The scandal-plagued Internal Revenue Service is "overtaxed" in its new role as the key enforcement agency for Obamacare. Congress should call a timeout on the IRS grab for more taxpayer funds to implement the sweeping mandates and information disclosures required by the Affordable Care Act. That means no extra revenue for the health insurance cops without clear and convincing evidence of reform … [Read more...] about Tom Miller: When it comes to Health Care, IRS should be IRX
Fact-Checking Obama’s Health-Care Speech
By Grace-Marie Turner The fact checkers are likely to run out of Pinocchios after President Obama’s speech today to tout ObamaCare at the White House. The biggest whopper is saying that the health law already is expanding access to affordable health coverage. Evidence across the states shows that premiums will increase in many states and for many consumers by double digits or more. The … [Read more...] about Fact-Checking Obama’s Health-Care Speech
The Kudlow Report: Employers Prepped for ACA Before Delay
Grace-Marie Turner joins the Kudlow Report to discuss the impact the employer mandate is having on small businesses. … [Read more...] about The Kudlow Report: Employers Prepped for ACA Before Delay
Goodbye to Mandates!
By Grace-Marie Turner The Obama administration has announced it will delay until 2015 the implementation and reporting requirements of ObamaCare’s employer mandate. In so doing, the administration is protecting Big Business from one of the expensive and cumbersome parts of the law. But the administration wants to keep the individual mandate in place. “It would be unfair to protect big … [Read more...] about Goodbye to Mandates!
ObamaCare's Costs Are Set To Soar As Administration Encourages Companies To Drop Health Benefits
by Grace-Marie Turner The popular Wegmans grocery chain is cutting health benefits for its part-time employees and plans to send them instead to the ObamaCare exchanges where they may get more generous benefits and subsidies than the company offers. Several Wegmans employees confirmed part-time health benefits had been cut and said the company said the decision was related to changes brought … [Read more...] about ObamaCare's Costs Are Set To Soar As Administration Encourages Companies To Drop Health Benefits
Did Employers Just Become Aggressive Obamacare Implementers?
By Grace-Marie Turner The Obama administration has just created “one of the broadest and deepest advertising networks” they could have imagined to spur enrollment in the new health-care exchanges, according to American Action Forum president Douglas Holtz-Eakin. Because of the administration’s decision to delay the employer mandate, Holtz-Eakin said at a Capitol Hill briefing on Monday, the … [Read more...] about Did Employers Just Become Aggressive Obamacare Implementers?
Why the Obamacare Mandate was Postponed
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