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Some federal regulators, including Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler, have cracked down on a number of cryptocurrency firms as lawmakers and agencies seek to introduce regulations in the nascent sector.
Published: Sunday, February 19th, 2023 @ 5:53 pm
By: Daily Wire
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U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) called on the Federal Bureau of Investigation to search the home and office of Hunter Biden for any classified materials following reports of an email exchange involving the president’s son in 2014.
Published: Wednesday, February 8th, 2023 @ 4:31 am
By: Daily Wire
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and celebrity investor Kevin O’Leary clashed during a Wednesday hearing of the Senate Banking Committee discussing new federal regulations on cryptocurrency following the collapse of digital asset exchange FTX.
Published: Monday, December 26th, 2022 @ 6:32 pm
By: Daily Wire
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This week, Congressman Jones joined 44 of his Republican colleagues in writing U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew asking for a federal investigation into a Chinese firm’s planned acquisition of the Chicago Stock Exchange
Published: Friday, February 19th, 2016 @ 2:59 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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As the Jan. 31 deadline to obtain a health insurance policy for 2016 on the federal health exchange looms, enrollment has grown slightly, but individuals signing up for Obamacare in 2016 should expect to pay premiums that are between 20 percent and 30 percent higher
Published: Friday, January 22nd, 2016 @ 12:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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When the Affordable Care Act passed Congress in 2010, analysts from the Congressional Budget Office, the federal agency overseeing Medicare and Medicaid, and private-sector allies released estimates for how many Americans would enroll in ACA-exchange plans over the ensuing years
Published: Tuesday, January 5th, 2016 @ 8:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It looks as if the recent U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments in King v. Burwell transpired as expected. While all justices must follow the golden rule that a statute cannot be interpreted in isolation but instead must be read in full context, there were differing opinions as to whether Congress...
Published: Sunday, March 22nd, 2015 @ 10:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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To kick off the New Year, the Cato Institute hosted its 9th annual health policy conference, where I and other attendees were heavily briefed on the status and potential implications of King V Burwell - better known as one of the Obamacare "subsidy lawsuits."
Published: Saturday, January 17th, 2015 @ 5:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two recent federal appeals court rulings address the question of whether Obamacare’s health insurance subsidies for individual-market consumers can be distributed to those purchasing insurance through federal exchanges.
Published: Saturday, August 9th, 2014 @ 12:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Tuesday ruled 2-1 that the federal government cannot tax employers in order to provide health insurance subsidies in North Carolina and 35 other states that refused to establish Obamacare exchanges, potentially threatening the national health reform.
Published: Friday, July 25th, 2014 @ 8:04 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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State AARP officials Friday rolled out their 2014 legislative priorities, and among them were safeguarding Medicare from cost-cutting, expanding Medicaid, and helping more seniors not yet eligible for Medicare to enroll in the federal health exchange. At the Raleigh event, AARP leaders also...
Published: Wednesday, January 29th, 2014 @ 7:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In North Carolina, most news coverage on the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, has focused on the massive technical failures of the federal exchange website.
Published: Monday, January 20th, 2014 @ 8:27 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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For the second time in recent weeks, a federal judge has issued a ruling favorable to plaintiffs seeking to block the IRS from collecting tax penalties from employers in states such as North Carolina that do not have a state health insurance exchange under Obamacare. If any of several lawsuits...
Published: Thursday, October 24th, 2013 @ 8:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As the enrollment period for Obamacare experiences a rocky start, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt says his state's "very consequential" lawsuit against the mandates in the health insurance law could lead to a fiscal nightmare in 34 states.
Published: Saturday, October 12th, 2013 @ 12:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina consumers could be the biggest losers after one of three insurance carriers that applied to participate in the Obamacare federal exchange announced its decision on Thursday to withdraw from the government-approved marketplace, health experts say. They cite the lack of competition...
Published: Wednesday, September 18th, 2013 @ 10:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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FirstCarolinaCare Insurance Company is withdrawing from participation in the federal health exchange. Uninsured North Carolina consumers will have only two provider options from which to purchase policies approved by federal regulators and mandated under the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare)...
Published: Sunday, September 15th, 2013 @ 10:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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One of the state's largest business organizations is keeping a close eye on two federal lawsuits challenging the authority of the IRS to collect Obamacare taxes in states, including North Carolina, that did not set up state-run health insurance exchanges.
Published: Tuesday, June 4th, 2013 @ 1:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Tax subsidies in Obamacare could push at least half of privately insured, lower-income North Carolinians into the federal health exchange and off of private coverage, critics of the federal health reform law say.
Published: Tuesday, March 26th, 2013 @ 8:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Pat McCrory is expected to sign soon legislation that says no to implementing the federal health care law's most costly provisions -- a state-run insurance exchange and Medicaid expansion--and rightly so.
Published: Thursday, February 21st, 2013 @ 2:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Published reports that North Carolina must pay $181 million to the federal government annually as a consequence of failing to set up a state-run health exchange under Obamacare are false, leaving a spokesman...
Published: Tuesday, February 19th, 2013 @ 10:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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