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Posts Tagged ‘Supreme Court’
Wednesday, July 24th, 2019
KFF.org reports:
“On July 9, 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit will hear oral argument in Texas v. U.S., the next round of litigation challenging the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The appeals court is reviewing a federal trial court’s decision that the ACA’s minimum essential coverage provision (known as the individual mandate) is unconstitutional and, as a result, requires the entire ACA to be overturned. The individual mandate provides that most people must maintain a minimum level of health insurance coverage; those who do not do so must pay a financial penalty (known as the shared responsibility payment) to the IRS. The individual mandate was upheld as a constitutional exercise of Congress’ taxing power by a five member majority of the U.S. Supreme Court in NFIB v. Sebelius in 2012.
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Tags: affordable care, Affordable Care Act, Government, Harvard, Harwood Heights, health insurance, health insurance coverage, Medicaid, Medicare, Morton Grove, Mount Prospect, Supreme Court, the affordable care act
Posted in Affordable Care Act | Comments Off on Explaining Texas v. U.S.: A Guide to the 5th Circuit Appeal in the Case Challenging the ACA
Monday, May 20th, 2019
CNN Politics reports:
“Washington may be obsessed with enacting “Medicare for All” or repealing Obamacare, but Americans have other priorities.
They want Congress to prioritize reducing health care costs and protecting those with pre-existing conditions, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll released Wednesday.
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Tags: affordable care, Affordable Care Act, Bernie Sanders, health care costs, health care reform, health insurance, health insurance coverage, Marketplace, Massachusetts, Maywood, McCullen Lake, McHenry, Montgomery, Mooseheart, Morton Grove, Mount Prospect, ObamaCare, Supreme Court, the affordable care act
Posted in Health Insurance News | Comments Off on Most Americans want lower health care costs, not ‘Medicare for All’ or Obamacare repeal
Thursday, January 3rd, 2019
ABC 8 News reports:
“A conservative federal judge in Texas on Friday ruled the Affordable Care Act “invalid” on the eve of the sign-up deadline for next year. But with appeals certain, even the Trump White House said the law will remain in place for now.
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Tags: Affordable Care Act, Carol Stream, Carpend, Cary, Chicago, health insurance coverage, ObamaCare, subsidies, Supreme Court, the affordable care act
Posted in Affordable Care Act | Comments Off on Federal judge rules Obama’s health care overhaul unconstitutional
Tuesday, January 26th, 2016
According to The CT Mirror:
“Even if you don’t get your health insurance through Obamacare, you’re likely to get something related to the health law in the mail in the coming weeks: A new tax form.
 The 1095-A form exchange customers will receive. Others will get different versions, depending on the source of their health care coverage. Known as Form 1095, it’s part of the way the federal government verifies whether people are complying with the mandate that requires nearly all U.S. residents to have health care coverage. This year is the first time most people will be getting those forms, and officials are anticipating a fair amount of confusion. In part, that’s because what you need to do with that form depends on the type of coverage you had.
Here’s what you need to know. (more…)
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Posted in Affordable Care Act, Health Insurance News, Heath Care Costs | Comments Off on Coming soon to your mailbox: An Obamacare tax form
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2015
The State reports:
“Tim Liszewski didn’t have health insurance for a decade before signing up for a subsidized policy through the Affordable Care Act’s federal marketplace last year.
He likely will be uninsured again if the U.S. Supreme Court rules federal subsidies are illegal in states such as South Carolina that didn’t create their own insurance exchanges. The court hears arguments about that issue in the King v. Burwell case on Wednesday, with a decision likely coming in June.
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Tags: ACA, Affordable Care Act, Alden, Algonquin, Arlington Heights, Barrington Hills, Bartlett, Batavia, Bensenville, Berwyn, Big Rock, health care law, individual insurance, Lake, medical expenses, Medicare, Supreme Court, the affordable care act
Posted in Health Care .gov, Insurance Reform, Political | Comments Off on More than 100,000 in SC could lose health insurance if Supreme Court rules against subsidies
Friday, February 27th, 2015
Investor’s Business Daily reports:
“This year, as many as 6 million taxpayers will learn that they now owe a “Shared Responsibility Payment” because they didn’t have health insurance last year.
The SRP is a clumsy euphemism for the ObamaCare individual mandate tax penalty, which is $95 or 1% of household income, whichever is greater, for those who didn’t have insurance in 2014. That increases to the greater of $325 or 2% of income for those who don’t have insurance this year, and then to $695 or 2.5% of income the year after that.
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Tags: exchange, Franklin Park, Geneva, Genoa, Gilberts, Glen Ellyn, Glencoe, Glendale Heights, Glenview, health insurance, individual, Individual Mandate, Penalty, premiums, Supreme Court, Tax
Posted in Insurance Reform | Comments Off on Will Only Suckers Pay The ObamaCare Tax Penalty?
Wednesday, December 17th, 2014
Chicago Health Care Daily reports:
“The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider a challenge to the subsidies that are a linchpin of President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul, accepting a case that suddenly puts the law under a new legal cloud.
Two years after upholding much of the law by a single vote, the justices today said they will hear a Republican-backed appeal targeting tax credits that have helped more than 4 million people afford insurance.
A ruling blocking those credits might unravel the Affordable Care Act, making other provisions ineffective and potentially destabilizing insurance markets in much of the country. The high court’s decision to hear the case comes days before the start of the law’s second open-enrollment season. A decision will come by June.
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Tags: Affordable Care Act, Alden, Algonquin, Arlington Heights, aurora, barack obama, insurance, subsidies, Supreme Court
Posted in Insurance Reform | Comments Off on Challenge to Obamacare gets Supreme Court review
Wednesday, November 5th, 2014
Bloomberg BusinessWeek reports:
“Now that Republicans will be taking control of the Senate, party leaders will get the chance to stage a full vote on the repeal of Obamacare, forcing either a Democratic filibuster or a presidential veto. Either way, it will be pure theater, since there’s no real chance of undoing the law as long as President Obama remains in office. But the results of Tuesday’s election will still have a real impact on the Affordable Care Act’s provisions for state-level Medicaid expansions.
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Tags: Affordable Care Act, GOP, Government, Hospital, insurance, Maple Park, Marengo, Massachusetts, Maywood, McCullen Lake, McHenery, McHenry, medicaid programs, subsidies, Supreme Court
Posted in Insurance Reform, Political | Comments Off on Another Election Loser: Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion
Wednesday, September 10th, 2014
Business Cheat Sheet reports:
“A great number of people in the United States have grown accustomed to having their employer pay for, or at least subsidize their healthcare costs. That usually takes the form of employer-provided health insurance plans, which have become a staple of most compensation packages for full-time employees that are working in positions that require even menial amounts of skill — and shutting out, for the most part, unskilled or low-wage workers. On the surface, it is a bit odd that we rely on our employers to pay for our health insurance. Yet, it’s become the norm, and one of the many reasons the U.S. healthcare system, as a whole, is so complicated and for lack of a better term, screwed up.
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Tags: Affordable Care Act, Blue Cross, Costs, health insurance, insurance plan, Oak Park, Oakbrook Terrace, Oakwood Hills, Obama care, Obamacare regulation, Oswego, Palatine, premiums, Supreme Court, the affordable care act
Posted in Group Health Insurance | Comments Off on It’s Time to Kick Employer-Sponsored Healthcare to the Curb
Wednesday, July 30th, 2014
The State Journal-Register reports:
“Conflicting federal court rulings Tuesday pose no immediate financial threat for the 168,000 Illinoisans receiving reduced-price health insurance through the federal Affordable Care Act, an aide to Gov. Pat Quinn says.
The legality of the subsidies in states such as Illinois, which doesn’t operate its own health insurance “exchange,” was called into question by one of the rulings.
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Tags: Affordable Care Act, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Chicago, Chicagoland, Deerfield, Delay, Evanston, premiums, Richmond, Supreme Court
Posted in Illinois Health Insurance | Comments Off on Quinn aide: Court rulings don’t jeopardize federal health-care subsidies
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