by Jane Richey | Aug 20, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
A provision of President Obama’s health care law imposes a second Medicare tax on investment income for Americans classified as wealthy, effectively raising taxes on investment income and taxing investors twice. The provision, a little-known part of ObamaCare, levies...
by Jane Richey | Aug 17, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Replacing Obamacare won’t be enough, according to a free-market economist — the U.S. needs real health-care change, starting with Health Savings Accounts. Although congressional Republicans talk about their commitment to repeal the Affordable Care Act, economist...
by Jane Richey | Aug 15, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
President Barack Obama said in 2009 that the Medicare cuts he signed as part of his Obamacare health reform law would never be repealed, noting that nearly one-third of the bill’s funding came from cutting Medicare. In a November 2009 interview with ABC News’ Jake...
by Jane Richey | Aug 13, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Doctors are the only professionals in our society who are not free to repackage and reprice their services. If demand changes, if technology changes, if new information becomes available, every other professional is free to offer a different bundle of services to the...
by Jane Richey | Aug 8, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Randall Tabor, who owns two Quiznos sandwich restaurants in Virginia Beach, Va., once aspired to triple the number of outlets he owns. But after the federal health-care overhaul passed in 2010, Mr. Tabor says, he shelved those plans. The law requires that employers...
