October 8, 2012
I have a column today at National Review Online about how Romney’s health care plan will help people with pre-existing conditions find insurance. Under current law, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) ensures that workers can easily move from one employer plan to another without fear that their...
October 1, 2012
I have a column up at National Review Online on how J. D. Kleinke is mistaken about there being a “conservative case for Obamacare.” Does the 2010 law move us closer to an effectively functioning marketplace, as Kleinke claims? Or is it a significant and possibly irreversible step toward establishing federal-government...
September 10, 2012
I have a column up at National Review Online about the dishonest attacks over Medicare on the Romney-Ryan campaign by the Obama campaign and its apologists. To begin with, those attacking Ryan have resorted to silly name-calling (“VoucherCare,” “CouponCare”) in an attempt to discredit the idea of...
September 10, 2012
Tom Miller and I have a column in AEI’s The American on why Obamacare is the wrong way to cover pre-existing conditions. The starting point for addressing the problem of pre-existing conditions is a proper perspective on its size. The claim that tens of millions of Americans are at risk of losing coverage defies common sense....
August 30, 2012
I have a column in the latest issue of National Review (payment required to view online) on how the Romney-Ryan campaign can offer Americans a compelling alternative to Obama’s health care plan. It has also helped the Romney campaign tremendously that Ryan is carrying much of the load. He knows these issues cold, because he is a...
August 30, 2012
I have a column up at National Review Online responding to the criticisms of Paul Ryan’s nomination acceptance speech made by some of his liberal detractors. Ryan’s critics are beside themselves that the Romney campaign has effectively pinned $716 billion in Medicare cuts on the Obama administration. Two arguments are made to...
August 22, 2012
Last Friday I contributed to a debate on the Ryan Medicare plan at the U.S. News & World Report “Debate Club.” There are two basic choices for slowing the pace of rising costs in Medicare. The first option—the one embraced by the Obama administration—is to rely on the federal government to impose price...
August 15, 2012
I have a new article at National Review Online on how the Romney campaign can and should go on the offensive against Obama for his cuts to Medicare. The selection of Ryan has also been a revealing moment for the mainstream media. In these first days after the announcement, the media have largely played along with the Democratic story...
August 14, 2012
My colleague Yuval Levin and I have a column in The Weekly Standard about how a recent study of Medicare reform in the Journal of American Medical Association distorts its own findings in an attempt to discredit premium support proposals like the Wyden-Ryan plan: For starters, the Wyden-Ryan plan would apply only to entrants into the...
August 3, 2012
I have a new issue brief at the Heritage Foundation on the CBO’s updated cost estimate for Obamacare after the recent Supreme Court decision, and what CBO’s assessment leaves out. CBO now projects that Obamacare’s Medicare and Medicaid cuts will reduce federal spending by over $700 billion over the coming decade. (Most...