Mark Warshawsky, a well-known expert in retirement finance and a newly appointed commissioner, will explain the implications of a publicly funded long-term care insurance program. Then a panel will debate whether another government program the best way to ensure that families can afford to provide the necessary services for their aging loved ones.

This history of Obamacare’s political origins makes it all the more ironic that Obamacare, from what we now know, should not be considered a “universal coverage” plan, even by the benchmark the administration was using in 2009.

Chilling effect. That's the term lawyers and judges use to describe the result of government actions that deter people from exercising their right of free speech.

So how do you feel about turning over access to some of your most sensitive healthcare information to the Internal Revenue Service?

The latest mortal threat to Obamacare’s full implementation next January resurfaced last Thursday in the form of a new lawsuit filed in federal district court in the District of Columbia. 

For Obamacare opponents to take full advantage of the law’s vulnerabilities, they need to be united around a sound strategy for winning this fight. 

After a political rebuke over the form’s length, the Department of Health and Human Services has released a streamlined, three-page version of the application to sign up for Obamacare’s financial subsidies. The rub? The government’s new form is going to be an invitation to fraud and abuse.

Click here to hear Resident Fellow Scott Gottlieb discuss changes to health insurance prices on WAMU's "The Kojo Nnamdi Show" (interview at 29:12).