Monday Afternoon LinkFest [UPDATED]

From the spindle:■ A whole raft of ObamaTaxes are due to hit shortly, including:"Section 9010 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act requires health plans and commercial insurers to pay $8 billion in new taxes in the coming year, and more in later years, to help compensate for the new, subsidized business PPACA is supposed to send to carriers."A quibble with the phrase "health plans and commercial insurers to pay $8 billion in new taxes." Um, no - neither insurers nor health plans will pay these taxes, you will. As regular readers know, businesses don't pay taxes.■ SHOP dropped (temporarily):"An online health insurance marketplace for small businesses is being put off until November 2014"Ostensibly, this is to give Ms Shecantbeserious time to work out the various "bugs" and "glitches" plaguing the individual version. So here's a question: if one has already taken the SHOP certification course necessary for an agent to sell through that vaporware, will a new, updated version be required when (if?) it's ever actually rolled out?■ We already know that US citizens' medical records are no longer private, but FoIB Holly R tips us to this horrific (and eye-opening) story of a Canadian woman whose supposedly confidential medical history was accessed by US Homeland (In)Security:"I was turned away, I was told, because I had a hospitalization in the summer of 2012 for clinical depression ... The Weston woman was told by the U.S. agent she would have to get “medical cl...
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