Experts: Both parties selling out U.S. workers
“Self-preservation has always been regarded as the first law of nature…Those who favor unrestricted immigration care nothing for the people. They are simply desirous of flooding the country with...
View ArticleObamacare on the ballot is bad news for the president
The political football of health insurance, supposedly taken off the playing field in 2012 by the Supreme Court decision declaring the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act constitutional, is...
View ArticleQ&A: Latest health law fight: Battle of mandates
WASHINGTON If businesses get an extra year to meet a new health care mandate, why not everybody else? Republicans, seizing on the White House delay for employers, are demanding that the Obama...
View ArticleBoehner to Obama: Why a break for businesses only?
WASHINGTON - Framing a new argument against President Barack Obama's health care law, congressional GOP leaders called Tuesday for a delay in the law's requirement that individual Americans carry...
View ArticleImplementing the Affordable Care Act: Why Is This So Complex? (Brookings...
(Source: Brookings Institution) Last week, the Obama administration made a sensible, pragmatic decision to postpone until 2015 the implementation of the employer mandate under the Affordable Care Act...
View ArticleSurprise? Employer mandate delayed
The Obama administration’s just-before-July 4 surprise—postponing for a year the Affordable Care Act’s employer mandate—generated a ton of news coverage, from perfunctory to nuts-and-bolts only, to...
View ArticleNews Flash: Obamacare Haters Hate Obamacare
Edwin Durning-Lawrence was a writer and a member of the U.K. Parliament who devoted much of his life to an obsessive, and slightly crazy, effort to demonstrate that Francis Bacon wrote the works...
View ArticleRepublicans press White House to delay key Obamacare mandate
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional Republicans pressed President Barack Obama on Tuesday to delay a requirement under his healthcare law for Americans to obtain insurance next year after the...
View ArticleA Break for Smokers? Glitch May Limit Penalties
Some smokers trying to get coverage next year under President Barack Obama's health-care law may get a break from tobacco-use penalties that could have made their premiums unaffordable. The Obama...
View ArticleDespicable market resumes regular trading this week
Video: Related Columns WASHINGTON, July 8, 2013 — We’re back from a long holiday weekend, just in time to see the stock market get back to what is more or less its usual trading patterns these days,...
View ArticleRoundup of Oklahoma editorials
Here are excerpts from recent editorials in Oklahoma newspapers: The Oklahoman, July 8, 2013 Effects of new health law are increasingly arbitrary The Obama administration abruptly announced that...
View Article>GOP wants delay in health law's individual mandate
WASHINGTON (AP) — Framing a new argument against President Barack Obama's health care law, congressional GOP leaders called Tuesday for a delay in the law's requirement that individual Americans carry...
View ArticleGOP wants delay in health law's individual mandate
Framing a new argument against President Barack Obama's health care law, congressional GOP leaders called Tuesday for a delay in the law's requirement that individual Americans carry health insurance....
View ArticleCHARTS: One Jobs Number That's Back to Normal
By this measure, the job market looks just as good as when unemployment was at 4.5 percent...but why? Comment () Tweet The unemployment rate is still high, but numbers on both job openings and hirings...
View ArticleWalmart Living Wage Dispute In D.C. Undermines Company's Murky Pay Claims
WASHINGTON -- On Tuesday, a Walmart executive rebuked the D.C. Council in an op-ed in the Washington Post, declaring that the company would scuttle plans for three stores if the city enacted a...
View ArticleHHS Ruling Helps Workers But Spells Trouble for Employer Mandate
In my post last week, after the announcement that the employer mandate would not be enforced for a year, I wrote that it was vital that the Obama administration show as much concern for the workers...
View ArticleWhy women part-timers should be full-time ball-breakers
Now is the only time I will ever say this (it applies in one area alone, and is based entirely on anecdata and no evidence): on the matter of part-time work, I genuinely think women are stupid. Roll...
View ArticleWhat now? Q&A about latest snag in health care law
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nothing's ever easy with President Barack Obama's health care law. The latest hitch gives employers an additional year before they must offer medical coverage to their workers or pay...
View ArticleRoss Douthat / There actually is a bipartisan consensus on health care, but...
To follow what's happening with the new health care law, you have to understand that for all the deep divisions on the issue, there's actually a real bipartisan consensus about how the U.S. health...
View ArticleEmployer-provided health insurance is a relic that’s got to go
To follow what’s happening with the new health care law, you have to understand that for all the deep divisions on the issue, there’s actually a real bipartisan consensus about how the U.S. health...
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