The Times, particularly miffed because of the loss of federal health subsidies to its home state, argued that the president should not pick apart a tax bill representing weeks of delicate compromise in Congress.
One way to reduce health insurance subsidies is to eliminate the tax-exemption for employer-paid health insurance premiums, while simultaneously lowering other taxes to hold revenue constant.
The law requires exchanges to be created as a funnel for hundreds of billions of dollars in new health insurance subsidies and also as a vehicle to implement significant new regulations of the health insurance market.
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These health insurance subsidies go only to those who buy insurance on their own individually through state based health insurance exchanges set up by the legislation.
When you did say that you're willing to reduce health care benefits and subsidies, are you in any way also including health care tax benefits and subsidies?
The Department of Homeland Security needs to verify that people coming into the exchanges are legal citizens, since Obamacare does not offer health insurance subsidies to undocumented residents.
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Governors: The health law relies on states to expand insurance coverage through Medicaid and to set up bureaucracies, called exchanges, through which new health insurance subsidies will be distributed.
So will health insurance subsidies under ObamaCare.
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Families will only get that subsidy if they are in a health insurance exchange, and there is now a major argument over whether exchanges created by the federal government, rather than the states, can provide the health insurance subsidies.
In its long-term fiscal forecast, the Congressional Budget Office figures that in 25 years, the federal government will be spending about 10.5 percent of GDP on Medicare, Medicaid, and the new health insurance subsidies created by the Affordable Care Act.
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The better solution would be to get rid of all health care tax subsidies so that companies have a greater incentive to offer their employees health savings accounts, as opposed to insurance that creates the illusion of "free" care.
First, it helps tackle one of the greatest distortions in America's health system: the subsidies given for employer-provided health insurance, which encourage over-insurance.
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Inefficiencies in health care are a problem, but they persist because existing subsidies mean health care providers face limited incentives to control costs.
The ACA tries to increase access to health insurance through a bewildering combination of Medicaid expansions, private insurance subsidies, health insurance exchanges, and the infamous health insurance mandate.
Bigger tax subsidies for health care are, if anything, likely to raise overall spending.
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Such low pay means that government must step in with substantial support such as housing subsidies, health care and refundable tax credits to working families.
Addressing one of the most controversial issues in the health care debate, Obama repeated his opposition to providing health insurance or government subsidies for coverage to illegal immigrants.
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Rolling back subsidies for health insurance is not pleasant medicine, but past improvements in health technology mean that even low-cost care is superior to the state-of-the-art a few decades ago.
Bloomberg justifies his nanny-state interventions by pointing to the social costs of obesity, but there is no direct causal link between obesity and 20-ounce sodas with sugar in them, and neither would it be anyone's business at all except for the increasing government control and subsidies for health care.
Karen Ignagni, chief executive of America's Health Insurance Plans, believes in public subsidies for working families that can't afford to purchase health care coverage.
By providing sensible subsidies for private health insurance, he has brought down the cost of the health service.
Tax credits or subsidies could make health insurance affordable for laid-off workers who are not eligible for Medicare.
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Pelosi's bill includes various requirements for immigrants to verify their citizenship before getting federal subsidies to buy health insurance.
The problem is, Romneycare created subsidies for purchasing health insurance without applying market reforms to increase access and competition of healthcare provision.
The administration is also pressing hard to end subsidies for private health insurers that offer Medicare plans, and to cut banks out of the student-loan industry.
Buried deep in the 2, 700 page legislation is the little reported fact that after 2018 the subsidies for private health insurance are going to grow at the same rate as Medicare i.e.
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The government now has on its books two large, expensive and permanent entitlement commitments the health law's premium subsidies and the Medicare hospital insurance program yet Congress has only identified enough resources to pay for one of them.
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The lower insurance coverage rates in this community will be the direct result of illegal immigrants being specifically excluded from the health insurance mandate provisions of the Affordable Care Act, the ineligibility of illegals to receive the government subsidies to assist in paying health insurance premiums and, of course, the continued ineligibility of illegals to participate in Medicaid programs.
And a significant fraction of the population does not have health insurance today, despite the large premium subsidies currently offered in the form of Medicare and Medicaid and tax breaks for employment-based health insurance.
The federal government has a patchwork of subsidies for those buying health insurance that is full of inequities.
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