ObamaCare Stifles Small Business

GOP.gov Policy News: ObamaCare and Small Employers Less than three months before the congressional midterm elections in November, House Republicans are still actively trying to remind the American public that the health care reform bill forced through the House and Senate by the Democrats only a few months ago is short on benefits and long [...]

More Health Care Cost Admissions

Associated Press: New Coverage for Young Adults Will Raise Premiums Letting young adults stay on their parents’ health insurance until they turn 26 will nudge premiums nearly 1 percent higher for employer plans, the government said in an estimate released Monday. The coverage requirement, effective starting later this year, is one of the most anticipated [...]

‘Can we have your liver, then?’

CBS2: Proposal: All New Yorkers Become Organ Donors “We have 10,000 New Yorkers on the list today waiting for organs. We import half the organs we transplant. It is an unacceptable failed system,” Brodsky said. To fix that, Brodsky introduced a new bill in Albany that would enroll all New Yorkers as an organ donor, [...]

Boehner: Democrats Admit New Health Care Law Hurts Employers, Jobs

First, the so-called “stimulus” package was supposed to be about jobs.  Later, because it was wholly ineffective and because it was never about jobs to begin with, Congress wanted a dedicated Jobs Bill.   Then, the health care reform bill was supposed to jump start businesses large and small.  Later, we found out that many companies [...]

White House Health Care Fraud

The American Spectator: What Lies Beneath The economic report released last week by Health and Human Services, which indicated that President Barack Obama’s health care “reform” law would actually increase the cost of health care and impose higher costs on consumers, had been submitted to the office of HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius more than a [...]

Just A Wee Bit Late

Associated Press: Report: Health Overhaul Will Increase Nation’s Tab President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul law will increase the nation’s health care tab instead of bringing costs down, government economic forecasters concluded Thursday in a sobering assessment of the sweeping legislation. A report by economic experts at the Health and Human Services Department said the [...]

Philadelphia Tax Day Tea Party 2010

By way of weather alone, not to mention a host of other factors, this year’s Tax Day Tea Party in Philadelphia was infinitely better than last year’s event.  While I left last year’s event soaked to the bone by a cold, cold rain, today was about as perfect as could be.  The sun shone brightly [...]

Taxed Enough Already? Not for Obama and the Democrats.

I can make a firm pledge.  Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase — not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes.  Not any of your taxes. As seen in that great new video from the House Republican Conference, [...]

Healthcare CEO Hearing Cancelled

Washington Examiner: Waxman Cancels ObamaCare CEO Hearing A House Energy and Commerce Committee spokeswoman tells me that Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., has indeed cancelled the April 21 subcommittee hearing in which CEOs were to testify about Obamacare. So far, the only indication of this change appears on the committee’s website is on the Republican minority [...]

What a Bunch of Boobs!

Here’s where I either come off as a heartless libertarian, a clueless member of the male persuasion, or both. According to an April 9 report from CNN, carefully hidden more than 1200 pages into the health care reform bill just signed into law is a provision which requires employers which employ more than 50 employees [...]

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