On September 29, President Obama signed a continuing resolution appropriations bill that will fund the government through December 9, 2016, unless a 2017 appropriations bill is passed before that date. The headline is that the bill provides $1.1 billion...
On September 13, 2016, the Census Bureau released its report on Health Insurance Coverage in the United States for 2015 . The number and percentage of Americans who were uninsured dropped again in 2015 after a precipitous drop in 2014. The uninsured rate...
On September 6, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report entitled, “In Most States and New Exchanges, Enrollees Continued to be Concentrated among Few Issuers in 2014.” The report reviews concentration of insurers in the individual...
On March 24, 2016, the Congressional Budget Office and Joint Committee on Taxation (collectively referred to here as the CBO) released their annual baseline budget projections regarding Federal Subsidies for Health Insurance Coverage for People Under...
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Two recent government reports present conflicting pictures of the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). On July 16, 2015, Government Accountability Office (GAO) testimony before the Senate Finance Committee entitled Observations on 18 Undercover...
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...though I'm still not convinced it's a story. I'd like to see the historical data... but I'm too lazy to look for it. Mebbe one of you guys with time on your hands and needful bandwidth can hunt for it... GAO Now Investigating DHS Ammo Purchases.