The real hidden tax on increased insurance coverage - Individual mandate - AEI
Friends and foes of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) alike tend to target the relative effectiveness of the (soon-to-be-repealed) individual mandate as the key factor behind relatively higher levels of...
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After the mandate: Republicans need a plan to broaden enrollment in more...
Republicans in Congress and the Trump administration failed to fulfill their commitment to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2017, but they did succeed in repealing the tax penalties...
View ArticleRepublicans need a nudge to lower health care costs - Individual mandate - AEI
Republicans in Congress and the Trump administration repealed the penalties associated with the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate in the tax act that passed in December. Now they need to replace...
View ArticleRestore Americans’ freedom to buy health insurance independent of Obamacare -...
The tax-reform provision repealing the penalty on those who refuse to participate in ObamaCare has freed millions of Americans to escape a system that exploits them. But while Americans can escape...
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There is no one magic fix to american health care - Individual mandate - AEI
Editor’s Note: This interview between April Xiaoyi Xu and Thomas P. Miller originally appeared in The Claremont Journal of Law and Public Policy on April 13, 2018. The original post can be seen here....
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Deregulating the individual market will not lower overall health costs -...
Many Republican policymakers in Congress and some officials in the Trump administration continue to confuse insurance deregulation in the individual market with unleashing market forces in health care....
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Making health insurance enrollment as automatic as possible - Individual...
In December 2017, the Republican Congress, working with the Trump administration, repealed the tax penalties enforcing the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) individual mandate, effective in 2019. Although...
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Latest Obamacare lawsuit looks like another loser - Individual mandate - AEI
A lawsuit against Obamacare may well turn out to be a bigger story in the news than in the courts. When the Donald Trump administration declined to defend the law, and partly endorsed the lawsuit,...
View Article(De)stabilizing the ACA’s individual market: A view from the states -...
The Affordable Care Act (ACA), through the individual health insurance markets, provided coverage for millions of Americans who could not get health insurance coverage through their employer or public...
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New STLDP options: Limited lifeboats, not luxury liners, for Obamacare...
Last week, the Trump administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published its final rule to revise regulations for Short-Term Limited-Duration (STLD) Plans in the non-group, private...
View ArticleTestimony: Examining the Effectiveness of the Individual Mandate under the...
Thank you Chairman Buchanan, Subcommittee Ranking Member Lewis, and Members of the Subcommittee for the opportunity to testify today to examine the effectiveness of the individual mandate under the...
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Don’t panic over the CBO repeal report
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO), at the request of Senate Democrats, recently released a report estimating the effects of a reconciliation bill passed in 2015 but vetoed by President Obama (HR...
View ArticleThe case against the CBO
House Republicans are being criticized from all directions for their health-care bill. On the left and the center-right, the chief criticism concerns how many people would leave the insurance rolls...
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Part I: I’ve seen more
“Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan.” Although that quote often is attributed to the late President John F. Kennedy concerning the 1961 Bay of Pigs fiasco, the better 20th century...
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It’s still mission impossible for the Senate GOP’s health plan
Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell did the seemingly impossible and got the votes he needed to proceed to consideration of the House-passed plan for repealing and replacing the...
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Downsizing the CBO won’t make it easier to pass unpopular legislation
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has been criticized for providing inaccurate and misleading estimates of Republican proposals to repeal and replace Obamacare. Those complaints are par for the...
View ArticleTrump’s cure for Obamacare is worse than the disease
On Twitter, President Donald Trump said he would be “using the power of the pen to give great HealthCare to many people — FAST.” He isn’t bluffing. His White House has been working on a series of...
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Individual mandate repeal is a misguided tax cut, not a tax increase
The tax bill approved by the Senate Finance Committee last week would repeal the tax (often called the “individual mandate”) that the Affordable Care Act imposes on individuals who do not have health...
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Tax reform might tell us whether the individual mandate really works
Few elements of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) inspire as much controversy as the individual mandate—the requirement that all individuals buy health insurance or face a government-imposed penalty....
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Repealing the Obamacare mandate now makes sense
They may not have succeeded in repealing and replacing Obamacare, but Republicans are close to undoing the law’s least popular feature. The Senate has passed a tax bill to abolish Obamacare’s fines on...
View ArticleWill health care’s immediate future look a lot like the recent past? More...
Key Points Government spending on health care and health insurance as a share of total health spending will likely continue to grow. Recent legislation and policy changes have made total health...
View ArticleCan we please stop hyping death and taxes
“Yes, the Senate GOP tax plan would cause ‘thousands’ to die.” So read the headline of a short essay by Lawrence Summers published in the Washington Post on Sunday night. Summers, an eminent economist...
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A muted and mooted Affordable Care Act anniversary: What’s to celebrate?
As we deal with serious COVID-19 concerns, it might not hurt to pause briefly and reflect on the manufactured celebration we otherwise would have heard this month about the increasingly popular...
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Heading Back down the ACA Legal Memories Hole
By Thomas P. Miller Last Thursday, the Supreme Court issued its latest “Get Out of Jail” pass to the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Although the health care law never was in serious jeopardy from a legal...
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