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Read the Supreme Court Decision on Obamacare

In late June, the Supreme Court upheld most of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. To read the Court’s entire ruling on the individual mandate as well as the Medicaid expansion requirements, access the Court’s PDF here.

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42 GOP Senators ask President Obama to Withdraw Dr. Berwick as his Nominee for Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Click here to read the letter from 42 GOP Senators asking President Obama to withdraw his nomination of Dr. Donald Berwick to serve as the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

Tags: Barack Obama, CMS, Dr. Donald Berwick, Medicaid, Medicare

Joint Congressional Report on Medicaid Expansion in Obamacare Shows Cost to Taxpayers will be $118.04 Billion

Click here to read the joint Congressional report by the Senate Finace Committee and the House Engergy & Commerce Committee.  The report finds that the Medicaid expansion in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will cost state tax payers at least $118.04 billion.  Check out the financial impact on your state.

Tags: House Energy and Commerce Committee, Medicaid, Medicaid Expansion, ObamaCare, Senate Finance Committee

Court in Florida Rules Obamacare is Unconstitutional

Click here to read Judge Vinson’s ruling that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is Unconstitutional.

Tags: Individual Mandate, ObamaCare

Assessing the Impact of Repealing of Obamacare

Click here to read former Congressional Budget Office (CBO) director, Doug Holtz-Eakin’s paper from the American Action Forum.  By repealing Obamacare, Congress could save up to 695,000 jobs and cut the deficit by $279.7 billion.

Tags: CBO, health care costs, ObamaCare, repeal

Republican Governors’ Letter to Administration and Congressional Leadership on Relief from Obamacare Mandates

Click here to read the Republican Governors’ letter to Congressional leaders and the Administration.  In the letter the governors request more flexibility for states in managing Medicaid and relief from the federal Maintenance of Effort (MOE) requrements in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

Congressional Research Service Memorandum on Private Insurance Plans in the State Exchanges

Click here to read the Congressional Research Service Memorandum for Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) which discusses the effect that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) will have on private insurance plans entering the state health benefit exchanges.

Medicare Chief Actuary’s Alternative Report

Click here to read the Medicare Chief Actuary’s Alternative Report to the 2010 Medicare Trustees’ Report where for the first time in Medicare history, the Chief Actuary has called the projections in the Report “unreasonable” and “implausible.”

2010 Annual Report of the Medicare Trustees

Click here to read the 2010 Annual Report of the Boards of Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance and Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds

Letter to the Departments of Treasury, Health and Human Services, and Labor from Senator Ensign

Click here to read the letter from Senator Ensign to the Departments of Treasury, Health and Human Services, and Labor concerning rules in Obamacare that can negatively impact employers.