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Income And Spending Are Up — Thanks, Obamacare
Personal income rose 0.3 percent in February, the Bureau of Economic Analysis said Friday. Consumer spending rose 0.3 percent too (0.2 percent after adjusting for inflation). That’s fairly healthy...
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Poll Shows Record Obamacare Support, But That Doesn’t Mean Much
An ABC News/Washington Post poll released Monday found that support for the Affordable Care Act hit a record high for the survey: 49 percent. But the result isn’t particularly newsworthy. Why?The ABC...
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Low-Income Adults in States Without Expanded Medicaid Have More Health Problems
The expansion of Medicaid through the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) has been uneven. The country is split down the middle on the issue, with 25 states choosing to broaden coverage and 25 choosing...
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There Isn’t a Secret Majority Supporting Obamacare
Polls show an average of about 52 percent of Americans oppose the Affordable Care Act. But many who oppose the law wish it were more liberal — at least that’s the argument you hear from some analysts....
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Like Bush, Many Republicans Are Moderate on Immigration
The Republican Party has grown more conservative over the past couple of decades. But news commentators sometimes wrongly imply that GOP voters take an extremist position on every issue.As I described...
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Kansas Has Moved on From Kathleen Sebelius
Kathleen Sebelius, who recently resigned as secretary of Health and Human Services, is supposedly weighing a run for Senate in Kansas against the Republican incumbent, Pat Roberts. It would be an...
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A Bad GDP Number, But There’s Some Hope Ahead
Economic growth slowed to a crawl in the first three months of the year. Without an Obamacare-driven boost to health care spending, it would have stalled out completely.U.S. gross domestic product, the...
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Americans’ Faith in Government Shapes How They Feel About Obamacare — Trust Me
Four years after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, Americans are still of two minds about the health care reform law. When pollsters break Obamacare apart, nearly all of the individual pieces are...
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The Divide Between Republican And Democratic Voters On Major Issues
President Obama and GOP congressional leaders will have to work together to pass new laws after Republicans take over the Senate and extend their dominance in the House in two months. But just what can...
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Yes, Some Companies Are Cutting Hours In Response To ‘Obamacare’
On Friday, I posted this chart, showing that nearly all the job growth since the recession ended has been in full-time jobs. Part-time employment is pretty much flat.I wasn’t trying to make a political...
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What Canceling An Insurance Program Meant For Arizona’s Kids
A report released Friday found that 14,000 kids in Arizona lost their insurance when the state canceled its health insurance program for low-income children at the beginning of 2014.Arizona is the only...
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Latino Enrollment Is Critical For Obamacare, So Is It Happening?
This time last year, news coverage of Obamacare was shifting from the broken HealthCare.gov website to the question of whether enough people — and the right people — would sign up to make the insurance...
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Even The Algorithms Think Obamacare’s Survival Is A Tossup
In 2012, the Affordable Care Act survived a full-scale constitutional assault in the U.S. Supreme Court. Now, it faces a potentially devastating surgical strike. Obamacare’s new challenge is scheduled...
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Obamacare’s Chances Of Survival Are Looking Better And Better
UPDATE (June 25, 10:53 a.m.): In March, Supreme Court predictors ruled that Solicitor General Donald Verrilli won the oral argument in King v. Burwell, and the odds that subsidies provided by the...
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IUDs Are More Affordable Than Ever, So Will More Women Get Them?
Six years ago, Karen Clayton, a manager at a hospital in Chicago, thought about getting an IUD. She had had bad reactions to hormonal birth control in the past and had decided to stop using it, but she...
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Doctors Are Partisan On Obamacare (Just Like Everybody Else)
When it comes to health care politics, it looks like doctors and nurses are just as partisan as the rest of us. A survey released Thursday found that as a whole, primary-care providers are slightly...
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The Supreme Court’s Obamacare Decision Is Already Worth $3 Billion For Insurers
The Supreme Court rejected a challenge to Obamacare’s health insurance subsidies in a 6-3 decision Thursday morning. The King v. Burwell decision will make a big difference to the 6.4 million Americans...
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Obamacare As A Political Issue Isn’t Going Away
The Supreme Court “saved” Obamacare on Thursday, upholding tax subsidies for federal health care exchanges. And, indeed, it’s difficult to see how the law could be overturned. But the political debate...
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Despite This Week’s Victories, Obama Has Struggled At The Supreme Court
The Obama administration won three major victories at the Supreme Court this week, with the justices upholding the Affordable Care Act, legalizing same-sex marriage, and preserving a legal tool that...
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33 Million Americans Still Don’t Have Health Insurance
Nearly 9 million people gained insurance last year, a win for “Obamacare” as the president’s signature health care law expanded Medicaid and opened health insurance exchanges. And yet, 33 million...
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