Showing posts with label ObamaCare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ObamaCare. Show all posts

Damon Root: 5 Supreme Court Cases To Watch In June

High Court to rule on Obamacare, gay marriage and more. The Supreme Court's 2014-2015 term will soon reach its finale. By the end of June, when the justices depart for their summer break, the Court is expected to issue a series of blockbuster decisions, including rulings on gay marriage, death penalty drugs, and Obamacare. Here are five   ... MORE

John Stossel's Advice On College: Don't Go

It's graduation time! Have we learned much?   No. College has become a scam. Some students benefit: those with full scholarships and/or rich parents so they don't go deep into debt, those who love learning for its own sake and land jobs in academia and those who get jobs that require a college credential. But that's not most students. Politicians such ... MORE

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Affordable Insurance Rates Set To Skyrocket 50% ... Again

by Marc Salvo.    Remember when the American people were told that insurance would be free for the poor and affordable for the middle class? You know, back when we had to wait for the Affordable Care Act to be passed before we found out what was in it? Within weeks of the program finally launching Americans saw an immediate jump in their     ... MORE

Emergency Room Visits Continue to Rise Under Obamacare

by Peter Suderman.   Another Obamacare promise bites the dust. In September, 2009, President Obama gave a prime time speech to the joint Congress making the case for the health care law that would come to be known as Obamacare. Much of the speech was devoted to explaining and justifying the law’s major components. Subsidies, he argued,   ... MORE

Obamacare Is Really Expensive For Small Businesses

by J.D. Tuccille.    Lousy news for the economy. "Complying with the health care law is costing small businesses thousands of dollars that they didn't have to spend before the new regulations went into effect," reports AP business writer Joyce M. Rosenberg. This should be a surprise to exactly nobody. In general, government mandates have poor track      ... MORE

The Man Who Would Repeal ObamaCare And Abolish IRS

by Rebecca Nelson. Ted Cruz's official campaign announcement was slow-rolled over the weekend with leaks and, ultimately at midnight Monday, a tweet. But on Monday morning, Cruz made his first official opening pitch at a special edition of one of Liberty University's weekly convocations. "I believe God is not done with America yet," he said. "I believe in  ... MORE

Lenny Bernstein: U.S. Faces 90,000 Doctor Shortage Within A Decade, Medical School Association Warns

A shortage created by government.      The United States faces a shortage of as many as 90,000 physicians by 2025, including a critical need for specialists to treat an aging population that will increasingly live with chronic disease, the association that represents medical schools and teaching hospitals reported Tuesday. The nation's shortage of   ... MORE

Obama Thanks Big Government Republican Governors Like John Kasich For Caving To Obamacare Medicaid Expansion

by Charlie Spiering.   Stampede of the RINOs. Speaking to governors at the White House, President Obama pointedly praised Republican governors that caved to his Obamacare plan of expanding Medicaid. “I want to thank all the governors, Democrats and Republicans, supporters and some opponents of the ACA who have expanded Medicaid to millions   ... MORE

Democrats Seek Relief From Obamacare Penalties

by Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar.     Politicians fear the ugly truth. The official sign-up season for President Barack Obama's health care law may be over, but leading congressional Democrats say millions of Americans facing new tax penalties deserve a second chance. Three senior House members told The Associated Press that they plan to strongly    ... MORE

Free Market Fills Your Tank; Government Empties It

by Patrick Everson.   Surely you’ve heard the cliché, “You’ve got to break a few eggs to make an omelet.” It perfectly explains how many on the left side of the political spectrum can reconcile their latest policy conflict: Obamacare vs. low gas prices. To insure the 10 to 15 percent of the population who didn’t have medical coverage — including    ... MORE

Healthcare.gov Shares Your Personal Data With Marketers

by Rob Hustle.    HealthCare.gov is sharing your private personal health data with over a dozen online marketing companies. These companies provide tools that allow HealthCare.gov to track, analyze and record anyone who visits the site. But, despite its promise that “no personally identifiable information is collected by these tools,” the     ... MORE

David Martosko: Obamacare Program Costs Taxpayers $50,000 For Every American Who Gets Health Insurance

So says the Congressional Budget Office.   It will cost the federal government – taxpayers, that is – $50,000 for every person who gets health insurance under the Obamacare law, the Congressional Budget Office revealed on Monday. The number comes from figures buried in a 15-page section of the nonpartisan organization's new ten-year budget   ... MORE

End Obamacare And People Could Die -- That’s Okay

by Michael R. Strain.   We make such trade-offs all of the time. Say conservatives have their way with Obamacare, and the Supreme Court deals it a death blow or a Republican president repeals it in 2017. Some people who got health insurance as a result of the Affordable Care Act may lose it. In which case, liberals like to say, some of      ... MORE

Richard Pollock: IRS Has Active Contract For MILLIONS With The Same Bunch Of Nitwits That Botched Healthcare.gov

More prudence with tax dollars.       Seven months after federal officials fired CGI Federal for its botched work on Obamacare website Healthcare.gov, the IRS awarded the same company a $4.5 million IT contract for its new Obamacare tax program. CGI is a $10.5 billion Montreal-based company that has forever been etched into     ... MORE