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For Small Business Owners, The Obamacare Reality Bites

More than 40 percent of small businesses have frozen hiring because of Obamacare, according to a new poll from Gallup. A fifth have actually cut their workforces as a direct result of the healthcare reform law. That’s not exactly the future President Obama forecast in 2009, when he told an ...
Health Care

The Cure for Obamacare

The battle to bring about meaningful health care reform in the U.S. is a long-term fight, and Obamacare is not the option. Under President Obama’s health care law, Americans will ultimately face long waiting lists, rationed care, and a lack of access to the latest technology and treatments. The changes ...
Commentary

Organized Labor And Business: The Latest Strange Bedfellows To Unite Against Obamacare

Obamacare is proving the old axiom that politics makes strange bedfellows. Organized labor and the business community are the latest unlikely pair to unite in opposition to the healthcare reform law. Both groups are discovering that Obamacare will substantially increase the cost of providing health benefits — to the detriment ...
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Obamacare’s exchanges are on a collision course with reality

Obamacare’s health insurance exchanges are supposed to enroll millions of Americans in just a few months. That may come as a surprise to them, according to a new poll. More than three-quarters of Americans know “little” or “nothing” about the state-based exchanges, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. They won’t ...
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Thanks to Obamacare, A 20,000 Doctor Shortage is Set to Quintuple

Obamacare is set to provide some 16 million people with health insurance through Medicaid or the new exchanges next year. Unfortunately, their policies may not be worth much — as they may not be able to actually get care. America is suffering from a doctor shortage. An influx of millions ...
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ObamaCare Sticker Shock Will Hit Americans Hard

Federal lawmakers are warning Americans to prepare for some “shocking” news when they renew their health insurance next year. The House Energy and Commerce Committee just published “The Looming Premium Rate Shock” — a report estimating that some Americans could see their insurance bills quintuple. It’s yet more evidence that ...
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The Obamacare Insurance Exchange Train Is Already Coming Off The Rails

Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) raised eyebrows across the country last month when he publicly fretted about an Obamacare “train wreck” as the Administration rushes to implement the many provisions of the law that take effect in 2014. President Obama has attempted to assuage Sen. Baucus’s concerns, saying that his staff ...
Business & Economics

Startup Business Are America’s Best Job Creators

‘Small business” is the recipient of much official love (as well as heavy regulatory intrusion), but it receives its loudest applause as the supposed source of most employment growth. Alas, that conventional wisdom is incorrect: The modern scholarly literature finds that it is new (not small) businesses — startups — ...
Business & Economics

New Study Finds Startup Business Increases Growth of Real SGP

A new study examining the effect of net employment creation by startup businesses on state gross product was released today. Startup Businesses and the Growth of Real State Gross Product is authored by PRI senior fellow Benjamin Zycher, Ph.D. Dr. Zycher uses a sample of 49 states for the period ...
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U.S. Companies Engage In Financial Jiu-Jitsu To Get Around Obamacare

Obamacare’s most notorious regulations — including the mandate that employers provide health insurance to their workers or pay a fine — are still several months off. But businesses are wasting no time finding ways to free themselves from the law’s strictures. First, companies announced that they’d cut hours, hire contractors, ...
Commentary

For Small Business Owners, The Obamacare Reality Bites

More than 40 percent of small businesses have frozen hiring because of Obamacare, according to a new poll from Gallup. A fifth have actually cut their workforces as a direct result of the healthcare reform law. That’s not exactly the future President Obama forecast in 2009, when he told an ...
Health Care

The Cure for Obamacare

The battle to bring about meaningful health care reform in the U.S. is a long-term fight, and Obamacare is not the option. Under President Obama’s health care law, Americans will ultimately face long waiting lists, rationed care, and a lack of access to the latest technology and treatments. The changes ...
Commentary

Organized Labor And Business: The Latest Strange Bedfellows To Unite Against Obamacare

Obamacare is proving the old axiom that politics makes strange bedfellows. Organized labor and the business community are the latest unlikely pair to unite in opposition to the healthcare reform law. Both groups are discovering that Obamacare will substantially increase the cost of providing health benefits — to the detriment ...
Commentary

Obamacare’s exchanges are on a collision course with reality

Obamacare’s health insurance exchanges are supposed to enroll millions of Americans in just a few months. That may come as a surprise to them, according to a new poll. More than three-quarters of Americans know “little” or “nothing” about the state-based exchanges, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. They won’t ...
Commentary

Thanks to Obamacare, A 20,000 Doctor Shortage is Set to Quintuple

Obamacare is set to provide some 16 million people with health insurance through Medicaid or the new exchanges next year. Unfortunately, their policies may not be worth much — as they may not be able to actually get care. America is suffering from a doctor shortage. An influx of millions ...
Commentary

ObamaCare Sticker Shock Will Hit Americans Hard

Federal lawmakers are warning Americans to prepare for some “shocking” news when they renew their health insurance next year. The House Energy and Commerce Committee just published “The Looming Premium Rate Shock” — a report estimating that some Americans could see their insurance bills quintuple. It’s yet more evidence that ...
Commentary

The Obamacare Insurance Exchange Train Is Already Coming Off The Rails

Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) raised eyebrows across the country last month when he publicly fretted about an Obamacare “train wreck” as the Administration rushes to implement the many provisions of the law that take effect in 2014. President Obama has attempted to assuage Sen. Baucus’s concerns, saying that his staff ...
Business & Economics

Startup Business Are America’s Best Job Creators

‘Small business” is the recipient of much official love (as well as heavy regulatory intrusion), but it receives its loudest applause as the supposed source of most employment growth. Alas, that conventional wisdom is incorrect: The modern scholarly literature finds that it is new (not small) businesses — startups — ...
Business & Economics

New Study Finds Startup Business Increases Growth of Real SGP

A new study examining the effect of net employment creation by startup businesses on state gross product was released today. Startup Businesses and the Growth of Real State Gross Product is authored by PRI senior fellow Benjamin Zycher, Ph.D. Dr. Zycher uses a sample of 49 states for the period ...
Commentary

U.S. Companies Engage In Financial Jiu-Jitsu To Get Around Obamacare

Obamacare’s most notorious regulations — including the mandate that employers provide health insurance to their workers or pay a fine — are still several months off. But businesses are wasting no time finding ways to free themselves from the law’s strictures. First, companies announced that they’d cut hours, hire contractors, ...
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