Americans for Taxpayer Reform: “Below is a comprehensive list of the two dozen new or higher taxes that pay for Obamcare’s expansion of government spending and interference between doctors and patients.”
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Reuters: “A federal judge in Florida struck down President Barack Obama’s landmark healthcare overhaul as unconstitutional on Monday, in the biggest legal challenge yet to federal authority to enact the law.” The Weekly Standard: “Physician Hospitals of America says that construction had to stop at 45 hospitals nationwide or they would not be able to bill Medicare for treatments.” Stopping construction at doctor-owned hospitals might not seem like the best way to boost the economy or to promote greater access and choice in health care, but that exactly [...] Washington Examiner: “Obamacare is a uniquely American government takeover of health care. Its 2,801 pages of legislation and insidious regulatory structure give the Secretary of Health and Human Services almost unlimited authority to rule over every corner of our health sector. Here are 10 reasons why they are right that it is a [...] Investors Business Daily: “When we said nearly half of U.S. doctors might close their practices or retire early rather than live under the Democrats’ health overhaul, we were heavily criticized. . . . Four in nine doctors responding to an IBD/TIPP poll sent out in August 2009 said they ‘would consider leaving their [...] Wall St. Journal: “Only a few months ago, the White House and its allies on the legal left dismissed the constitutional challenges to ObamaCare as frivolous, futile and politically motivated. So much for that. Yesterday, a federal district court judge in Virginia ruled that the health law breaches the Constitution’s limits on government [...] Washington Insider: “The Obama Administration has quietly granted even more waivers to one provision of the new federal health reform law, doubling the number in just the last three weeks to a new total of 222.” Business Insider: “For 15 years, I have taken pride in paying the full cost of health insurance for every full-time Palisades Hudson employee who wanted it. This month marks the last time I will do that. . . . I wrote in this space in March that the Affordable Care Act, which was [...] Reuters: “U.S. states can proceed with a lawsuit seeking to overturn President Barack Obama’s landmark healthcare reform law, a Florida judge ruled Thursday. U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson had said at a hearing last month that he would block efforts by the Justice Department to dismiss the lawsuit, led by Florida and 19 [...] If you are interested in keeping up with the numerous lawsuits that challenge the constitutionality of Obamacare, check out Health Care Lawsuits. Another good resource is the “aca litigation blog” that says it is “a place to find news updates, legal analysis, and all official documents related to the states’ constitutional challenges to [...] It’s called crony capitalism when the people in power give government benefits to their hand-picked beneficiaries. We now know that President Obama is hand-picking Obamacare winners at the expense of the little people. It’s more proof that the federal government is in the pocket of powerful special interests who get favored treatment [...] Ilya Somin, Associate Professor of constitutional law at George Mason University School of Law, published his “amicus brief in Virginia v. Sebelius, one of the cases challenging the constitutionality of the Obama health care plan’s individual mandate . . . I hope the brief will help dispel the myth that there is an [...] Boston Globe: “Harvard Pilgrim Health Care has notified customers that it will drop its Medicare Advantage health insurance program at the end of the year, forcing 22,000 senior citizens in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine to seek alternative supplemental coverage.” Richmond Times Dispatch: “Several months ago President Obama promised that Democrats would be proud to campaign on the new health care overhaul. With campaigns now peaking, the only Democrats who mention the law these days are the ones who voted against it. So supporters have decided to try a new approach: calling voters [...] Just as the opponents of Obamacare predicted, the new healthcare law is causing insurance companies to cancel various types of insurance policies because unlike the government, private insurance companies cannot survive by operating at a loss. Here are stories about recent policy cancellations: “Kids 0, Insurance 0 – The first fruits of ObamaCare” [...] Georgetown law Professor Randy E. Barnett has written a scholarly article called “Commandeering the People: Why the Individual Health Insurance Mandate is Unconstitutional.” Here’s the abstract: The “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” includes what is called an “individual responsibility requirement” or mandate that all persons buy health insurance from a [...] Washington Examiner: “Half a year removed from the unprecedented legislative chicanery and backroom dealing that characterized the bill’s passage, we know much more about the bill than we did then. A few of the revelations:” For more about the national nightmare called Obamacare, see a study conducted by The Heritage Foundation [...] Washington Post: “Some of the country’s most prominent health insurance companies have decided to stop offering new child-only plans, rather than comply with rules in the new health-care law that will require such plans to start accepting children with preexisting medical conditions after Sept. 23.” The Heritage Foundation: “One the most troubling policies in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is a new requirement that businesses report more information on their activities to the Internal Revenue Service. This new requirement will force businesses to divert scarce resources to complying with additional bureaucratic red tape that they [...] The Foundry: “Obamacare is deeply unpopular with the American people . . . . To combat this reality, the Obama administration struck back . . . . Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius sent a letter to America’s Health Insurance Plans warning them that ‘there will be zero tolerance’ for ‘falsely blaming [...] Arizona Republic: “State and university employees with families can expect to see their monthly health-insurance costs rise as much as 37 percent next year . . . . [Two reasons Obamacare will cause costs to skyrocket next year] One is a requirement that insurance plans provide coverage for dependent children up to age [...] Wall St. Journal: “Kathleen Sebelius’s . . . thuggish message . . . . The Health and Human Services secretary wrote that some insurers have been attributing part of their 2011 premium increases to ObamaCare and warned that ‘there will be zero tolerance for this type of misinformation and unjustified rate increases’. . [...] Wall St. Journal: “The White House fights an effort to ease a burden on small business. . . . The Senate will vote on amendments to the White House small business bill that would rescind an ObamaCare mandate that companies track and submit to the IRS all business-to-business transactions over $600 annually. . [...] New York Times: “Faced with the need to review insurance rates and enforce a panoply of new rights granted to consumers, states are scrambling to make sure they have the necessary legal authority to carry out the responsibilities being placed on them by President Obama’s health care law. Insurance commissioners in about half [...] The Phoenix based Goldwater Institute filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking to find that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, is unconstitutional. Here is the text of the Goldwater Institute’s August 12, 2010, press release: The Goldwater Institute filed a lawsuit today to strike down the 2010 federal health [...] Forbes: “The Justice Department is calling the ObamaCare mandate a tax. . . . it amounts to what’s likely the largest tax increase in U.S. history. Hot Air: “One of the big wins for Obama in the bill was the mandate for insurers to allow parents to carry their kids on policies until their 26th birthday. However, that intervention has created a rather perverse set of incentives that will see fewer children insured: “Some major health insurance [...] Cato Institute: “the health-care law did include a new tax on real estate profits. . . . It’s only a 3.8 percent tax on some real estate sales, no doubt only a minority of sales . . . .” The Cato Institute published “Bad Medicine: A Guide to the Real Costs and Consequences of the New Health Care Law.” Here’s the abstract of the detailed article. “The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act represents the most significant transformation of the American health care system since Medicare and Medicaid. It will fundamentally change [...] Investors Business Daily: “Letting the Bush cuts expire will cost taxpayers $115 billion next year alone, according to the Congressional Budget Office, and $2.6 trillion through 2020. But even more tax headaches lie ahead. This “second wave” of hikes, as Americans for Tax Reform puts it, are designed to pay for ObamaCare.” [...] |
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