News
National Journal | Companies Expect More to Opt Into Employer-Provided Insurance
Businesses expect over the next year to increase workers' premium contributions, hike the cost of covering family members, and shift them to high-deductible health plans, The Wall Street Journal reports.
WSJ | Companies Prepare to Pass More Health Costs to Workers
Companies are bracing for an influx of participants in their insurance plans due to the health-care overhaul, adding to pressure to shift more of the cost of coverage to employees.
Econ Comments & Analysis
Washington Times | Health care accountability
When the going gets tough, politicians usually get going, looking for the tall grass. Only Democrats voted for Obamacare, and now millions of Americans are coming to grips with the consequences. The millions must find a replacement insurance policy they can afford.
National Journal | Does the IRS Have the Muscle to Enforce Obamacare?
The Internal Revenue Service role in implementing and enforcing Obamacare is the biggest increase in the agency's responsibilities in decades, The Washington Post reports.
Mercatus | No Grounds for Claim That Affordable Care Act Lowers Health care Costs
Public support for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has plummeted now that the oft-repeated claim that “If you like your health care plan, you can keep it” is widely understood to be untrue. Despite previous assurances, millions of Americans are now grappling with ACA-triggered cancellations of their health insurance policies.
Blogs
Market Watch | ‘We don’t need to start over’ on Obamacare: No. 2 House Democrat Hoyer
The No. 2 House Democrat says there’s no need to “start over” on President Barack Obama’s troubled health-care law despite problems with its rollout.
