The health spending slowdown: Is Obamacare worsening the liquidity trap?
The White House Council of Economic Advisers last week released a long and thorough study on the recent slowdown in the growth of health care spending.Americans have been so worried about runaway...
View ArticleHealth reform: Obamacare and your wallet
MORE than two months after Barack Obama’s health exchanges opened, most are working, up to a point. Shoppers on Healthcare.gov, the federal website for 36 states, can now compare insurance with...
View ArticleHealth and education in Kentucky: Where Obamacare dare not speak its name
UK Only Article: standard article Issue: Invictus Fly Title: Health and education in Kentucky Rubric: Kentuckians can’t stand Barack Obama, but like some of his policies Location: CLAY COUNTY...
View ArticleHealth care in America: Going public, and private
UK Only Article: standard article Issue: Look back with angst Fly Title: Health care in America Rubric: The fuss over Obamacare’s teething troubles is obscuring a bigger story for investors:...
View ArticleHealth reform: Young, fit and uninterested
UK Only Article: standard article Issue: Coming to an office near you Fly Title: Health reform Rubric: This was supposed to be the month that the uninsured got health insurance. Not enough have...
View ArticleObamacare and inequality: A healthy dose of redistribution
THE growing gap between rich and poor is a defining feature of 21st-century America. Barack Obama devoted time to the conundrum of income inequality in his state of the union speech last night, and...
View ArticleObamacare and employment: Grim prognosis
THE Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, was supposed to transform American health insurance. Critics have long feared that it would do much more. Republicans have cast Obamacare as a...
View ArticleObamacare and employment: The return of the supply side
FOR the last five years Republicans have valiantly tried to blame the economy’s problems on supply rather than demand. Excessive government intervention, regulation and uncertainty have raised...
View ArticleMore on Obamacare and employment: Facing up to Obamacare's flaws
"It is wrong for a country as rich as America to have tens of millions of people without health insurance," this newspaper wrote in 2010 in urging Congress to pass Barack Obama's health reform. It...
View ArticleObamacare and the CBO: Take it easy
MY colleague is absolutely right that the new CBO report about the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, is bad for Democrats. That is chiefly because the CBO's estimation that the law will ultimately...
View ArticleObamacare: Down to the wire
THERE are 25 days until Obamacare’s turbulent enrolment comes to an end. If uninsured Americans want health coverage this year, they must sign up by April 1st. Barack Obama and his aides are doing...
View ArticleObamacare: Uphill all the way
UK Only Article: standard article Issue: Rise of the robots Fly Title: Obamacare Rubric: As the deadline for signing up nears, Obamacare looks precarious Location: PHILADELPHIA Main image:...
View ArticleDeadline day for Obamacare: What's the prognosis?
TODAY is the last day to sign up for Obamacare, sort of. Some people will qualify for an extension, but most Americans must have insurance by tomorrow or pay a penalty. As of March 27th more than 6m...
View ArticleObamacare: Will the haters ever stop hating?
LAST week, while watching videos on YouTube, I was repeatedly served with an advertisement in which a mournful woman informed me that unfortunately, Obamacare "just doesn't work." This left me...
View ArticleHealth care in America: The geek guide to insurance
UK Only Article: standard article Issue: Can anyone stop Narendra Modi? Fly Title: Health care in America Rubric: An attempt to change America’s most arcane industry for the better Main image: We...
View ArticlePaying for Medicare: By the numbers
APRIL has been a cheerful month for the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. More than 7m Americans have signed up for private coverage through the law’s exchanges and, by the end of...
View ArticleHealth reform: Medicare, the opera
UK Only Article: standard article Issue: Leviathan of last resort Fly Title: Health reform Rubric: Another election, another nonsensical fight over the elderly Location: NEW YORK Main image:...
View ArticleHealth policy: Better numbers
UK Only Article: standard article Issue: The lure of shadow banking Fly Title: Health policy Rubric: Thanks to Obamacare, more Americans have health coverage Location: NEW YORK THE two parties...
View ArticleThe VA scandal: No, this is not what Obamacare will look like
AMERICA'S biggest experiment in government-run medicine has had a bad week. No, not the Affordable Care Act (ie, Obamacare), but the department of Veterans Affairs (VA). On May 28th the VA’s acting...
View ArticleReforming America: Change of heart
UK Only Article: standard article Issue: How far can Amazon go? Fly Title: Reforming America Rubric: Why America desperately needs an injection of common sense Main image: 20140621_BKD001_0.jpg...
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