The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to decide possibly today that it will take up the Florida case opposing national health care reform—the Affordable Care Act or as it is now commonly called “Obamacare”. Everyone expects that that the Court will rule in 2012 whether the individual mandate for almost every American to purchase health […]
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There are at least 228,000 small business owners in the country happy about “Obamacare”. That is the numbers who have so far claimed the health insurance tax credit for small businesses that offer the benefit to their employees for 2010. How much did these businesses save? $278 million. Unfortunately, the number of small businesses helped is
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In last night’s GOP Presidential debate the moderator from Politico asked Michele Bachmann to identify one specific regulation that negatively affected her small business or any small business. Not missing a beat she said Obamacare, the most hated governmental program according to the Republican contenders. Bachmann said that the Affordable Care Act (the actual name
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Deloitte has just released its 2011 Survey of Health Care Consumers: Global Report and the results don’t look good for the United States in spite of us spending 17.6% of our GDP on health care (far more than any other country included in this survey). Here are just a couple revealing survey results. –Only 22%
Below are two must-read editorials from this weekend. The first by Cindi Scoppe, Associate Editor of The State, accurately analyzes the meaning of the recent House vote to give Amazon.com an exemption from collecting sales tax. But most legislators acknowledge that there was a serious question of fairness in this case. So what’s the cost
The below editorial is from the Anderson (SC) Independent Mail—————————————————————————————-Anderson Independent MailFebruary 21, 2011 Health care options What will Republicans offer the American people if the party’s efforts to repeal health-care reform are successful? “Replacing ‘Obamacare’ is not something we can do overnight,” Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., told the Washington Post. “It may take some
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The Florida judge’s ruling Monday against the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is just one more step along the path to a final decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in a few years. Now two Federal Judges have deemed the individual mandate to be unconstitutional and two have not found it to be so. Of note
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