Obamacare
Claim: If you like your insurance, you can keep it.
Response: Try telling that to
Claim: Obamacare will lower costs
Response: Not if you:

Are a low-wage worker

Live in Georgia

Live in Maryland

Live in Minnesota

Live in California

Are a lawmaker or an aid

Are most people

Deduct out-of-pocket medical expenses

Think a 400% increase in business premiums is no big deal

Receive subsidies. In most cases, premiums will be higher even with subsidies

65% of small businesses

Claim: Obamacare offers tax credits to businesses to purchase health insurance.
Response: Less than 12% of small business will be eligible for these credits. The credits also provide an incentive for businesses not to hire.

The credit is very restrictive and puts small business owners through a series of complicated “tests” to determine the actual amount of the credit.
Three conditions must be met for small businesses to qualify for any portion of the credit:
  • 1. Business size – Very few small firms will receive the full credit (only firms with 10 employees or less). For firms with 11-25 employees, the credit is reduced per employee. Firms with more than 25 employees get NO credit.
  •  2. Average employee wages – The credit is tied to the average wage of workers. Only firms who pay their workers $25,000 or less are eligible for the full credit. The credit is reduced as the average wage goes up, stopping at $50,000. (Note: Average wage for a firm with 10 or fewer employees is approximately $27,000.)
  •  3. Employer contribution – Only firms covering 50 percent or more of insurance costs will be eligible. ·      
  •  The credit is only available for a maximum of six years, but health care costs will continue to increase well after those six years.

Miscellaneous
Longshoremen desolve affiliation with AFL-CIO over Obamacare

The U.S. healthcare reform law will worsen a shortage of physicians as millions of newly insured patients seek care, the Association of American Medical Colleges said on Thursday.

Regal Entertainment Group cuts workers' hours because of Obamacare

Marginal tax rates will increase by 10% because of Obamacare

Cleveland Clinic cuts 3,000 jobs because of Obamacare

Insurer's limiting doctors, hospitals in the exchanges

Restaurant workers' hours being cut

Obamacare will increase underlying insurance rates for younger men by an average of 97 to 99 percent, and for younger women by an average of 55 to 62 percent.

HHS prevented independent watchdogs and their own IG from overseeing the Obamacare online enrollment system

Healthcare.gov lies about price of premiums

Many low income Americans will not receive subsidies as promised

Fewer options for many with Obamacare

Benefits are being reduced because of Obamacare's "Cadillac" tax

Obamacare deductibles 26% higher

Analysis: Despite Subsidies, Chronically Ill Individuals Will Be Underinsured In Exchanges

NC substitute teachers having hours cut

Another 33k jobs lost and hours cut

80% of the population worse off under Obamacare- Brookings

Sick kids getting hosed