“When Congress acts, whatever it is called it will do the exact opposite. So the Affordable Care Act will make plans not affordable.”
It looks like something from this proposal will become law. Right now, the bill is in committee where the differences are being resolved.
Coverage is considered unaffordable if the lowest cost Bronze-level plan available to you through the Marketplace in 2017 is more than 8.16% of your household income.
However, in 2018, the health insurance rates are extraordinarily high, especially in Charlottesville. Taking one year off from your valuable tax planning strategies to get free or low-cost health insurance might be worth it.
David John Marotta was interviewed on the Schilling Show discussing the minimum wage, and the reasons keeping (or raising) a mandatory minimum wage could actually hurt some workers.
Here are 8 reasons you’d want to lower your AGI and 8 methods to lower your AGI.
HSAs have so many advantages over traditional IRAs that you should continue funding your HSA as long as possible and build as large an HSA investment balance as you can.
Politics matters less to our financial success than the ordinary decisions we face every day.
David John Marotta was interviewed recently on the Schilling Show discussing the politics of kindness and the difference between intentions and outcomes.
Those who believe that more regulation is the answer don’t understand how human nature works.
I recently read a foolish article entitled “Call for a National Savings Plan” that assumed we haven’t tried a national savings plan already.
An HSA is one of many accounts used in comprehensive wealth management for tax optimization and planning.
David Marotta was interviewed recently on radio 1070 WINA’s Schilling Show discussing some of the government’s broken promises
ObamaCare was always going to be a bad law and now, five years in, that should be clear to everybody.
Bush’s tax plan is in good company with Trump, Rubio, and Lee. It hits many common Republican talking points but doesn’t seem to take its own reasoning very seriously.
Tax season under Trump’s plan would likely be just as complicated but slightly less painful.
Organic food has a reputation for being healthier than non-organic food, but neither of these claims should be taken at face value.
Hamilton, like our current president, sees people as temporary holders of wealth until such time as the government decides to expand.
The arguments for greater government power have always been the same.
We expect the Garrett Planning Network to quickly take down these SEC violations from their website in response.
The principles of a fiduciary cannot be condensed into a set of rules.
The domestic spying of the executive branch deserves our outrage. Efforts like “Citizenfour” that keep the issue in the public eye deserve our support.
Income taxes are the largest portion of the federal government’s annual tax haul. But who foots the bill?
Obama evidently believes that politicians are elected to make a difference in the lives of Americans. The problem is that no one can opt out of a federal impact.
The loudest tend to drown out competitors regardless of whose reasoning is better.
The GPRA Modernization Act of 2010 had a vision: to “provide Congress and the public a clearer picture of the programs that exist across the Federal government.” Like most things in government, it failed to live up to its goals.
Despite a government “of the people, by the people, for the people”, I have found myself told time-and-again, “You’re on your own”.
These noble-sounding goals intuitively appear useful, but the federal government has only two ways to encourage change and neither of them helps in this case.
Unfortunately, Obama’s good intentions are thwarted by the economic principle formulated by banker Charles Goodhart.
The average factory-farmed frozen turkey from a grocery story is sold for as little as $0.67 per pound. Economics can offer five explanations.
Unless McConnell is willing to risk a government shutdown, he will ultimately have to acquiesce to Obama’s wishes.
Last year plans were being cancelled. This year, citizens are receiving notifications of rate hikes in the double digits. Is this really happening?
We must return, as much as possible, to a fee-for-service approach to health care and restore the traditional doctor-patient relationship.
The articles associated with David John Marotta’s presentation at the DC Metro chapter of the American Association of Individual Investors.
Again, we were asking if such screening saved insurance companies money, and the answer is, “No.”
“Shouldn’t patients and their families have some skin in the game as a brake on the profligate spending of other people’s money for health care?”
Asians in New Jersey have the best life expectancy of any racial or ethnic group.
Now there is absolutely no charge for a costly set of test and procedures on the all-you-can-spend preventive care buffet.
Why shouldn’t we just institute price controls in America?
Government has never been known for customer service. But today it is known primarily for being against the very people it is supposed to serve.
Michael Kirsch, a practicing physician and newspaper columnist, laments that there are questions he can never answer satisfactorily for his patients. His questions are central to the public policy debate increasingly being decided by voters and politicians rather than physicians and economists.
Those who stand by and do nothing are complicit in aiding the loss of freedoms for others.
“We don’t have concentration camps and political dissidents and large numbers being hauled into prison because we don’t need that because we have effectively put prisons inside people’s minds.”
Having sufficient assets in a taxable account can allow for tax planning.
Ah, the joys of being a small business owner in 2013.
The president’s hope to restrict the plans should actually make owners more interested in creating one.
The study shows that 21 percent have saved nothing for retirement.
Which part of the conservative party appeals best to you: promoting the welfare of big business, legislating morality or advocating personal freedom and responsibility?
Even the Social Security withdrawals of average workers would produce millionaires if they were allowed to be saved and invested in private accounts.
How do you prepare for the end of the world?