Employer Mandate Delayed Until 2015
Did the administration admit that implementing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has become "train wreck?"Bloomberg reports that the health care law’s employer mandate will be delayed for...
View ArticleHealthcare Solutions: Creating Greater Value in Medicare and Medicaid
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 ArticleGUEST COLUMN: Capitol Hill Begins the Obamacare Exodus
Ever since the Affordable Care Act became law, Democratic politicians and political staffers have praised its alleged ability to lower the cost of health care. Recently, however, it was reported that...
View ArticleObamacare Implementation is a Mess
The Obamacare implementation the delays are piling up.First, the AP reports that the administration has "quietly notified insurers that a computer system glitch will limit penalties that the law says...
View ArticleBuyers’ Remorse: Union Leaders Demand Changes to Obamacare
Over the weekend, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said, “Obamacare has been wonderful for America.” It’s a gotcha quote that’s sure to be a mainstay for political ads in 2014.However, three...
View ArticleVIDEO: HHS Declares Health Care Law “On Schedule”
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a video claiming it’s “on schedule” to implement the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.Well, that's a relief. I was getting...
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Survey: Obamacare Grows More Unpopular With Small Businesses
Obamacare's unpopularity has significantly increased among small business owners, one half of whom say that they will either cut hours to reduce full time employees or replace full time employees with...
View ArticleMedical Device Tax: $1 Billion and Counting
Obamacare’s medical device tax, in effect for over seven months, has raked in $1 billion according to the Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA), the Advanced Medical Technology Association...
View ArticleHealth Insurance Tax Will be “Catastrophic,” “Devastating”
Small business owners visited Capitol Hill to explain to Congress how the Health Insurance Tax (HIT) will raise their costs and harm their businesses.The HIT is a tax on health insurance premiums in...
View ArticleVIDEO: Health Care Law Stokes Small Business Fears
The President tried again to sell the health care law to a skeptical public saying, “The health care act is doing what it’s designed to do: deliver more choices, better benefits, a check on rising...
View ArticleNew York Doesn’t Mean Obamacare Will Work
Paul Krugman went all cheerleader on news that the health care law will cause premiums in New York’s individual health insurance market to fall by writing, “This thing is going to work, it’s going to...
View ArticleHealth Care Law Undermines Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance
“It’s supposed to be the Affordable Care Act. There’s nothing affordable about it,” George Ebinger, IHOP franchisee, told CNNMoney.Even though the Obama administration will delay the Patient Protection...
View ArticleObamacare is Not What White Castle Craves
In the five years before the passage of the health care law, White Castle was opening an average of eight new restaurants each year. In 2013, they plan to open just two new locations.“I would like to...
View ArticleHuh? Spending $100 to Pay $3 Obamacare Fee
Eli Lehrer runs the R Street Institute. It’s a Washington, DC think tank and also a small employer. He writes about a little-known requirement in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)...
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White House Bobs and Weaves on Obamacare and Part-Time Workers
Last week, the White House has pushed back hard on the idea that Obamacare is creating a nation of part-time workers. Specifically, it argues that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)...
View ArticleTropical Islands Are Meant for Beach Going, Not Hip Replacements
Just about everyone can get behind travel and tourism.Americans love taking vacations to exotic foreign destinations and U.S. companies love to see millions of new customers pass through their...
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The ACA Countdown: 50 Tasks in 50—Make that 49—Days
As open enrollment in the U.S. government's plan for healthcare quickly approaches, there's a lot of work to be done. With less than 50 days left on the clock until the October 1 deadline, American...
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Businesses Blame Obamacare for Cuts to Employees’ Hours
The White House may brush off evidence of employers cutting workers’ hours because of Obamacare as anecdotal, but tell that to a Maine franchise owner and one of his employees interviewed by NBC...
View ArticleBusinesses Find Obamacare Taxing
Imagine running a business today and dealing with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA aka Obamacare). We know Obamacare is compelling businesses to cut workers’ hours. The latest...
View ArticleFewer Americans Get to Keep Their Health Plan
Remember the president's promise, "If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan?" New survey research shows that that statement is simply not true for a growing percentage of...
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