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Posts Tagged ‘higher insurance premiums’

  • More Broken Health Care Promises

    Posted December 18th, 2009 at 1:21pm in Health Care 3

    New analysis confirms that the health care bills moving the House and Senate will break the many promises President Obama made to the American people. As the details of the legislation are exposed, it is no wonder that Americans are growing uneasy over the direction the legislation has taken. The Chief Actuary for the President’s own [...] More

  • Small Business Is Not Better Off Under Obamacare

    Posted December 17th, 2009 at 10:43am in Health Care 0

    An Issue Brief released yesterday by the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation (RWJF) concludes that small firms would largely benefit from the reform efforts that have been put forth in both the Senate bill (HR 3590) and the House bill (HR 3200). While the benefits from these bills to small businesses already are uncertain – [...] More

  • Are the CBO’s Insurance Premium Projections Too Optimistic?

    Posted December 1st, 2009 at 1:59pm in Health Care 1

    Yesterday, Heritage scholar Rea Hederman explained why new CBO estimates showing only small rises in health insurance premiums under Obamacare was not good news for Americans (in short: Americans  with generous coverage would see benefits cut due to the tax on high-value plans and Americans with Spartan coverage would see their premiums increase due to [...] More

  • Reid Health Bill Raises Premiums

    Posted November 30th, 2009 at 5:20pm in Health Care 0

    Today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a new report detailing why individuals who purchase insurance in the non-group market would see much higher premiums in 2016 under Obamacare than they would under current law. On average, those in large-group employer-sponsored plans would see their premiums remain flat. But this is an average of [...] More