Health Care Requirements Still Shrouded in Mystery
With the anniversary of the president’s health care law just days away, there’s no shortage of news stories and surveys on just how confusing and non-transparent the law is.To (mis)quote Winston...
View ArticleThe App-ification of Medicine
This article first appeared in Business Horizon Quarterly, a publication of the Forum for Innovation, an affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation.Several years ago, when our four children...
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INFOGRAPHIC: 5 Reasons Small Businesses Fear Obamacare
The number of American small businesses who believe their greatest challenge is health care coverage continues to grow. This infographic by the U.S. Chamber outlines some of the main reasons small...
View ArticleWorkplace Wellness Programs Should be Encouraged, Not Attacked
While businesses continue to struggle under the new cost burdens imposed by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), companies attempting to manage costs through voluntary workplace...
View ArticleVIDEO: Small Businesses Are Sick About Health Care Law
With major parts of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, including the employer mandate, set to take effect in January, small businesses are faced with a harsh reality and very unappealing...
View ArticleDeath by a Thousand Paper Cuts
Greenhouse gas rules. Auto mandates. Food safety requirements. Health care decrees.Welcome to the new age of the super regulator where unelected bureaucrats churn out about 4,000 regulations a year...
View ArticleHealth Care Law is Creating a Nation of Part-Time Workers
The Washington Post reports on an unexpected consequence of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). The law could see businesses of all sizes switch to staffing services to manage their...
View ArticleEven HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Expects Higher Health Insurance Costs
Champions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) argued that the law would reduce health care costs. However, findings from the Society of Actuaries offer more evidence that the law...
View ArticleHealth Care Regulatory Madness: Play Our Bracket Challenge
Three years into Obamacare, the law is only becoming more confusing and burdensome for employers because of a flurry of implementing regulations. So far, there are 20,000 pages of health care law...
View ArticleVIDEO: Novartis CEO on Health Care Spending
In an interview with Fortune’s Geoff Colvin, Novartis CEO Joseph Jimenez discusses the need to get federal spending on health care under control and how cuts would affect reimbursements and innovation...
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Customize Your Free Enterprise Experience With the New App
The My Free Enterprise app—available for iPhone, iPad, and Android—is your home for free market news and ideas. It’s a streamlined, interactive way to read FreeEnterprise.com's award-winning content on...
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Health Care Regulatory Madness: The Champion
The U.S. Chamber’s health care policy team pored over the mountain of regulations that have come out of the health care law so far, and selected and seeded the eight most maddening. But in the end, it...
View ArticleThe Long Road to Market – Consumer Products Rooted in Healthcare Innovation
Samsung’s newest smartphone is eye catching and not just for its hardware. Consumers are excited about a new feature that tracks the user’s eye movement to determine when and where to scroll the...
View ArticleIndia's Dangerous Precedent
12.7 million people were diagnosed with cancer in 2008, and that number is expected to rise to 22.2 million by 2030. The imperative to find a cure for cancer and other devastating diseases couldn’t be...
View ArticleRepealing the Medical Device Tax is a No-BRAIN-er
President Obama’s Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative to map the human brain’s functions is a bold idea that could transform how our understanding of the...
View ArticleHealth Care Law Forces Theater Chain to Cut Hours
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) has turned into a bad movie plot. It’s no longer speculation that the health care law could push workers into part-time jobs. The phenomenon that...
View ArticleRoofers Union Hammers Health Care Law, Demands Repeal
A roofers union is feeling a big case of “buyer’s remorse” over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). The United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers, and Allied Workers became the first...
View ArticleHealth Care Mandate for 30-Hour Weeks Won't Work for Businesses, or Workers
Eighty years ago this month, the United States came thisclose (insert pinched finger and thumb here) to establishing a 30-hour work week but wisely thought better of it.Today, the president’s health...
View ArticleStudy? What Study? DOL Shrugs at Health Care Law Mandate
The Department of Labor (DOL) is being taken to task over its’ failure to complete a study on how the health care law’s tax penalties on employers will affect workers’ wages.The Republican leadership...
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Stuck in a Part-Time Job? Blame the Health Care Law
The New York Times notices the rise of part-time employment happening during our lackluster economic recovery:In March, 7.6 million Americans who want more hours were stuck in part-time jobs, about the...
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