Embattled House Republicans were able to muster enough votes on May 4, 2017 to push their health care reform bill, known as the American Health Care Act (H.R. 1628), to the Senate. The passage marks a recovery for party leaders after they jettisoned a previous bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act for
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Supreme Court Upholds Affordable Care Act’s Individual Mandate as a Tax, Invalidates Penalty of Loss of Medicaid Funds to States That Opt out of Expansion
[T]he bottom line of the health insurance/health care market is that it was too expensive for consumers and employers before the ACA; the ACA did not do anywhere near enough to reduce the costs, or even to slow the increase in costs; and this decision does nothing to control costs, and may contribute to increasing them.
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ObamaCare Minimum Medical Loss Ratio Refunds Announced
Amid the ObamaCare Supreme Court decision watch, the Department of Health and Human Services announced the initial calculations of medical loss ratios (MLR) for the nation’s insurance companies. Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, insurers must spend at least 85% of their premium income on paying benefits (80% in the individual and small…
New CBO JCT Analysis of Affordable Care Act’s Impact on Employer Provided Health Insurance
If employers (especially small employers not subject to employer penalties) simply get out of the health care business without increasing their pay rates the anticipated offsets for higher income and payroll taxes simply will not occur and the deficit will increase.
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CBO Issues New Cost Estimate for ObamaCare–$1.762 Trillion over 10 years
Shortly, CBO will release an extensive analysis conducted with JCT of the incentives for firms to offer or not offer health insurance under the ACA, as well as a range of estimates of sources of coverage and federal budgetary outcomes that would result from the ACA under alternative assumptions about employers’ behavior.
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