Obama won big with his healthcare law, despite it being unpopular for a while.
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The Supreme Court is now likely to have the final say on the healthcare law.
So yes, it was a deft move to uphold the healthcare law while avoiding the Commerce Clause quagmire.
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Add the 3.8% investment tax that results from the new healthcare law known as Obamacare, and you have 23.8% for many.
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Aon Hewitt, a consultancy, estimates that individual market premiums will go up by about 5 percent as a result of the healthcare law.
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The Republicans won sweeping gains in November's mid-term congressional elections in part by attacking what they portrayed as a costly and job-killing healthcare law.
So let's talk again about this Kaiser Family Foundation poll that 42 percent of Americans are not sure the healthcare law is actually a law.
So instead of making the IRS bigger in response to a bad healthcare law, why not repeal that bad law and shrink the size of the IRS?
The healthcare law's insurance mandate does not begin until 2014, and those who flout the requirement to have insurance would not face a penalty until the following year.
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But what does the healthcare law actually mean for you?
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The GOP relies on the enthusiasm of the Tea Party conservatives, whose supporters care very deeply about the healthcare law and see it as an assault on their freedoms.
When he's been speaking at - last week they had a Mother's Day event on last Friday where he was trying to explain the healthcare law to people, saying exactly what you said earlier.
The penalties under the healthcare law may be collected by the Internal Revenue Service, they said, but the wording of the statute as well as its intent make it clear it is not a tax.
Among the trends spurring innovation are the growth in telework and contracting. (Indeed the shift towards contracting and away from hiring employees will increase under the new healthcare law.) Technology has obliterated the need for file cabinets.
The healthcare law - officially known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, but commonly dubbed Obamacare by opponents - was passed in 2009 without a single Republican vote in Congress, and signed into law by President Obama in June 2010.
Mr Obama's re-election also safeguards his healthcare reform law, which Mr Romney had pledged to repeal.
However, when the relevant provision of the healthcare reform law went into effect in 2011, that number began to fall precipitously.
How can this possibly make sense when the very purpose of the healthcare reform law is to get more Americans insured rather than less?
It seeks to repeal President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law and cut spending on Medicaid, a government health programme for the poor, by giving control of its distribution to states.
The US healthcare reform law was approved in March last year, making it compulsory for Americans to buy medical insurance and illegal for insurance companies to deny coverage to customers with pre-existing conditions.
Although Romney had a chorus of Democrats to reckon with in the State House, he ultimately took credit for the healthcare reform law, and for running a successful state economy as measured by median income and employment statistics during his term.
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When it comes to new healthcare services ventures, the law punishes excess return on invested capital.
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To concretize what EMTALA does to a healthcare facility, transpose the law to the restaurant setting.
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These economists believe uninsured non-actors often raise health insurance by not participating, and by receiving healthcare as a matter of law with little or no payment.
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Of course, Walmart carefully controls employee work schedules and will have the opportunity to design worker hours in a manner that will keep employees at a level below the threshold required to accomplish company healthcare benefits pursuant to the law.
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He also signed into law the Massachusetts Healthcare Reform Act, which expanded the MassHealth Medicare program for low income state residents to include un-insured middle class families, given them low cost access to public and private hospitals and medical centers in the state.
While the law failed to lower healthcare costs, it succeeded in getting everyone affordable health insurance.
In 2009, the company faced rising healthcare costs and imminent industry reform as a result of the national healthcare bill that would soon become law.
Last month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit was the first appellate court to reach a decision on whether the Commerce Clause authorizes Congress to force private citizens to purchase healthcare insurance under penalty of federal law.
One of the key talking points consistently mouthed by opponents of the Affordable Care Act is their declaration that the law wrests control of healthcare out from the hands of the consumer and places it squarely under the control of the federal government.
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