicians who saved it.