Health CareNews
Barney Frank: President ‘Lied to People’ About Obamacare
It’s one thing for President Obama to win an award for “Lie of the Year” for promising Americans “if you like your [health insurance] plan,… Read More
Health CareNews
How Medicare’s Home Health Cuts Disproportionately Affect Women
The Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, authorized the Department of Health and Human Services to cut or increase categories of Medicare spending. Last… Read More
Health CareNews
Support for Obamacare Decreases
Public support for Obamacare dwindled in July. Last month’s Kaiser Health Tracking Poll found that more than half of Americans view the law unfavorably, an eight… Read More
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Aetna CEO Admits Obamacare Customer Numbers Worse Than Expected
Aetna has picked up 600,000 customers thanks to the Affordable Care Act. But is the company any more profitable? CEO and Chairman Mark Bertolini couldn’t… Read More
Health CareCommentary
At Most, Obamacare Will Help This Many People Get Insured
Obamacare’s initial open-enrollment period ended in mid April. The big question since then has been, “What were the results?” Hard data have been lacking —… Read More
Health CareNews
Pressure on Obamacare Agency to Ready HealthCare.gov for More Enrollees
With three months to go before HealthCare.gov opens again for business to Americans seeking insurance through Obamacare, congressional investigators and government accountants are sounding the… Read More
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Lawmaker Challenges Top Obamacare Official’s Ties to HealthCare.gov Contractor
Andrew Slavitt, a former executive at the technology company tasked with “saving” HealthCare.gov and now second in command at the agency overseeing Obamacare, yesterday ran… Read More
Health CareCommentary
The Medicare Funding Problem Threatening Medicare’s Future
Medicare’s true cost is the biggest problem in Washington and the one most ignored. The long-awaited 2014 Medicare Trustees report is out, and the “spinning… Read More
Health CareAnalysis
It Wasn’t a Tax Before It Was a Tax: Court Upholds Obamacare Individual Mandate
A three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday ruled against a challenge to Obamacare’s individual mandate based on the origination clause of… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Was This Obamacare Court Decision Judicial Activism?
Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. claims that last week’s D.C. Circuit decision striking down Obamacare subsidies for individuals enrolled in federally-run health care exchanges… Read More
Health CareNews
Federal Health Program Under Fire: ‘Karl Marx Couldn’t Have Come Up With This’
A federal program designed to make Americans “healthy people” is getting broader. Healthy People 2000—launched by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Medicare Trustees Report: More Bad News for Seniors and Taxpayers
The annual Medicare Trustees report was released today, detailing the dire financial status of the Medicare program. In large part, it reiterates what has been… Read More
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Obamacare Enrollment Numbers Reveal Decline in Employer-Based Coverage
New details about Obamacare insurance enrollment show that employer-based coverage is eroding, offsetting gains made in individual insurance enrollment, according to a report released today by… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Is Obamacare on Its Way Back to the Supreme Court?
And there you have it, ladies and gentlemen: two different federal courts of appeal, issuing completely contradictory rulings on the very same day, on the… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Obamacare Here to Stay? Ha!
This has not been a good week for President Obama: Obamacare is back on the front burners and back in trouble. This week, the D.C…. Read More
Health CareNews
Democrat Introduces Bill to Eliminate Obamacare Subsidies for Congress
Looking to require U.S. lawmakers to “play by the same rules” with Obamacare, this week U.S. Rep. Daniel Maffei, D-N.Y., introduced legislation that would eliminate… Read More
Health CareNews
Doctors: Government-Run Health Care Driving Us Out of Business
Advocates of single-payer health care promise high-quality low-cost health care for all. But physicians in Vermont say the state’s move towards a single-payer health care… Read More
Health CareCommentary
The Obamacare Employer Mandate Could Die in Some States
Tuesday’s D.C. Circuit and Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals rulings raise new doubts over the future of Obamacare. At the heart of these conflicting decisions… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Report: Fictional People Able to Sign Up for Obamacare, Get Subsidies
You don’t even have to be a real person to get Obamacare subsidies. That’s the takeaway from a report issued Wednesday by the Government Accountability… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Chart: The Number of Americans Who Remain Uninsured After Obamacare
After a full decade of Obamacare’s implementation, the latest projections from the Congressional Budget Office (April 2014), estimate that after spending over $1.8 trillion on… Read More
Health CareNews
Obamacare Official Gets Ethics Waiver as Former Company Faces Scrutiny
Andrew Slavitt, a former executive at the technology company tasked with saving HealthCare.gov and current second-in-command at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, was… Read More
Health CareCommentary
This Circuit Court’s Obamacare Decision Could Have Huge Consequences
Today the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals dealt a blow to the Obama administration, ruling that the language of the Obamacare law only established federal… Read More
Health CareNews
Oklahoma Man Struggles to Cancel Health Plan for Three Months Due to Obamacare Delay
David Emanuel wanted to cancel his private insurance plan with BlueCross BlueShield after he became eligible for Medicare, but was told nothing could be done… Read More
Health CareNews
Company That ‘Saved’ HealthCare.gov Faces Questions of Cronyism
Jarred by the defect-riddled rollout of the Obamacare website, Obama administration officials signed up a technology company to rid HealthCare.gov of its bugs. Now, though,… Read More
Health CareNews
Mark Pryor Challenges Obamacare Critics: ‘Give Me Something Better’
Sen. Mark Pryor dismissed Arkansans’ grievances of losing health insurance because of Obamacare as “anecdotal,” accusing Republicans of solely wanting to complain about the law… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Government Spending on Health Care Projected to Rapidly Increase
One of the biggest contributors to the nation’s spending crisis is federal spending on government health care programs, according to the Congressional Budget Office’s Long… Read More
Health CareNews
This Bill Would Undo Medicare Home Health Cuts Under Obamacare
House Republicans propose to roll back major cuts in Medicare home health services, saying they want to help senior citizens and other Americans who face… Read More
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Temp Agency: Obamacare Is Causing Businesses to Hire Part-Time, Not Full-Time, Employees
Under pressure to comply with the Affordable Care Act, some South Carolina businesses are cutting back by hiring more part-time rather than full time employees…. Read More
Health CareCommentary
Medicaid Expansion Magic
Recently, the White House’s Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) released a report urging states to expand Medicaid. However, the claims in the report should be… Read More
Health CareCommentary
It’s Not True that 20 Million Americans Gained Coverage Under Obamacare
A new report from the Commonwealth Fund claims 20 million Americans “gained coverage under the Affordable Care Act as of May 1.” But a closer… Read More
