List/Grid Tag Archives: mandates
More federal government threats concerning state teen driving rules
It continues. Here is another example of the federal government politicians and bureaucrats sticking their collective noses into the rights of the people and the state. Again, they’re threatening to hold back federal…
Over-regulated: Feds demand public pools have ramps and wheelchair lifts
Why, just tell me why, the federal government feels the need to inject themselves into this issue? Can’t the public pool management just have a simple conversation with the people…
Should employers have to cover gender reassignment surgeries?
Some people think yes, they must do so or they are guilty of discrimination. Sandra Fluke and Karen Hu wrote a paper for The Georgetown Journal of Gender and the…
Drive the point home like a Buick
This is a great piece of legislation from our friends in South Dakota. Click here for the full article. Five South Dakota lawmakers have introduced legislation that would require any…
Obama says look at excess regulation – How about calorie counts on menus?
Yesterday, President Obama had an OpEd piece – yes, he really did – in the Wall Street Journal calling for a review of regulations that place “an unreasonable burden” on business….
Health care mandates result in 18% premium increase in Connecticut
All across the United States, health insurance companies like Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Connecticut are meeting with state insurance regulators about premiums. During the past couple of…
Health care trade-offs – big increases in premiums, costs, for 2011
Really simple actually. If the federal government mandates additional coverage – like coverage for 26 year old “kids” and no lifetime or yearly limits – the cost to provide that…
Obama administration argues in court: Individual health care mandate is a tax
Yup, that’s right. After spending months ensuring the American people the health care individual mandate is certainly not a tax, the Obama administration’s Department of Justice has gone to court…
Price controls ensure health care insurance companies will drop coverage
I can say this with complete certainty. If President Obama gets his way and institutes price controls to “ensure” health care premiums don’t increase “too much”, insurers will simply drop…
Connecticut not backing Democrat health care legislation
From a poll released yesterday by the Yankee Institute in Hartford, we find Connecticut likely registered voters oppose current legislation in the House and Senate to reform health care by…
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