Wyoming Rejects Medicaid’s Bad Medicine
With just two weeks remaining in the legislative session, the forces of socialized medicine were defeated, at least for now. After losing decisively in the Wyoming Senate and finding no traction in the...
View ArticleUncompensated Care Calamity
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. After the Wyoming legislature overwhelmingly rejected Medicaid expansion, its advocates returned to the drawing board to design another half-baked...
View ArticleObamacare’s Crisis and Opportunity
In March, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in King v. Burwell, a case that could decide the fate of Obamacare in Wyoming and around the country. The case centers on whether the federal...
View ArticleNo Need To Panic Over King v. Burwell
Ever since David King sued the federal government for illegally subsidizing health insurance payments on federal exchanges, governors in states with federal exchanges have scrambled to make contingency...
View ArticleApril Fools! Medicaid’s Promises are a Joke
On the day before April Fool’s Day, Armstrong v. Exceptional Child Center buried any illusion that Medicaid Expansion will improve access to health care. In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court...
View ArticleThe Birth (And Possible Death) of the Employer Mandate
Ever since Congress passed Obamacare in 2010, each April 15, the dreaded tax return filing day, brings ever more complexity to our federal tax code. This year’s complexity is the employer mandate, the...
View ArticleIs Medicaid Expansion Still Voluntary?
Throughout the debate to expand Medicaid during the 2015 Legislative Session, opponents repeatedly claimed that the federal government couldn’t be trusted to keep its promise to cover 90 percent of...
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Medicaid Expansion Is An Empty Promise
When progressives make the case for Medicaid Expansion, without fail they remind their listeners that the federal government has pledged to cover 90 percent of the cost of expansion. But a report from...
View ArticleObamacare Exchanges are Bleeding States Dry
In four weeks, the Supreme Court will rule on King v. Burwell. A ruling in favor of the plaintiffs invalidates federal insurance subsidies for the 36 states without a state exchange and frees them from...
View ArticleDirect Primary Care’s Promise
Progressives constantly frame the debate over healthcare reform as a false choice: should healthcare be financed through insurance companies or the government? Both options leave patients at the mercy...
View ArticleSupreme Court Decision Sets Aside Rule of Law
The Supreme Court today upheld the authority of the IRS to pay subsidies on the federal insurance exchange under the Affordable Care Act, despite the law’s clear language that subsidies are available...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court Upholds Obamacare in Wyoming
After months of anticipation, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Obama Administration in King v. Burwell and upheld the IRS’s authority to issue insurance subsidies on the federal insurance...
View ArticleKing v. Burwell Sets Obamacare on Path to Destruction
Following the Supreme Court’s creative reading of Obamacare in its King v. Burwell decision, politicians rejoiced, including those in Wyoming. Governor Matt Mead said in a Press Release: “This decision...
View ArticleWyoming Welcomes Out-of-State Doctors
Governor Mead is by no stretch of the imagination a visionary government reformer. However, he took a big step towards expanding healthcare access in Wyoming by signing the Interstate Medical Licensure...
View ArticleDisinfecting Healthcare Prices with Sunlight
When we walk into a hospital, we have access to a cornucopia of different tests, procedures, and specialists. What we will hardly ever see is how much all of this costs. When insurers pay most of the...
View ArticleHealthcare is a Dangerous Thing to Waste
Contrary to the claim of Obamacare’s supporters, patients have too much access to healthcare. When insurers cover most of our bills, we’re encouraged to take every test and procedure our doctors...
View ArticleThe Killing Fields of Socialized Healthcare
The Department of Veterans Affairs is the perfect example of socialized healthcare. The federal government owns all the hospitals, employs all the staff, and leaves patients to languish and sometimes...
View ArticleTestimony: Direct Primary Care-Insurance Exemption
Testimony of Charlie Katebi, Healthcare Policy Analyst, Wyoming Liberty Group Before the Labor, Health, and Social Services Committee August 24, 2015 Direct Primary Care-Insurance Exemption...
View ArticleWyLiberty Testifies in Favor of Direct Primary Care
Lovell, WY- The Wyoming Liberty Group testified in favor of Direct Primary Care before the Joint Labor, Health, and Social Services Interim Committee this week, an innovative healthcare payment plan...
View ArticleDirect Primary Care: Wyoming’s Opportunity for Affordable Healthcare
In a promising moment of bipartisan agreement, members of Wyoming’s Joint Labor, Health and Social Services Committee began drafting legislation that will allow patients and physicians to contract...
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