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Side Effects: Medicare Advantage Gains Won’t Last
Health and Human Services Department (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Last week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that average premiums in Medicare Advantage (MA) for...
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Side Effects: Obamacare Tax Will Kill Jobs, Strangle Medical Device Industry
Last week, the IRS released its proposed plan to implement the 2.3 percent excise tax on medical devices designed to help foot the bill for Obamacare. Harmful effects of the health law’s new taxes and...
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Side Effects: Federal Government Taxes Itself and the States
One especially peculiar side effect of Obamacare will cause the federal government to begin taxing itself and state governments. This begins in 2014 as the result of the new annual fee imposed on the...
View ArticleSide Effects: If You Like Your HSA, Get Ready to Lose It
Everyone remembers President Obama’s repeated promise, “If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan, period.” Unfortunately, Obamacare breaks this promise many times...
View ArticleVIDEO: Doctor-Turned-Lawmaker Sen. John Barrasso Fights Obamacare
Sen. John Barrasso earned the nickname “Wyoming’s Doctor” after working for 24 years as an orthopedic surgeon in Casper. Today he represents the state in the U.S. Senate and is one of the leading...
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Side Effects: Obamacare Adds $17 Trillion to Long-Term Unfunded Government...
Last week, the Senate Budget Committee Republican staff released a report revealing that, over the next 75 years, Obamacare will add an additional $17 trillion in unfunded obligations—i.e., the...
View ArticleSide Effects: Another Obamacare Initiative Bites the Dust
On Monday, the Obama Administration signaled that another part of its signature health care law may not be working out as planned. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) put an end to a...
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Side Effects: Obamacare’s CO-OPs Put Taxpayer Dollars at Risk for No Good Reason
Yet another provision of Obamacare is expected to cost taxpayers more than they expected. The House Energy and Commerce Committee recently sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...
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Dependent Premiums Slated for Future Increases
As Michelle Andrews reported for Kaiser Health News, “Thanks in part to the 2010 health law’s provisions that allow adult children to stay on their parents’ plans until they reach age 26, employers...
View ArticleSide Effects: Obamacare Threatens the Future of Health Care Cost Containment
Employers’ health benefit cost growth had the smallest increase in 15 years—only 4.1 percent in 2012 compared to 6.1 percent in 2011—according to Mercer’s National Survey of Employer-Sponsored Health...
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Obamacare Causes Doctor to Retire
Newscom Yet another doctor has decided to quit practicing medicine due to Obamacare’s onerous burdens. “I am in my mid-70s and have both the capacity and willingness to care for patients for another...
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Side Effects: Obamacare Compels More Employers to Dump Coverage
Obamacare has struck again. Last week, 3M announced plans to drop health benefits for retirees, citing the new law’s impact as a contributor in its decision. In 2013, 3M retirees who qualify for...
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Side Effects: How Government Micromanagement Could Discourage Access to Some...
A recent letter from the Congressional Research Service (CRS) reveals how Obamacare will erode patients’ access to certain preventive services. The new health care law requires insurers to cover all...
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Side Effects: Obamacare Hurts Low-Income Workers
With a struggling economy and stagnant unemployment rate, the last thing the United States needs is any public policy that will hurt job growth. Unfortunately, Obamacare’s new federally mandated,...
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Side Effects: Obamacare Strengthens Compliance-Based Medicine
Obamacare alters the practice medicine by putting a stronger emphasis on adherence to government-determined measures of quality. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) already offers...
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Side Effects: Now Even Democrats Are Voicing Concern About Obamacare’s...
Imagine that one day, your boss takes you out to coffee. You offer to pick up the tip as a contribution. The two of you head down the street and are faced with quite the conundrum: two coffee shops...
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Side Effects: Bad News for New Mexico Residents Who Like Their Current Health...
Once again, the promise that Americans can keep the health coverage they like under Obamacare has been broken. National Health Insurance, Aetna, John Alden, and Principle have reported that they “need...
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Side Effects: Obamacare Encourages States to Drop Medicaid
Because of Obamacare, states are considering dropping out of Medicaid, the federal-state health program for the poor, rather than deal with the additional fiscal strain resulting from the health law....
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Side Effects: Obamacare Accelerates Hospital Job Losses
Repeatedly, reports have shown that Obamacare will increase job loss. But what happens when those who are laid off are the workers meant to enable the health care law’s expanded access of care:...
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Side Effects: AARP Employees Face Premium Hikes As Result of New Law
Health care reform was supposed to “bend the cost curve” in health care and reduce the amount that American families pay in health care premiums. This was the message the nation received from...
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