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May 10, 2012
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In today’s Washington Post, George Will highlights the ways in which the Democrats’ health care law is already contributing to job loss and inhibiting economic growth here at home - leaving job creators and employees alike worried about whether the trend will continue as more and more provisions of ...
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May 8, 2012
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This week, the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions highlighted an analysis conducted by the group last fall which found that up to 65 million Americans could lose their employer-sponsored health insurance because of ObamaCare's employer mandate requirement. The analysis noted that while employers o...
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April 27, 2012
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If you listen to any of the Democrat attacks on Medicare Premium Support, you may think that the idea was a partisan plan crafted behind closed doors. But when you look at the true history behind Premium Support, the facts reveal long-standing bipartisan support for this plan to save Medicare. 1993 ...
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April 13, 2012
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A recent survey shows that physicians under the age of 40 are pessimistic about the future of the U.S. health care system, citing the Democrats’ health care law as the main reason why. One respondent noted that the Democrats’ law could jeopardize patients’ access to care saying, “There will be an in...
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March 25, 2012
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Not long ago, Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY), now Chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, cast the deciding vote that would have enacted a new premium support program in Medicare. That premium support model, contained in the House-passed Medicare prescription drug benefit legislation, is...
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March 23, 2012
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Today marks the two-year anniversary of when President Obama signed the Democrats’ health care bill into law. Because the law was drafted in secret behind closed doors, it wasn’t entirely clear how the American people would fare under the new law. However, now that we’ve had two years to “find out w...
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March 22, 2012
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As one of their first acts of the 112th Congress, House Republicans voted unanimously (along with three House Democrats) to repeal the Democrats’ health care law in its entirety. Although the Democrat-led Senate still refuses to take up legislation to fully repeal ObamaCare, House Republicans have n...
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March 21, 2012
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This week, the House of Representatives will vote to repeal the so-called Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). Created by the Democrats’ health care law, IPAB is a powerful board of 15 unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats whose sole job will be to save money by restricting access to health ...
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March 13, 2012
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When the Democrats' health care bill was signed into law, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that it would increase spending on Medicaid and taxpayer-funded health insurance subsidies by $938 billion between 2010 and 2019. However, as Republicans repeatedly pointed out, this...
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March 13, 2012
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Today, the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) and Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released an updated analysis of the President’s health care law. Below are five facts every American should know about this report: Spending jumps to $1.8 trillion – With America already borrowing 40 cents...
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