Sally C. Pipes

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It’s Not Just Healthcare.gov: Obamacare Has A Serious Age Discrimination Problem

The Obama Administration is desperate to get young people to sign up for health insurance under the federal healthcare reform law. So they’ve enlisted a team of almost universally trusted spokespeople to lobby the youth of America — their mothers. One ad from the Obama-allied group Organizing for Action encourages ...
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Obamacare Is In Serious Trouble, And Obama’s Subsidies Are Worth Refusing

President Obama and his signature legislative accomplishment — Obamacare — are in deep trouble. The health insurance exchanges established by the law aren’t working properly; it now appears that the federally operated HealthCare.gov will not be fixed by November 30, as the president promised. Millions of Americans are irate that ...
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Here come more Obamacare lawsuits

The Obamacare rollout has been a debacle, with delays in the implementation of mandates, technical glitches in the exchanges, cancelled individual policies and more. It’s about to get worse. The federal judiciary is currently hearing four cases challenging decisions made by the Internal Revenue Service that could soon deliver more ...
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How Obamacare costs full-time employees

Some 60 percent of Americans — nearly 160 million people — get insurance through their jobs. Thanks to Obamacare, that number is about to nosedive. The president’s signature law is hiking the cost of health insurance for American businesses of all sizes. They’re responding by dumping coverage for workers, spouses, ...
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President Obama Actually Meant, ‘If You Like Your Insurance Plan, Too Bad’

He didn’t say it just once. No, the president said it at least twenty-three separate times over a four-year period: “If you like your insurance plan, you will keep it. No one will be able to take that away from you.” Liar, liar, pants on fire. Hundreds of thousands of ...
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Obamacare’s problem isn’t just growing pains

The reviews are in for HealthCare.gov, Obamacare’s much-ballyhooed online health insurance marketplace, which launched earlier this month. The government-run exchange is a “disaster,” “really bad,” “a failure,” “terrible” and “an absolute train wreck of a website.” That’s just what the law’s supporters are saying. Don’t panic, though, say Obamacare’s defenders: ...
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Move to save Medicaid money endangers lives

A particularly brutal kind of medical rationing is coming to Oregon. As of Oct. 1, Oregon’s Medicaid program stopped covering major medical interventions for patients assessed as having two years or less to live. Not only is the move immoral, it’s likely illegal. This coverage restriction comes courtesy of the ...
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ObamaCare Unraveling And It Only Gets Worse In 2014

With ObamaCare’s health insurance exchanges unraveling — especially HealthCare.gov, the federally run portal for the 36 states that decided not to set up their own exchanges — it’s safe to say that the president’s effort to expand coverage isn’t going well. It’s about to get worse. Once the calendar flips ...
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The Obamacare Exchanges: Nowhere Near As Competent As The Post Office

What was the worst product launch in history? New Coke, perhaps? How about Colgate’s Dinner Entrees, the frozen food packages with a label mimicking that company’s brand of toothpaste? The Santa Dreidel? They’re all marketing masterpieces compared to the rollout of Obamacare’s health insurance exchanges — particularly those accessible through ...
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Congress needs Rx for med-device tax

Congress has struck a deal to re-open the government and raise the debt ceiling — at least temporarily. Yet for some reason, lawmakers have excluded from the final agreement a policy prescription supported by Democrats and Republicans alike that was part of an earlier version of the deal — repeal ...
Commentary

It’s Not Just Healthcare.gov: Obamacare Has A Serious Age Discrimination Problem

The Obama Administration is desperate to get young people to sign up for health insurance under the federal healthcare reform law. So they’ve enlisted a team of almost universally trusted spokespeople to lobby the youth of America — their mothers. One ad from the Obama-allied group Organizing for Action encourages ...
Commentary

Obamacare Is In Serious Trouble, And Obama’s Subsidies Are Worth Refusing

President Obama and his signature legislative accomplishment — Obamacare — are in deep trouble. The health insurance exchanges established by the law aren’t working properly; it now appears that the federally operated HealthCare.gov will not be fixed by November 30, as the president promised. Millions of Americans are irate that ...
Commentary

Here come more Obamacare lawsuits

The Obamacare rollout has been a debacle, with delays in the implementation of mandates, technical glitches in the exchanges, cancelled individual policies and more. It’s about to get worse. The federal judiciary is currently hearing four cases challenging decisions made by the Internal Revenue Service that could soon deliver more ...
Commentary

How Obamacare costs full-time employees

Some 60 percent of Americans — nearly 160 million people — get insurance through their jobs. Thanks to Obamacare, that number is about to nosedive. The president’s signature law is hiking the cost of health insurance for American businesses of all sizes. They’re responding by dumping coverage for workers, spouses, ...
Commentary

President Obama Actually Meant, ‘If You Like Your Insurance Plan, Too Bad’

He didn’t say it just once. No, the president said it at least twenty-three separate times over a four-year period: “If you like your insurance plan, you will keep it. No one will be able to take that away from you.” Liar, liar, pants on fire. Hundreds of thousands of ...
Commentary

Obamacare’s problem isn’t just growing pains

The reviews are in for HealthCare.gov, Obamacare’s much-ballyhooed online health insurance marketplace, which launched earlier this month. The government-run exchange is a “disaster,” “really bad,” “a failure,” “terrible” and “an absolute train wreck of a website.” That’s just what the law’s supporters are saying. Don’t panic, though, say Obamacare’s defenders: ...
Commentary

Move to save Medicaid money endangers lives

A particularly brutal kind of medical rationing is coming to Oregon. As of Oct. 1, Oregon’s Medicaid program stopped covering major medical interventions for patients assessed as having two years or less to live. Not only is the move immoral, it’s likely illegal. This coverage restriction comes courtesy of the ...
Commentary

ObamaCare Unraveling And It Only Gets Worse In 2014

With ObamaCare’s health insurance exchanges unraveling — especially HealthCare.gov, the federally run portal for the 36 states that decided not to set up their own exchanges — it’s safe to say that the president’s effort to expand coverage isn’t going well. It’s about to get worse. Once the calendar flips ...
Commentary

The Obamacare Exchanges: Nowhere Near As Competent As The Post Office

What was the worst product launch in history? New Coke, perhaps? How about Colgate’s Dinner Entrees, the frozen food packages with a label mimicking that company’s brand of toothpaste? The Santa Dreidel? They’re all marketing masterpieces compared to the rollout of Obamacare’s health insurance exchanges — particularly those accessible through ...
Commentary

Congress needs Rx for med-device tax

Congress has struck a deal to re-open the government and raise the debt ceiling — at least temporarily. Yet for some reason, lawmakers have excluded from the final agreement a policy prescription supported by Democrats and Republicans alike that was part of an earlier version of the deal — repeal ...
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