Health Care Reform - Obamacare
eNews Commentary
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February 06, 2014
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.
Public Documents
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January 31, 2014
Public Documents
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January 30, 2014
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.
Public Documents
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January 30, 2014
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.
eNews Commentary
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January 29, 2014
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.
Amicus Briefs
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January 28, 2014
BRIEF OF THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, INC., INDIVIDUAL PHYSICIANS AND CITIZENS␣␣ COUNCIL FOR HEALTH FREEDOM AS AMICI CURIAE IN SUPPORT OF PRIVATE PARTIES
Press Releases
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January 27, 2014
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.
eNews Commentary
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January 22, 2014
Intrusions sometimes surprise. I was at the doctor’s office recently when into the exam room walked a physician assistant and a young man in a tee shirt pushing a computer on a waist-high rolling stand. This “scribe” was introduced to me, but no one asked me if it was okay for him to stay. As I answered questions he silently typed away, taking down every word.
eNews Commentary
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January 09, 2014
The sick are getting a reality check. It’s 2014, the first year of full Obamacare implementation and taxation…but Obama is focused on the well and the healthy, not the poor and the sick. An article in Inside Health Insurance Exchanges (HEX) tells the tale, “HHS Warns Hospitals, Providers Not to Cover Patient Premiums.”
Press Releases
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January 06, 2014
ST. PAUL, Minn.— Thirty-four states have refused to set up Obamacare state health insurance exchanges, and residents in those states may be exempt from Obamacare with no enforceable mandates or penalties.