ACA: Affordable Care Act

Union boss calls for ObamaCare repeal

By Paul Kersey
09/16/2013
Before ObamaCare became law, many labor unions – including the Laborers’ International Union of North America, or LiUNA – supported it. But over the last several months, labor unions have become more and more alarmed over the actual effects of the law. Now Terry Sullivan, General President of LiUNA, has gone further than any other union leader...

TAGS: ACA: Affordable Care Act, LIUNA: Laborers' International Union of North America

Medicaid expansion won’t reduce unnecessary ER visits

By Jonathan Ingram
05/21/2013
Proponents of ObamaCare’s Medicaid expansion insist that the expansion is necessary to keep people out of emergency rooms for preventable conditions such as hypertension, asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The only problem? Medicaid patients are more likely than the uninsured to use emergency rooms, especially for preventable conditions. In 2010, medical researchers at the...

TAGS: ACA: Affordable Care Act, ER: emergency room, Medicaid

Doctors turning away Medicaid patients

By Jonathan Ingram
10/12/2012
Illinois knows first-hand how well-intentioned Medicaid expansions bust budgets and worsen care for the very people Medicaid was meant to protect. Ballooning enrollment has forced the state to turn to low reimbursement rates and long payment delays to make ends meet. It’s no surprise that more and more doctors are being forced to turn away...

TAGS: ACA: Affordable Care Act, health insurance, Medicaid