by Jane Richey | Apr 27, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Denver Post: More than 3 million health insurance policyholders and thousands of employers will share $1.3 billion in rebates this year, thanks to President Barack Obama’s health care law, a nonpartisan research group said Thursday. The rebates should average...
by Jane Richey | Apr 25, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Fewer employers are offering healthcare coverage and fewer employees are taking it, a new study reports. The survey, conducted by the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI), found a steady drop in the number of private-sector employers that offer health benefits...
by Jane Richey | Apr 25, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Without swift policy changes, America faces unprecedented government spending, debt and taxation in 2013. While tax revenue levels have been low for the past few years as America struggled to recover from the recession, they areset to explode past 20 percent of the...
by Jane Richey | Apr 23, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Medicare and Social Security are on a fast track to deep fiscal problems, trustees for the two programs warned Monday. The Medicare trust fund will be “exhausted” — meaning it won’t have enough money on hand to cover the benefits it’s supposed to provide — by 2024,...
by Jane Richey | Apr 22, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Many insurance experts and health policy consultants predict only a dozen or so states will be ready to run exchanges on their own — and a few say that projection may be too sunny. Only a handful of the most militant states are likely to continue all-out resistance to...
