Josh Archambault

In 2023, state legislative progress on reforming telehealth laws stalled, with a few exceptions.

Insured Americans have been getting ripped off for years.

South Carolina has had government permission slips needed to start or expand a healthcare business. The state just repealed almost all of them- how?

Massachusetts is considering expanding exchange health insurance subsidies up to 500% FPL ($150,000 for a family of four). Here are eight reasons that would be a bad idea.

Many patients want to see any doctor they would like regardless of where they are located, but state laws often don't allow this option over telehealth. When Florida and Idaho allowed it, did it result in a spike of complaints about out-of-state doctors?

The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services released a report touting the national uninsured rate reached an all-time low of 8% with only 26.4 million Americans still lacking coverage.

Since the end of 2020, prices at the pump have nearly doubled across America. Yet even more tragically, the cost of getting to the doctor’s office has also doubled. States need to reinstate pandemic era rules that allow doctors to freely offer interstate telehealth as part of the solution.

Some major hospitals and insurers are trying to hide behind state laws to prevent price transparency required under new federal regulations and law.

There is plenty of room for debate on the structure of health care insurance tax credits, their generosity, who they should be available to, and under what conditions someone might take them. But not referencing them at all when discussing potential Medicaid coverage “losses” is simply misleading.

Why should the exact same treatment for pneumonia cost $5,000 in one building and $124,000 in another? Why should patients pay so much more, simply based on where they park their cars? How can policymakers reverse the tide? A promising new reform called Right to Shop is showing the way.

Maine Gov. Paul LePage’s recent welfare reforms have led to more employment, higher wages, and less dependency. The results were impressive. Within a year, these able-bodied adults saw their incomes rise by an average of 114%.

By Patrick Ishmael & Josh Archambault - The U.S. Supreme Court prohibited Congress and the Obama administration from holding medicaid funding hostage, yet that has not stopped HHS from using Medicaid waivers as sticks of blackmail rather than carrots of consensus. The appetite for cooperative federalism has already dampened and would be dampened considerably more if states can only pray that the federal government doesn’t alter deals any further.

The Obama administration has worked for years to lure states into accepting Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion under the false promise of “flexibility.” The latest fight with Florida over Low Income Pool (LIP) funding should disabuse any state leaders of that false notion.

One of the biggest myths pushed in statehouses across the country is that Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion will be an engine of economic growth. But the truth is that expanding Medicaid to able-bodied adults will discourage work, create massive new welfare cliffs and ultimately shrink the economy, not grow it. A new report by the Foundation for Government Accountability outlines how Obamacare expansion could affect the labor force.

Last Monday, Indiana Governor Mike Pence unveiled his so-called “conservative” case for ObamaCare’s Medicaid expansion at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). Pence’s plan, dubbed the “Healthy Indiana Plan 2.0” or “HIP 2.0,” expands Medicaid to ObamaCare levels with so-called “POWER Accounts” that are funded by taxpayers and used by expansion enrollees to pay for care. The media exalted the Pence announcement and characterized it as the latest red state to cave to ObamaCare. Indeed, some pr…

Massachusetts is struggling under ObamaCare. In the state that “inspired” the Affordable Care Act (ACA), with almost universal coverage and a functional exchange, most would assume the transition to the federal law would be largely cosmetic. Yet many BayState insiders have been surprised by the number of brick walls the state has run into during early implementation and are privately expressing deep concerns about the road ahead. Massachusetts is now home to the nation’s WORST-performing exchange. It’s time the rest of the country learned the story.

Democrats in red states have started to push the argument that if their state had just set up a state-based exchange under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), then premiums wouldn’t be so high. However, a quick review of premium data derived from a recent American Action Forum study should put that argument to rest for good. Whether an exchange is state-based or federally run makes little difference to the end result of premiums – the Federal government ultimately retains veto power over all decisions and no state is immune from the regulatory tsunami that is emerging from Washington.

In the grand scheme of ObamaCare, the first day of open enrollment today is pure symbolism and nothing else, however the early signs are not good. Social media is full of examples of bumps and glitches. However, if someone stopped to learn the real history of why Massachusetts enrollment was relatively smooth, we would realize we are just seeing the tip of the iceberg of the problems that may be ahead.

Last week Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings revealed that the Obama Administration is outsourcing a sizable portion of enrollment and outreach to eHealth, the parent company of eHealthInsurance.com, for the federally-facilitated exchange. While the foundation for such a deal was put in place back in March of 2012 in the final health insurance exchange rules, the deal with the nation’s biggest private exchange only serves to highlight the inability of the federal government to stand up such a massive project on its own. Yet the eHealth deal is only the tip of the iceberg for the level of implementation that has been farmed out to private industry. The trail is long and runs from HHS all the way down to states setting up state-based exchanges. In fact, it leaves any reasonable person to wonder why the ACA didn’t just allow subsidies in private exchanges to increase coverage. Instead public exchanges are shoveling bucket loads of taxpayer money to private companies to deal with the deluge of A

Jon Stewart has done a few different segments on healthcare over the last few years, and in the process he has repeatedly demonstrated his limited understanding of the issue (to be fair, he has shown moments of clarity, as illustrated during an unaired segment with HHS Sec. Sebelius last year). However, the most recent dreary example of his nescience popped up Monday night. After opening the show by blasting the IRS for its targeted harassment of conservative groups, he ends the first segment with the recent discovery that the DOJ illegally accessed AP phone records. He reacts to this incompetency by giving the censors a workout. Returning from the break, he leads with a segment entitled “The Daily Show’s Bi-Annual Competency Round-up” to try to return some faith in the federal government back to his viewers. Only one problem-- he mirrors the batting habits of both Dave Kingman and Tommie Agee, who played for Stewart’s beloved Mets, by swinging for the fences but delivering another strikeout performa