Health insurers are privately warning brokers that premiums for many individuals and small businesses could increase sharply next year because of the health-care overhaul law, with the nation's biggest firm projecting that rates could more than double for some consumers buying their own plans. The projections, made in sessions with brokers and agents, provide some of the most concrete evidence yet of how much insurance companies might increase prices when major provisions of the law kick in next year—a subject of rigorous debate.
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Health Insurers Warn On Premiums, The Wall Street Journal
Friday, March 22, 2013
Could Enforcing Obamacare Result In A Negative Medicaid "Ripple Effect"? CBS Charlotte
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
“A lot of middle class individuals are going to apply for a state exchange… thinking they’re going to get a Blue Cross Blue Shield plan, or a United Plan, like they had before,” Clark said. “[But t]hey will find out they’re not on private health insurance, but rather, a state Medicaid program.”
He specifically referenced Section 1311(d)(4)(F) of the PPACA, which states that “if through screening of the application by the Exchange, the Exchange determines that such individuals are eligible for [Medicaid, State Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), or] any such program, [the Exchange shall] enroll such individuals in such program.
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He specifically referenced Section 1311(d)(4)(F) of the PPACA, which states that “if through screening of the application by the Exchange, the Exchange determines that such individuals are eligible for [Medicaid, State Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), or] any such program, [the Exchange shall] enroll such individuals in such program.
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Obamacare Putting Squeeze On Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), The New American
Saturday, July 07, 2012
The problem is that in the United States today, health insurance isn’t really health insurance after all. It is nothing like auto insurance where the driver is covered for catastrophic events that he hopes never happen. It is nothing like fire insurance which covers an event that every homeowner hopes will never happen. This is true insurance: No one hopes they’ll need it, but it they do, it’s there.
As Thomas Szasz noted in The Freeman:
What we call “health insurance” has little to do with health and nothing to do with insurance. We do not face a “health insurance crisis.” We face the consequences of a set of economic and social problems rooted in a futile effort to make the distribution of health care…egalitarian…
What we choose to call “health insurance” is, in fact, a cost-shifting masquerading as a system of insurance. We treat a public, statist political system of health care as if it were a system of private health insurance…
[As a result] Americans now view their health insurance as an open-ended entitlement for reimbursement for virtually any expense that may be categorized as “health care,” such as birth-control pills or Viagra.
And those who see through the sham, and want to take control of their own health care, and its related costs, through HSAs, now will find themselves unable to do so, all in the name of egalitarian health care.
Forbes writer Avik Roy says there is a way out of this mess:
The free-market approach to health care involves going in exactly the opposite direction: encouraging even more people to save money for their own health expenses using health savings accounts.
It’s when you pay for something directly that you are most likely to make sure that you’re paying for value.
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ObamaCare Contains 21 Tax Hikes Costing $675 Billion
Thursday, July 05, 2012
According to a new press release from the House Ways & Means Committee, ObamaCare contains 21 tax hikes that will cost Americans $675 billion over the next decade. WAM's press release states:
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A Surgeon's Commentary on ObamaCare
Monday, July 02, 2012
The American Thinker published a new article on June 30th detailing the comments of a surgeon to his friend (the author). The subject was the surgeon's commentary on ObamaCare which detailed the benefits of a free-market health care system:
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Just Who Should Control Your Healthcare Spending?
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Docs4PatientCare's Dr. Paul Hsieh had an article published at Forbes.com discussing the issue of who should control your healthcare spending. There are really only two choices. You can either control your own healthcare dollars, making your own informed decisions (just like you do in so many aspects of your life) or you can cede control to government bureaucrats.
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ObamaCare Pharmaceutical Tax Threatens Next Generation of Prescription Drugs
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Sally Pipes of the Pacific Research Institute makes a very clear and concise case for how ObamaCare's tax increase on the pharmaceutical industry threatens the ability of the drug makers to bring innovative, life savings drugs to market.
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The Future of Innovation in the Health Care Sector
Monday, May 14, 2012
In her latest column, Grace-Marie Turner tackles the issue of medical innovation's future. One aspect of ObamaCare includes a significant tax increase on medical innovators. Ms. Turner explains the consequences of this tax:
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That Was Then, This is Now: ObamaCare's Runaway Costs
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Avik Roy, at The Apothecary, examines the comments from MIT economist Jonathan Gruber about the impact ObamaCare would have on insurance costs. At the time Congress was considering the law, Gruber promised the law would reduce costs, his comments since then acknowledge the truth - ObamaCare will increase costs substantially.
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D4PC "Morning Rounds", Monday, April 9, 2012
Monday, April 09, 2012
Welcome to D4PC "Morning Rounds", your daily review of healthcare news and information from Washington, DC and around the nation. These briefings will keep you up to date on recent developments and our effort to replace the PPACA with patient-centered reforms that protect the doctor-patient relationship and preserve individual freedom of choice.
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In Search of the Healthcare We Want
Friday, April 06, 2012
A majority of Americans want the Supreme Court to strike down ObamaCare's individual mandate (which in turn will cause ObamaCare to collapse). Despite public opposition to ObamaCare, nearly 60% of the public wants Congress to continue to look for solutions to many of America's health care issues.
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It's Not Just The Mandates: Obamacare's Other Infringements, PJ Media
Friday, March 30, 2012
“Unexpected” cost overruns are nothing new for government programs. When Medicare was passed in 1965, it was predicted the program would "only" cost $12 billion by 1990 (it actually cost a whopping $110 billion per year by 1990, nearly 10 times more than predicted).
The rapidly rising costs of ObamaCare will likely far outpace the amount by which Medicare exceeded its original cost estimates. But the soaring economic costs of ObamaCare will pale in comparison to the escalating losses of freedom.
The infringement of personal freedom receiving the most attention lately has been the “individual mandate” which requires Americans to purchase health insurance. This issue is at the heart of the current legal challenge before the U.S. Supreme Court. Lost in the debate, however, is the fact that ObamaCare also poses numerous other mandates, controls and burdens on patients, their doctors and employers. Read more about these burdens in an article from D4PC's Dr. Paul Hsieh, here.
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The rapidly rising costs of ObamaCare will likely far outpace the amount by which Medicare exceeded its original cost estimates. But the soaring economic costs of ObamaCare will pale in comparison to the escalating losses of freedom.
The infringement of personal freedom receiving the most attention lately has been the “individual mandate” which requires Americans to purchase health insurance. This issue is at the heart of the current legal challenge before the U.S. Supreme Court. Lost in the debate, however, is the fact that ObamaCare also poses numerous other mandates, controls and burdens on patients, their doctors and employers. Read more about these burdens in an article from D4PC's Dr. Paul Hsieh, here.
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D4PC "Morning Rounds" for Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Welcome to D4PC "Morning Rounds", your daily review of healthcare news and information from Washington, DC and around the nation. These briefings will keep you up to date on recent developments and our effort to replace the PPACA with patient-centered reforms that protect the doctor-patient relationship and preserve individual freedom of choice.
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D4PC "Morning Rounds" Monday, November 21, 2011
Monday, November 21, 2011
Welcome to D4PC "Morning Rounds", your daily review of healthcare news and information from Washington, DC and around the nation. These briefings will keep you up to date on recent developments and our effort to replace the PPACA with patient-centered reforms that protect the doctor-patient relationship and preserve individual freedom of choice.
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D4PC "Morning Rounds" Thursday October 13, 2011
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Welcome to D4PC "Morning Rounds", your daily review of healthcare news and information from Washington, DC and around the nation. These briefings will keep you up to date on recent developments and our effort to replace the PPACA with patient-centered reforms that protect the doctor-patient relationship and preserve individual freedom of choice.
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- To Save, Workers Take On Health-Cost Risk, The Wall Street Journal
- The Doctor Won't See You Now. He's Clocked Out, The Wall Street Journal
- Connecting The Dots On Healthcare, TownHall.com
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