Obamacare Exchange Contractor Target of Major Fraud Investigation
Last week, The New York Times reported that the Obama Administration over the Independence Day holiday quietly awarded “a contract worth as much as $1.2… Read More
Roll Out the Barrels? Obamacare Funds to Sponsor Bourbon Festivals
One day after The Washington Post reported that federal taxpayer dollars could be used to promote Obamacare through porta-potties, the same outlet posted this e-mail… Read More
Flush with Federal Cash, Obamacare Supporters Spending Money on…Porta-Potties
Even among the law’s supporters, Obamacare is in the toilet. Quite literally. As The Washington Post reports, states implementing Obamacare’s exchanges are considering all kinds… Read More
Morning Bell: Obamacare’s Dirty Dozen Implementation Failures
Last week, the Obama Administration attempted to spin its announcement of a one-year delay in Obamacare’s employer mandate as an effort to implement the law… Read More
The Obamacare Big City Bailout
Bloomberg reports this week on the latest Obamacare trend sweeping across the country: Cities and states may soon attempt to unload unsustainable health costs on… Read More
Pelosi: July 4 Is Health Independence Day
As Americans celebrate a long holiday weekend, we should take at least a moment to ponder the idea, advanced recently by House Minority Leader Nancy… Read More
The Massive Costs of the Latest Obamacare Waiver
Policymakers are still recovering from yesterday’s shocking admission by the Administration that it can’t implement Obamacare’s employer mandate without destroying jobs. The announced one-year delay… Read More
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Fortnight for Freedom: Religious Liberty and the Obamacare Mandate
A coalition of religious leaders from a broad spectrum of faith backgrounds gathered in Washington this week to release a letter denouncing an Obamacare health… Read More
Morning Bell: So Which Part of Obamacare Works, Then?
Obamacare is so helpful, so ready for action, so vital to the nation’s health, that… the Obama Administration is delaying another major part of it…. Read More
It’s Official: Administration Admits Obamacare Is a Job-Killer
Bloomberg News reported this evening that the Obama Administration is set to announce a one-year delay in enforcement of Obamacare’s employer mandate, a move the… Read More
Obamacare, Health Costs, and Jobs
Yesterday, the Brookings Institution released updated statistics on the role of health care jobs in the broader economy. The study’s findings provide interesting grist for… Read More
Obamacare Impact: Another Insurer Leaves California Market
The Los Angeles Times reports this morning on another disturbing Obamacare-related development in California: The nation’s largest health insurer, UnitedHealth Group Inc., is leaving California’s… Read More
Obamacare’s ACO Conundrum
Over the weekend, Bloomberg reported on the latest challenge to Obamacare: hospitals leaving one of the law’s signature attempts to contain health costs: Almost a… Read More
Obamacare Shocker: Premiums Could Double
This morning’s Wall Street Journal published its own analysis of premiums under Obamacare, and its conclusions will prompt shock—rate shock—among those who need to buy… Read More
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Hobby Lobby Wins Major Victory Against Obamacare Mandate
Late this afternoon, a federal court granted a major victory to the Green family and Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., issuing the company a temporary restraining… Read More
American Public Still Doesn’t Like Obamacare
Despite declarations made by advocates that Obamacare is the “law of the land,” a new Gallup poll shows that a majority of Americans still disapprove… Read More
Kathleen Sebelius: The Insurance Industry’s “Big Sister”
As the Administration gears up to sell Obamacare to the American people, it’s also gearing up its regulatory apparatus to strong-arm private companies. The Hill… Read More
Obamacare’s Shortcomings in Two Charts
Obamacare continues to fall short of the lofty predictions about it — and here are two new charts to prove it. The charts, included as… Read More
Obamacare: AMA’s Curious Support
In an interview with Bloomberg’s Bureau of National Affairs, Dr. Ardis Dee Hoven, incoming president of the American Medical Association (AMA), said the AMA will… Read More
Obamacare: Important Context on Next Year’s Premium Increases
The Associated Press yesterday published an article that at first appears to contain exciting and important news: There’s good news for most companies that provide… Read More
Morning Bell: Congress Is Trying to Fool You on Immigration
Congress is trying to fool you. Here’s how they do business. A piece of legislation is going to cost trillions of dollars, but Members of… Read More
What Obama’s Campaign Group Won’t Tell You About Obamacare
Organizing for Action, President Obama’s campaign group, is out this morning with its first advertisement promoting Obamacare. The ad claims to tell the “facts” surrounding… Read More
Obamacare’s Insurance “Solution”: Medicaid for All
Even as the Left celebrates Obamacare’s expansion of health coverage, a Reuters story highlighted what kind of “insurance” people will receive under the law. First,… Read More
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Congress: Obamacare Assaults Religious Freedom
Obamacare’s threats to religious freedom were denounced on the floor of the House of Representatives this week. “All we’re asking is to take us back… Read More
For Low-Income Families, Obamacare Is the UNAFFORDABLE Care Act
Yesterday the Associated Press published an article summarizing how Obamacare’s supposed benefits may well turn out to be a mirage for many low-income workers: It’s… Read More
Ezra Klein Can’t Save Obamacare’s Broken Premium Promise
Ezra Klein’s column in Bloomberg this week attempted to defend then-Senator Barack Obama’s repeated promises to lower premiums by $2,500. Unfortunately for Klein, virtually all… Read More
For Congress, Obamacare Finally Hits Home
The quotes are certainly ominous: Employees are so worried “thanks to Obamacare that they are thinking about retiring early or just quitting.” Workers fear being… Read More
How Obamacare—and Big Hospitals—Will Raise Health Costs
The New York Times published a column highlighting one way Obamacare will raise health costs: by promoting hospital industry consolidation that will force prices higher…. Read More
Morning Bell: Don’t Take the Money and Run
You may have heard that Obamacare’s main plan for getting people health insurance is to put them on Medicaid. Medicaid—which is supposed to be the… Read More
Obamacare 2023: 31 Million Uninsured, $1.8 Trillion in Taxpayer Dollars Spent
A poll released last week by InsuranceQuotes reveals that 64 percent of the uninsured are uncertain whether they will purchase insurance coverage once Obamacare takes… Read More
