Draft HHS report: half of employer plans illegal by 2013

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

More illegal insurance resulting from HR 3590, the health control legislation. From Investor's Business Daily: Internal administration documents reveal that up to 51% of employers may have to relinquish their current health care coverage because of ObamaCare. Small firms will be even likelier to lose existing plans. Read the whole article: ...

Politico: “Health law could ban low-cost plans”

Monday, June 14th, 2010

From Jennifer Haberkorn at Politico explains how the health control legislation, HR 3590, bans affordable insurance: Part of the health care overhaul due to kick in this September could strip more than 1 million people of their insurance coverage, violating a key goal of President Barack Obama’s reforms. Under the ...

HSA health insurer shuts down because of ObamaCare

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010

In response to the health control legislation, HR 3590, a small health insurance companies that focused on selling high-deductible policies is closing its doors. So reports Richmond BizSense (emphasis added) The hotly debated healthcare reform bill signed into law in March has killed a local insurance company. At least that’s according ...

More Colorado employers are offering HSAs

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

The Denver Business Journal reports: Twenty-seven percent of Colorado and Wyoming employers surveyed by MSEC recently said they now offer Health Spending Accounts as an option for their employee benefit plans, up from 21 percent in 2009, 18 percent in 2008, 15 percent in 2007 and 7 percent ...

What insurance will the government let you have?

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

Paul Hsieh, MD reminds us of how, in both the House and Senate health care bills the so-called health care "reform" will further empower government officials to tell us what insurance we can and cannot have: Under any system of mandatory insurance, the government must necessarily determine what constitutes an “acceptable” ...

Will health “reform” kill HSAs & high-deductible insurance plans?

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

By attacking Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), Democrats want use tax policy to punish people who prefer to buy medical care directly, rather than through insurance.  Sounds like they favor the insurance industry, no? On January 9, the AP reported that: House Democrats want to require insurers to ...

HR 3962: Will health care bill criminalizes affordable insurance

Friday, November 20th, 2009

Dr. Paul Hsieh has a great article in the Washington Examiner about HR 3962 and mandatory health insurance. It begins: Suppose the mafia came to your town and forced everyone to purchase all their meals at mob-approved restaurants. The mafia would also select the menu items. If you liked broccoli but their ...

Massachusetts: Your insurance is illegal!

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

Here is yet another example of how mandatory insurance can make your insurance policy illegal. Writes Wendy Williams in the Wall Street Journal: ...Massachusetts requires every resident to have health insurance, and this year, without informing us directly, the state had changed the rules in a way that made our bare-bones ...

Outlawing affordable health insurance

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

A few months ago Jon Caldara and others at the Independence Institute put together a great video about how Obama Care would outlaw affordable insurance. In All the President's Mandates: Compulsory Health Insurance Is a Government Takeover, Michael Cannon of the Cato Institute explains this in detail. That is, how ...

How mandatory insurance makes affordable insurance illegal

Friday, September 25th, 2009

Life with mandatory insurance, from the Wall Street Journal: Peter and Kirsten MacDonald of Brockton, Mass., are the kind of young, healthy individuals Massachusetts needs in the system to spread the risk and help pay for it. But the MacDonalds have calculated that they're better off without coverage. They bought their own ...