Max Brantley’s Medicare Shuffle: A Vivisection
Barely contained rage? Check. Self-righteous moralism? Check. Blazing hypocrisy? Check. Time for a closer look at Arkansas Times blogger Max Brantley's attempt to demagogue Medicare reform.
View ArticleArkansas Moves Towards Obamacare, While Other States Back Away
Late last month, the Arkansas Legislative Council decided to accept $7.6 million in federal funding—and all the conditions that come with it—to implement a state Obamacare exchange. State legislators’...
View ArticleArkansas Roundup, August 24
Here’s a look at some policy & political happenin’s from around Arkansas this week: Pass the brownies: Medical marijuana has been approved for voter consideration on the November ballot. Roby...
View ArticleAAI’s Newsletters Are Still Free
AAI’s weekly newsletter went out today. Here’s a look at what you missed if you’re not already subscribed: America’s Vanishing Economic Freedom: The 2012 Economic Freedom of the World report was...
View ArticleUnsolved Mysteries of the Legislature: How Republicans Learned to Stop...
Shortly after my interview with Rep. Mark Biviano last week, he called me back to remind me that, on December 21 of last year, the Arkansas Legislative Council had voted to accept Obamacare exchange...
View ArticleWaPo Fact Checker: Dem Claims About Cotton Are “Phony As A Three-Dollar Bill”
Senate Majority PAC — a political action committee run by the former employees of Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Al Gore, John Kerry, and the Clintons — has released a new ad that slams...
View ArticleIn the War on Spending, Congress Surrenders
Is there any hope to restrain spending in Washington? Probably not, and the recent congressional vote on legislation “fixing” Medicare’s Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) is the latest example. The...
View ArticleNew Poll: It’s Over for Arkansas Obamacare
The only way the approval numbers could get lower is if pollsters removed members of the legislature and their mothers from their polling sample. The post New Poll: It’s Over for Arkansas Obamacare...
View ArticleBreaking: Beebe Admin ‘Increasingly Concerned’ That Obamacare Critics Don’t...
A new report reveals troubling facts about how Gov. Beebe’s staff is spending its time. The post Breaking: Beebe Admin ‘Increasingly Concerned’ That Obamacare Critics Don’t Like Obamacare Expansion...
View ArticleSick Child Denied Treatment As State Spends Billions On Able-Bodied Adults
We'll spend over a billion dollars on insurance for able-bodied adults this year -- but no money for sick kids? The post Sick Child Denied Treatment As State Spends Billions On Able-Bodied Adults...
View ArticleArkansas Has A New Chance To Fight Obamacare. Will We Take It?
The Halbig decision presents a huge opportunity for states to protect their residents and employers from the devastating mandates in Obamacare. Let’s explore. The post Arkansas Has A New Chance To...
View ArticleSigning Off
I can’t tell you the number of times that, over the last two and a half years, I’ve told someone, “I have the best job in the world.” And it’s true: since May of 2012, I’ve sat down at this computer...
View ArticleIf the Feds Like Their Exchange, They Can Keep It
In a classic Christmas film, a wise man once said that enrollment in the jelly of the month club was “the gift that keeps on giving the whole year.” ObamaCare is just the opposite: it’s the “gift” that...
View ArticleArkansas 21st in Reliance on Federal Aid
Arkansas has a slightly below-average reliance on federal aid, according to a recent study by the Tax Foundation. From the Tax Foundation: Though taxes are the most common and recognizable source of...
View ArticleA Magic Obamacare Waiver?
What would you think about a federal waiver that would get rid of many Obamacare state mandates in return for giving that state the freedom to innovate in health care delivery? It would sound too good...
View ArticleNo, A 1332 Waiver Won’t Make Obamacare “Conservative”
The talking point from “private option” Medicaid expansion advocates over the past two years has been that the program would provide Arkansas flexibility in the administration of Medicaid. Instead of...
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A Plan to Improve Health Care?
I think most people would agree that, regardless of where you stand on the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”), the U.S. health care system does not work very well. As I discussed in my previous blog...
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Obamacare is Failing
Why do people say that Obamacare won on Election Day? One reason is that three conservative states expanded Medicaid to conform to what Obamacare initially mandated. Another is that voters replaced...
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