Thanks to Jeff Wilkinson, reporter for The State, for his front page story yesterday on the impact of Obamacare on businesses. As these now familiar pieces go you start with one business owner (usually as in this case a restaurateur with hundreds of employees) complaining about how the healthcare reform is forcing him to cut […]
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U.S. Chamber and Harris Interactive teamed up to lie to public about Obamacare in a recent survey. Read the story from The Washington Post below that exposes the fraud. Here are the important points. –The survey was not a traditional random survey of businesses. Instead it was an opt in of 499 U.S. Chamber members
August 7, 2013 By Dinah Wisenberg Brin | Entrepreneur Small businesses with fewer than 50 full-time employees — or the equivalent — as defined by the U.S. Affordable Care Act may wonder what they should do to prepare for employee open enrollment on the new healthcare exchanges this October. If you’re among those with questions, watch this recent
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The Greenville News August 3, 2013 “I would strongly encourage the public not to get too excited about these numbers, because there’s actually good news coming in federal subsidies,” said Frank Knapp, president and CEO of the South Carolina Small Business Chamber who supports the changes to how customers buy health insurance. Health law to hit
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The announcement yesterday that businesses with 50 or more employees would have an extra year to comply with the Obamacare requirement that they either provide health insurance or pay a penalty was greeted with glee by the National Federation of Independent Business. “This is simply the latest evidence that implementation of this terrible law is
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Columbia Regional Business ReportBy Bill Poovey bpoovey@scbiznews.comPublished June 25, 2013 More than 119,000 South Carolina consumers whose health insurers failed to spend enough premium dollars on patient care are due to get rebates totaling $6.2 million from the insurers. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said the rebate checks average about $70
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The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) has strongly advocated that states not expand their Medicaid programs as allowed under the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). This wasn’t a business decision by the organization because expanding Medicaid will benefit small businesses as I have pointed out in opinion editorials (here, here and here). Instead it was
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Study By Brian Haile Senior Vice President for Health Policy Jackson Hewitt Tax Service Inc. Key Findings States that do not expand Medicaid leave employers exposed to higher “shared responsibility” payments under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The associated costs to employers could total $876 million to $1.3 billion each year in the 22 states
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Health insurance companies have really ramped up the message machine on dire warnings of big rate hikes once Obamacare fully kicks in next year. Much of the scare tactic is being delivered by insurance agents to their clients and other supporters, like me, of national healthcare reform. So it’s not surprising that the Obama administration
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Obamacare haters are on the verge of finally having some success in stopping the implementation of the healthcare reform. If the sequester’s automatic budget cuts go into effect this Friday, federal spending on three of the components of teh Affordable Care Act will be impacted. Less money will be available for establishing the health insurance
