Category: Health Care

Neither Snow nor Rain nor Unfunded Liabilities: The Consequences of the Underfunded Postal Retiree Health Benefits

December 6, 2017

Jared Whitley, MBA, and Ike Brannon, PhD Capital Policy Analytics December 2017   Introduction The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) needs to achieve a modicum of financial stability if it is going to perform the services that it is constitutionally empowered to take on. However, these days it is teetering on insolvency: In the last decade … More Neither Snow nor Rain nor Unfunded Liabilities: The Consequences of the Underfunded Postal Retiree Health Benefits

I’ve Saved Thousands of Dollars Waiting to Get on ObamaCare

March 10, 2014

This article originally appeared in the Weekly Standard. Click here to read the full article. By Ike Brannon My wife woke up Saturday with a badly swollen knee. We had no idea what could have caused it—her hot yoga class puts her in poses that put stress on the knee but she didn’t remember the knee hurting … More I’ve Saved Thousands of Dollars Waiting to Get on ObamaCare

After a Month of Trying, I Still Can’t Sign Up for Obamacare

December 26, 2013

This article originally appeared in the Weekly Standard. Click here to read the full article. By Ike Brannon After a month of trying, I still can’t complete an application to join the D.C. Health Exchange. For a week, the Obamacare marketplace asked me to prove my citizenship, my daughter’s existence, and my fixed address in the … More After a Month of Trying, I Still Can’t Sign Up for Obamacare