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Obamacare “savings” come at a high price

The Obama Administration appears to have received a rare bit of good news from one of the agencies managing its overhaul of the American healthcare system. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just announced that the Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) created by Obamacare in hopes of better coordinating seniors’ ...
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ACA’s unaffordable consequences

Congress’s bean-counters have rendered their verdict on Obamacare’s economic impact – and it’s not good for the president. According to a Congressional Budget Office report released last month, the president’s health care law will reduce the number of hours Americans work by 1.5 to 2 percent – the equivalent of ...
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Not working just won’t work

Congress’s bean-counters have rendered their verdict on Obamacare’s economic impact — and it’s not good for the president. According to a new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report, the president’s healthcare law will reduce the number of hours Americans work by 1.5 percent to 2 percent — the equivalent of 2.5 ...
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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 you’d do differently,” he said. “Let’s see if the numbers add up.” ...
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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.” Moore’s 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 Obamacare’s 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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No ‘new day’ for Obamacare

The first insurance policies sold through Obamacare’s 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. Let’s start with the figure most frequently ...
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Don’t Be Fooled By Kathleen Sebelius’s Healthcare.gov ‘Progress’ Report

This month, Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius trudged up to Capitol Hill for her second public grilling over the flaws with the Obamacare healthcare exchanges. Sebelius was insistent that HealthCare.gov has vastly improved since its October launch, noting that about a quarter of a million new people signed up in November. ...
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Flash: Obamacare Dangerous To Health of Poor

Well, Halleluiah.  The Obamacare website is up and running. Of course, at only half a million applications processed so far… and accounting for the ones that the system garbled or couldn’t verify or seems to have lost… and anticipating the tens of millions of Americans predicted to lose coverage once ...
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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: ...
Commentary

Obamacare “savings” come at a high price

The Obama Administration appears to have received a rare bit of good news from one of the agencies managing its overhaul of the American healthcare system. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just announced that the Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) created by Obamacare in hopes of better coordinating seniors’ ...
Commentary

ACA’s unaffordable consequences

Congress’s bean-counters have rendered their verdict on Obamacare’s economic impact – and it’s not good for the president. According to a Congressional Budget Office report released last month, the president’s health care law will reduce the number of hours Americans work by 1.5 to 2 percent – the equivalent of ...
Commentary

Not working just won’t work

Congress’s bean-counters have rendered their verdict on Obamacare’s economic impact — and it’s not good for the president. According to a new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report, the president’s healthcare law will reduce the number of hours Americans work by 1.5 percent to 2 percent — the equivalent of 2.5 ...
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 you’d do differently,” he said. “Let’s see if the numbers add up.” ...
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.” Moore’s been preaching the single-payer gospel for years, most famously in his 2007 “documentary” ...
Commentary

Obamacare rationing coming to health care near you

Many Americans began this month with new health coverage purchased through Obamacare’s 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, ...
Commentary

No ‘new day’ for Obamacare

The first insurance policies sold through Obamacare’s 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. Let’s start with the figure most frequently ...
Commentary

Don’t Be Fooled By Kathleen Sebelius’s Healthcare.gov ‘Progress’ Report

This month, Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius trudged up to Capitol Hill for her second public grilling over the flaws with the Obamacare healthcare exchanges. Sebelius was insistent that HealthCare.gov has vastly improved since its October launch, noting that about a quarter of a million new people signed up in November. ...
Commentary

Flash: Obamacare Dangerous To Health of Poor

Well, Halleluiah.  The Obamacare website is up and running. Of course, at only half a million applications processed so far… and accounting for the ones that the system garbled or couldn’t verify or seems to have lost… and anticipating the tens of millions of Americans predicted to lose coverage once ...
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: ...
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