AEI's J.D. Kleinke examines the magnitude, symbolism, and likely impacts of the accounting rule included in the Accountable Care Act to regulate the administrative costs and profits of the health insurance industry.

The PPACA's rate review and MLR provisions represent costly, bureaucratic interference with insurers' legitimate business decisions and state regulatory prerogatives. This will do little to enhance competition in health insurance markets and the availability and affordability of health insurance.

The Democratic chairmen of the House and Senate committees that oversaw health reform have weight on the interpretation of the law, in effect arguing that insurers would have to spend even more money on medical expenses to offset every dollar they spend on administrative costs.

Healthcare will overtake shelter within five years to become the single largest category of consumption. How has this happened?

Public school teacher salaries are fair and their fringe benefits far outclass private saector jobs. In total, public school teachers are overpaid by more than 50 percent which costs governments over $100 billion annually.

Friedrich Hayek, the famous free-market critic of central planning, were he alive today, would have the same views as US conservatives about ObamaCare and the Dodd-Frank Act.

The authors of the November 2011 Heritage Foundation report “Assessing the Compensation of Public-School Teachers” respond to questions and concerns, in the process showing that certain critical accusations—such as undercounting teachers’ work hours or overestimating retirement benefits—are simply false.

Political rhetoric--and policy--favor small business, but, in reality, big businesses play a critical role in economic growth and job creation.