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December 2013

December 03, 2013

HealthCare.gov is now mostly working–will you sign up?

HealthCare.gov is now working 90% of the time, according to officials, though glitches sometimes come...

November 2013

November 29, 2013

Obamacare for small businesses delayed a year

Most attention in the Obamacare rollout has been on the individual mandate to buy insurance...

November 27, 2013

Supremes will rule on Obamacare abortifacient mandate

The Supreme Court has announced that it will settle the question of whether owners of...

November 18, 2013

Obamacare descends into chaos

The deadline for signing up for Obamacare is December 15, if you need the insurance...

November 15, 2013

President delays part of Obamacare

What Republicans were vilified for trying to do with the shut-down, President Obama did of...

November 14, 2013

More lost their insurance than signed up for it

Obamacare train wreck update: First of all, the efforts to fix Healthcare.gov will not meet...

November 12, 2013

78% of uninsured say they won’t sign up for Obamacare

The most serious aspect of the Obamacare trainwreck, if it holds up: According to a...

November 07, 2013

October 2013

October 30, 2013

Millions of health insurance cancellations

Millions of Americans already have individual health insurance plans. They chose their plans based on...

October 28, 2013

What the crises in health care and higher education have in common

Patrick J. Deneen writes about the similarities between the current crises in health care and...

October 25, 2013

Central planning vs. complex systems

The problems with HealthCare.gov and the Obamacare rollout go beyond the technical glitches, says Michael...

October 24, 2013

Behind the HealthCare.gov fiasco

We are learning that the problems with HealthCare.gov, the website that is the portal to...

October 23, 2013

ObamaCare and the end of nonprofit hospitals?

Nonprofit hospitals are defined as those that devote at least 3% (or in some states...

October 14, 2013

States fare differently under Obamacare

More quirks in Obamacare: The same policy from the same insurer with the same coverage...

October 09, 2013

Electronic cigarettes

We Americans tend to get suspicious of people enjoying themselves too much, especially if it...

October 07, 2013

The Obamacare rollout debacle

Obamacare got off to an inauspicious start as the website that people were supposed to...

October 01, 2013

Check out the Obamacare insurance exchange

Today the Obamacare insurance exchanges go live. Everyone without health insurance must buy some, under...

September 2013

September 26, 2013

Abandoning the mentally ill

Before Charles Krauthammer became an influential conservative pundit, he was a medical doctor; specifically, a...

September 24, 2013

How about delaying Obamacare?

Kathleen Parker says that we should at least delay the implementation of Obamacare (the major...

September 23, 2013

The Republican alternative to Obamacare

Conservatives in Congress put forward their proposed alternative to Obamacare. It basically expands health savings...

September 20, 2013

Supreme Court to consider Morning After pill mandate

The Supreme Court is considering whether or not to hear a case involving a Christian...

September 19, 2013

Defund Obamacare or shut down the government

Republicans in Congress say they will agree to stop the impending shutdown of the federal...

September 18, 2013

Obamacare and confidentiality

One of the features of Obamacare is to require electronic medical records, which will supposedly...

September 06, 2013

So how do contraceptives work?

Pro-lifers are told not to worry about the morning after pill, as mandated by Obamacare. ...

August 2013

August 23, 2013

Sexual orientation change vs. gender change

New Jersey has passed a law forbidding counseling or therapy that tries to change a...

August 12, 2013

Obamacare a step towards single-payer system

Critics of Obamacare have said that it is just a first step towards a single-payer...

July 2013

July 30, 2013

Split decision on contraception mandate

Two different federal appeals courts have issued opposite rulings on whether Obamacare can force company...

July 29, 2013

Breakthrough in implanting false memories

Scientists have successfully implanted false memories into mice. The researches are excited at prospect of...

July 03, 2013

Key Obamacare provisions delayed for a year

Under Obamacare, businesses that employ more than 50 people will have to provide them health...

July 01, 2013

New rules for contraception mandate

Religious organizations have objected to the Obamacare requirement that the health insurance they give their...