What Happens If There Is No Employer Mandate for Obamacare?
A recent Urban Institute report provides the “news” that Obamacare’s employer mandate has negative labor market effects, particularly for low-income Americans. Even think tanks that support Obamacare...
View Article12 Days of Obamacare Surprises: The Independent Payment Advisory Board
Not all surprises are good. When it comes to Obamacare, the original projections are turning into unfortunately different realities. For the next three days, Heritage is going to highlight one of the...
View Article12 Days of Obamacare Surprises: Deficit Reduction?
Not all surprises are good. When it comes to Obamacare, the original projections are turning into unfortunately different realities. For the next two days, Heritage is going to highlight one of the...
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Obamacare and the Medicaid Expansion: How Does Your State Fare?
The Medicaid expansion is touted by proponents of Obamacare as a “no-brainer.” While it is true that some states may see projected savings, it is erroneous to claim that this experience applies to...
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Blame Income Inequality?
Glow Images/Newscom Scott Winship’s recent piece in National Affairs, “Overstating the Costs of Inequality,” elevates the national debate over the role that income inequality plays in economic mobility...
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Information Missing from Studies on the “Benefits” of State Medicaid Expansion
Newscom Advocates of the Obamacare Medicaid expansion have produced a number of studies in various states that project significant economic benefits if states adopt the expansion. However, most of...
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This Just In: Obamacare Distorts Markets
Newscom A working paper recently published by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) evaluated the effect of a large disenrollment in the Medicaid population in Tennessee. The results of this...
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You Won’t Believe How Many Working Hours Obamacare Is Killing
JESSICA RINALDI/Reuters/Newscom Today, the Congressional Budget Office updated an estimate on the reductions of employment due to Obamacare. Previously, the CBO had projected that Obamacare would lead...
View ArticleMedicaid Expansion Magic
Recently, the White House’s Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) released a report urging states to expand Medicaid. However, the claims in the report should be approached with caution. On the economic...
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The Real Story on How Much Obamacare Increased Coverage
We now have the Medicaid and private-market health insurance enrollment data for the second quarter of 2014 needed to complete the picture of how Obamacare’s rollout affected coverage. What we’ve...
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How Lawmakers Could Reduce Health Insurance Costs for Young Adults By 44%
How should Congress respond when the Supreme Court hands down its decision in King v. Burwell? At issue in the case is the Obama administration’s regulatory interpretation of the statute governing...
View ArticleMore Honest Accounting Shows That Repealing Obamacare Is Good for the Economy
The fiscal year 2016 budget resolution passed by Congress in May requires the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation to include the macroeconomic feedback effects of changes in...
View ArticleThe Key Fact the Media Missed When Reporting on Obamacare Medicaid Expansion
States that accepted Obamacare expansions have had Medicaid enrollment increase 18 percent, and total Medicaid spending grow 17.7 percent, a recent report from Kaiser Family Foundation has shown....
View ArticleWhy Obamacare Premiums Are Climbing All Over US
On the third year of the Affordable Care Act exchanges, it is becoming more apparent that the promises of cost-saving and premium reduction may be reserved only for people who are able to capture the...
View Article3 Ways Obamacare’s Insurance Regulations Could Cost You
The price tag for the Affordable Care Act includes not only the additional tax dollars spent on expanding Medicaid and providing new subsidies for exchange coverage, but also the costs imposed, in the...
View ArticleWhat the CBO Score Really Means for the GOP Health Care Bill
Last week, the Congressional Budget Office released a score of the Republican leadership’s answer to Obamacare, the American Health Care Act. This budgetary analysis projects that the GOP bill would...
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New Analysis: Obamacare Regulations Drove Up Premium Costs by Up to 68%
Until recently, the House was scheduled to vote on the American Health Care Act, the GOP leadership’s proposal to repeal and replace parts of Obamacare. That vote has been called off. While the...
View ArticleKansas Almost Voted to Expand Medicaid. What Other States Should Learn From...
To expand Medicaid or to not expand Medicaid? That’s still the question facing lawmakers in Kansas and 18 other states. Though the Kansas Legislature voted for expansion last week, Gov. Sam Brownback...
View ArticleKey Takeaways From CBO Score of the Republican Health Care Bill
The Congressional Budget Office updated its score of the House-passed American Health Care Act this week, prior to its being sent over to the Senate. This budgetary analysis projects that if passed...
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What the CBO Score Means for the Senate Health Care Bill
The Congressional Budget Office released its score on Monday of the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017. The top-line score is very similar to the American Health Care Act that was passed earlier in...
View ArticleHow the CBO Can Begin to Earn Back the Public’s Confidence
With the ongoing debate over health care reform, the Congressional Budget Office has drawn increased attention from across the political spectrum. in particular, many have begun to voice frustrations...
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1% of Counties Home to Half of COVID-19 Cases, Over Half of Deaths
As Heritage Foundation researchers have demonstrated throughout the pandemic, the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S. has been extremely concentrated in a small number of states—and among a small number of...
View ArticleWhat Do We Know About Status of Pandemic? Here’s Some Data to Put It in...
As states reopen across the country, it’s important to understand both where the COVID-19 pandemic has spread and where it is progressing or receding. To further that effort, my colleagues and I at...
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Two-Thirds of COVID-19 Deaths in US Occurred in 10 States
As Heritage Foundation researchers have demonstrated throughout the pandemic, the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S. has been heavily concentrated in a small number of states—and among a small number of...
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63% of US Counties Still Have 5 or Fewer COVID-19 Deaths
As Heritage Foundation researchers have demonstrated throughout the coronavirus pandemic, the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S. has been heavily concentrated in a small number of states—and among a small...
View ArticleCOVID-19 Cases, Deaths Remain Concentrated: Heritage’s Tracker—and New...
As Heritage Foundation researchers have demonstrated throughout the pandemic, the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S. has been heavily concentrated in a small number of states—and among a small number of...
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Just 1% of US Counties Have Had Nearly Half of All COVID-19 Deaths
As Heritage Foundation researchers have demonstrated throughout the coronavirus pandemic, the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S. has been heavily concentrated in a small number of states—and among a small...
View Article10 Counties With Most COVID-19 Deaths Account for 22% of Fatalities but 11%...
As Heritage Foundation researchers have demonstrated throughout the pandemic, the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S. has been heavily concentrated in a small number of states—and among a small number of...
View Article10 Counties With 21% of COVID-19 Deaths Have Just 11% of the Population
As Heritage Foundation researchers have demonstrated throughout the pandemic, the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S. has been heavily concentrated in a small number of states—and among a small number of...
View ArticleHow Biden’s Massive Government Spending Package Could Hurt Social Security
With trillions of dollars in new government spending aimed at children, families, and green energy, there hasn’t been much mention of how the Build Back Better bill—which was passed by the House of...
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