Cost of a state-based ObamaCare exchange underestimated in Illinois

By Naomi Lopez Bauman

11/26/2014

Despite Illinois’ precarious financial situation, some lawmakers are continuing their efforts to establish an expensive state-based ObamaCare exchange.

TAGS: ACA: Affordable Care Act, health care

Tennessee votes to ban income taxation, Illinois should do the same

By Michael Lucci

11/23/2014

Over the last 15 years, Illinois has lost a net of 282,827 people and more than $14 billion in annual income to zero-income-tax states.

TAGS: income tax, jobs

Why Illinois should forgo state-based health exchange

By Naomi Lopez Bauman

11/19/2014

A new Illinois Policy Institute report lays out the many reasons why a state-based exchange is not only unnecessary, but also harmful to the state.

TAGS: health insurance

Top 10 reasons Illinois should reject a state-based health-insurance exchange

By Naomi Lopez Bauman

11/07/2014

Not only is a state-based ObamaCare exchange not required by federal law, but it also contains many drawbacks for Illinois consumers and taxpayers.

TAGS: health care

ObamaCare is heading back to the Supreme Court

By Naomi Lopez Bauman

11/07/2014

If this Supreme Court strikes down the IRS subsidies in states without a state-based health-insurance exchange, Illinois employers and employees would see much-needed relief.

TAGS: U.S. Supreme Court

Is ObamaCare heading back to the Supreme Court?

By Naomi Lopez Bauman

11/05/2014

A Supreme Court ruling striking down the IRS subsidies in all 50 states would provide an important opportunity for reform.

TAGS: ACA: Affordable Care Act, health care, U.S. Supreme Court

Illinois Corruption Watch, October 2014

By Brian Costin

11/01/2014

In October, we found 52 different stories of potential public corruption in Illinois, including a trio of stories related to the election. An Illinois Policy investigation into emails from a group of Kankakee County superintendents revealed potentially illegal activities to pass a countywide sales-tax hike for school facilities. Documents obtained suggest illegal actions by superintendents...

TAGS: good government, waste

Insurers’ ObamaCare escape hatch

By Naomi Lopez Bauman

10/22/2014

Insurers wouldn’t participate in the federal health exchange without an escape clause protecting them from the possibility that IRS subsidies would be ruled illegal, according to industry news. It was a smart move, as that possibility just got more likely in recent weeks. At issue is what the plain text of Section 1401 of the Affordable Care...

Federal court strikes down ObamaCare subsidies

10/01/2014

People who don’t like the lawlessness displayed by the Obama administration in its implementation of the Affordable Care Act have something to celebrate. On Sept. 30, a federal court in Oklahoma ruled that the Affordable Care Act means what it says: ObamaCare insurance subsidies are only available in states that have established their own health-insurance...

D.C. court to rehear Halbig ObamaCare decision

09/04/2014

Good news for the Obama administration: the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has granted the administration’s request to rehear the court’s July 22 decision in Halbig v. Burwell. That decision struck down an Internal Revenue Service rule that made ObamaCare insurance subsidies available in all 50 states, even though the...

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Cost of a state-based ObamaCare exchange underestimated in Illinois

Tennessee votes to ban income taxation, Illinois should do the same

Why Illinois should forgo state-based health exchange

Top 10 reasons Illinois should reject a state-based health-insurance exchange

ObamaCare is heading back to the Supreme Court

Is ObamaCare heading back to the Supreme Court?

Illinois Corruption Watch, October 2014

Insurers’ ObamaCare escape hatch

Federal court strikes down ObamaCare subsidies

D.C. court to rehear Halbig ObamaCare decision

4 ways to break out of Illinois’ pension trap

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