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Archive - 2011

December 14th

Obamacare: The Un-Affordable Care Act

The Affordable Care Act may be anything but Affordable to many Americans if Sarah Kliff of the Washington Post is correct. Recent regulations have interpreted the Act, better known as Obamacare, to measure affordability without taking into consideration whether individuals have families that also need health care. Read more »

December 8th

Health Exchange Regulation Flunks

F. That’s the grade Obamacare’s Health Insurance Exchanges regulation received from the independent Mercatus Center at George Mason University after receiving only 42% of potential points (25 out of 60) on a regulatory report card the Mercatus Center issued this week. Read more »

November 29th

Congress’ Obamacare Stock Market Betting

In his new book, Throw Them All Out: How Politicians and their Friends Get Rich Off Insider Stock Tips, Land Deals, and Cronyism that would Send the Rest of us to Prison, Peter Schweizer demonstrates the dangers of government control of healthcare from a different angle—the motivations of the congressmen who voted for it.

Schweizer reveals active trading by congressmen of healthcare stocks in the middle of the debate over Obamacare. Read more »

November 16th

Defining Essential Health Benefits and Defining Away States’ Rights

With Obamacare, the federal government has been tasked with defining what minimum health benefits health plans must cover. But the result may be to force states to remove their own mandated health benefits. Read more »

October 17th

How Much Has The Obama Administration Wasted on the CLASS Program?

Today, Americans for Limited Government sent a Freedom of Information Act request to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration on Aging to find out how much money was wasted on an Obamacare program the Obama Administration already knew would not work. Read more »

September 26th

Grandfathered Plans Partially Exempted from Under 26 Coverage in 2014

Grandfathered health insurance plans have a partial exemption from Obamacare's under 26 coverage rule--but not until 2014! Read more »

September 8th

Gliltches Put Tax Credits & Health Insurance Exchanges at Risk

Glitches in the Obamacare Statute endanger both the ability of Federal Health Insurance Exchanges to receive start up funding and its ability to give out health insurance tax credits. Read more »

August 30th

Multi-State Plans May Wreak Havoc on State Health Insurance Markets

Obamacare requires the Office of Personnel Management to create at least two Multi-State health insurance plans to compete with health insurance plans offered in state Health Insurance Exchanges. But state insurance commissioners are now warning the Obama Administration of the adverse effects the Multi-State plans may have on state health insurance markets. Read more »

August 25th

Obamacare Rent Seeking: Acupuncturists, Chiropractors, Plastic Surgeons, and Others Lobbying to be Defined “Essential”

HHS commissioned the Institute of Medicine at the National Academy of Science to recommend “the criteria and methods for determining and updating the essential health benefits package.” The IOM, as part of their determination process has invited comments from the public.

We obtained copies of all comments submitted to IOM online, and here's what we've found. Read more »

August 22nd

Has HHS Opened its Women’s Preventive Services Guidelines to Lawsuit?

The Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) may be used by religious organizations in their fight against recent Obamacare guidelines that would force employers to offer contraceptives in their employee health plans without any copays (or the like). This would include contraceptives that many religious organizations believe to induce abortions. Read more »