This year the cost of Obamacare for someone my age living in my North Texas county is roughly $10,000 for a $10,000 deductible. That means I would pay premiums of just over $800 a month in return for coverage that would cover nothing unless my health needs exceed $800 a month for the entire year. Assuming I spent more than $10,000 during the coverage period, the ACA plan would cover only $0.60 cents of every dollar I spend above my deductible.
Category: Affordable Care Act
Thursday Links – 19 February 2026
- Why does health care spending keep rising? It’s higher utilization, not higher prices.
- US education failure: fifteen countries have higher average science scores than the United States.
- Why Congress can’t fix Obamcare: abortion.
- “The Food and Drug Administration is full of rules that keep safer drugs prescription-only while allowing more dangerous ones to be sold over the counter.”
- Does coffee lower your risk of dementia?
Thursday Links – 12 February 2026
- Since 2000, the number of physicians assistants has quadrupled, while the number of medical doctors has risen 40 percent.
- $30 billion federal welfare program became a “slush fund” for the states.
- CMS: The 0ut-of-pocket exposure to increase to $12,000 in (Obamacare) exchange plans in 2027.
- Elon: Colonizing Mars will take a back seat to colonizing the moon.
- Former CDC Director Robert Redfield: Covid “came from gain of function research” at the Chinese lab. Collins and Fauci were guilty of a coverup.
Goodman on Health Policy
Why both parties missed an opportunity to reform Medicaid. Why they missed an opportunity to reform the Obamacare exchanges. Why partisanship is the biggest obstacle to sensible health reform.
Watch Dr. Goodman’s talk to the Public Affairs Luncheon Club in Dallas.