But first, House Republicans voted yesterday to repeal President Obama's signature healthcare law - again.
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.
The order gives some hope to foes of the healthcare law, but not much.
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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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With his victory last week, President Obama has effectively cemented his signature healthcare law into place at least for another four years.
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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.
Under presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, Massachussettes attempted to solve some of the many problems our healthcare system has created by creating, essentially, Obamacare (though predating the recent healthcare law by several years).
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 convention also approved its party platform - a policy agenda that calls for tax cuts to revive the economy, repealing and replacing a healthcare law passed by Mr Obama, and an end to abortion.
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.
In spite of the anti-rationing provisions in the healthcare law, many critics (including this writer) believe that Medicare administrators will push the envelope to find a way to avoid reimbursement for drugs they regard as too expensive.
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.
Add in all the other cost-inflating provisions of the healthcare law and the long-standing trend of increasing health insurance premiums and the price of a family health insurance policy is expected to double over the next decade.
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.
Still, the report issued by HHS while giving primary credit for the improvement to the increased scrutiny of rate hike requests resulting from the healthcare reform law also noted that overall decline in healthcare costs throughout the nation played a role.
Mr Obama's re-election also safeguards his healthcare reform law, which Mr Romney had pledged to repeal.
With the Supreme Court decision to uphold his healthcare reform law, Obama has had two pretty good days.
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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