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Why Obamacare Will Fail – huffingtonpost.com

Political discussion aside, The Affordable Care Act (ACA) will fail for business reasons. Whether the ultimate result is the law getting repealed or modified, change is necessary to have a viable and vibrant health insurance industry that drives cost reduction and improved customer service. The fundamental reason the ACA will fail is because it Read More

Obamacare’s co-ops were regulated to death before they were even born – Watchdog.org

It’s been a no good, very bad month for the Affordable Care Act. One of the nation’s top insurance companies has threatened to pull out of the government-run health insurance exchanges, while others are raising rates by double-digits after realizing that people signing up for insurance tend to be older and sicker than originally hoped. Read More

ObamaCare’s Failure Contagion – WSJ

  Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Scott Atlas explains his proposal to fix the nation’s health care system. Photo credit: Getty Images. The collapse of ObamaCare’s co-ops is punishing other insurers, the Wall Street Journal says in an editorial. The majority of ObamaCare’s insurance co-ops—12 of 23—have now folded, and their $1.24 billion in federal loans Read More
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Another Obamacare Failure: $1.23 Billion Taxpayer Funds Sunk in Failed Co-Ops – Washington Free Beacon

.columns start .row end November 9, 2015 5:00 am A total of $1.23 billion in federal taxpayer dollars has now been sunk in 12 of 23 co-ops created under Obamacare that have gone out of business, representing another Obamacare failure, lawmakers say. Co-ops in Arizona and Michigan went out of business last week, adding themselves Read More
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The Coming Great Recession, Brought To You By The Healthcare Cartel | Zero Hedge

Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog, So what happens when an insatiable state-mandated cartel attaches itself to households with declining real incomes? Why the coming Great Recession is brought to you by the Healthcare Cartel is painfully simple: in an era of stagnant household incomes, every additional dollar devoted to rising healthcare insurance, outrageously Read More
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Pope Francis Contradicts Himself on Religious Liberty and Capitalism | Mises Daily

While visiting the White House on his first day in the United States this year, Pope Francis made a strong plea on behalf of religious liberty, which he pointedly directed at President Obama. This came shortly before he made an unscheduled visit with the Little Sisters of the Poor, who are suing the Obama administration over Read More
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Medicare’s Costs and Benefits | Cato Institute

This article appeared on National Review (Online) on November 11, 2015. What’s with all the newfound love for Medicare? Last week, at a rally in New Hampshire, Donald Trump proclaimed, “Medicare works! You get rid of the fraud, waste, and abuse, and it works!” That probably shouldn’t come as a surprise from Trump, who once Read More
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Discover The Many Dangers Of Vaccines and Vaccination

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The Dangers Of Vaccines and Vaccination Vaccination is a medical treatment administered to an otherwise healthy individual. Virtually all other invasive medical interventions occur only once someone has fallen ill. Vaccination, like most medical treatments, can involve some risk. And therefore it should be undertaken only after careful consideration of its risks versus its benefits. Read More
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King v. Burwell Helps Repeal ObamaCare | Cato Institute

Public opposition to ObamaCare has lasted far longer than its authors imagined. Unsubsidized consumers avoid ObamaCare coverage. Twenty states have rejected its Medicaid expansion. Congress wants to repeal it.  President Obama and the Supreme Court have repeatedly amended and expanded it, transforming the statute Congress enacted into an illegitimate law that no Congress ever had the votes to pass, and making Read More
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Drug Shortages, Price Gouging, and Our Broken Health Care System | Mises Institute

The shaming campaign that followed last week’s news of two generic drug prices somersaulting into the stratosphere after being acquired by private companies is not too surprising. The idea that a drug which cost $13.50 one day can cost $750 the next, seemingly on the whim of greedy Wall Street investors and pharma start-ups, is Read More
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The Rise of the Medical Bureaucrat and Centralized Health Care| Mises Institute

In contrast to the expected shortage of tens of thousands of physicians, there appears to be an abundance of health care administrators. Economists and physician-activists at Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) have invoked the below graph and the administrative bloat it shows as reason to promote a single-payer system. Read More