Health Care
RIP Justice Antonin Scalia
Your dissenting opinions will be remembered. Thank you for pointing out that, since Obamacare has been implemented in March 2010, its “words no longer have meaning”…and that because it has been…
Michael F. Cannon
American businessperson
Health Care
What Health Reform Could Look Like In The Future
View in your browser. Health policy doesn’t exactly rank high on the summer reading bucket list. Let’s be real — for most people, it’s not all that fitting for the…
Health Care
Market-Oriented Health Reformers Divided Over Obamacare ‘Repeal and Replace’ Plans
The ‘Repeal and Replace’ plans released by Republican presidential contenders strive towards universal catastrophic coverage by distributing refundable tax-credits to individuals without employer-sponsored coverage. With this age-adjusted lump sum, beneficiaries…
Liberty
Would Enjoy a Fireplace
Today, I’m reading Replacing Obamacare, a compilation of a variety of pieces published by Cato scholars through the years. It is nice, easy reading because of its high degree of…
Liberty
Commentary on King v. Burwell
Take your pick, they’re all good: George Will Jonathan Adler Elizabeth Price Foley Josh Blackman Yuval Levin Ilya Shapiro Roger Pilon Michael Cannon Oren Kerr But if you only have…
Health Care
Cato’s Cannon offers Congress clues about King v. Burwell consequences
Michael Cannon of the Cato Institute shares with National Review Onine readers his testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. He discusses potential implications of the…
Health Care
How King v Burwell Made Its Way To The Supreme Court
Tomorrow morning, Obamacare will be in the hot seat again. The plaintiffs of King v Burwell argue that the IRS has overstepped its legal bounds by administering tax-credits to federally…
Health Care
Mark Your Calendars: Obamacare Heads Back To The Supreme Court
View in your browser. To kick off the New Year, the Cato Institute hosted its 9th annual health policy conference, where I and other attendees were heavily briefed on the…
Liberty
Videos killed the ACA star
View in your browser. Last year, Jonathan Gruber was "one of the most respected economists in the world," in the words of U.S. Senate majority leader Harry Reid on the…
Health Care
‘Essentially a typo,’ R.I.P.
The initial self-serving lie — “The judges’ ruling rests on what is essentially a typo in the lengthy health care law” — about Halbig has been put to rest. Right,…
Health Care
More evidence supporting Obamacare subsidy lawsuit plaintiffs
Michael Cannon’s Forbes post this morning shows a video of Jonathan Gruber, a key architect of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), saying that only consumers in state…
Health Care
Obamacare Subsidies: Congressional Intent vs Rule of Law
View in your browser. On Tuesday, two federal appeals court panels released different rulings as to whether Obamacare subsidies can be distributed to policyholders who have purchased health insurance through federal…