Health Care Policy

By Melissa Quinn: Premiums under Obamacare are expected to go up, and the pool of insurers will shrink, with some states offering only one option.

By David Harsanyi: Is there any accountability in politics for being completely wrong? Not for defenders of Obamacare.

By John R. Graham: Consumer-driven health plans reduce health spending one eighth among employer-sponsored group plans run by national health plans.

By Robert Donachie: The Obama administration is admitting that insurance premiums will rise by double-digit percentages in 2017.

By John R. Graham: So, price competition in dentistry is not due to a lack of government controlling demand, but of government having limited the supply of less expensive options.

By Grace-Marie Turner: To give you a sense of the complexity that physicians face, read the description in a Health Affairs blog describing the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System.

By Melissa Quinn: Warren Jones’s premium will increase by 45.8 percent between 2016 and 2017.

By Josh Blackman: As the president’s signature law falls apart, liberals are dusting off their Plan B.

By John R. Graham: One obstacle to generic entry in recent years was a very slow approval process at the Food and Drug Administration.

By Melissa Quinn: Over the past few months, insurers have been submitting rates to state regulators for the 2017 benefit year.

Our side produces so much good information…these are from ObamacareWatch.com: More Than 1 Million in Obamacare to Lose Plans as Insurers Quit Obamacare Was Built to Fail The Future of the ACA’s Exchanges Analysis…

By Jim DeMint: Back in 2010, Obamacare was like the Titanic heading off on her maiden voyage.

By John R. Graham: Right to Try allows a desperately sick patient to take an experimental new medicine before the FDA has approved it.