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We interrupt this broadcast to bring you two news items that could change the shape of the Medicaid expansion debate happening at this very moment in Little Rock. First, you must read this article by Michael Cannon of Cato Institute that reveals: 1. The PPACA is not likely to reduce uncompensated care in 2014. 2. The PPACA won’t reduce the deficit. 3. Hospitals can stop crying poverty. 4. States don’t need to expand Medicaid to protect hospitals. How do we know all of this? … [Read more...]
Today I went down to the luxurious Capitol cafeteria to hear the Cato Institute’s Michael Cannon speak on the current state of Obamacare implementation in Arkansas. What I learned is that we are dangerously close to becoming part of the Obamacare monstrosity -- but there is hope that the beast can be stopped, and that should be every Arkansan's goal. The answer to stopping Obamacare sounds pretty simple, albeit politically tricky: 1. Don’t expand Medicaid & 2. Don’t create health … [Read more...]
What’re you doing tomorrow? If you said anything other than “Going to hear Cato Institute’s Michael Cannon speak about health care policy at the capitol cafeteria,” you’re doing it wrong. Cannon (yeah, that guy who told us about the death panels) is a national expert on the effects of Obamacare and the consequences of health care exchanges. He will be speaking at a luncheon hosted by Americans For Prosperity-Arkansas. Here’s the skinny: WHO: Michael Cannon, Cato … [Read more...]
Obamacare really is the bureaucratic monstrosity that keeps on giving! This week the Cato Institute has released a new video that outlines a new, two-fold problem with Obamacare. Jonathan Adler explains that: 1. With federal exchanges, the federal government cannot offer tax credits and premium assistance to make health care plans offered in the exchanges affordable. 2. Consequently, if the federal government cannot offer tax credits, it doesn’t have a trigger to enforce the employer … [Read more...]
Last week we saw the not-at-all lamented demise of the Arkansas health insurance exchange. Following, we were treated to a spasm of recrimination from various quarters on the Arkansas left, accusing those who opposed the exchange of having doomed the Natural State to a future of grim slavery under the heavy boot-heel of a federally-run exchange. But is that true? Will the feds, in fact, be running the Arkansas health benefits exchange? Not so fast! The short (6 minute) interview at the … [Read more...]
