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Merrill Matthews sits down with The Freeman to explain what Obamacare is, isn't, might fix, and might make worse.

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has been telling the country two different stories about the government’s ability to pay Social Security benefits during the debt-ceiling crisis. So which one is true?

If regulators seem confused about how to implement a health care program as vast and sweeping as ObamaCare, maybe it’s because they know how badly they’ve bungled smaller and simpler health care reform efforts—especially a particular drug discount program.

Daz Dillinger said the top-selling but controversial video game “Grand Theft Auto Five” includes his songs and lyrics without permission. Theft of digital music costs recording artists an estimated $12.5 billion annually, according to an IPI study.

A North American energy free-trade zone would lead to energy self-sufficiency much more quickly, while dramatically increasing economic growth for all three countries.

One week into the shutdown and it appears the predictions of an imminent Republican defeat have been greatly exaggerated—and they might even win.

While government shutdowns have never cost the stock market more than a few points (and in most cases the market actually went up), the issue of the federal debt ceiling could have a significantly profound impact on the market. 

Wendy Davis has thrown her hat into the gubernatorial ring. IPI's Tom Giovanetti predicts that the Democratic darling will lose — but Republicans might get bloodied in the battle as well, unless Abbott beats her handily. If Davis loses by anything less than 10 percent, Democrats will be able to spin it as a victory of sorts, Giovanetti says — and they’ll be right.

If he understood his own law, Obama would realize that suspending the mandate has nothing to do with uninsured Americans having access to health insurance.

New Yorkers are supposed to be some of ObamaCare’s few winners — but for how long?Merrill Matthews, a resident scholar at the Institute for Policy Innovation, predicted a “death spiral” in which the rates rise over the next several years, leading healthy people to drop their coverage while “very sick” people “stay in until the very last drop,” forcing rates up even more.