The Blaze<\/a>.<\/p>\nPeople familiar with the logic of doing business understand that private firms don\u2019t pay taxes, people do. So when ObamaCare imposes a tax on health insurance providers, that amount gets passed on to consumers as higher premiums.<\/p>\n
With ObamaCare\u2019s second enrollment cycle about to end, many people are experiencing this economic rule up-close-and-personal.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hear every day from individuals, families, and businesses in Arizona about the cost of health care,\u201d Rep. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) is quoted as saying. \u201cThis common sense fix [i.e. repeal] will help lower out of pocket costs for hardworking Arizonans. By working together, we can provide relief for individuals, families, and employers while increasing access to quality affordable health care.\u201d<\/p>\n
That\u2019s highly unlikely because ObamaCare\u2019s regulations increase the cost of providing health care, and its complex web of subsidies is designed to hide some of that increase. Repealing a source for subsidies without also repealing the regulations that make them necessary leaves the elevated cost without a means to pay for it.<\/p>\n
Still, it\u2019s good to see at least some Democrats in Congress supporting the repeal of at least some part of ObamaCare. Remove enough supports, and eventually the whole architecture crumbles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nice things cost money, and so too does so-called affordable health insurance. \u201cMore than one-third of all House members have signed onto legislation that would repeal ObamaCare\u2019s tax on insurance companies, which even some Democrats agree is leading to high insurance costs for millions of American families,\u201d reports The Blaze. People familiar with the logic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84,3308,1829,35,300,1001,2249,105],"class_list":["post-22419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-congress","tag-health","tag-insurance","tag-obamacare","tag-regulation","tag-repeal","tag-subsidy","tag-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22419"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22424,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22419\/revisions\/22424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}