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IPI's Merrill Matthews appears on Fox News Channel's Special Report discussing ObamaCare's unprecedented expansion of Medicaid in 2014 and the new chaos that is the U.S. health care system.

The Clintons are trying to create the impression that Hillary has the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination sewn up. A more realistic analysis would recognize that she has a lot of baggage in a general election that will stress image, competency and honesty. Hillary is challenged on all three.

There's turmoil among health insurers as they try to provide Obamacare-qualified coverage that has become at best a moving target. But they deserve every bit of the confusion, uncertainty and potential financial losses they get.

Fox News reporter Jim Angle says those who sign up for private insurance on the health care exchanges may have a nasty surprise.

As thousands enroll for coverage beginning Jan. 1, analysts are warning that the plans are likely to give them access to fewer doctors and hospitals. So much so, they warn, that the system could begin to resemble Medicaid, the health care program for low-income Americans.

Although technology is merely a tool that can be used for either good or evil, in the wake of the NSA's invasion into our private lives, the time is now when society must decide if it wants expanded freedom or expansive government control.

To the editor: IPI Resident Scholar Dr. Merrill Matthews is right on with his criticism of Greenpeace’s ridiculous Santa Claus video.

Obama's policies have been a disaster for low-income and low-skilled workers, which is why their unemployment rate is so high.  And now, in the name of reducing income inequality, he would make millions of Americans even poorer.

For the first time in decades, the sequester actually reduced federal discretionary spending, rather than just slowing the rate of growth. That was a huge achievement and is almost certainly one of the primary reasons why the economy is picking up steam again. If the Ryan-Murray agreement passes, the sequester is dead; there won’t be any resurrection.

Doctors participating in Oklahoma's Medicaid plan — and all other states' Medicaid plans — face another problem, as pointed out by Dr. Merrill Matthews: Doctors who accept Medicaid patients could face a 24 percent cut in reimbursements beginning Jan. 1 — all thanks to Obamacare.