The Threat Posed by Gun Magazine Limits
Bans on “large capacity ammunition feeding devices” could endanger victims instead of saving them. Continue reading
In 2013, Get Ready For An ObamaCare Tax Onslaught
At Forbes.com, Grace-Marie Turner summarizes the new taxes imposed by Obamacare: (1) Medical Device Tax; (2) A new Surtax on Investment Income; (3) A new Medicare Tax; (4) The new Flexible Spending Account Tax; (5)ObamaCare also tightens the screws on Itemized Medical Deductions. Continue reading
Insurance Analysts: Obamacare to Increase Out-of-Pocket Premium Costs for Some, Despite Subsidies
[A] new study by two members of the American Academy of Actuaries finds that tens of millions of Americans will be exposed to increased insurance costs, even when one takes the value of Obamacare’s subsidies into account. Continue reading
Obama: Lifetime Secret Service protection for me, at your expense. We might grant you permission to own a gun.
While the President contemplates a gun control agenda that could restrict American rights to own guns, the President quietly signed legislation on January 10 that provides the “lifetime Secret Service protection of former Presidents.” Continue reading
Is ObamaCare’s medical-loss ratio mandate increase health insurance premiums
“[T]here are few signs that health care will become more affordable as a result of the law. Indeed, it increasingly looks as if the opposite could be true — that ObamaCare may be causing higher premiums rather than preventing them.” Continue reading
The Obama Administration’s Illegal Health Care Taxes: an Update
There have been several developments with respect to the Obama administration’s attempt to impose the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s employer-mandate penalties and individual-mandate penalties where it has no authority to do so. Continue reading
Colorado Medicaid expansion: Denver Business Journal spreads myth of unsinsured cost-shift
Medicaid, through low doctor payment rates, increases insurance premiums. This amount is much more than the amount uninsured people increase premiums when they do not pay part of all of their medical bills. Continue reading
Instead of expanding Medicaid ghetto, Colorado should emulate Florida’s Medicaid premium support program
Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper wants to drag more low-income people into Medicaid, which is notorious for fraud, delivering lousy care, poor access. Instead of expanding this failed government dependency program, Colorado should look at Florida as an example of effective Medicaid reform. Continue reading
Medicaid expansion has hidden costs
by Linda Gorman The federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) has radically restructured federal subsidy programs for medical care. For the first time in decades, Colorado can begin bringing state expenditures in line with tax revenues by using federal money to reverse the excessive growth in its Medicaid and child health insurance programs. […]
Independence Institute’s Linda Gorman in Denver Post: Hickenlooper’s plan to finance Medicaid expansion is “reckless,” the “pie in the sky they always feed us.”
“Is our current Medicaid program so inefficient that they can magically save that much money on it?” Gorman said. “This is the pie in the sky they always feed us — that somehow, magically, we’re going to reorganize everything and save money.” Continue reading
Fiscal cliff deal: “rotten,” “hideous,” “dismal”
Some perspectives from Reason and the Cato Institute on the bipartisan deal to avoid the “fiscal cliff.” Continue reading
Fiscal Cliff: To Revive the Economy, Cut Federal Spending
The best [new years] gift the president and Congress could give the country is to spend the final weeks of 2012 working on an honest plan to cut spending here and now. Continue reading
