Get ready for much worse. For a sense of where the health care policy debate in America is headed, look no further than Massachusetts, where Romneycare was a state-run demonstration project for Obamacare. Here, activists with ties to the Massachusetts State Nurses Association are organizing to place a question on the 2014 ... MORE
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Showing posts with label penalties. Show all posts
Michael Connelly: The Horrible Truth About ObamaCare
A Constitutional attorney reads the entire law. Well, I have done it! I have read the entire text of proposed House Bill 3200: The Affordable Health Care Choices Act of 2009. I studied it with particular emphasis from my area of expertise, constitutional law. I was frankly concerned that parts of the proposed law that were being ... MORE
Oops: MSNBC Anchor Can't Access ObamaCare Exchange
by Andrew Johnson. MSNBC’s Mara Schiavocampo ran into difficulties as she tried to sign up for the newly launched health-care exchanges on Tuesday. After getting an error message on the website, she called the help line twice, but wasn’t able to reach a navigator on the other end. Instead, she was put on hold for 35 ... VIDEO AND MORE
Jacob Sullum: The Injustice Of Mandatory Drug Minimums
Rand Paul is right. Toward the end of a hearing
at which the Senate Judiciary Committee heard about the jaw-dropping
injustices caused by mandatory minimum sentences, John Cornyn sounded a
note of caution. “We have to be careful not to legislate by anecdote,”
said the Republican senator from Texas. Why start now? Congress ... MORE
IRS: ObamaCare For Thee But Not For Me!
by David Catron. Among the most offensive features of the ironically titled “Affordable Care Act” is its designation of the Internal Revenue Service as the main enforcer of the law’s many mandates, taxes, penalties, and reporting requirements. It exponentially increases the power of a group of bureaucrats notorious for repeatedly ... MORE
Political Correctness Costs Big Brother Contestant Her Job
Modeling agency decides free speech good only in theory. A Texas modeling agency is dropping a Big Brother 15 contestant as a client after she spewed racist and homophobic comments on the show’s 24/7 feed. Zephyr Talent of Austin, TX announced on its Facebook page that it will release Aaryn Gries, 22, from her contract after she was ... MORE
Dirty Little Secret About Holiday Traffic Ticketing
by Gary Biller. One of the most cherished traditions of the American family is the summer vacation. Packing up the car and heading cross-country for a weeklong camping trip, a visit with those distant cousins or an extended stay near a popular theme park is generally the recipe for a refreshing break from the dog days of summer. Little do most ... MORE
Feds Begin Lowering Expectations On ObamaCare
from the Washington Examiner editorials. A month before the final passage of his health care law, President Obama convened a summit the Blair House. During the staged event, which was aimed at resurrecting the bill, he touted the legislation's insurance exchanges. Obama said, "[I]f you join one of these exchanges, you will have choice and you'll ... MORE
IRS: Cheapest ObamaCare Plan Will Be $20,000 Per Family
by Matt Cover. In a final regulation
issued Wednesday, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) assumed that under
Obamacare the cheapest health insurance plan available in 2016 for a
family will cost $20,000 for the year. Under Obamacare, Americans will be required to buy health insurance or pay a penalty to the IRS. The IRS's assumption that the ... MORE
Tom McClusky: Fiscal Cliff Deal Penalizes Married Couples
Politicians vote incentive against marriage. When the “marriage penalty” first appeared in the tax code in 1969, most families had only one member working, and the tax provision was designed to give a tax cut to one-income families. Unfortunately, the tax failed to envision the growing number of women in the workforce. Today in most families, ... MORE
Get Ready For An ObamaCare Tax Onslaught
by Grace-Marie Turner. The third wave of ObamaCare taxes began on January 1, the latest
blitz before the tsunami of changes from the health overhaul law hit in
2014. These new and higher taxes are being levied to partially pay
for ObamaCare’s massive new subsidies for private health insurance and
expansion of Medicaid. The most controversial of ... MORE
Tax Hikes & Fees Coming With ObamaCare Next Year
by Billy Hallowell. Starting in 2014, President Barack Obama’s health care law will expand coverage to some 30 million uninsured people. At the same time, insurers no longer will be allowed to turn away those in poor health, and virtually every American will be required to have health insurance — or pay a fine. Insurance will be available through ... MORE
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