One of the major pieces of Obamacare, the employee mandate, has been postponed for a year. Grace-Marie Turner joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the cause and effect of postponing the employer mandate of Obamacare to 2015, both practically and politically. Listen to Grace-Marie's Interview HERE … [Read more...] about Why the Obamacare Mandate was Postponed
The Employer Mandate and the Exchanges
Yuval Levin writes at National Review Online that it is hard to overstate “how very difficult and embarrassing it must have been for the administration” to make the decision to delay implementation and reporting of the employer mandate. Levin, a recent winner of the Bradley Prize, also has some important insights about the decision’s impact on the viability of the ObamaCare exchanges. Here … [Read more...] about The Employer Mandate and the Exchanges
John Hoff: Analyzing SCOTUS and ObamaCare
Healthcare lawyer and policy analyst John Hoff has an in depth assessment of Chief Justice John Roberts’ decision about ObamaCare, and he finds serious fault with his legal reasoning. In an article for The Independence Review, Hoff writes that Roberts “resorted to semantic gamesmanship and suspect logic to find the law constitutional. The artifice of his opinion confirms that he was driven by a … [Read more...] about John Hoff: Analyzing SCOTUS and ObamaCare
How to save $213 billion — and your own life
by Grace-Marie Turner Are we taking too many drugs? The Twitter-verse is abuzz over a new study released by the Mayo Clinic which found that 70% of Americans are taking at least one prescription drug. A second independent study, conducted by the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics, provides relevant insights. IMS found that if we used prescription drugs more wisely, the U.S. could save at … [Read more...] about How to save $213 billion — and your own life
Sean Parnell: Will Rhode Islanders Purchase Insurance Under ObamaCare?
There will be a broad financial disincentive in Rhode Island for a significant number of individuals and families to obtain private health insurance coverage under the President’s Affordable Care Act. As a result, Rhode Island should be prepared to see enrollment through the Rhode Island Health Benefits Exchange that is significantly below current expectations. Based on proposed insurance rates … [Read more...] about Sean Parnell: Will Rhode Islanders Purchase Insurance Under ObamaCare?
The IRS and its 46 new powers to enforce ObamaCare
The power granted to the IRS to enforce ObamaCare’s mandates, taxes, penalties, reporting, and other requirements is unprecedented. Based upon Government Accountability Office data, we count 46 new responsibilities assigned to the IRS under the health law.1 IRS officials have acknowledged the huge problems these major new responsibilities will create for the agency. On March 5, 2013, an official … [Read more...] about The IRS and its 46 new powers to enforce ObamaCare
Another attack on innovative care
By Grace-Marie Turner An article in The Wall Street Journal today attacks physician-owned hospitals – among the highest quality, most efficient hospitals in the country – just as 50 physician owners “descend on Congress,” according to the article, to seek relief from strict limits on expansion of their facilities imposed by the Affordable Care Act. “Doc-owned hospitals prep to fight,” a … [Read more...] about Another attack on innovative care
Applying for ObamaCare: Still Not Simple
by Grace-Marie Turner, The Wall Street Journal. During his news conference last week, the president sounded defensive in trying to tamp down fears of an impending ObamaCare train wreck. One positive note was his boast about whittling down from 21 pages to three the application for subsidies that individuals have to file. But even that may need some defending. The three-page application is for … [Read more...] about Applying for ObamaCare: Still Not Simple