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Commentary: Scott, lawmakers can help Floridians by lowering health insurance tax
If you have health insurance, you will be paying 2 percent to 2.5 percent more beginning Jan. 1, thanks to a new tax created to partially fund the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). Called the Health Insurance Tax,… Read More
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Businesses brace for Obamacare
Management at one 40-employee Michigan car dealership has been bracing for higher health insurance costs in 2014, when the Affordable Care Act goes into full effect. But they were shocked to hear this month just how high their renewal rate… Read More
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Device Tax Repeal Momentum Boosts Insurers, Worries Hospitals
Growing bipartisan interest in repealing the ACA’s medical device tax as part of budget discussions has raised the hopes of insurers and some small business advocates that lawmakers might also delay or repeal the health law’s insurance tax, while hospital… Read More
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Medical Device Tax Repeal Could Bring Unseen Consequences, Experts Warn
Repeal of a tax on medical device manufacturers continues to be mentioned as a possible negotiation item in bigger budget battles, but elimination of the tax may have different effects than supporters realize. Getting rid of the device tax is… Read More
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CPA says hype over Obamacare small business tax credit is misleading
HONOLULU – Think small business owners really are going to get tax credits through Obamacare health exchanges? Think again. Reg Baker, chief operating officer of the Hawaii Medical Assurance Association, a health care insurance company not participating on the local… Read More
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Noonan: Now Is the Time to Delay ObamaCare
The Obama administration has an implementation problem. More than any administration of the modern era they know how to talk but have trouble doing. To read the rest of the column, click here.
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Jerry Pierce: Gov. Scott can lower health insurance tax to help Floridians
The Department of Health and Human Services announced the price of health insurance for Florida’s small businesses, and needlessly adding to that price is a tax on health insurance that individuals and small businesses purchase. If you have health insurance,… Read More
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Stop the HIT Coalition Responds to President Obama’s Remarks on the Shutdown’s Impact on Small Business
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Hillary Schmidtmedia@StopTheHIT.com(888) 737-3207 Stop the HIT Coalition Responds to President Obama’s Remarks on the Shutdown’s Impact on Small Business WASHINGTON, D.C. (Oct. 3, 2013) – The Stop the HIT Coalition, a broad-based group representing the nation’s small… Read More
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Health rules worry owners
If small businesses are the economic engine that drives Ohio’s economy, companies have been stuck in neutral for months waiting for the details of the health exchanges under the Affordable Care Act to be developed. And that’s causing a lot… Read More
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Democrats turn to small businesses to highlight pain caused by government shutdown
Democrats turned to small businesses Thursday as allies in their battle to force House Republicans to end the government shutdown. President Barack Obama visited M. Luis Construction in Rockville, Md., where he said businesses all over the country would suffer… Read More