Random Thoughts from an Independent Fiscal Conservative If the insurance industry does away with preexisting conditions, then health insurance costs will go down. Yeah, unless those people really get sick, and then health insurance costs will skyrocket. If younger workers who don’t want health insurance are forced to buy it, then health insurance costs will … Continue reading Obama’s Illogical Health Care Act
A Fiscal Conservative Opines: Where is all the excess? By: Larry Walker, Jr. I am once again attempting to overlay data upon data from different sources, not being certain whether any of them are accurate, yet they are all so called ‘reputable’. There are some who will look at the table, above, and think that … Continue reading Health Care Expenditures vs Income
by: Raymond L. Richman Link: Trade & Taxes In the preceding blog on this subject (11-27-09), we wrote: “The average household can afford to be self-insured with regard to health care costs that are not cataclysmic. We can expect falls and fractures, expect to catch cold, expect to need eyeglasses and hearing aids, expect to … Continue reading A Free Market Solution to Universal Health Care, Part III
Bombs on the Fundamentals Barack Obama’s main argument and the key to his whole presidency seems to be this idea that health care reform will lead to economic recovery. However, what Obama has failed to do is to convince the American public, and mainly conservatives, that it was our present health care system that caused … Continue reading Obama Scores a Zero on Health Care Reform
What Marketplace? :: By: Larry Walker II :: “Putting thoughts into words is vastly different from putting truth into words. For words are not truth. As ardently as writers sort and select and polish their words, at the end of the day they are still words. They are not, in themselves, truth…” ~ Lionel Fisher … Continue reading Affordable Care Excise Tax, Part IV
Paying Your Fair Share :: By: Larry Walker II :: In Tax Simplification, Part II, I expounded on a 2010 Annual Report to Congress, in which National Taxpayer Advocate Nina E. Olson focused on the need for tax reform as the No. 1 priority in tax administration. In particular, she focused on the problem of … Continue reading Affordable Care Excise Tax, Part III
Effing the Middle Class :: By: Larry Walker II :: In Part 1, we voiced concern that in constitutional law sense, an excise tax is usually an event tax as opposed to a “state of being” tax, the recent exception to this principle being the “minimum essential coverage” tax under Internal Revenue Code section 5000A … Continue reading Affordable Care Excise Tax, Part II
What the Individual Mandate means for you and your family :: By: Larry Walker II :: Under the Affordable Care Act, beginning in 2014, State governments, insurers, employers, and selected individuals are supposed to share in the responsibility of providing health insurance coverage. The Act’s shared responsibility provision, also known as the individual mandate, requires … Continue reading Affordable Care Excise Tax, Part I
“If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is.” ~ Better Business Bureau – By: Larry Walker, Jr. – According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), there are 7.2 million uninsured Americans ages 18 to 34 years, living in single-person households in 34 states. And, of that total, 2.9 … Continue reading Health Insurance for Under $50 per Month?
Why you should repeal it right away! – By: Larry Walker, Jr.- “The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.” ~Milton Friedman – Failure to repeal Obamacare by January of 2013 will result in deadweight losses in the American economy. Although static revenue … Continue reading Obamacare’s Deadweight Loss
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