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Tag Archives: ACA
How Companies Can Save Millions on Healthcare Benefits (without Harming Employees)
The free market is supposed to be efficient. Yet employers are throwing away hundreds of millions of dollars, by not giving their employees intelligently designed healthcare benefits that encourage them to shop for affordable lab tests. Right now, when your … Continue reading
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Tagged ACA, AHCA, healthcare costs, Obamacare
Another Obamacare Failure: It Wasn’t a Job Killer!
According to many conservative pundits, Obamacare is a job killer. Five days before Obama signed the law, in fact, speaker John Boehner declared that the president was pushing “his job killing government takeover of healthcare that will hurt small businesses.” Years after … Continue reading
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Tagged ACA, Obamacare, partisanship, political psychology