Small businesses that reimburse employees for the cost of premiums for individual health insurance policies or pay their health costs directly will be fined up to $36,500 a year per employee under a new Internal Revenue Service regulation that takes effect July 1, 2015 (article originally published June 30, 2015).
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Another ACA Treasury Regulation That Lacks Statutory Authority – Guest Essayist: Grace-Marie Turner
6. Guest Constitutional Scholar Essayists, 90 in 90 2015, Grace-Marie Turner 5. Constitutional Crisis – Executive Overreach, 17. Topics, Affordable Care Act, Another ACA Treasury Regulation That Lacks Statutory Authority, Grace-Marie Turner, Internal Revenue Service (IRS)New research about implementation of the Affordable Care Act finds that Obama administration regulations are allowing taxpayer subsidized health insurance for some people earning less than the statutory income floor and also for unlawful immigrants.
Any “forced sale” of products would also be constitutionally questionable as an unprecedented intrusion into the marketplace because the government would be compelling a commercial transaction that does not involve a willing seller and a willing buyer. The innovator company could even face liability if patients were harmed by a drug provided to them by a generics company to whom it was forced to sell.
Examining The Use Of Administrative Actions In The Implementation Of The Affordable Care Act – Guest Essayist: Grace-Marie Turner
6. Guest Constitutional Scholar Essayists, 90 in 90 2015, Grace-Marie Turner 5. Constitutional Crisis – Executive Overreach, Affordable Care Act, Examining The Use Of Administrative Actions In The Implementation Of The Affordable Care Act, Grace-Marie Turner, Internal Revenue Service (IRS)Companies inside and outside the health sector have spent countless billions of dollars trying to comply with the ACA. When the administration makes what some call “minor temporary course corrections,” it causes a new cascade of disruption and expenses for companies and makes it even harder for them to comply not only with the law but with ever-changing regulations. We have a process by which laws are to be enacted and changed, and that process has not been followed in implementing key provisions of the Affordable Care Act, as I have described here. I thank the committee for holding this hearing today to shed light on this issue. If our constitutional system of government is to survive, it must be based upon the rule of law.
Implementing The Affordable Care Act: The Executive Branch’s Liberties With Statutory Language – Guest Essayist: Grace-Marie Turner
6. Guest Constitutional Scholar Essayists, 90 in 90 2015, Grace-Marie Turner 5. Constitutional Crisis – Executive Overreach, 17. Topics, Affordable Care Act, Grace-Marie Turner, Implementing The Affordable Care Act: The Executive Branch’s Liberties With Statutory LanguageThe Obama administration has spent billions of taxpayer dollars implementing the Affordable Care Act, often taking vast liberties with statutory language. The administration’s actions were the subject of a House Ways and Means Oversight subcommittee hearing on Wednesday, chaired by Rep. Peter Roskam (R-IL).
Guess How Many Changes President Obama Has Unilaterally Made To The Affordable Care Act? A Running List! – Guest Essayists: Tyler Hartsfield And Grace-Marie Turner
6. Guest Constitutional Scholar Essayists, 90 in 90 2015, Grace-Marie Turner 5. Constitutional Crisis – Executive Overreach, 17. Topics, Affordable Care Act, Grace-Marie Turner, Guess How Many Changes President Obama Has Unilaterally Made To The Affordable Care Act? A Running List!, Tyler HartsfieldBy our count at the Galen Institute, more than 49 significant changes already have been made to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: at least 30 that President Obama has made unilaterally, 17 that Congress has passed and the president has signed, and 2 by the Supreme Court.