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Author: John C. Goodman

Obamacare Prices Have Already Become Public in Some States

Posted on October 17, 2025 by John C. Goodman

Based on newly posted information:

  • A family of four making $130,000 in Maine will face an increase of $16,100 in annual premiums.
  • In Kentucky, a 60-year-old couple making $85,000 per year could face an increase of $23,700 in annual premiums. 
  • In Nevada, a similar couple could pay an additional $18,100 in annual premiums.
  • In Minnesota, the cost for the couple might be $15,500 more. 
  • In Maryland, the cost might be an additional $13,700.

Source: New York Times

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Friday Links

Posted on October 17, 2025October 16, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • Wealth inequality has barely changed over the last 30 years if Social Security wealth is included.
  • Private insurers are paying 78 percent more at hospital outpatient departments than they pay at ambulatory surgical centers. Medicare payments are 97 percent higher.
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Thursday Links

Posted on October 16, 2025October 15, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • Oz: States should license pharmacists to prescribe meds. (InsideHealthPolicy)
  • Is Italy in better fiscal shape than the US?
  • Democratic governors are curtailing Medicaid for illegal Aliens.
  • Phillipson and Moore: Slash the red tape and adopt an Operation Warp Speed for all killer diseases.
  • Big state electric power costs almost double rates in red states.
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Wednesday Links

Posted on October 15, 2025October 14, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • Over the past two and one-half decades the federal government has buried taxpayers under a mountain of debt, now approaching $38 trillion. During this time the key problem has been spending, not a lack of tax revenue.
  •  A good explanation of the latest Nobel Prize in economics.
  • More on the Nobel.
  • Can social connections improve your physical health?
  • Hospitals’ ever expanding revenue: Where is the money going?
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