Hobby Lobby Reminds Obama He Can’t Just Interpret the Law How He Likes

By Grace-Marie Turner June 30, 2014

The Supreme Court today rang a victory bell for religious freedom as it ruled 5–4 that “HHS’s contraceptive mandate substantially burdens the exercise of religion” of three closely held companies ...

Obamacare’s Latest Broken Promise: It’s Raising Taxes on the Middle Class

By Grace-Marie Turner & Tyler Hartsfield May 8, 2014

When the president said in his first inaugural address that middle-income Americans “will not see your taxes increased a single dime,” most still believed in his supreme powers to solve ...

Vermont Is Waking Up from Its Single-Payer Dream to a Taxpayer Nightmare

By Tyler Hartsfield & Grace-Marie Turner April 14, 2014

The citizens of Vermont apparently believe that Obamacare doesn’t go far enough toward government-controlled health care, so the Green Mountain State decided in 2011 to create its own single-payer health-care ...

House Creates Escape Hatch from Obamacare

By Grace-Marie Turner April 14, 2014

The House of Representatives successfully included a valuable escape hatch from Obamacare in the recent “doc fix” legislation, but members are getting blow-back from critics who say the provision fixes ...

How Can Democrats Run on Obamacare?

By Grace-Marie Turner March 17, 2014

Democratic strategist Bob Shrum has some questionable advice for his party’s candidates facing the hurricane-force headwinds of Obamacare in the November elections: In his Daily Beast column, he tells candidates ...

House Tees Up Health Votes

By Grace-Marie Turner March 10, 2014

The House of Representatives plans to vote on several health reform bills this week, and two deserve particular attention. First, religious liberty is once again in the forefront with a bill ...

One More Delay Closer to Obamacare’s Demise

By Grace-Marie Turner February 11, 2014

The Obama administration’s announcement about the employer-mandate delay pushes one wave of bad news past the 2014 elections. It may be just a coincidence that the announcement is being made now, after the ...

Obamacare Website Gets the Year Wrong

By Grace-Marie Turner January 7, 2014

Ohio resident Sharon Rasberg was dutifully trying to sign up for Obamacare health coverage on the HealthCare.gov website and found it is misleading enrollees by a full year about the ...

Politics & Policy

Ten Obamacare Predictions for 2014

By Grace-Marie Turner January 6, 2014

To kick off 2014, Kathleen Sebelius is reportedly papering the country with op-eds about the wonders of the “Affordable” Care Act. But her PR campaign aside, things will continue to ...

The WH Is About to Hold a Fire Sale on Obamacare

By Grace-Marie Turner December 20, 2013

Six Democratic senators have sent a letter to Kathleen Sebelius asking her to expand the definition of who is able to purchase catastrophic health insurance plans due to “hardship” so ...