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March 27, 2013

Health Savings Accounts Will Survive ObamaCare -- At Least For Now

It appears that Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) will slip under the Affordable Care Act’s threshold for qualified coverage—although just barely. And given the fact that HSAs, and similar high deductible health insurance options, are about the only type of health coverage bending down the health care cost curve, they may even thrive.

March 22, 2013

Why Health Care Spending Will Explode Under ObamaCare

On the eve of ObamaCare’s third anniversary one thing is for sure: there have been a lot of surprises in the last three years — most of them bad. And the White House and Democrats are about to get their next big surprise when health care spending explodes.

March 14, 2013

Guest worker program key to immigration reform

Developing a viable guest worker program should be the first item on the immigration reform agenda, not the last.

March 7, 2013

Ending White House Tours Instead Of Ending Medicare And Medicaid Fraud

I don’t know how much money President Obama thinks it saves by canceling White House tours, but we do have several estimates of how much Medicare and Medicaid fraud cost.  Typical estimates put the figure in the $60 billion a year range for each program.

February 27, 2013

Bad Medicaid Program Gets Worse Under ObamaCare

Health insurance for the poor doesn't have to be poor insurance. And yet that's exactly what Medicaid is. Obama refused to try new and innovative ways to cover the low-income populations. Maybe the opt-out states can.

February 20, 2013

It's Not Just The Minimum Wage, It's Also The Health Insurance Mandate

The combined impact of a minimum wage hike and ObamaCare's health coverage mandate  spell disaster for low-income jobs and workers.

February 13, 2013

Putting the Truth-o-Meter On Obama's State of the Union Energy Claims

Did President Obama somehow become the most pro-energy president in decades?  You could be forgiven if that was your take-away from his comments on energy policy in his State of the Union speech. But applying the Truth-o-Meter to several of his claims reveals a very different administration than the one on display during Obama’s speech.

February 11, 2013

The President's Energy Policy Hypocrisy

President Obama can rightfully be accused of many things -- but not a rigid adherence to consistency. As he inaccurately rails against the oil and natural gas industry's "unfair" tax breaks, he's doling out billions to that industry's competitors.

January 30, 2013

The Most Ominous Sign Yet Health Insurance Premiums Will Explode

Millions of Americans will soon discover that health coverage was never so expensive as when Obama decided to make it affordable.

January 28, 2013

In Technology Policy, Doing Less Means Getting More

In the midst of one of the worst economic downturns in history, the Internet economy is one of the few areas where investment in research, infrastructure, and facilities, and consumer spending on products and services, continues at a strong pace.

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