Obamacare

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just announced that 59.1 million Americans went without health insurance for at least part of this year — an all-time high. The CDC estimate comes on the heels of a report from the Census Bureau that arrived at a similar conclusion. Supporters of ...

Of particular note, 87 percent of Americans who have private health insurance and make between $30,000 and $74,999 rate their health care as “excellent” or “good.” In that same income range, 58 percent of Americans without health insurance also rate their health care as “excellent” or “good.” These numbers beg ...

On Nov. 09, the Register’s Opinion pages published opposing views on health care reform [“Is it time to dismantle health reform law?”], one of which mentioned Orange County Business Council research by Wallace Walrod. OCBC’s report, cited in the piece by Daniel Zingales of the California Endowment, was an initial ...

Almost eight months in and the overhaul is as unpopular as ever. Polls show that 58 percent of voters still favor repeal. Voters also sent a resounding message to Democrats during the midterm elections this month, rebuking those who played a role in passing President Barack Obama’s health care plan. ...

By a margin of more than 5 to 1 (68 to 12 percent), independents think Obamacare would cause deficits to rise, not fall. Also by a margin of more than 5 to 1 (57 to 11 percent), independents think it would make the quality of health care worse, not better. ...

This “rule” (that’s what they call it) was signed by HHS secretary Kathleen Sebelius and by Medicare administrator Donald Berwick, who — as the Medical News reports — “will testify before a congressional committee [today] for the first time since President Barack Obama avoided the Senate confirmation process” in appointing ...

A recent article noted that American companies “are weighing the pros and cons of eventually forcing employees to strike out on their own” for health insurance (“Employers eye health insurance options,” Oct. 25). Many Americans could soon find themselves without health insurance — despite President Barack Obama’s promise that Americans ...

But the commission has missed, or perhaps willingly overlooked, a couple of far more inviting targets: $747 billion, currently slated for exchange subsidies, that would be saved by repealing Obamacare; and $540 billion, currently slated for a drastic expansion of Medicaid and CHIP, that likewise would be saved by repealing ...

Americans have sent members of the party supporting repeal to Congress in droves, while sending equal numbers of the party supporting Obamacare packing. House Republicans will surely pass a repeal bill shortly after taking control of Congress in January. The Democrats will kill it, if not in the Senate then ...

Voters recently delivered a stinging rebuke of President Obama’s big-government vision for the country. A primary reason for the Democrats’ defeat was Americans’ disgust with the new health reform law. A Rasmussen poll found that 58 percent of likely voters support the repeal of Obamacare. And a Wall Street Journal ...