Today, millions of women, families, and young people are benefiting
from Obamacare, and millions more will benefit as the law continues to be implemented.
Members of health sharing ministries are exempt
from the Obamacare rule requiring Americans to have health insurance or pay a tax penalty (2.5 % of your income above the minimum required to file a tax return or $ 695, whichever is greater).
However for people that are ineligible for subsidies and for people exempt
from the Obamacare uninsured penalty, term health insurance may be a less expensive option than Obamacare.
In April, when it looked as if Iowa would have no offerings on the individual market, the state filed for a waiver
from Obamacare rules.
«Supreme Court says nuns are exempt for now
from Obamacare contraceptives rule»: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this news update.
They (WH and Democrats) are trying to shift the national attention away
from Obamacare rollout disaster.
Take the recent calculations of job loss
from obamacare.
The other major benefactor
from Obamacare is hospitals.
For long term gains
from Obamacare, there are wide variety of investing options, ranging from proven blue chips like Unitedhealth Group (NYSE: UNH) and WellPoint Inc..
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The 2011 figures leave in the adjments
from Obamacare, but reflect the Illustrative Alternative Scenario on page 133:
That's the 3.8 % Medicare surtax added in 2013
from Obamacare.
It will interest you to know that the Bumiputera effect IS another gift that keeps on giving
from Obamacare, which demands that more than half the acceptees to medschool be female and PREFERABLY minorities.
For the past eight years, the Texas conservative grassroots movement has led the fight against federal failures on everything
from Obamacare to lax border security and non-enforcement of immigration laws.
«This resolution will set the stage for true legislative relief
from Obamacare that Americans have long demanded while ensuring a stable transition,» Senate Budget Chairman Mike Enzi of Wyoming said, just after 1 a.m. «The Obamacare bridge is collapsing and we're sending in a rescue team.»
Please vote to exempt McDonalds and Unions
from Obamacare.
Thus, these group of people doesn't really benefit
from Obamacare and thus they are upset about it.
They didn't gain anything
from Obamacare.
And you need to face reality, only 20 million out of 50 million gained insurance
from Obamacare so it wasn't that successful.
... For months, the political conventional wisdom has been that endangered Senate Democrats seeking re-election in red states would steer clear of President Obama and distance
themselves from Obamacare.
He opposed everything
from Obamacare to federally imposed taxes on Internet products because in his view, these laws violate states» rights.
He did this in part with money
from Obamacare, which greatly expanded the federal Medicaid program.
... (Gorsuch) has been solicitous of religious corporations and nuns seeking exemptions
from Obamacare's contraceptive mandate and...
Whose idea was it to ignore the millions of people who've benefited
from Obamacare and instead treat health care reform like Ebola?
remember the «Government Option» in his plan and the GOP striped that
from ObamaCare — thanks to old Joe Liberman.
Update (July 23): GuideStone Financial, The Little Sisters of the Poor, and other religious nonprofits are filing an appeal to the US Supreme Court, seeking relief
from the Obamacare mandate to provide birth control through their health insurance plans.
Major for - profit health insurers, with the exception of Anthem and Cigna, have largely pulled back
from Obamacare, opting to stop selling coverage in many markets.
From Obamacare to the Dream Act, Donald Trump has suggested throughout his campaign - and in his «Contract with the American Voter» - what he intends to do as soon as he takes the oath of office.
The thing that I think is a real challenge here for particularly folks who are looking to make this a more consumer - driven system is that if we have learned anything
from Obamacare, it's that what people seem to want is just peace of mind.
(Psst: the biggest one is insulation
from Obamacare price hikes.)
CUT JOBS Pros: Firing employees to get under the 50 - worker threshold would also free the employer
from Obamacare obligations.
On Tuesday, Humana (hum)(whose planed merger with Aetna was just scuttled) announced further withdrawals
from Obamacare.
«We had a $ 7.1 million bill
from the Obamacare act in general, and we had multiple other things that happened at the company healthcare-wise.
But because Armstrong chose to single out sick babies as the cause for the change — even though that was $ 2 million compared with the $ 7.5 million
from Obamacare — he had to reverse course.
«To say there are things
from Obamacare that are not positive, that's not true.»
Trump's win did punish stocks thought to benefit
from Obamacare, the health care law that Republicans have pledged to repeal.
And health insurers, once considered to be a beneficiary of the Affordable Care Act, aren't really a solid Clinton proxy, as many have been withdrawing
from the Obamacare marketplaces, casting shade on the law (not to mention that Clinton has spoken out against mergers between some of the largest players, including the proposed Aetna (aet)- Humana (hum) and Anthem (antm)- Cigna (ci) deals).
Not exact matches
The company also made waves as part of the insurer exodus
from the individual insurance sector (including
Obamacare marketplaces), which led to almost $ 700 million in losses between 2014 and 2016, according to Aetna.
But, judging
from initial reactions, it may not prove the elusive
Obamacare - slaying silver bullet the GOP has been seeking for some seven years.
Furthermore, the CBO expects the Senate's health bill to substantially raise Americans» out - of - pocket medical costs by slashing
Obamacare's mandated benefits and rolling back assistance to poorer and sicker people, as well as discouraging some low - income Americans
from buying insurance in the first place (the BCRA would nix
Obamacare's requirement that people carry coverage or pay a fine).
And we heard a variation of that theme late last week
from Mick Mulvaney, the former South Carolina Congressman and Freedom Caucuser who now heads the Office of Management and Budget — and who, importantly, has been one of the Trump Administration's key emissaries in the effort to repeal and replace
Obamacare.
«
From our standpoint, we want to make sure that as many people as possible maintain (insurance) coverage,» said Dr. Mario Molina, CEO of Molina Healthcare (moh), which provides Medicaid and
Obamacare individual insurance plans.
Put simply, the whole purpose is stop
ObamaCare from driving future federal budgets to far higher levels of spending, and even deeper and more disastrously into the red.
A scoop
from Politico's Dan Diamond and Joanne Kenen: the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have already paid for
Obamacare advertisements into February, meaning that television and digital ads for Healthcare.gov will keep running even as Donald Trump and a GOP Congress work to dismantle the law (sorry, the Politico article is available by pay subscription only.)
For instance, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator Seema Verma, who oversees Medicare, Medicaid, and
Obamacare, has only retweeted signup reminders
from the Healthcare.gov social media account in the last several days and hasn't sent any of her own.
More than 100 businesses and religious organizations have sued the federal government to be exempt
from the ACA's contraceptive requirements since
Obamacare became law in 2010.
Under the proposed rule, people could enroll in low - cost plans with skimpier benefits for up to 12 months, an increase
from the current three - month limit imposed by the Affordable Care Act, or
Obamacare.
Lady Gaga's latest album gets scrutinized, Nokia enters the phablet market, the White House offers up
Obamacare enrollment data, SCORE dishes out intellectual property tips
from SCORE, TechCrunch hosts Meetup + Pitch - off, a live chat with Henry Blodget... This week's news and startup events for entrepreneurs:
Health insurance companies are exploring new ways to diversify their revenues with acquisitions in acute care after federal regulators blocked two major mergers in the sector, and insurance exchanges set up under the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as
Obamacare, came under pressure
from Republicans.
Lee said, «In addition to not repealing all of the
Obamacare taxes, it doesn't go far enough in lowering premiums for middle class families; nor does it create enough free space
from the most costly
Obamacare regulations.»