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Galen Institute Testimony to House Oversight Subcommittee Hearing Examining the Use of Administrative Actions in the Implementation of the ACA
Galen Institute 
May 20, 2015
"The Galen Institute has been chronicling changes made to the Affordable Care Act since it was enacted in 2010, and we count at least 50 changes -- 31 of them made by the administration. In addition, there have been 17 changes passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama, and two changes made by the Supreme Court.... [This testimony] will discuss [1] examples of actions by the administration that are clearly contrary to the statute; [2] failed and successful congressional actions to provide legal authority to changing the law; and [3] additional changes only now being uncovered."
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The Challenges of Obamacare: Testimony of Galen Institute President to House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health
Galen Institute
Dec. 4, 2013
"While I believe that the unlimited tax exclusion for employer-provided health insurance does need to be capped, the ACA does it in a way that exacerbates the distortions by taxing the insurance company providing the coverage. If employers had more flexibility in structuring their health benefits to accommodate a tax cap, they would be able to engage their employees as partners rather than adversaries in finding more affordable health insurance arrangements."
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Testimony of Galen Institute to Joint Congressional Committee on the Employer Mandate: Examining the Delay and Its Effect on Workplaces (PDF)
Galen Institute
July 23, 2013
"Certainly a decision with such significant implications should have been reviewed by those in the administration with responsibility for implementing the law to determine its legality, its implications on other provisions of the law, and its implications for businesses and their employees. Now, employers are more confused than ever about what their responsibilities and liabilities are during this period of 'transition relief' from the reporting requirements. Regulations explaining the details of this announcement are not expected until later this summer, adding further to the uncertainty in their attempts to comply with the law."
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Galen Institute Comment Letter to HHS on Proposed Contraceptive Mandate Regs
Galen Institute
Apr. 7, 2013
"The attempt by this tortured regulation to find an accommodation to the coverage mandate shows the extraordinary difficulty -- indeed impossibility -- of attempting to go around the constitutionally-protected right to religious liberty. The only way to ensure that employers' rights are protected is to eliminate the underlying requirement that they provide contraceptive coverage. The exceptions contemplated by the [proposed regulations] are insufficient to counteract the intrusions on personal liberty created by the coverage mandate."
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Comments of Galen Institute on Medical Loss Ratio Requirements
Galen Institute
Feb. 1, 2012
"The MLR rules as drafted discriminate against Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) and similar high-deductible health plans in a number of ways. These accounts provide employers, employees, and individuals with an option to purchase coverage with a larger deductible so that the polices function more like traditional 'insurance' -- covering medical expenses above a certain threshold.... The Galen Institute respectfully requests that HHS exempt HSAs and other high-deductible health plans from the MLR requirement[.]"
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Opinion or Facts: Medicare Part D and Prescription Drug Prices
Galen Institute
Jan. 5, 2007
Excerpt: Competitive markets always do a better job of finding the price that works best for both buyers and sellers than government experts. This fact sheet was jointly prepared by health policy experts from the American Enterprise Institute, the Galen Institute, The Heritage Foundation, and the Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation.
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Text of Amici Curiae Brief on the Minimum Coverage Provision Issue in Support of Respondents
Galen Institute
Feb. 13, 2012
"Galen Institute, Angel Raich, Docs 4 Patient Care, the Benjamin Rush Society, and the Pacific Research Institute have filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court supporting the 11th Circuit's decision that the individual mandate contained in the health overhaul law is unconstitutional."
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Innovation in the Health Care Sector Continues
Galen Institute
May 15, 2012
"The Galen Institute held a conference ... in which speakers from more than a dozen companies described the investments they are making in better health, better health care services, and more efficient care delivery. They demonstrated that the best solutions to the problems in our health sector come not from remote Washington bureaucrats trying futilely to re-engineer our health sector through costly, cumbersome, and confusing rules and regulations, but from innovators who are listening to doctors, patients, and consumers."
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Consumer Choice Health Care: Reports From the Field
The Galen Institute
Feb. 13, 2004
Excerpt: The consumer choice health care movement is reaching its stride as the new products mature and reach further into the mainstream market. Early results are very encouraging. The vendors presenting at Galen's briefing all showed improvements in cost-containing activities by their enrollees and a new level of health care activism.
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The HHS Contraceptives Mandate Isn't Fixed
Galen Institute
Feb. 5, 2013
"While the administration has expanded the definition of institutions that could qualify for a 'religious employer exemption,' the 'accommodation' is no different than the notice issued last year. The administration still intends to force health-insurance companies to provide the coverage."
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Replacing Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance with Government-Financed Coverage: Considerations for Policymakers (PDF)
Galen Institute
Nov. 27, 2018
35 pages. "[This paper examines] the provenance, evolution, advantages and limitations of the leading source of coverage in the United States: employer-sponsored insurance (ESI). It will then examine some of the implications for health care financing and delivery were the U.S. government to supplant employers as the financer of medical care for most workers and their families.... The paper is not intended as a cost estimate or predictive model but rather as a way to identify and, in a more general sense, to quantify the implications of replacing ESI with government financing."
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Can The IRS Save Obamacare?
Galen Institute
Sept. 27, 2016
"You might think the IRS would be hounding those who took subsidies but neglected to file returns, in an effort to learn what happened to that $11 billion. The agency instead appears far more occupied with stalking people who paid their taxes, including the Obamacare tax on the uninsured. The administration's zeal in pursuing taxpayers and laxity in accounting for subsidies serve a common goal: To save Obamacare by herding as many people as possible into the exchanges by any means necessary."
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Suing Their Way Out of Obamacare Failure: Health Insurers Are Lawyering Up
Galen Institute
June 28, 2016
"Insurers from Oregon to Pennsylvania, including a failed health-care co-operative and two long-established Blues plans, have lost billions of dollars selling Obamacare policies. Now they are suing the federal government to recoup their losses. In a testament to industry desperation, insurers are asking federal judges to simply ignore a congressional ban on the payment of these corporate subsidies.... Obamacare consumers consist mainly of those who buy the policies with other people's money and those who are reasonably certain that their medical bills will exceed premiums. Such a 'market' is incurably dysfunctional."
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HSAs Under Attack in Obamacare Exchanges
Galen Institute
May 21, 2016
"[New HHS rules for plans offered on the exchanges] mean that [1] the specified deductibles for the plans and out-of-pocket limits to be offered in the exchanges will be outside the requirements for HSA-qualifying plans, and [2] plans will have to cover services below the deductible which are not allowed under the legal definition of HSAs."
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The White House Is About to Hold a Fire Sale on Obamacare
Galen Institute
Dec. 20, 2013
"This is a sign the administration is desperate to avert the very real likelihood that millions more people will be uninsured next year than before. It also blows out of the water the administration's claim that people must to have Bronze-Silver-Gold-Platinum coverage in order to have quality coverage.... Insurers also have no idea how to price for these products. They priced for the metal plans based on one risk pool; now with the wave of their hand they are changing the pool and expecting these [products] to be available the next day?"
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Twenty-Seven Significant Changes to Obamacare
Galen Institute
Nov. 18, 2013
"[E]ven this large number of changes hasn't stopped the cascade of failures we are seeing today.... [A list] shows those made by the Obama administration before the president's most recent announcement; those made by the 111th Congress (with Democratic control of the House) and signed by President Obama; changes made by the 112th and 113th Congresses (with Republican control of the House) and signed by the president; and those made by the U.S. Supreme Court."
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It's Fact, Not Anecdote, That Obamacare Is Turning Us Into a Part-Time Nation
Galen Institute
Aug. 27, 2013
"Bureau of Labor Statistics data show that the ratio of part-time to full-time jobs has completely flipped this year from historical trends. Last year, six full-time jobs were created for every one part time job. This year, only one full-time job is being created for every four new part-time jobs. The shift to part-time has accelerated over the past several months because of the 'look back' provision in ObamaCare that sets the baseline this year for the number of full-time workers a company employs to determine their compliance with the employer pay-or-play mandate."
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Joint Congressional Hearing on the Employer Mandate: Examining the Delay and Its Effect on Workplaces
Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions jointly with the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, Education and the Workforce Committee, U.S. House of Representatives
July 23, 2013
Page includes links to a recorded webcast of the hearing, along with transcripts of opening statements by Chairman David P. Roe (TN) and Chairman Tim Walberg (MI), and written testimony of four witnesses: Ms. Grace-Marie Turner, president of the Galen Institute; Mr. Jamie T. Richardson, a senior leader with the White Castle restaurant chain; Mr. Ron Pollack, Executive Director of Families USA ; and Dr. Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of American Action Forum.
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Fact-Checking Obama's Healthcare Speech
Galen Institute
July 18, 2013
"New York's premiums will remain among the costliest in the nation after Obamacare becomes fully operational. Legislation passed over the last two decades has driven health insurance premiums in the state to among the highest in the country. Premiums have nowhere to go but down, and the primary driver of the lower premiums is the widely-despised individual mandate which will force healthier, reluctant buyers into the exchanges."
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Did Employers Just Become Aggressive Obamacare Implementers?
Galen Institute
July 10, 2013
"'The Obama administration has just put dropping health coverage on sale for employers,' [American Action Forum president Douglas] Holtz-Eakin said. 'There is an unambiguous incentive now for employers to stop providing health insurance, prepare to pay the penalty, and send their employees to the exchanges instead, where they can get much more heavily subsidized coverage,' Holtz-Eakin said. 'They now have a year to make the transition.'"
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