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Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law on Friday mandating annual skin cancer screenings for more than 300,000 state employees and their families at no out-of-pocket cost. The law, sponsored by Rep. Ralph Massullo, a dermatologist by trade, stipulates that the state group health insurance plan managed by the Division of State Group Insurance must cover skin cancer screenings conducted by dermatologists, physician assistants, or advanced registered practice nurses, without requiring deductibles, copayments, coinsurance, or any other form of cost-sharing.

When Obamacare’s individual mandate takes effect in 2014, all Americans who file income tax returns must complete an additional IRS tax form. The new form will require disclosure of a taxpayer’s personal identifying health information in order to determine compliance with the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate. As confirmed by IRS testimony to the tax-writing House Committee on Ways and Means, “taxpayers will file their tax returns reporting their health insurance coverage, and/or making a payment”. So why will the Obama IRS require your personal identifying health information? Read more: http://atr.org/obamacare-taxpayers-must-report-personal-health-a7611#ixzz2T7AB826P Follow us: @taxreformer on Twitter

“All that was needed was shrewd questioning...to conclude once again that the symptoms of love were the same as those of cholera.” ― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera A riddle for you: when is a tax not a tax? When it is a tithe When it is insurance When the Supreme Court says so All of the above (snip)Take guns for example, you may soon need a government mandated insurance policy that will compensate any victims harmed should your firearm accidently and/or randomly discharge itself while a stranger is breaking into your home. Pretty compelling...

Gingrich: Health Insurance Mandate 'Started As Conservative Effort to Stop Hillarycare' By Terence P. Jeffrey December 11, 2011 (CNSNews.com) - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Saturday defended his previous support of a federal mandate requiring people to buy health insurance by saying that "virtually every conservative saw the mandate as a less dangerous future" than the health-care plan being advanced by then-First Lady Hillary Clinton in 1993 and that the idea of mandating that people buy health insurance "started as a conservative effort to stop Hillarycare in the 1990s." As recently as this May, Gingrich defended what he called...

Youth Insurance Hike Forecast Bethany Stotts, April 2, 2010 The class of 2014—and other young adults—could face an additional financial burden upon leaving college due to provisions within Obamacare, reports Carla K. Johnson for the Associated Press on March 30. More particularly, they could pay as much as $42 extra per month on health premiums, or $504 per year, if they are privately insured, according to a Rand Health analysis. In 2014, when the individual mandate takes effect, Johnson reports, “…premiums for young adults seeking coverage on the individual market would likely climb by 17 percent on average, or roughly...

WILLIAM DUNKELBERG, THE CHIEF ECONOMIST with the National Federation of Independent Business, is used to being a sorehead when major health-care legislation is offered by Washington. Back in 1993, when then-First Lady Hillary Clinton's health-care bill was in play, a member of the president's Council of Economic Advisors called Dunkelberg to ask why NFIB opposed the bill. Since it specifically exempted most small businesses from having to participate, what possible grounds could the membership have to object? "I told him," recalls Dunkelberg, "that we object because we're not stupid. Legislation like this proceeds in steps. First, get a bill passed...

Forty-nine percent (49%) of U.S. voters favor their state suing the federal government to fight the requirement in the new national health care plan that every American must obtain health insurance. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of likely voters finds that 37% disagree and oppose their state suing to challenge that requirement. Fourteen percent (14%) are undecided. A number of states, including Texas, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington, have already announced plans to sue the government over what they view as an unconstitutional requirement that every American buy or obtain health insurance. President Obama is expected to sign the...

Health care legislation in Washington may be stalled, but that has not stopped legislatures in more than two-thirds of the states from objecting to one of its central planks: a requirement that everyone buy health insurance. The objections, many of them driven by the Tea Party movement, may turn out to be largely symbolic. But they nonetheless serve notice to President Obama and the Democrats of real anger over their health care plans and signal the potential for political upheaval down the road. These measures, which are in various stages of ripening in about 36 states, could also pave the...

AMERICANS seem to like the idea of broadening health insurance coverage, but they may not want to be forced to buy it. With health care costs high and rising, such government mandates would make many people worse off. The proposals now before Congress would require just about everyone to buy health insurance or to get it through their employers — which would generally result in lower wages. In other words, millions of people would be compelled to spend lots of money on something they previously did not want, at least not at prevailing prices. Estimates of this burden vary, but...