Robert Moffit, Ph.D., is a senior research fellow in the Center for Health and Welfare Policy at The Heritage Foundation.
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With the enactment of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which repealed the tax penalty for the individual health insurance mandate, many Americans… Read More
Health CareCommentary
The White House’s Office of Management and Budget just released its annual budget proposal—and on health policy, it’s sending massively mixed messages. The Trump administration’s… Read More
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With his Twitter account, President Donald Trump jumped into the national health care debate this week, tweeting: The Democrats are pushing for Universal HealthCare while… Read More
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Arnold Steinberg works in the business of politics and fights in the battle of ideas. He is a campaign consultant, and “Whiplash! From JFK to… Read More
Health CareCommentary
In 2018, millions of middle-class Americans, particularly those unsubsidized enrollees in the states’ individual health insurance markets, are rightfully anxious about the future of their… Read More
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The prospect that Congress might zero-out Obamacare’s individual mandate penalty in the pending tax bill has sent Obamacare defenders into flights of pessimistic rhetoric, up… Read More
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Congressional repeal of Obamacare’s individual insurance mandate penalty is not tantamount to pressing the button on the doomsday machine. Critics of the Senate tax bill… Read More
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Obamacare’s individual mandate to buy federally standardized health insurance is a tax, courtesy of the Supreme Court’s elaborate exercise in creative writing: National Federation of… Read More
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Forget good intentions. Remember bad results. The Washington Post recently published a heart-wrenching story of two Virginia families caught up with the consequences of a… Read More
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The late, great Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman said it best: “There’s no such thing as a free lunch.” Friedman’s pithy proverb reminds us that… Read More
