Liberty
Medicaid work requirements need enforcement
Chris Medrano and Brian Blase write for the Federalist about the importance of enforcing Medicaid work requirements. In the Working Families Tax Cut Act — also known as the One…
Brian Blase
Liberty
Key Obamacare provision labeled ‘total failure,’ source of fraud
Brian Blase writes for the Federalist about bad news for former President Barack Obama’s signature achievement. Obamacare is failing. And every day the government shutdown lumbers on, more Americans are…
Liberty
Democrats don’t accept the meaning of ‘temporary’
M.D. Kittle writes for the Federalist about congressional Democrats’ approach to the federal government shutdown. As Milton Friedman warned us more than 40 years ago, “Nothing is so permanent as…
Health Care
Trump’s second term healthcare agenda
The health care vision of the two political parties in America could not be more different. Democrats and those on the left want to see government play a much larger…
Health Care
A Better Economy Could Be Causing Fewer Insured
This week, JLF’s Jordan Roberts published a research brief on the recently released Census Bureau report on health insurance coverage in 2018. Roberts writes: The total number of individuals without…
Research Brief
Health Care
Did President Trump Sabotage Obamacare?
The U.S. Census Bureau recently released its report on health insurance coverage for 2018. The total number of individuals without health insurance increased from 2017 to 2018. Many media pundits…
Health Care
Medicaid expansion and improper eligibility
Former special assistant to President Trump at the National Economic Council, Brian Blase, and University of Kentucky economics professor, Aaron Yelowitz, wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal about…
Liberty
Medicaid Expansion – still a bad idea
Folks interested in facts, know the fiscal costs of Medicaid expansion, are well aware of the human costs of Medicaid expansion and understand that Medicaid reform must be the pre-cursor to…
Health Care
Potential Obamacare bailout
Ali Meyer of the Washington Free Beacon warns of one potential measure to shore up the unsustainable Affordable Care Act. The Obama administration could bail out Obamacare insurers through its…
Health Care
Shocker! Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion costs skyrocket
North Carolina’s decision to avoid the political left’s incessant demand for Medicaid expansion looks better and better every day. The Associated Press delivers more news to foul the punch bowl…
Health Care
Budget Fight Nearly Over
It is yet to be known if Gov. Perdue will veto the budget compromise or pocket it for 10 days so that it passes without her signature. Not counting funds…
Health Care
Reform would halt runaway Medicaid spending in North Carolina
Click here to view and here to listen to Joseph Coletti discussing this Policy Report. RALEIGH — Medicaid spending has increased by nearly 300 percent in North Carolina in just…