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The Affordable Care Act (ACA) faces its latest challenge in court today. Twenty state attorneys general are bringing a suit against the federal government, asking a north Texas judge to halt the enforcement of the law beginning Jan. 1st of 2019.

Alyssia Finley explains the perverse consequences of Medicaid expansion‘s higher federal payments for single working-age adults in Medicaid expansion compared to traditional recipients like children in low-income families and people with disabilities. What seems to have happened is this: Recall that for the pre-ObamaCare Medicaid populations—those disabled and sick…

Employer-provided health insurance shields workers from the cost of care and the cost of insurance, distorting the market for health care in two ways. Large premium increases also take money that could have gone to wages. In spite of these harms, most medium-sized and large employers provided insurance to their…

“Half of the people who sign up for Obamacare (ACA) get a flurry of medical care, then drop out before a year is over,” Stanford economist John Cochrane writes in summary on a new working paper. “They can always sign up again if they need to. People who…

Could opioids actually have a positive effect on work? In a new working paper, “U.S. Employment and Opioids: Is There a Connection?” respected health economist Janet Currie and others find, “[A]lthough they are addictive and dangerous, opioids may allow some women to work who would otherwise leave the labor…

Doug Badger, Marie Fishpaw, and Michael Needham warn at National Review Online that congressional Republicans seem poised to take the wrong action in addressing the flawed Affordable Care Act. Since late last year, GOP leaders have been planning to pump tens of billions of dollars’ worth of new…

Ali Meyer of the Washington Free Beacon dives into the latest numbers surrounding health insurance in America. After four years of Affordable Care Act implementation, the percentage of adults with no health care insurance has hit 12.2 percent in the last quarter of 2017, according to data from…

Robert King and Kimberly Leonard of the Washington Examiner ponder the future of Obamacare. The first open enrollment for Obamacare starts Nov. 1 without its architect and chief advocate in the White House, raising questions about how it will fare under a new administration that views repeal…