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Poll: Half of Small-Business Owners Say ACA’s Bad for Business
About half of all small-business owners think the Affordable Care Act will be bad for their businesses, increase their health care costs and reduce care quality, according to a Gallup poll released today. Read more here.
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BROWNBACK: REPEAL THE HIT
BROWNBACK: REPEAL THE HIT- Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback wrote to Finance Committee ranking member Orrin Hatch and Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton today, asking them to work on reforming Medicaid and repealing the health care law’s insurance tax… Read More
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Insurance Tax in Healthcare Law Could Cost States $15B
Groups on both sides of the healthcare debate are lobbying Congress to scale back a tax in President Obama’s healthcare law that could end up costing the states billions of dollars. Supporters and opponents of the healthcare law are both… Read More
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The Coming ObamaCare Shock: Millions of Americans Will Pay More for Health Insurance, Lose Their Coverage, or Have Their Hours of Work Cut Back.
In recent weeks, there have been increasing expressions of concern from surprising quarters about the implementation of ObamaCare. Montana Sen. Max Baucus, a Democrat, called it a “train wreck.” A Democratic colleague, West Virginia’s Sen. Jay Rockefeller, described the massive… Read More
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Health Insurance Tax ‘Scares the Daylights’ Out of Some Small Business Owners
Many small-business owners worry that a new tax on insurance providers in the health-care law will mean higher premiums for them, undermining the law’s capacity to lower their health-care costs. Starting next year, the federal government will charge a new… Read More
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Republicans: Health insurance tax hurts small businesses
House Republicans homed in on the health law’s insurance tax Thursday, saying it’s yet another blow small businesses will have to endure as a result of the law. Click to Read More
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2014 a repeat of 2010
If the mere idea of ObamaCare fueled an historic GOP victory in 2010, just wait until reality sets in next year. That year, Democrats in swing districts were swept from office, so those who kept their jobs are running as… Read More
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Employers Push Back on Health Law’s Insurance Trigger
Employers are putting increasing pressure on lawmakers to peel back a piece of the federal health-care law that requires firms provide insurance to employees working 30 hours a week or more. But such a change faces long odds on happening… Read More
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Stop the HIT Members Testify Before Small Business Committee on Impact of President’s Health Care Law
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 9, 2013 – Members of the Stop the HIT Coalition, a broad-based group representing the nation’s small business owners, their employees and the self-employed, today applaud the House Committee on Small Business Subcommittee on Health and Technology… Read More
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How Obamacare Will Affect Your Business
Small businesses catch a break this year without having to implement or change policies to comply with the new health-care legislation, but in less than eight months, businesses with more than 50 employees will have to start offering health insurance… Read More