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 [...]
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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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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, depending on the type of plan they choose. . . . [Two reasons insurance will sky rocket under Obamacare] One is a requirement that insurance plans provide coverage for [...] Professor Edward A. Zelinsky of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law has written an article called “The Health-Related Tax Provisions of PPACA and HCERA: Contingent, Complex, Incremental and Lacking Cost Controls.” The abstract states: “Americans must, into the indefinite future, confront difficult issues pertaining to health care and health care costs. The [...] University of Florida Professor of Law Steven J. Willis and 2010 UF law graduate Nakku Chung wrote an article called Constitutional Decapitation and Health Care, in which they argue that Obamacare’s tax penalty is unconstitutional. Here is the abstract: Willis and Chung demonstrate how I.R.C. § 5000A – the Health Care [...] New York Times: “come fall you’ll probably be asked to absorb even bigger cost increases than in the last few years. . . . changes made in response to the health law will add an extra 2 to 3 percent in cost increases, pressuring employers to engage in even more cost-sharing with employees [...] Barrons: “You may soon be paying $30,000 more in taxes, thanks to the health-care law. Here’s what to do. SAY WHAT YOU MAY ABOUT THE NEW health-care law, it won’t be cheap for high-net-worth taxpayers. The law’s $250 billion in tax hikes for individuals are aimed squarely at big earners.” Plaintiffs in lawsuits filed to overturn Obamacare include Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Washington, Virginia, the Thomas Moore Law Center, the National Federation of Independent Businesses, and the U.S. Citizens Association. Rasmussen Reports: “63% [...] U.S. Citizens Association filed a lawsuit to overturn the new healthcare law. In a press release, the USCA said: “The U.S. Citizens Association has assembled a team of constitutional litigators to launch a full-scale legal war against the Obama administration’s health insurance reform legislation, known as the Patient Protection and Affordable [...] A scholarly article dated December 9, 2009, article by Randy Barnett , Nathaniel Stewart and Todd Gaziano called “Why the Personal Mandate to Buy Health Insurance Is Unprecedented and Unconstitutional.” Here is the summary of the article: “A mandate requiring all individuals to purchase health insurance would be an unprecedented form [...] Prima Facie Law Blog has a summary of how Obamacare will affect employers called “A Digestible Overview of Health Care Reform for Employers.” The Heritage Foundation: “The reconciliation bill adds even more taxes for Americans — an estimated $52.3 billion over 10 years, according to a new analysis from Americans for Tax Reform. . . . Heritage’s Robert Book, Guinevere Nell and Paul Winfree have been documenting these tax changes, noting how the legislation imposes new [...] Bloomberg has a story about the Obamacare changes that will begin in 2010. The tanning industry must have some enemies in Congress because it was singled out to have the dubious honor of being liable for a ten percent tax on tanning that starts in July. See “Health-Care Changes to Start Taking Effect This Year” [...] See the Joint Committee on Taxation’s “Estimated Revenue Effects Of The Amendment In The Nature Of A Substitute To H.R. 4872,” The “Reconciliation Act of 2010,” As Amended, In Combination With The Revenue Effects Of H.R. 3590, The “Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act (‘PPACA’),” As Passed By The Senate, And Scheduled For [...] The Tax Foundation: “In order to finance $940 billion in new health care spending over the next ten years, the health care bill that the House of Representatives passed on Sunday evening contains many spending cuts to Medicare, along with many tax increases that are set to go into effect over the next [...] The Joint Committee on Taxation explains the major provisions in the new Obamacare bill in a summary released on March 21, 2010 called the “Technical Explanation of the Revenue Provisions of the ‘Reconciliation Act of 2010,’ as amended, in Combination with the ‘Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act‘.” The introduction states:
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