The Hill: Rep. Ellmers: Reform law may hamper small insurers
August 30, 2011
By Sam Baker
The Health and Human Services Department hasn’t adequately addressed the needs of small insurance companies — and small employers — as it implements the healthcare reform law, Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-N.C.) said in a letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
Ellmers, who chairs the House… Read more »
GOP Lawmaker Wants Changes in HHS Rule for Health Exchanges
By Emily Ethridge, Congressional Quarterly
August 30, 2011
A House subcommittee chairwoman is urging the Obama administration to clarify its proposed rule on the health care law’s state insurance exchanges to prevent small businesses from being unduly burdened and to keep small insurers in the market.
The Department of… Read more »
Wall Street Journal Opinions
Democrats now claim that the infamous 1099 business reporting mandate that the Senate repealed this week was an accident, as if they were as surprised as everyone else to learn that this destructive provision had crept by itself into law. The truth is that the 1099 rule emerged from the same core ideology as ObamaCare, and its overwhelming repudiation by… Read more »
By Jennifer Haberkorn, Politico
The Senate voted Wednesday for the first time to repeal a piece of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, rolling back a new tax reporting requirement that’s been universally panned by business owners.
The amendment to repeal the 1099 reporting requirement passed 81-17 with broad bipartisan support.
The provision was one that Obama identified… Read more »
By Paul Downs; New York Times "You're the Boss" Blog
Now that 2010 is complete, I can see what kind of help Obamacare — sorry, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — will give me with my health insurance bills. I mentioned in a previous post that my insurance rates for 2011 were a little lower than they had been in 2010 (although I expect them to resume their regular upward… Read more »
By Ken Amaro; First Coast News
Alex Bryant owns Weld Direct Corporation and was counting on a new federal tax credit to ease his ever-rising health insurance costs.
But Bryant said while he thought the 35 percent tax credit would help, when he started investigating the benefits, the results surprised him.
Bryant employs 17 workers at an average salary of $41,000 a year; he spends a… Read more »
“…78 percent of small businesses believe that taxation, regulation and legislation from Washington make it harder for businesses to hire more employees — and 74 percent blame the recent health care reforms passed by the Obama administration for creating an impediment to job creation.”
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“…78 percent of small businesses believe that taxation, regulation and legislation from Washington make it harder for businesses to hire more employees — and 74 percent blame the recent health care reforms passed by the Obama administration for creating an impediment to job creation.”
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By Pete Kasperowicz; The Hill
Republicans signaled Wednesday that repealing a controversial tax provision in the healthcare law is one of their most pressing priorities.
House Republicans have re-numbered the bill repealing the tax requirement as H.R. 4, signaling it will be one of their first pieces of business.
The bill would repeal language requiring companies, starting in 2012,… Read more »
By Jim Landers; Dallas Morning News
The health care law includes a provision that requires even the smallest businesses to send a 1099 form to the IRS whenever they buy more than $600 a year in goods or services from a single company or individual.
Andy Ellard, who runs Manda Machine Co., a 20-employee manufacturing shop in Dallas, estimates the provision will take 160 hours of his… Read more »
