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It’s official: Obamacare is Obamatax. The Supreme Court saved Obamacare but at the expense of exposing it as simply a massive collection of taxes - 20 taxes at least. Obamacare was supposed to reduce the cost of health insurance but it has six taxes on Americans who already have health insurance. Your insurance will cost more to pay Mr. Obama’s tax hikes. Obamacare was supposed to “bend the … [Read more...] about Grover Norquist: With a gavel bang, Obamacare is Obamatax

After The Supreme Court, Higher Cost and Unrealistic Timeline Will Force Major Changes The Supreme Court has spoken, but problems built into the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have not been resolved by the decision and may have worsened. Even accepting the law’s assumptions about how the health system should be reformed, actually putting all the pieces in place is exceptionally expensive and … [Read more...] about Joe Antos: Major changes after Supreme Court ruling

Well, Obamacare is now official, which means that a lot more people in the United States will have health insurance. And it also means a lot more people will be paying more taxes. (You didn't think Obamacare was free, did you?) Here are some of the new taxes you're going to have to pay to pay for Obamacare: A 3.8% surtax on "investment income" when your adjusted gross income is more … [Read more...] about Business Insider: Here Are The New Taxes You’re Going To Pay To Pay For Obamacare…

On Thursday, an unusual Supreme Court majority of "one" — Chief JusticeJohn G. Roberts Jr.— found that the healthcare law's individual mandate is unconstitutional under the power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce. But, surprise, the mandate is constitutional as a tax. This strange reasoning, not fully embraced even by the four concurring justices, handed judicial conservatives the … [Read more...] about Tom Miller: The healthcare law fight isn’t over

Yes, the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the health overhaul law is disappointing, but the final judgment on the law will be made by the voters in November. The president now must spend the next four months defending a law that the majority of Americans dislike, and the more they learn about it, the more they dislike it.  Worse, the part of the law that is the least popular – the individual … [Read more...] about Hello, November!

On Thursday, June 28, at 10 a.m. ET, the Supreme Court will issue its decisions in the several related issues in the Obamacare legal challenge, Florida v. HHS. Starting at 9:30, we will be here to digest the opinions, provide our own commentary, and answer questions from readers. As a reminder, the Court in March heard oral argument on four separate questions, over three days, related to the … [Read more...] about Avik Roy: Obamacare Supreme Court Decision Live Blog

Obamacare’s apologists and their allies in themainstream press have spent an inordinate amount of time and energy dissecting the supposed hypocrisy of conservatives on the individual mandate. They are indignant that the GOP is now in lockstep opposition to the mandate even though two decades ago some Republican senators — most of whom have long since departed from the scene — supported the concept … [Read more...] about Jim Capretta: All the President’s Mandate Positions

Former Speaker Newt Gingrich repeatedly insists that most conservatives once supported an individual mandate for health insurance. I beg to differ, Mr. Speaker. The Galen Institute, and I in particular, along with many other colleagues, including the CATO Institute, NEVER have supported an individual mandate. One of the key responsibilities of think tanks is to think through public policy … [Read more...] about Setting the record straight on the individual mandate