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Health costs are soaring.  The cost of an employer plan rose last year to $15,000 for a family policy – with cost rising three times faster than the year before.    When the full force of ObamaCare hits in 2016, the CBO expects the typical family policy to cost $20,000.  And everyone will be required to buy the coverage under penalty of federal law, with only a relatively small number qualifying … [Read more...] about How ObamaCare’s Rules Drive Up Costs

ObamaCare is a freight train heading straight for our economy when it takes full effect in 2014. Medicare cuts: ObamaCare cuts $575 billion out of Medicare to create a massive new entitlement program that already costs $1 trillion more than estimated just two years ago. And IPAB putting unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats in charge of rationing care. Individual mandate: Americans will be … [Read more...] about What they aren’t telling you

When people think of Medicare, they usually think of the government health insurance program for seniors over age 65. They may even recall that the program also extends to the disabled who are under 65. Few, though, see it as a program that big business and their D.C. lobbyists can use to drive smaller competitors out of business. But that’s a perspective shared by many individuals who work in … [Read more...] about David Hogberg: ObamaCare — Rx for Crisis

Young people will be hit the hardest by ObamaCare: Costs: They will be forced to pay health insurance premiums much higher than they would in a fair and open marketplace so older people can pay less. Jobs: The ObamaCare mandate that most employers must provide health insurance is causing many employers to eliminate the entry-level jobs that young people need to get started in their … [Read more...] about How ObamaCare Harms Young Adults and Children

Lost health insurance: As many as 20 million people could lose the health insurance they get at work as a result of ObamaCare, according to the CBO. McKinsey and Company says as many as 80 million people could lose the health coverage they have now. Loss of control: One of the things that women want most is more control over decisions involving health care for their families. Under ObamaCare, … [Read more...] about How ObamaCare Harms Women

Medicare is careening toward bankruptcy More than 10,000 Baby Boomers retire into Medicare every day ObamaCare’s solution? Cut half a trillion dollars from Medicare and use the money to create a massive new entitlement program for younger Americans. ObamaCare: Cuts payments to doctors and hospitals so deeply that, by the end of the decade, Medicare will pay less than Medicaid. On this … [Read more...] about How ObamaCare Hurts Seniors

The jobs-killing Obamacare law contains 20 new or higher taxes on American families and employers. Many of these tax increases fall on families making less than $250,000 — a direct violation of candidate Obama’s promise not to raise “any form” of taxes on these families. In less than a week, the second anniversary of Obamacare being signed into law will take place. The Supreme Court will be … [Read more...] about Grover Norquist: Obamacare’s tax war on women

Despite criticism from some quarters, the health care system in the United States has significant strengths. The hospitals and clinics through which most Americans get their care are staffed by some of the world's most highly trained and accomplished physicians and these institutions have the capacity to deliver the finest and most sophisticated medical care found anywhere in the world. Most … [Read more...] about Jim Capretta: A Federal-State Framework for Market-Based Reform