Category Archives: Healthcare

Florida Judge Rules Individual Mandate Unconstitutional

Via CNN, which seems a bit apoplectic over this Judge Roger Vinson, in a 78-page ruling, dismissed the key provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — the so-called “individual mandate” requiring most Americans to purchase health insurance by 2014 or face stiff penalties. “I must reluctantly conclude that Congress exceeded the bounds […]

Snap! Being Forced To Purchase Health Insurance Like Buying A TV

I wasn’t aware of the law that Americans are required to purchase TVs simply for being alive, but, we are talking about Kathleen Sebelius’ World, who seems to be channeling her inner Joe Biden Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius defended the new health care law’s mandate requiring people to purchase insurance, comparing the […]

ObamaCare Fallout: Child-Only Policies Dropped In 34 States

Buried on the The Politicos front page, in small type between a story about Obama fires up the health team and HHS: Health reform already working, we get Child only health plans endangered Health insurers in 34 states have stopped selling child-only insurance policies as a result of the health reform law, and the market […]

House Votes To Repeal Obama(No)Care – Can You Spare $3?

I’m sure y’all saw this by now The House voted on Wednesday to repeal the sweeping healthcare law enacted last year, as Republicans made good on a central campaign pledge and laid down the first major policy marker of their new majority. The party-line vote was 245-189, as three Democrats joined all 242 Republicans in […]

Wacky Sheila Jackson Lee: Repealing ObamaCare Violates The Constitution

It’s so simple: including a mandate that requires someone to buy health insurance based on a Constitutional clause giving Congress the power to regulate interstate commerce, which means someone had actually purchased something, but, they haven’t purchased it yet, but, you will purchase it because the government says you have to purchase it, so, because […]

Dems Still Working Hard To Thwart The Will Of The People On Health Care Reform

As most of us know, the American People were dead set against the passage of the so-called “Affordable Care Act,” which started out with the notion of reducing health insurance costs and providing coverage to the 30-45 million Americans that had no health insurance, and escalated to a 2,000 page bill that none who voted […]

No Such Thing As Death Panels Removed From Obama Medicare Policy

…..even though death panels supposedly do not exist. This is not a repeat from August 2009. The Hill is reporting The Obama administration will remove a brand-new Medicare policy that had reignited the “death panel” debate from last year’s healthcare fight. The provision to be eliminated would have covered end-of-life consultations as part of annual […]

Republicans Plan ObamaCare Repeal Votes Before State Of The Union

Incoming House Speaker John Boehner pledges that the GOP “Pledge To America” will not become a worthless piece of paper, much as the “Contract with America” became. Things will change. He has already put out the new rules, and plans to take them seriously. We’ll see. And one thing we’ll see soon will be votes […]

Obamonomy: Companies Look More Towards Temporary Jobs

The good news is, there are some jobs out there. The bad news is they are simply temporary/contractor positions Temporary workers are starting to look, well, not so temporary. Despite a surge this year in short-term hiring, many American businesses are still skittish about making those jobs permanent, raising concerns among workers and some labor […]

NY Times Shocked To Learn There Could Be Years Of Wrangling Over ObamaCare

Seriously, around eight months ago, who would have thought there would be legal challenges to legislation that the majority of Americans hated overall, and found constitutional issues in? The Times is shocked, shocked, I tell you! By contradicting two prior opinions, Monday’s court ruling in Virginia against the Obama health care law highlighted both the […]

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