Health Care
Senate Republicans Offer a Bill to Preserve & Expand ObamaCare
by Michael F. Cannon, CATO Institute Yesterday, I posted “Five Questions I Will Use to Evaluate the Phantom Senate Health Care Bill.” The phantom bill took corporeal form today when Senate Republicans released the text of the “Better Care Reconciliation Act.” So how...
Whatever You Call Federal Healthcare, It’s Not Insurance
By Robert Higgs. Reprinted from the Independent Institute. The House of Representatives has just passed a statute it represents as “repealing and replacing Obamacare.” This legislation, now awaiting what promises to be major challenges in gaining the Senate’s...
The House of Representatives Endorses Obamacare
Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives crafted a partisan compromise bill that endorsed and reinforced the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. This was done notwithstanding claims to the contrary by President Donald Trump and the House Republican leadership, who...
Obamacare “Waivers” Aren’t the Same as “Repeal.” Not Even Close
by Michael F. Cannon, CATO Institute The most remarkable thing about Rep. Tom MacArthur’s (R-NJ) amendment to the House leadership’s American Health Care Act is how little the conservative House Freedom Caucus got in exchange for supporting an ObamaCare-lite bill they...