Medical Device Tax Hurts Innovation, Jobs
In December 2012, Christine Jacobs, CEO of Theragenics Corp., wrote President Obama to explain why her company would begin shifting manufacturing of surgical and cancer treatment devices to Costa...
View ArticleFranchises, Patrons Burned by Health Care Law
Small businesses of every type are struggling to comply with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)—aka Obamacare. But franchisee owners, many of whom don’t currently offer employee...
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FEEDBACK: Readers Slam Health Care Law
As long as the federal government thinks it knows better than you or your doctor and holds the purse strings, health care will get worse and more expensive. With the government in control, more people...
View ArticleHealth Care Law is Stopping Small Businesses from Hiring
After being around so many small business owners at America’s Small Business Summit earlier this week, I still have small business on my mind (that's not a bad thing). Yesterday, human resources firm...
View ArticleSurprise! Health Care Law Creating Some Jobs
What’s rarer than a Bigfoot sighting? Finding any jobs created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. But Kaiser Health News spotted some:The federal health law derided as a “job-killer” by...
View ArticleHealth Care Law Scares Head Start Staffers More than Budget Cuts
You’d think that at a national Head Start conference, sequestration, across-the-board federal spending cuts, would be the top issue.No.Instead, Head Start teachers and administrators told The Daily...
View ArticleAwful Health Insurance Tax Will HIT Small Businesses
The health care law is no friend to small businesses. Confusion about the law and the new taxes imposed to pay for it has forced many small businesses to stop hiring.The House of Representatives’ Small...
View ArticlePoll: Small Businesses Still Sour on Health Care Law
Gallup finds that 48% of small business owners think the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) “is going to be bad for their business,” while 39% don’t think it’ll have an impact....
View ArticleCan You Be a Big and a Small Business at the Same Time?
Can your business be big and small at the same time? Yes, if you check the definitions under the Affordable Care Act. Definitions matter because they govern what rules you must follow. The Affordable...
View ArticleMore Unions Have Second Thoughts about Health Care Law
First it was the roofers union who had second thoughts about the health care law. Now other unions are expressing major concerns over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). The Hill...
View ArticleHealth Care Regs Are Bitter Medicine
More than three years into Obamacare the law is only becoming more confusing and burdensome for employers because of a flurry of regulations. As of March 2013, the three-year anniversary of the law,...
View ArticleConsumers Could Get HIT with $70 Billion in Higher Insurance Premiums
Here’s a reminder that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was sold to the public as a way to make health care less expensive. Ben Domenech at RealClearPolitics summarizes the sales...
View ArticleBig Data Part I: Championing Healthcare
This is the first of a two-part series on big data’s effects on various industries. In 1869, former Congressman James Garfield declared: “The use of statistics will change how societies are governed.”...
View ArticlePresident Blames Businesses for Higher Insurance Premiums
According to President Obama, higher insurance premiums have nothing to with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). No, you should blame employers and insurance companies. The AP at a...
View ArticleHealth Care Solutions: Give Americans the Information They Need
On June 27, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Health Care Solutions Council released a 55-page, four-part report outlining legislative and regulatory recommendations to improve the health care system....
View ArticleAll-American Movies, Filming at a Location Nowhere Near You
As Washington trudges into its fifth straight day of thunderstorms, I’m considering a Fourth of July backup plan, eschewing traditional fireworks for an all-American movie marathon.After some very...
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Health Care Solutions: High Value, Low-Cost Strategies
On June 27, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Health Care Solutions Council released a 55-page, four-part report outlining legislative and regulatory recommendations to improve the health care system....
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Health Insurance Rates Could Soar Under Obamacare
Hold on to your checkbooks folks!As Americans look across the health care landscape to find coverage under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, they may encounter insurance rates three times...
View ArticleVIDEO: Obamacare Partly to Blame for Slow Job Creation
We’re half-way through 2013 and the most-pressing economic issue is the same one since the start of the recovery: the lack of jobs. Sure, the unemployment rate has steadily decreased, but as the...
View ArticleHealth Care Solutions: More Flexibility, Less Regulation
On June 27, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Health Care Solutions Council released a 55-page, four-part report outlining legislative and regulatory recommendations to improve the health care system....
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