Category Archives: Healthcare

GOP Looks At Passing Bill Making Changes To Obamacare

Let’s be honest, big legislation like Obamacare is most likely never going away, just like other big things, regardless of there being no Constitutional authority for Los Federales to do things like Obamacare. The time to kill it was before it started, but, Republicans ran Mitt Romney. But, there are certainly ways to at least […]

Too Bad: Obamacare Could Collapse Under Trump’s Plan

It would be a terrible thing giving money directly to those on Ocare instead of the insurance companies, right? Obamacare could collapse under Trump’s new plan, policy experts say Republicans are putting their own spin on subsidizing Americans’ health care: Route money away from insurers and put cash directly in consumers’ hands to give them […]

Dems Make Offer To End Shutdown Or Something

This is what they should have offered to start with before voting to shut down the government Democrats name their price on ending government shutdown Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Friday that Democrats would vote to end the government shutdown in exchange for a one-year extension of expiring ACA tax credits, multiple sources […]

Rand Paul Wants A Bipartisan Commission On ACA Subsidies To Reopen The Government

Good idea? Bad idea? Paul floats bipartisan commission amid Affordable Care Act subsidies battle Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) called on President Trump to appoint a select group of bipartisan senators to a commission tasked with addressing the expiring health care subsidies — the issue at the core of the ongoing shutdown standoff. In an interview […]

Weird: Obamacare Rates Set To Rise 30% On Average

If memory serves, the entire points of Ocare was to make sure those who didn’t have health insurance could get affordable health insurance (or the government would fine their asses) and “bend the curve down”, right? Remember this? “We agree on reforms that will finally reduce the costs of health care,” Obama said. “Families will […]

NY Times Notices Obamacare Prices Already Skyrocketing

Hey, remember when we weren’t allowed to call it Obamacare? Higher Obamacare Prices Become Public in a Dozen States Health insurance prices for next year under the Affordable Care Act are now available in about a dozen states, giving Americans their first look at the sharp increases many will pay for coverage if Congress does […]

MTG Breaks With Republicans On Ocare Premiums

Obamacare was passed in 2010, went into effect in 2013, and, really, did anyone think we would be having an argument about it in 2025? Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene breaks with the GOP on Obamacare, calling to avoid premium hikes Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., broke with her party Monday evening by calling for action […]

Washington Post Editorial Board: “the Affordable Care Act was never actually affordable”

You have to make it to paragraph 7, but, this is one hell of an admission The shutdown conversation no one wants As the partial government shutdown enters its second week, neither party is leveling with the American people about the hard choices required to get federal spending off a fiscally ruinous trajectory. President Joe […]

Obamacare Rates To Skyrocket In North Carolina

It’s actually so bad that leftist WRAL can barely find it in themselves to Blame Republicans Affordable Care Act rates set to skyrocket in NC About a million North Carolinians who rely on the federal Affordable Care Act are in for a double-whammy on health care costs next year. Insurers who offer ACA plans are […]

Bummer: BBB Hits Illegal Aliens And Legal Immigrants Over Health Care

Is Politico trying to get me to like the bill, which still spends too much, even more? Megabill hits health care for immigrants, including legal ones, hard As President Donald Trump intensifies his targeting of undocumented immigrants, the GOP megabill passed Thursday takes aim at those here legally by revoking their access to subsidized care. […]

Pirate's Cove