Health Care Cost Rising At Slowest Rate Since 1961

The revised third quarter economic data contained some good news for President Obama and the Democrats. Thanks to Obamacare healthcare costs have risen at their slowest rate since 1961.

From The White House:

Prices of health care services have risen just 0.7 percent over the past four quarters, extending the recent period of exceptionally slow health care price inflation, while expanding coverage has driven faster growth in aggregate utilization of health care services. Prior to 2015, an increase in health care services prices as low as the 0.7 percent increase over the most recent four quarters had not been seen since 1961.

Obamacare: Not A Job-Killer

Ken O’Brien

Opponents to the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, argue that it will kill jobs. They reason that forcing employers to provide insurance for their employees will raise their costs, and that they’ll cover those costs by cutting wages and other compensation, and ultimately by shedding jobs. But is that true?

The nonpartisan Urban Institute decided to find out. It did so by looking at what has happened in Massachusetts, whose health reform law, passed in 2006, is broadly similar to the Affordable Care Act. It found no evidence whatever that health care reform, and mandated coverage, killed jobs: 

Romney’s Latest Flip Flop Flip?

Ken O’Brien

While running against Rick Santorum in Michigan, Mitt Romney made the following remarks:

Then today, while campaigning in Ohio he was interviewed on the Ohio News Network and asked about the Blunt Rubio amendment now pending in Congress that would allow any employer to opt out of any form of health insurance coverage for reasons of religious conviction or personal moral belief.