Category Archives: Healthcare

Surprise: Subsidies Were Meant To Be Only For State Run Exchanges

Make sure to read the whole thing at Reason, here’s the gist Jonathan Gruber, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist who helped design the Massachusetts health law that was the model for Obamacare, was a key influence on the creation of the federal health law. He was widely quoted in the media. During the crafting […]

Fake Applicants Easily Sign Up For Ocare

Um, surprise? (Fox News) Undercover government investigators were able to obtain thousands of dollars in taxpayer subsidies under ObamaCare using fake identities, according to findings being presented to Congress on Wednesday.  The probe by the Government Accountability Office has raised fresh concerns about the ability of the sprawling health care program to prevent or intercept […]

Court Strikes Down Key Obamacare Component

Big breaking news on a ruling that has been pending for a couple weeks (CNN) The battle over Obamacare took a dramatic turn Tuesday with a federal appeals court rejecting subsidies paid by the government to millions of new enrollees. In a 2-1 ruling, a three-judge panel found the federal money that helped people afford […]

Ruling On Obamacare Subsidies Could Come As Early As This Week

This has made Obamacare supporters Very Concerned (CBS News) The Supreme Court last week chipped away at one part of the Affordable Care Act, but its ruling in the Hobby Lobby contraception case left most of Obamacare intact. Other court cases, however, are making their way through the court system in an attempt to deliver […]

Team Obama Already In Spin Mode Ahead Of Obamacare Rate Hikes

Politico refers to the coming rate hikes as a “September Surprise“. How is it a surprise when ever already knows that Obamacare rates are going to take a nice little spike? Obamacare open enrollment closed March 31. The White House’s Obamacare war room did not. Most state health insurance rates for 2015 are scheduled to […]

Hobby Lobby Decision Means Companies Completely Rule Your Health Choices Or Something

It really wasn’t much of a stretch to predict that Liberals would continue to publish wacky things regarding the Sebelius v Hobby Lobby decision. This is what they do. Things that make no sense in the real world, but are really meant to scare the Low Information Voters and whip up their base, which seems […]

Liberals Proclaim Obamacare Rate Shock No Big Deal, Since Other People Pay For It

Well, of course they do. They’re all about Someone Else bearing the burden for the insane policies of Liberals (Avik Roy, Forbes) Over the past twelve months, there has been an energetic debate among health policy researchers about the extent to which Obamacare will increase the underlying cost of individually-purchased health insurance: what observers have […]

Guess Who Kathleen Sebelius Blames For Obamacare Issues

If you’re thinking “anyone but Obama, Democrats, and herself,” you’d be correct (Daily Caller) Former Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius took aim at her “hostile” right-wing opponents Tuesday, in her first speech after resigning her top post. At the State of Enrollment conference run by Enroll America, an Obamacare-promoting nonprofit run […]

People Heading To The ER In Droves Under Obamacare

Who woulda thunk it? (Courier Journal) It wasn’t supposed to work this way, but since the Affordable Care Act took effect in January, Norton Hospital has seen its packed emergency room become even more crowded, with about 100 more patients a month. That 12 percent spike in the number of patients — many of whom […]

Obamacare Still Polling Negatively

Now, is that a shocked face you’re making, or duck lips? (Gallup) Though one-in-three voters say their personal health care coverage has changed because of the national health care law, half still say the law hasn’t impacted them positively or negatively. Forty-four percent (44%) of Likely U.S. Voters have at least a somewhat favorable opinion […]

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