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ACA Opponents Wine & Dine Justices Scalia, Thomas

November 15, 2011

From The Los Angeles Times: Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia speaks to a policy forum in Washington last month. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP) By James Oliphant November 14, 2011 The day the Supreme Court gathered behind closed doors to consider the politically divisive question of whether it would hear a challenge to President Obama’s healthcare law,…

Insurance Exchanges Could Ease Burden On Small Biz

October 24, 2011

From The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Here’s hoping we in South Carolina get a shot at purchasing our health insurance through a competitive and transparent market! By Misty Williams Saturday, October 22, 2011 As co-owner of a small IT solutions company in Alpharetta, Julie Haley would rather be out networking and snapping up new business instead of spending…

Small Biz Skeptical of ACA, But Still To Offer Coverage

July 27, 2011

From The Hill: By Sam Baker – 07/25/11 01:00 PM ET House Republicans leapt on a new report Monday that suggests small businesses might scale back their healthcare benefits in the wake of the reform law. The survey, released by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), found that small businesses don’t have much faith…

Contradicting Surveys Create Public Confusion

June 22, 2011

From The New York Times: Douglas Holtz-Eakin headed a group of 105 economists opposed to the ACA By MILT FREUDENHEIM— June 20, 2011 The debate over the effects of the federal health care law on employer-provided insurance has been intensifying in recent weeks, with controversial polls and consultants contradicting one another about whether employees will…

Individual Mandate Encounters Pointed Skepticism

June 9, 2011

From The Hill: By Sam Baker and Julian Pecquet – 06/08/11 03:29 PM ET   Judges in the highest-profile challenge to the healthcare reform law appeared skeptical of the federal government’s defense, according to people who attended oral arguments in the case Wednesday. In nearly three hours of questioning, a three-judge panel of the 11th U.S.…

Experts Doubt GOP’s ‘Job Killer’ Claim

January 18, 2011

By David Lightman | McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — Despite what Republicans say, the 2010 health care law isn’t necessarily a job killer. Republicans have titled their effort to overturn the law the “Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act,” and that’s their favorite talking point against it. The House of Representatives will start debate on…

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