According to the most recent Gallup survey, almost one-quarter of Americans believe that the Affordable Care Act, or ACA, has directly harmed them or their family. But that is only part of the story. A scant 14 percent believe that the law has helped them. These results might have important implications for bolstering political support...

Perhaps there is good reason that Illinoisans don’t place much confidence and trust in their elected officials. A nonbinding resolution that would have called for oversight of federal ObamaCare Navigator funds being spent by the state couldn’t muster enough support to make it out of committee this month. State Rep. Darlene Senger’s resolution, House Resolution...

Rather than push for true Medicaid reform that might ensure patient access to high quality care and protect taxpayer dollars, Gov. Pat Quinn is about to sign legislation that will further prop up this failing system. As evidence of just how dysfunctional the system is, Auditor General William Holland reported that the state paid $12 million for dead...

There are some in Illinois who continue to beat the drum for establishing a state-funded health insurance exchange as part of the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as ObamaCare. But mounting evidence from around the country now confirms that Illinois lawmakers were wise when they didn’t dive in to adopt a state-funded exchange. Fourteen states...

Finding out who is actually covered under ObamaCare just became more difficult. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, or HHS, has announced that it will no longer be regularly reporting on the law’s progress. Not only does this announcement mean that it will be virtually impossible to obtain information on the law’s progress...

President Barack Obama is quick to paint an underdog picture when it comes to his fight to push through the Affordable Care Act. He has claimed that: “We didn’t make a hard sell. We didn’t have billions of dollars to spend on commercials like our critics did.” But the federal government directed almost $155 million...

In an April 17 press conference on the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as ObamaCare, President Barack Obama called the debate over his signature legislative achievement “settled” and “over.” But according to a recent Politico poll, almost half of those surveyed indicated that they want the law repealed, and more than one-third want the law...

On Friday, the federal government released more than 400 pages of health-care regulations. Buried deep within these pages are new laws that allow for bailouts of the insurers participating in the ObamaCare exchanges – should they lose money in the program. The Affordable Care Act, or ACA, includes provisions to pay insurers for their financial...

According to a recent Gallup survey, Illinois residents have the least trust in their own state government compared to every other state in the nation. That is why Illinois lawmakers should make stewardship of taxpayer dollars a top priority. When revelations of wasteful spending or outright fraud come to light, they only serve ti further...

Experts from both sides of the aisle are now calling on the Obama administration to eliminate the employer mandate from the president’s signature health-insurance law. A briefing paper released by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a liberal-leaning foundation that previously supported former president Bill Clinton’s health-care plan and is now a major supporter of ObamaCare,...