Obamacare law says that health insurance at work is “affordable” if the employee has to pay no more than 9.5% of his wages for self-only coverage. If it is affordable, neither the worker nor his family is entitled to subsidized insurance in the (Obamacare) exchanges. The Biden administration wants to change that rule administratively (without Congress) to deem health insurance “unaffordable” if the premium for the entire family is greater than 9.5% of wages.
Author: John C. Goodman
Friday Links – 3 June 2022
- Biden wants to reinstate the airplane mask mandate.
- AMA wants physician pay reform: inflation indexing, but no HSA expansion or price transparency.
- JAMA: hospitals are marking up the cost of cancer drugs by as much as 634%.
- Three ways the government caused the baby formula shortage.
- The Covid Health Emergency is over, but politics and pork are keeping it going.