Health Care Reform - Obamacare

Concerned Public Cluelessness on Obamacare

Concerned Public Cluelessness on Obamacare

Lack of knowledge is helping President Obama impose the Affordable Care Act. The public does not like “Obamacare” but they say they like the Affordable Care Act. Most don’t know it’s the same thing -- and the federal government and Obamacare supporters want to keep it that way. That must not happen.

Plan Now for the 2014 Tax Year and Obamacare Penalties

Plan Now for the 2014 Tax Year and Obamacare Penalties

ST. PAUL, Minn.— As Americans gather their 2013 tax documents this month, Twila Brase, patient advocate and co-founder of Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom, says the 2014 tax year will look much different for those who are not enrolling in Obamacare and choosing to remain uninsured—therefore subject to a penalty.

Fiscal Cliffs in Health Exchanges Will Lead to Lower Wages and Fewer Workers

Fiscal Cliffs in Health Exchanges Will Lead to Lower Wages and Fewer Workers

St. Paul, Minn.—Patient advocate Twila Brase, co-founder of Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom, has found unsettling and confusing problems in the Affordable Care Act. Those problems are further exposed by the new CBO report showing that over 10 years 2.5 million people will leave the work force and $1 trillion will be added to our national debt. 

 

The Obamacare Scam

The Obamacare Scam

The Affordable Care Act is a scam. Before Obamacare, indeed before managed care health plans, catastrophic policies had high deductibles and fairly low costs. That’s because they were purchased solely for financial protection against the cost of medical catastrophes like coma, car crashes and cancer. They were true insurance and thus relatively inexpensive. People reached for their checkbook, not their insurance card, when they went to a doctor.

Hidden 14th Hardship Exemption

Hidden 14th Hardship Exemption

Qualifications for Exemption from ACA Mandate

How do I qualify for an exemption from the fee for not having health coverage?
 
Most people must have health coverage or pay a fee (the “individual shared responsibility payment”). You can get an exemption in certain cases.

Application for Hardship Exemption to ACA Mandate

Starting in 2014, every person needs to have health coverage or make a payment on their federal income tax return called the "shared responsibility payment."
 
Some people are exempt from making this payment. This application includes one category of exemption. There are other applications for other categories of exemptions. You may apply for certain other categories of exemptions when you file your federal income tax return.
 
They have updated the documentation and instructions in 2017 and the new version is attached.

The BOLD Republican Plan for Health Care

The BOLD Republican Plan for Health Care

I’m not going to talk about Obama’s SOTU… except to say that I feel like I did the last time he had to get up and try to sell Obamacare to the nation: he doesn’t want to do it; he feels it’s beneath him; it’s four years after Obamacare and he’s perturbed that he still has to be marketing the law in a speech. So his comments lack passion. 

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SEBELIUS, SECRETARY OF HHS, ET AL., v. HOBBY LOBBY STORES, INC., ET AL., CONESTOGA WOOD SPECIALTIES CORP., ET AL., v. KATHLEEN SEBELIUS, SECRETARY OF HHS, ET AL.

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The Obamacare ‘Get Out of Jail Free Card’

The Obamacare ‘Get Out of Jail Free Card’
Hidden 14th Hardship Exemption Opens Door for Citizens to Be Freed from Unwanted Insurance via State Exchanges

ST. PAUL, Minn.—The language of the Affordable Care Act is nothing less than vague, confusing and convoluted. But there is one section of the federal health care law that seems to be a clear way out for citizens who do not want to enroll in Obamacare—a hidden 14th hardship exemption.