Merrill Matthews of the Council for Affordable Health Insurance suggests ways of curbing the harmful effects of the health control legislation, HR 3590, if repealing it is not an option:
Republicans have kicked off their ObamaCare “repeal and replace” campaign, but there will likely be neither repeal nor replace unless ...
Key points about HR 3590 from Grace-Marie Turner in Soaring ObamaCare costs break the bank:
"The Congressional Budget Office recently issued a revised estimate showing the law will cost $115 billion more than it projected the week before it was enacted."
"A report by the Obama administration's own actuary, ...
A couple of updates on the legal challenged to ObamaCare health control legislation (HR 3590):
The first is by Ilya Shapiro at Cato:Update on the Legal Challenges to Obamacare. A particularly notable section:
At least one enterprising analyst [Greg Scandlen] has determined that the 2,400-page bill lacks a severability clause. ...
[Post updated in response to Max's comment. Thanks!]
The San Francisco Examiner reports:
Remember when Obama and congressional Democrats made a big show of dropping the public option government insurance program that was supposedly going to give private insurers competition and drive rates down? The truth is the public ...
The health control legislation known as ObamaCare (HR 3590) has an employer mandate provision for those who hire more than 50 people, as I've written before, this is a terrible idea. Diana Furchtgott-Roth of the Manhatten Institute explains how the employer mandate harms low-skilled and part-time workers:
...come 2014, the ...
Will the health control legislation (HR 3590) encourage large firms to stop offering medical insurance? From CNNMoney.com (Fortune):
Internal documents recently reviewed by Fortune, originally requested by Congress, show what the bill's critics predicted, and what its champions dreaded: many large companies are examining a course that was ...
In March Michael Cannon at Cato delivered a half-hour speech the policy implications of ObamaCare (HR 3590) and the best ways to fight it. In this post I want to highlight a two-minute segment (starts at 27:30) what he says about Republicans:
[audio:http://www.patientpowernow.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/cannon-republicans-health-care.mp3]Cannon concludes:
Republicans' objections to the substance of the Obama ...
The Heritage Foundation has a useful graphic showing the tax increases associated with ObamaCare, HR 3590, the so-called "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act." It's from a new report titled Obamacare: Impact on Taxpayers. Here's the abstract:
The hodgepodge of new taxes that have already or will soon take effect ...
Writes Paul Hsieh, MD in the Denver Post:
... But no one should be surprised that under government-controlled health insurance, medical coverage decisions will be based on political considerations. Rather, the recent wrangling over abortion will be a mere preview of special-interest battles to come as health ...
