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Dr. Hal Scherz, President of D4PC, and Sally Pipes, of the Pacific Research Institute, have teamed together to writing a very informative article about how the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is trying to impermissibly ignore the obvious language of ObamaCare, and therefore the Constitutional prerogatives of Congress, and "rewrite" the law as it sees fit. 

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Welcome to D4PC "Morning Rounds", your daily review of healthcare news and information from Washington, DC and around the nation. These briefings will keep you up to date on recent developments and our effort to replace the PPACA with patient-centered reforms that protect the doctor-patient relationship and preserve individual freedom of choice.  

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According to The Washington Examiner, in testimony before a subcommittee in the House of Representives this week "Cornell University economics professor Richard Burkhauser showed that in 2014, millions of low-income Americans may be unable to get subsidized health insurance through the new health care exchanges."  The culprit: the legislative language of ObamaCare. 

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The federal government has begun to shape the basic health benefits package that will be offered to Americans through the ObamaCare exchanges.  As stated by one report, "until now, designing benefits has been the job of insurers, employers and state officials. But the new health care law requires insurance companies to provide at least the federally approved package if they want to sell to small businesses, families and individuals through new state markets set to open in 2014." 

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On the PPACA's One Year Anniversary and amid an all time high percentage of Americans who want it's repeal, Team Obama is sending out it's sales force to once again attempt to convince skeptical voters on the law's alleged merits. No doubt, they will be promoting the Small Business Tax Credit which is already proving to be another bureacratic juggernaut.  Please take a look at the below flowchart and try to comprehend how this complicated process can possibly be of "any" benefit to America's struggling small business community.

http://republicans.waysandmeans.house.gov/UploadedFiles/Small_business_tax_credit_path.pdf 

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Michael Cannon explains all the deficiencies and negative consequences of the PPACA and why we need to shut it down and replace with alternatives that will protect what works well in the current system while addressing those areas that truly need reform.  Furthermore, he makes the case for state governors to not initiate the groundwork for their state insurance exchange while waiting for a Supreme Court decision since this is exactly what this administration is counting on.  The SCOTUS decision may very well be influenced by how entrenched the roots of Obamacare have taken.  Complying with the HHS Secretary in laying the groundwork for this new bureaucracy will be counterproductive to states who are resisting the new law.  

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=12858 

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