Obamacare
Claim: If you like your insurance, you can keep it.
Response: Try telling that to
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:
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
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