Category Archives: Healthcare

Team Obama Recruits People To “Mystery Shop” Doctors

I wonder if they will ask the question “has the threat of ObamaCare made you turn away patients with Exchange insurance?” Of course, since only about 5 people have signed up through the Exchange, I guess that question wouldn’t be meaningful. How about “do you plan on continuing your practice once ObamaCare takes full affect?” […]

Why, No, The GOP Hasn’t Given Up On “Repeal And Replace”

It’s just been very hard to do, considering that the GOP doesn’t control the Senate nor the White House. The Republican Party is going to have to get control of those two in 2012 in order to affect a full repeal and replace More than four months after their triumphant vote to scrap the Democrats’ […]

A Horrible Joke That No One Should Read

Someone at work passed this on to me: A black guy and white guy are in the doctor’s office waiting to get vasectomies. A nurse comes in and asks the men to strip and put on their medical gowns while they wait for the doctor. A few minutes later she comes back, reaches under the […]

Judge Upholds ObamaCare, Says Not Purchasing Insurance Is Commerce

Semantics, pure semantics A third federal judge upheld the constitutionality of the Obama health care law on Tuesday, reinforcing the divide in the lower courts as the case moves toward its first hearings on the appellate level. Judge Gladys Kessler of Federal District Court for the District of Columbia became the third appointee of President […]

Obamacare Requires Lots Of New IRS Agents And Money

Obamacare just keeps getting better and better, via USA Today The Internal Revenue Service says it will need an battalion of 1,054 new auditors and staffers and new facilities at a cost to taxpayers of more than $359 million in fiscal 2012 just to watch over the initial implementation of President Obama’s healthcare reforms. Among […]

NC GOP Will Vote On Obamacare Mandate Challenge

As they say, elections have consequences. One consequence is that the North Carolina Republican Party is in charge of the entire General Assembly for the first time in 100 years, and, they have a few plans for Obamacare Republican leaders in the state House have scheduled debate and a possible vote Wednesday. The measure aims […]

What Say To A Law Requiring All South Dakota Citizens To Purchase A Handgun?

It would be inherently more legal than the health insurance mandate in Obamacare, since, as far as I can tell by reading the SD Constitution, there is nothing that would prohibit the law (specifically in the Legislative powers) Five South Dakota lawmakers have introduced legislation that would require any adult 21 or older to buy […]

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 […]

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