by Krystal Steinmetz. Tens of millions of Americans without health insurance risk being fined by the IRS as part of the Affordable Care Act, which imposes a tax penalty on those who didn’t purchase medical insurance. But tax experts say up to 20 million people are eligible for a waiver. According to Inuit, maker of TurboTax, there are 30 ... MORE
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30 Ways To Avoid The Penalty For Not Buying ObamaCare
by Krystal Steinmetz. Tens of millions of Americans without health insurance risk being fined by the IRS as part of the Affordable Care Act, which imposes a tax penalty on those who didn’t purchase medical insurance. But tax experts say up to 20 million people are eligible for a waiver. According to Inuit, maker of TurboTax, there are 30 ... MORESmall Restaurants Feel Pinch of Minimum Wage Hike
by Kevin Mooney. Bad news for mom and pop. As far as Rob Pluta is concerned, New Jersey lawmakers who say they want to help restaurant workers by raising the state’s minimum wage for tipped employees have it all wrong. If Trenton wants to help these workers, says Pluta, who owns and operates Leonardo’s II, an Italian eatery in Lawrenceville, it ... MOREObamaCare Premiums To Rise By Average Of 7.5 Percent
by Elise Viebeck. The high cost of the Affordable Care Act. Premiums on ObamaCare's health insurance exchanges will rise by an average of 7.5 percent next year, according to a new analysis. Data compiled by the Health Research Institute (HRI) at PricewaterhouseCoopers found modest changes in premiums for 27 states and the District of Columbia, ... MOREHow Much Does ObamaCare Rip Off Young Adults?
by Scott Gottlieb. We ran the numbers. Obamacare is still struggling to sign up young people. In order to offset the high cost of the older, and probably less healthy people who are joining Obamacare plans, the White House must coerce a sufficient number of thirty-somethings to also join. Problem is, the health plans are too pricey to make economic ... MOREThe Dumbest Federal Policy You'll Read About Today
by A. Barton Hinkle. It benefits special interests, hurts consumers, and harms the planet. If you are like most people, you probably spend a lot of time
wondering, "What is the absolutely worst environmental policy on
the planet?" And if you are like most people, you probably think it
is America’s ethanol policy. So Virginia's recent decision to ... MOREIndividualism: The Only Basis Of Freedom In Medicine
by Richard E. Ralston. The U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether Obamacare’s provisions to mandate the coverage of contraceptives violate the right of private employers and employees to practice their religious beliefs. We have reached a very sorry state in America if the basis for preventing government intrusion in our ... MOREWarren L. Dean Jr: When ObamaCare Met Matt Drudge
White House gets schooled on how tax is paid. Matt Drudge is correct. Last weekend we learned that after five long years in office, among the many things the White House
does not know is how and when Americans pay their taxes. Since Team
Obama likes taxes so much, you might think they would understand them,
but no such luck. ... MOREPresident's ObamaCare Lies Were Essential To Passing Bill
Voters would have rejected it had they known truth. Over half of American voters regret that the Affordable Care Act passed, and nearly two-thirds say it never would have -- if we knew then what we know now. In addition, more than half think the health care law will ultimately be bad for the country, and that it’s more about the ... MOREObamacare Enrollment Rate Slows Markedly In January
Not that enrollment was brisk in December. On Wednesday, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that enrollment in the Obamacare private exchanges increased by 1,146,071 in January. In December, HHS reported 1,788,000 enrollees in the month of December. That suggests a drop-off of approximately 500,000, ... MOREObamaCare: Repeal Is Not Impossible
by Dom Armentano. Obamacare was sold to the American people as a humanitarian attempt to provide health insurance to the poor and to individuals with a pre-existing medical condition who had been denied coverage. If you were not poor, did not have a pre-existing condition, and already had health insurance and were satisfied with its ... MORE
Thousands Stuck In Obamacare Appeals Limbo
by Peter Suderman. System not yet built. You may have heard that HealthCare.gov, which powers the federally run health insurance exchange for 36 states, is, after its disastrous rollout last year, all fixed up and working basically fine. Obamacare is on track. But that’s not true, it seems, for anyone who wants to file an appeal regarding ... MOREObamaCare Creates New Class Of Free Riders
by Rituparna Basu and Yaron Brook. Welcome to Obamacare, land of skyrocketing premiums, cancelled insurance policies, and a website that is exhibit A of government incompetence. If Republicans are serious about stopping this destructive law, they must criticize more than its rollout troubles, which are fixable. They must expose the ... MORECaution: New ObamaCare Fees To Be Deployed In 2014
by S.A. Miller and Geoff Earle. Here comes the ObamaCare tax bill. The cost of President Obama’s massive health-care law will hit Americans in 2014 as new taxes pile up on their insurance premiums and on their income-tax bills. Most insurers aren’t advertising the ObamaCare taxes that are added on to premiums, opting instead to ... MOREObama's Top 10 Constitutional Violations Of 2013
By Ilya Shapiro. One of Barack Obama’s chief accomplishments has been to return the Constitution to a central place in our public discourse. Unfortunately, the president fomented this upswing in civic interest not by talking up the constitutional aspects of his policy agenda, but by blatantly violating the strictures of our founding document. ... MOREDoug Bandow: Obamacare's War On Civil Society
One more gift from big government. Washington offers many opportunities for Schadenfreude, that wonderful German word which means to enjoy the misery of others. The sudden realization of liberal professionals who voted for Barack Obama that they will be forced to spend thousands more on health insurance was one of those ... MOREPeggy Noonan: The Grinch Who Stole Health Care
You know what I am talking about. This is the year that the Democrats "have blown up the American health-care system." The quote is from Peggy Noonan's qualified approval of the Ryan-Murray copout. You see, back in the golden age of George W. Bush, Democrats were mad as hell. How could the American people be so stupid, ... MORE
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