Originally published at Rare The alleged goal of Obamacare was to increase the amount of people who have health insurance. It instead created a problem: While more people are covered (millions after the plans they had were banned), insurance is more expensive overall, and has not correlated with increased access to care. High deductibles (the…
Category: Health Care
Bernie Sanders’ socialized healthcare plan is a utopian joke
Originally published at Rare Bernie Sanders believes that access to healthcare is a right – and he’s willing to blow up any semblance of individual choice you enjoy in this arena (along with the economy) – to pursue this ideological fantasy. You have to give the man credit for one thing – he’s honest about…
ObamaCare is imploding and no one seems to have noticed
Originally published at Rare Remember when grassroots conservatives were fired up about fighting ObamaCare? Despite some repeal battles still being bandied about in Congress, ObamaCare does not seem to be defining the Republican primary in the way that it dominated the discourse during the 2010 tea party sweep of the House and the 2014 GOP…
Government protectionism, not the free market, caused an insane increase in the price of this HIV drug
Originally published at Rare Any time news breaks of a company dramatically increasing its prices, particularly when it appears to have complete ownership of a crucial product such as medicine, predictable cries of “the free market failed” echo throughout the pundit class and spread like wildfire via social media. The trouble with this knee-jerk reaction…
The legal challenges to Obamacare aren’t over
Originally published at Rare When the Supreme Court ruled that Obamacare subsidies could continue to be doled out this summer, President Obama was quick to declare victory. “After multiple challenges to this law before the Supreme Court – the Affordable Care Act is here to stay,” he said. The trouble for the president, however, is that the legal…