It appears one of the surprise losers during the implementation of the Affordable Care Act maybe some of the labor unions that most strongly supported the law. From the Hill: Many UFCW members have what are known as multi-employer or Taft-Hartley plans. According to the administration’s analysis of the Affordable Care Act, the law does [...]

The bad design of the employer mandate in the Affordable Care Act has led some businesses to look at cutting part-time employee’s work to just under the 30 hour threshold, but that is  not the only loophole business could exploit. Because the new law does not apply the same standards to large businesses and self-insured [...]

There is growing concern that a problematic implementation of the Affordable Care Act will hurt Democrats in 2014. In response, some on the left, like Jonathan Cohn, have pointed to Medicare Part D as an example why such concerns are overblown. They argue while the implementation of the drug benefit program was rocky, it was [...]

Getting a lot of attention today is a new study about Oregon’s Medicaid program. Basically several years ago Oregon wanted to greatly expand the program but didn’t have enough money to cover everyone they wanted. As a result they held a lottery. This created a perfect natural experiment on the effect of Medicaid coverage. The [...]

During a rare press conference President Obama defended the Affordable Care Act by saying “in a country as wealthy as ours nobody should go bankrupt if they get sick.” The problem is the Obamacare will not even come close to eliminating medical bankruptcy. Even under the law, people who buy insurance on the new exchange [...]

Support for the Affordable Care Act has dropped to its lowest level in years, according the latest Kaiser Family Foundation tracking poll. The poll found only 35 percent have a favorable opinion of the law, while 40 percent have an unfavorable opinion. This is the lowest level of support since 2011. From Kaiser: At least [...]

That Congress is looking for an exemption from the Affordable Care Act requirement that they and their staff will have to use the new exchanges is all about money. Basically the entire concern is that because of the way the law was drafted, Congress may no longer be able to cover some of the costs [...]

What I find most ironic about President Obama’s budget is that in trying to find “common ground”, he became the caricature Republicans created about him. Throughout most of Obama’s first term Republicans attacked him based on what were two false premises. The first was that Obama raised taxes on the middle class. Republicans would sometimes [...]

With Obamacare set to go fully into effect in less than a year, the administration is finally publicly talking about how ACA will create higher premiums for certain groups of people. From the Wall Street Journal: “These folks will be moving into a really fully insured product for the first time, and so there may [...]

This weekend it will have been three years since the Affordable Care Act was signed into law. Despite some optimistic claims that its popularity would soar after its passage, public support for the law remains weak. The latest Kaiser Family Foundation tracking poll found 37 percent of Americans support the law while 40 percent oppose [...]