Just weeks before the courts are set to hear oral arguments about health reform legal challenges, a new poll was released by the Kaiser Family Foundation that confirms most Americans find the individual mandate provision of President Obama’s health reform to be unconstitutional. The tax penalty known as the “individual mandate” states that beginning in [...]
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The Individual Mandate Provision: Unconstitutional or a Necessary Component of Healthcare Reform?
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Blue Shield to return $283 million in excess profits to policyholders in California
Making recent headlines, Blue Shield of California has announced it will give customers in the state a $283-million credit on their insurance premiums, saying it is fulfilling a promise to return money to policyholders when its net income exceeds 2% of revenue. As discussed in an article in the Los Angeles Times, this action, on [...]
California Could Pose Problem for Obama’s Healthcare Reform
For more than a year, as conservative states have battled President Obama’s healthcare law, California was supposed to be a model that showed the law’s promise. In an article written this week by the Los Angeles Times, California is now emerging as one of the biggest headaches for the White House in its bid to [...]
