Sally C. Pipes
Commentary
New Year, New Problems For Obamacare
Low-income Americans are in for a nasty surprise this tax season, thanks to an Obamacare accounting glitch. Obamacare overpaid up to 3.4 million Americans to help them buy subsidized health insurance. Now, those citizens will have to pay back the IRS when they file their taxes. But most of these ...
Commentary
Health Cost Holiday Will Soon Be Over
Federal officials recently reported that health spending inched up 3.6 percent in 2013. Thats the lowest annual rate of growth in decades and the fourth time in the past five years that health inflation has been under 4 percent. The Obama administration was quick to take credit. The recent ...
Commentary
How Republicans can replace Obamacare — now
Last months election proved that congressional Democrats dont have much of a future in the prediction business. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., claimed that Obamacare would be a winning issue. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Democratic National Committee chairwoman, said, This election certainly wont turn on the Affordable Care Act. The ...
Commentary
A Cadillac (Tax) For Everyone
While campaigning for the White House, President Obama promised to cut taxes for 95 percent of Americans. As he put it, In an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class. And then, the president went ahead and raised taxes on the ...
Commentary
Obamacare’s Approval Rating Drops as Premiums Climb
In early October, President Obama said that the midterm elections would be a referendum on his policies. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) went so far as to predict that Obamacare would be a winner at the polls. The voters had other ideas. They sent Democrats packing in eight Senate races. Louisiana ...
Commentary
Hospitals Manipulate Drug Program for Poor
Health insurance costs are set to jump dramatically. A new report from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services found that average premiums will rise nearly 7% in 2014 ?? and then continue to increase by at least 5% annually over the next decade. The rising cost of insurance is ...
Commentary
Obamacare is hardly pro-choice
Thousands of Americans will soon receive cancellation notices for their health insurance plans compliments of Obamacare. Thirteen states and the District of Columbia are ordering insurers to discontinue plans previously exempt from Obamacare’s onerous and expensive coverage mandates. This rash of cancelled policies is only the latest example of ...
Commentary
It’s time for ObamaScare, The Sequel
Like a dreaded movie sequel, ObamaScare 2.0 “The Nightmare Continues” is back for a second open enrollment season. Too scary to be released prior to the midterm elections, the ObamaScare horror show goes live Nov. 15. But unlike a Hollywood slasher flick, where the monsters are fake, the ...
Business & Economics
The impacts of raising San Francisco’s minimum wage to $15
On Nov. 4 San Francisco voters are being asked to approve Proposition J, a measure which increases the minimum wage in San Francisco to $15 per hour by 2018 from the current city rate of $10.74. San Franciscans should think carefully before approving this measure. When a business hires an ...
Commentary
Obamacare on Shaky Ground as Court Battle Looms
Obamacare may be in big trouble, if a recent federal court ruling is any indication. Late last month, a U.S. district court in Oklahoma affirmed that the Internal Revenue Service can only offer tax credits for health insurance plans on state-run exchanges not federally-operated ones. Earlier this year, a ...
New Year, New Problems For Obamacare
Low-income Americans are in for a nasty surprise this tax season, thanks to an Obamacare accounting glitch. Obamacare overpaid up to 3.4 million Americans to help them buy subsidized health insurance. Now, those citizens will have to pay back the IRS when they file their taxes. But most of these ...
Health Cost Holiday Will Soon Be Over
Federal officials recently reported that health spending inched up 3.6 percent in 2013. Thats the lowest annual rate of growth in decades and the fourth time in the past five years that health inflation has been under 4 percent. The Obama administration was quick to take credit. The recent ...
How Republicans can replace Obamacare — now
Last months election proved that congressional Democrats dont have much of a future in the prediction business. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., claimed that Obamacare would be a winning issue. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Democratic National Committee chairwoman, said, This election certainly wont turn on the Affordable Care Act. The ...
A Cadillac (Tax) For Everyone
While campaigning for the White House, President Obama promised to cut taxes for 95 percent of Americans. As he put it, In an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class. And then, the president went ahead and raised taxes on the ...
Obamacare’s Approval Rating Drops as Premiums Climb
In early October, President Obama said that the midterm elections would be a referendum on his policies. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) went so far as to predict that Obamacare would be a winner at the polls. The voters had other ideas. They sent Democrats packing in eight Senate races. Louisiana ...
Hospitals Manipulate Drug Program for Poor
Health insurance costs are set to jump dramatically. A new report from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services found that average premiums will rise nearly 7% in 2014 ?? and then continue to increase by at least 5% annually over the next decade. The rising cost of insurance is ...
Obamacare is hardly pro-choice
Thousands of Americans will soon receive cancellation notices for their health insurance plans compliments of Obamacare. Thirteen states and the District of Columbia are ordering insurers to discontinue plans previously exempt from Obamacare’s onerous and expensive coverage mandates. This rash of cancelled policies is only the latest example of ...
It’s time for ObamaScare, The Sequel
Like a dreaded movie sequel, ObamaScare 2.0 “The Nightmare Continues” is back for a second open enrollment season. Too scary to be released prior to the midterm elections, the ObamaScare horror show goes live Nov. 15. But unlike a Hollywood slasher flick, where the monsters are fake, the ...
The impacts of raising San Francisco’s minimum wage to $15
On Nov. 4 San Francisco voters are being asked to approve Proposition J, a measure which increases the minimum wage in San Francisco to $15 per hour by 2018 from the current city rate of $10.74. San Franciscans should think carefully before approving this measure. When a business hires an ...
Obamacare on Shaky Ground as Court Battle Looms
Obamacare may be in big trouble, if a recent federal court ruling is any indication. Late last month, a U.S. district court in Oklahoma affirmed that the Internal Revenue Service can only offer tax credits for health insurance plans on state-run exchanges not federally-operated ones. Earlier this year, a ...
