Health Savings Accounts
Commentary
Obama’s 2009 Promise Of Cheaper Healthcare Has Morphed Into 2013 Price Hikes
Remember when President Obama promised back in 2009 that his health care reform plan would cut insurance premiums for the average family by $2,500? Four years later, those promised cuts have morphed into admissions of price hikes. Indeed, Americas health cost crisis shows no signs of stopping. And Obamacare will ...
Commentary
Still time to repeal Obamacare
On July 2, the Obama administration announced that it would delay implementation of the Affordable Care Act’s “employer mandate” until 2015. This much-bemoaned provision will require businesses with at least 50 employees who work 30 hours or more a week to provide health insurance to all full-timers. Employers that fail ...
Commentary
ObamaCare Doesn’t Deserve Credit For Health Cost Slowdown
America’s health spending is down, growing at the lowest rate in over 50 years. The Obama administration has been quick to take credit, boasting that the Affordable Care Act has “begun to curb rising health costs across the system.” The president is indeed responsible for the slowdown in health spending. ...
Commentary
Fed Up With Obamacare, Doctors Increasingly Prefer Cash For Care
Obamacares most intrusive changes to the healthcare marketplace including the individual mandate whereby Americans must secure health insurance or pay a fine and its massive expansion of Medicaid are less than a year from taking effect. Many doctors have decided that theyre not interested in seeing how those ...
Health Care
Myths and Realities of Obamacare
Introduction Three years ago on March 23, 2010, the Patient Protection and Affordability Act (Obamacare) was signed into law. With the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on June 28, 2012 that the individual mandate is constitutional under Congress power to tax and the November 6 election results, the law is in ...
Commentary
Delay, Repeal, Replace
Watching Congress take the final steps to pass Obamacare in March 2010 was a bitterly disappointing moment for the laws opponents. They didnt have to be told that what was being rammed through the House and Senate was the largest power grab by the federal government in at least a ...
Education
Next-Gen Education
The Pacific Research Institute is pleased to co-sponsor the study Education Savings Accounts: A Path to Give All Children an Effective Education and Prepare Them for Life by Jonathan Butcher, Education Director at the Goldwater Institute. Education savings accounts provide an innovative solution to childrens educational needs. Conceived by the ...
Commentary
Obamacare’s not-so essential benefits
Federal officials at the Department of Health and Human Services just finalized rules governing health insurance for individuals and small businesses purchased through Obamacare’s new exchanges. The announcement brings us a step closer to a health-care system wherein spending continues to grow rapidly while basic coverage remains unaffordable. Just look ...
Education
Next-Gen Education
San Francisco, CA December 12, 2012 The Pacific Research Institute is pleased to co-sponsor the study Education Savings Accounts: A Path to Give All Children an Effective Education and Prepare Them for Life by Jonathan Butcher, Education Director at the Goldwater Institute. Education savings accounts provide an innovative solution ...
Commentary
Obamacare’s Cruel War On Patient-Centered Healthcare
In just a few weeks, when the calendar flips to 2013, millions of Americans will get their first taste of Obamacare a $2,500 cap on their flexible spending accounts. Thats down from the previous $5,000 cap and thus equivalent to a tax hike for any family that had ...
Obama’s 2009 Promise Of Cheaper Healthcare Has Morphed Into 2013 Price Hikes
Remember when President Obama promised back in 2009 that his health care reform plan would cut insurance premiums for the average family by $2,500? Four years later, those promised cuts have morphed into admissions of price hikes. Indeed, Americas health cost crisis shows no signs of stopping. And Obamacare will ...
Still time to repeal Obamacare
On July 2, the Obama administration announced that it would delay implementation of the Affordable Care Act’s “employer mandate” until 2015. This much-bemoaned provision will require businesses with at least 50 employees who work 30 hours or more a week to provide health insurance to all full-timers. Employers that fail ...
ObamaCare Doesn’t Deserve Credit For Health Cost Slowdown
America’s health spending is down, growing at the lowest rate in over 50 years. The Obama administration has been quick to take credit, boasting that the Affordable Care Act has “begun to curb rising health costs across the system.” The president is indeed responsible for the slowdown in health spending. ...
Fed Up With Obamacare, Doctors Increasingly Prefer Cash For Care
Obamacares most intrusive changes to the healthcare marketplace including the individual mandate whereby Americans must secure health insurance or pay a fine and its massive expansion of Medicaid are less than a year from taking effect. Many doctors have decided that theyre not interested in seeing how those ...
Myths and Realities of Obamacare
Introduction Three years ago on March 23, 2010, the Patient Protection and Affordability Act (Obamacare) was signed into law. With the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on June 28, 2012 that the individual mandate is constitutional under Congress power to tax and the November 6 election results, the law is in ...
Delay, Repeal, Replace
Watching Congress take the final steps to pass Obamacare in March 2010 was a bitterly disappointing moment for the laws opponents. They didnt have to be told that what was being rammed through the House and Senate was the largest power grab by the federal government in at least a ...
Next-Gen Education
The Pacific Research Institute is pleased to co-sponsor the study Education Savings Accounts: A Path to Give All Children an Effective Education and Prepare Them for Life by Jonathan Butcher, Education Director at the Goldwater Institute. Education savings accounts provide an innovative solution to childrens educational needs. Conceived by the ...
Obamacare’s not-so essential benefits
Federal officials at the Department of Health and Human Services just finalized rules governing health insurance for individuals and small businesses purchased through Obamacare’s new exchanges. The announcement brings us a step closer to a health-care system wherein spending continues to grow rapidly while basic coverage remains unaffordable. Just look ...
Next-Gen Education
San Francisco, CA December 12, 2012 The Pacific Research Institute is pleased to co-sponsor the study Education Savings Accounts: A Path to Give All Children an Effective Education and Prepare Them for Life by Jonathan Butcher, Education Director at the Goldwater Institute. Education savings accounts provide an innovative solution ...
Obamacare’s Cruel War On Patient-Centered Healthcare
In just a few weeks, when the calendar flips to 2013, millions of Americans will get their first taste of Obamacare a $2,500 cap on their flexible spending accounts. Thats down from the previous $5,000 cap and thus equivalent to a tax hike for any family that had ...
