Obamacare
Commentary
ObamaCare Resorts To Gimmicks To Get Young To Sign On
President Obama hasn’t been able to convince young Americans to sign up for insurance coverage through his health reform law’s exchanges. So he’s enlisting the help of two new groups he hopes young adults won’t ignore kittens and celebrities. Enroll America, a nonprofit aligned with the Obama administration and ...
Commentary
Senate GOP Health Reform Plan Has Room For Improvement — But Still Better Than Obamacare
In his recent State of the Union address, President Obama threw down a gauntlet for Republicans opposed to his health reform law. If you have specific plans to cut costs, cover more people, increase choice, tell America what youd do differently, he said. Lets see if the numbers add up. ...
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Obamacare Reality Check
Sally Pipes appears on NBC Reality Check: Obamacare Enrollment: Will We Make It?
Commentary
Michael Moore Is Right: Obamacare Is Awful, But Single-Payer Would Be Much Worse
Obamacare is awful, filmmaker Michael Moore recently wrote in the New York Times. He went on to say that President Obama knew in his heart that a single-payer, Medicare-for-all model was the true way to go. Moores been preaching the single-payer gospel for years, most famously in his 2007 documentary ...
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Obamacare rationing coming to health care near you
Many Americans began this month with new health coverage purchased through Obamacares exchanges. At least, they thought they did scores did not receive insurance cards or other confirmation that they actually had coverage. The hang-up was largely a function of the technical glitches that have plagued the exchanges. Fortunately, ...
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Obamacare isn’t working, but here’s something that is
Congressional Republicans appear increasingly interested in taking President Obama up on the health care challenge he issued in December: “If you’ve got good ideas, bring them to me.” Indeed, House Speaker John Boehner said earlier this month that House Republicans would release a plan to replace Obamacare this year. The ...
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The Peculiarities Of Obamacare: Politicians Must Sue President Obama To Get Him To Enforce The Law
This past week, on January 13, freshman Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Green Bay, Wisconsin, against the federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM). With his suit, Johnson hopes to get the Obama Administration to enforce portions of the federal health reform law it ...
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No ‘new day’ for Obamacare
The first insurance policies sold through Obamacares exchanges went into effect this month. As they did so, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius proclaimed a new day in health care for millions of Americans. But the actual numbers tell a different story. Lets start with the figure most frequently ...
Business & Economics
Businesses Threatened By Raft Of New ObamaCare Taxes
As 2014 dawns, ObamaCare’s most disruptive changes to the health care system are just now getting under way. For American businesses, that means a raft of new taxes that will pose devastating consequences for their employees and the broader economy. Paramount among them is a new tax on health insurers ...
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The Many Failures of Single Payer
Vermonts incumbent governor, Peter Shumlin, wants his state to become the first to launch a government takeover of its health-care system. But the results of last months election could give him pause. He was unable to secure a majority of votes this November after winning 58 percent of the ...
ObamaCare Resorts To Gimmicks To Get Young To Sign On
President Obama hasn’t been able to convince young Americans to sign up for insurance coverage through his health reform law’s exchanges. So he’s enlisting the help of two new groups he hopes young adults won’t ignore kittens and celebrities. Enroll America, a nonprofit aligned with the Obama administration and ...
Senate GOP Health Reform Plan Has Room For Improvement — But Still Better Than Obamacare
In his recent State of the Union address, President Obama threw down a gauntlet for Republicans opposed to his health reform law. If you have specific plans to cut costs, cover more people, increase choice, tell America what youd do differently, he said. Lets see if the numbers add up. ...
Obamacare Reality Check
Sally Pipes appears on NBC Reality Check: Obamacare Enrollment: Will We Make It?
Michael Moore Is Right: Obamacare Is Awful, But Single-Payer Would Be Much Worse
Obamacare is awful, filmmaker Michael Moore recently wrote in the New York Times. He went on to say that President Obama knew in his heart that a single-payer, Medicare-for-all model was the true way to go. Moores been preaching the single-payer gospel for years, most famously in his 2007 documentary ...
Obamacare rationing coming to health care near you
Many Americans began this month with new health coverage purchased through Obamacares exchanges. At least, they thought they did scores did not receive insurance cards or other confirmation that they actually had coverage. The hang-up was largely a function of the technical glitches that have plagued the exchanges. Fortunately, ...
Obamacare isn’t working, but here’s something that is
Congressional Republicans appear increasingly interested in taking President Obama up on the health care challenge he issued in December: “If you’ve got good ideas, bring them to me.” Indeed, House Speaker John Boehner said earlier this month that House Republicans would release a plan to replace Obamacare this year. The ...
The Peculiarities Of Obamacare: Politicians Must Sue President Obama To Get Him To Enforce The Law
This past week, on January 13, freshman Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Green Bay, Wisconsin, against the federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM). With his suit, Johnson hopes to get the Obama Administration to enforce portions of the federal health reform law it ...
No ‘new day’ for Obamacare
The first insurance policies sold through Obamacares exchanges went into effect this month. As they did so, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius proclaimed a new day in health care for millions of Americans. But the actual numbers tell a different story. Lets start with the figure most frequently ...
Businesses Threatened By Raft Of New ObamaCare Taxes
As 2014 dawns, ObamaCare’s most disruptive changes to the health care system are just now getting under way. For American businesses, that means a raft of new taxes that will pose devastating consequences for their employees and the broader economy. Paramount among them is a new tax on health insurers ...
The Many Failures of Single Payer
Vermonts incumbent governor, Peter Shumlin, wants his state to become the first to launch a government takeover of its health-care system. But the results of last months election could give him pause. He was unable to secure a majority of votes this November after winning 58 percent of the ...
