How Obamacare denied one family’s daughter the cancer care she needed.
Did a Fauci advisor intentionally delete or destroy records relating to the origins of COVID-19?
Kings and Queens theory: as income goes up, fertility goes down.
High-heat neighborhoods can be 5 to 20 degrees hotter than surrounding neighborhoods. And a lot of other facts I bet you don’t know,
Trump’s “Opportunity Zones” (created by the 2017 tax reform bill) are producing disappointing results. Enterprise Zones were an idea imported from Margaret Thatcher’s Britain by Heritage Foundation scholar Stuart Butler. The original idea was to create mini-Hong Kongs in otherwise dilapidated areas. What happened was no deregulation, only tax cuts and subsidies. I predicted from day one that if all you do is offer tax cuts, the experiment will turn into a special interest scam and Hong Kong will never emerge from the rubble. It appears I was right.
The news clip about Obamacare denying cancer treatments for a young woman is a very thorny issue. The Washington Times is not famous for being fair or balanced, so I had to read the piece several times. But these points remain:
1. The drugs for pediatric cancer cases are wildly expensive. Any insurer who takes clients from such an oncologist is buying million-dollar claims. (in the case of an Iowa boy, over $1 million a month.)
2. If we want insurance companies to take all applicants, then we must subsidize the losses that will inevitably occur. That is normally done through reinsurance, involving complex federal transfers behind the scenes.
3. In the legislative history of Obamacare, these subsidies were reduced and sometimes cancelled. This allowed individual legislators like Rubio to seem like they were standing up against big gummint and big insurers, of course never explaining the issue.
4. Medicare Part D and Medicare Advantage have some huge federal reinsurance subsidies, much larger in dollars than Obamacare, and no one on the right ever challenges them.