Academic literature has consistently illustrated that Medicaid patients—adults and children—have inferior access to health care, and notably poorer health outcomes, than privately insured patients.

States are already struggling to pay their Medicaid bills. Why put taxpayers on the hook to pay even more?

Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion could lead to large, unrealized future costs to the states.

Deloitte’s 2012 survey of U.S. employers reveals C-suite and HR executives’ opinions about the health care system, Affordable Care Act, and anticipated str

Eight state governors have stated that they will take advantage of the recent Supreme Court ruling, allowing them to opt out of Obamacare’s dramatic expansion of Medicaid. Their actions have been dismissed by liberal columnists as mere partisan posturing. After all, argue the liberals, the federal government is picking up most of the tab, so what’s the problem? Don’t governors have every incentive to fleece the taxpayers of other states? It turns out, however, that this logic is flawed, and that the Medicaid expansion will cause state budgets to explode. Here’s why.

The Supreme Court's ruling on the Affordable Care Act allows states to opt out of the law's Medicaid expansion, leaving each state's decision to participate in the hands of the nation's governors and state leaders.

The Daily Briefing and American Health Line editorial teams round up where each state currently stands on the expansion.

Yesterday was tax day, serving as a special reminder of how big the federal government has become. As Heritage has warned before, Obamacare is on track to makes things a lot worse.

This chart illustrates the new taxes included in the the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and offers a year-by-year rundown of their annual costs.

English: President Barack Obama's signature on the health insurance reform bill at the White House, March 23, 2010. The President signed the bill with 22 different pens. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Note: This is not a political statement - not an endorsement nor a criticism of the law.  This is simply an [...]

 
Would you be surprised to hear corn farmers supporting ethanol subsidies? What if the federal government ordered the states to start subsidizing gym memberships – would you find it a “curious twist” that gyms were pushing the states to set up these subsidy programs faster?

Growth in health-care spending is set to slow for two years before speeding up temporarily if most of the health overhaul takes effect, government projections show.

There’s been a controversy within Republican circles as to whether or not the GOP should strive to preserve popular aspects of Obamacare if the Supreme Court strikes down the law. In particular, Capitol Hill Republicans wonder whether or not the GOP should preserve Obamacare’s “slacker mandate,” which forces insurers to include adult children, up to the age of 26, in family coverage. But a federal mandate may not be necessary. On Sunday, UnitedHealth Group, the nation’s largest publicly-traded health insurer, announced that it would continue to include under-26 coverage in its family plans. Other insurers are likely to follow suit.

The Wall Street Journal reports how a Pfizer CEO and Big Pharma colluded with the White House at the public's expense.

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels writes in The Wall Street Journal that 21 governors representing more than 115 million Americans have written to Kathleen Sebelius asking for more flexibility on health-care reform.

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In The Wall Street Journal, Florida's Attorney General Pam Bondi writes that as new state attorneys general take office in the coming days, we should expect to see an increase in the number of states challenging the health-care law in court.

City mulls stripping workers' health care

Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Director Douglas Elmendorf recently spoke at the University of Southern California about the economic impact of Obamacare.

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Today brings us the latest report from Senators Coburn and Barrasso, the two Republican physicians who've been doggedly following up on all the things we were

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is expected to add up to 16 million more Medicaid enrollees and will significantly expand eligibility for families with incomes up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level. The PPACA requires states to streamline their enrollment process - making it easier for eligible populations to enroll and retain Medicaid coverage.

Most people intuitively know that the worst thing government can do in the middle of the deepest recession in 70 years is enact policies that increase the

Nearly a million workers won't get a consumer protection in the health reform law meant to cap their costs because their employers got exempted.

Mercy Hospital in Scranton is up for sale.

3M confirmed it would eventually stop offering its health-insurance plan to retirees, citing the federal health overhaul as a factor.

Grace-Marie Turner writes on NRO: The Obama administration is refusing to accept the disastrous dynamics it has set into play with its monstrous health-overhaul law. Instead of recognizing the economic reality of what they’ve done, officials are railing at the companies and industries that are responding in perfectly rational ways to the incentive structures they have . . .

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) have made a capricious decision to eliminate certain Medicare Advantage drug plans affecting up to three mill

Insurers nationwide plan to raise premiums on some Americans as a direct result of the health overhaul as soon as next month, complicating Democrats' efforts to trumpet their signature achievement ahead of elections.

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In Connecticut, insurance rate regulators have approved hikes in insurance premiums of up to 20 percent, agreeing with insurers that Obamacare increased their

Any household earning less than $80,000 annually will lose its employer-based benefits and be driven into a newly formed state-based health insurance exchange, says John C. Goodman, president, CEO and Kellye Wright Fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis...

If a little-known provision in the new federal health care bill goes into effect, a local coin dealer said he likely would close his business.

Cross-posted at Liberty Central. Advocates of the president's health care bill made a lot of promises in the run-up to passage of the law. They said health

The Obama administration is again claiming that the new healthcare law will strengthen Medicare, this time by conveniently cutting out the uglier findings of an earlier report.

Except in Nevada, that is. In a July 21 letter to U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Service Kathleen Sebelius, the Senate Majority Leader complains that

The Foundry promotes conservative policies and principles by offering the best in public policy research with the day’s current events. The Foundry is published by The Heritage Foundation.

Part one of a three-part series.

President Obama's tax pledge, which he made as a candidate, couldn't have been any clearer:

The landmark health reform law signed by President Obama will require small businesses to provide health insurance to their employees. This burden will be offset by a tax credit for each employee covered. However, the credit is arbitrarily reduced as firms grow, penalizing employers that hire more workers or increase their salaries. Thus, the credit may discourage firms from hiring more workers or higher-paid workers.

that tax credits in the new healthcare law could negatively impact hiring. that tax credits in the new healthcare law could negatively impact small-business hiring decisions.

As the White House begins to enact the new national health care law, the biggest insurers are promoting plans with lower premiums that allow fewer doctors and hospitals.

Administration officials say the tax argument is a linchpin of their legal case in defense of the health care overhaul and its individual mandate.

Author: Michael D. Tanner, Published: 2010-07-12, Type: White Paper

The new federal health-care law may pose compliance challenges for taxpayers and the Internal Revenue Service, an IRS ombudsman reported Wednesday.

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Nancy Pelosi says ObamaCare will create “400,000 jobs almost immediately.” But: Speaker Pelosi bases her claim on a report by the Center for American

President Obama's overhaul of the health-care system has done little to improve the nation's fiscal outlook, and his pledge to extend an array of tax cuts for the middle class would only make things worse, congressional budget analysts said Wednesday.

America has repealed large health care bills before, and repeal of Obamacare is certainly possible now.