Slow down there, skippy. When Obama made that claim in 2008, the CMS actuaries were projecting that national health expenditures this year would be...
Your "random" employees happen to be in the top tier of competitive employment in the federal government. You picked two GS-14s and one engineer...
You're mixing concepts a bit here. The size of the deductible doesn't necessarily tell you anything about an insurance plan's covered benefits, it...
Here you go: section by section summary. That's 68 pages and will walk you through everything that's in the law in plain English. Please take the...
Deportation of illegal immigrants increases under Obama administration That article is from late last July. Has Obama drastically reversed course...
Then what distinction are you making between a positive incentive and a negative incentive? In both cases, your tax burden is higher for not having...
So the argument here is that if the individual mandate were structured as a 2.5% income tax increase, coupled with a tax credit exactly offsetting it...
Correct. My income tax burden is currently potentially higher than it would be if I owned a home, or had children, or had bought a hybrid car in the...
I'm not sure I agree with the "force" language. Under the individual mandate, if you choose to go without insurance and don't fall under one of the...
You're begging the question here. The argument (one of several but the one I like best) is that the mandate is constitutional through the N&P clause.
Both judges who've ruled against the mandate have agreed that the rest of the insurance market reforms (e.g. setting up health insurance exchanges...
That's probably because with hindsight (i.e. updated data) we know something they didn't know: unemployment was already at 8.2% before ARRA passed in...
I have to say, I find this story somewhat puzzling. That article says: Similarly, in the Hartford Courant article on this the Anthem spokesperson...
You might want to ask for a slightly better explanation.
Thanks.
You seem confused. Nothing here is contradictory. Non-group plans of a given actuarial value are projected to be cheaper after reform implementation....
It's not a more comprehensive plan for less than the current price of a less comprehensive plan, it's a more comprehensive plan for a lower cost than...
Let's do a thought experiment. Let's image a single 25-year-old working at McDonald's and choosing the lesser of the two mini-med plans offered by...
Just a heads up, this isn't directly a topic stemming from the ACA ("ObamaCare"), this pertains to the HITECH Act. That one moved into the...
I'm not sure what you're referring to. I was responding to the post in which you posted a July 2009 Fact Check article that 1) is about a House bill...
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