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Misreading the Obamacare tea leaves
Obamacare's impact on New York premiums foretells a disaster, not 'success.'
Study: More Medicaid eligibility = fewer workers
Public health care subsidies crowd out private insurance, reduce job-seeking
Study: More Medicaid eligibility = fewer workers
Government health care subsidies crowd out private insurance and reduce job-seeking.
If you've lost James Hoffa...
In the run-up to the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, then-House speaker Nancy Pelosi famously said that “we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.”_x000D_ _x000D_ Congress did, of course, pass the bill. President Obama signed it into law on March 23, 2010. And, as Pelosi promised, we are indeed finding out what’s in it._x000D_ _x000D_ Then again, even before the bill was passed, “what’s in it” — or at least, the most important elements of “what’s in it” — was already painfully obvious to those who opposed the bill or warned that it constituted disastrous health-care policy. While many of the dirty details had not yet come to light, it was clear that the bill increased intrusion by the federal government into the health-care market, with the predictable consequences including new taxes on businesses, higher premiums for individuals and further strains on federal and state budgets._x000D_