"Between rate increases and the severe decline in competition as insurers make their exits, policy holders will be left scrambling this fall to determine whether they can cut back elsewhere to afford the growing costs of health insurance. If not, they'll be forced to swallow the bitter pill of paying the tax penalty imposed by ObamaCare's individual mandate on those who lack coverage."

ObamaCare's Death Spiral Has Begun

Will the last one out of ObamaCare please turn off the lights? That's a question that health insurers and individual Americans both may want to...

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"President Obama promised us change. And change things have – especially our skyrocketing health insurance premiums. ... We need an approach to health care that actually drives costs down rather than the most egregious anti-business provisions of the ACA, which are causing health insurance premiums to rise to unsustainable levels. One such provision is the Health Insurance Tax."

Rep. Tom Newell: What pro-business means

An outright repeal of the Affordable Care Act is the only way to make health insurance affordable again.

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Teachers and state employees are better off this year because of a simple change to their health insurance. Two crazy things: 1) Just adding another choice of care providers is going to save millions of dollars, shared by workers and taxpayers; 2) Hospitals like OU Medical Center oppose giving people more health care choices!

The Trent England Show

Dr. Keith Smith with Surgery Center of Oklahoma talks about a program helping teachers and state employees save on medical expenses, and why the nation's problems with health care are not the result of the failure of the free market, but the absence of it. Plus, what to look for during the first presidential debate. Listen to today's podcast below or on iTunes at http://apple.co/2ay5nky.

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Surgery Center of Oklahoma

The phrase 'population health management' sounds benign enough, but it is very scary, particularly for anyone with an underlying medical problem.

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"The Obama administration has only itself to blame for the ObamaCare failures—first for jamming this bill through Congress despite warnings that the structure of the bill was an economic disaster, and then for exacerbating the breakdown through its regulatory dictates. The ACA was sold on the pretense that we could have a private, competitive market...."

Obama Sabotages ObamaCare

The ACA and the administration's whack-a-mole regulations are responsible for double-digit premium increases and for the exodus of insurers from selling individual policies in the ObamaCare exchanges.

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This is actually happening in Oklahoma, as documented by KFOR-TV. State workers and teachers are being allowed more health care choices. The result is that they save money (and probably get better care), and taxpayers save a lot of money, too. This is what competition does. It exerts a force on providers to be more transparent, to prove their quality, and to find ways to lower their costs in order to lower their prices in order to compete. It's common sense. It is exactly the opposite of Obamaca

FREE surgery for Oklahoma teachers, state workers

OKLAHOMA CITY — This year has been tough for state employees and teachers. Two revenue failures at the state capitol spelled out fiscal hardship...

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"Ohio's experience: At least four insurers sold Obamacare policies in each of Ohio's 88 counties for 2016, Taylor said. But in 2017, '19 counties will have just one insurer selling exchange products and 28 counties will have just two.' "'This is not the competition and choice that the country was promised in 2010, to say nothing of the rate increase that Ohio has seen since the implementation of the ACA,' she said. "Since the start of Obamacare, average premiums for individuals buying on Ohio's

Republicans want change in Obamacare: Rates rising, insurers leaving, they say

A Senate hearing Thursday was dominated by Republican senators and Obamacare critics, but it offered a preview of themes to come.

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"As ObamaCare’s troubles mount, I’ve heard my patients and my peers in healthcare ask: How could the law’s authors not have seen this coming? "For my part, I think a different question needs to be asked: What if they did?"

A doctor asks: Was ObamaCare designed to fail?

Every day, it seems like there are a dozen new headlines about the crisis facing ObamaCare. Premiums are rising faster than ever. Meanwhile, health...

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"Obamacare’s boosters are loath to admit that there might be something wrong with the structure of a law that they have celebrated as a glorious success from the day it passed. Instead, they will now argue that Republicans are sabotaging it by declining to double down on its subsidies."

Obamacare Stumbles On

Obamacare regulations make health insurance more expensive and keep insurers from conducting their business on a rational basis.

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"It looks like 2017 could be Obamacare's worst year yet." http://ow.ly/hk0o100k01P

Clinton's Stealthy Single-Payer Gambit

Scott Gottlieb writes that Hillary Clinton may try to implement single-payer health care in the U.S.—without congressional approval.

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