Showing posts with label Heritage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Heritage. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Obamacare's latest tidbits....

A Grand Rapids, Michigan report on a Kalamazoo based Stryker that had to lay off over 1,000 people due to the Obamacare medical device tax.
Late last week a Stryker spokesperson told me that Obamacare will cost the company fully 20 percent of its total research and development investments.............
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Since March 2010, when President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and its companion Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (HCERA), the administration has published in the Federal Register 109 final regulations governing how Obamacare will be implemented.These regulations add up to 10,516 pages in the Federal Register
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New York’s famous 42nd Street will offer natives and visitors a new sight later this week: a mammoth, six-story billboard with a striking message: “Warning—Obamacare may be hazardous to your health.”

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Thursday, February 25, 2010

Heritage Foundation agrees with me.

Lamar Alexander said that if you took all the profits from insurance companies it would only cover 2 days worth of the costs of health care.
What he could have added if he had more time, was that if you take away the profits of a business, it will have no incentive to produce, and no ability to invest and expand.

This is important because many of the provisions of the Senate health care bill aim to curb profit in the health care industry, rather than introduce more competition.
The Heritage Foundation has a play by play here