Is There a 1984 in Our Future? A Super Bowl Reflection
What was the greatest Super Bowl commercial of all time? With Super Sunday just around corner, we will cite the...
Pre-K in Kansas City Likely Won’t Deliver on Its Promises
In a recent post, I pointed out that the pre-K program being presented to Kansas City voters is significantly different...
HHS Secretary Talks Up Short-Term Medical Insurance Plans
Earlier this year I talked about a proposal in the Missouri legislature that I thought was a great idea: to...
Not Bronze, or Silver, or Gold, or Platinum-Just Affordable
Paying crippling premiums for health insurance? There may be a solution. On August 1, the departments of Health and Human...
Chart: 2017 Obamacare Premiums in Your County
Earlier this week the Department of Health and Human Services released next year's Obamacare insurance exchange prices. You can find...
Kansas City Obamacare Insurance Premiums Expected to See Double-Digit Hike
Earlier today I wrote about how government-backed insurance cooperatives around the country have begun to fail. The reason? Dollars and...
Health Care Price Transparency Report: Missouri Gets an “F”
Last year the Show-Me Institute published a report that explored some of the reforms Missouri needed not only to make Medicaid better,...
Are Work Requirements and Premiums On the Horizon for Medicaid’s Able-Bodied?
Two years ago, I wrote about a variety of ways Missouri could reform its Medicaid program. From health savings accounts...
Hospital Price Transparency Bill A Bold And Necessary Reform
In the coming days, the Show-Me Institute will release a policy brief about what Missouri can do to improve access,...
HHS Report Confirms: Insurance Rates In Missouri Exchange To Rocket Upward
At 12:01 a.m. yesterday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a report on what some of...
Of Course: Health Law That Will Ship Jobs Overseas to Be Overseen by… An Overseas Company
Reported on the Fourth of July, no less. As it turns out, the British are coming… WASHINGTON — Racing to...
On The Medicaid Proposal Coursing Through The House
Last week, the Missouri House Committee on Government Oversight and Accountability voted 7-2 to pass House Bill 700, a proposal...
Early Childhood Education Funding
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial board recently wrote a piece in favor of spending more money on early childhood education....
Some ‘Windfall’: Would It Actually Cost Missouri Nearly $800 Million To Expand Medicaid?
Since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion could not be forced on the states,...
Health Care Law Violates Sound Public Policy In 10 Ways
It was the kind of spectacle that policy wonks savor – three days of complex and abstruse arguments before the...
Kudos to Missouri Senate for Blocking Health Exchange
Earlier this year, the Missouri Senate approved a measure blocking Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon’s ability to create a health insurance...
Government Grants Waivers to the Favored
I highlighted previously how the federal government is arbitrarily exempting favored groups from the health care regulation. To date, the...
Picking Winners and Losers Using Health Care Regulation
Typically, when I discuss how government picks winners and losers in the marketplace, it’s in the context of targeted tax...
Neither Health Nor Wealth
Health economist John Goodman, who has been referred to as the father of the health savings account (HSA), published an...
Law to Expand Health Coverage Limits Health Coverage
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passed last March requires insurers to spend at least 80 to 85 percent...
- 1
- 2
