Federal high-risk pools would short-change those who have been in state-run high-risk pools — and might run out of money by 2011.
The Obama administration defends the health-care overhaul in the wake of projections by the Medicare Chief Actuary, which show that it would raise health costs by $311 billion and would shift 14 million people off of employer-provided insurance – and some of them onto Medicaid.
Healthy Indiana, with its popular health savings accounts, is not likely to survive Obamacare.
In Massachusetts, whose health-care overhaul is described by President Obama as being similar to ObamaCare, emergency-room visits, and the costs arising from them, have risen, not fallen — as a doctor shortage has prevented increased insurance from translating into increased access to primary care.
A myriad of companies stand to lose millions through Obamacare’s repeal of tax breaks to those who provide drug benefits to retirees.
Obamacare’s increased reporting requirements would require businesses to issue 1099’s whenever they do more than $600 of business with another entity in a year — a tremendous new cost and frustration for businesses with no tangible benefit to anyone.
Democrats reverse field and now say that companies were right to claim millions in loses as a result of the passage of ObamaCare — as these companies also discuss potentially dropping their employees’ health-care plans.
The Oklahoma Legislature formally expresses its opposition to Obamacare.
Missouri moves toward a potential August referendum to let voters express their opinions about Obamacare’s individual mandate, which could provide symbolic support for repeal.