by Peter Suderman. System not yet built. You may have heard that HealthCare.gov, which powers the federally run health insurance exchange for 36 states, is, after its disastrous rollout last year, all fixed up and working basically fine. Obamacare is on track. But that’s not true, it seems, for anyone who wants to file an appeal regarding ... MORE
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Thousands Stuck In Obamacare Appeals Limbo
by Peter Suderman. System not yet built. You may have heard that HealthCare.gov, which powers the federally run health insurance exchange for 36 states, is, after its disastrous rollout last year, all fixed up and working basically fine. Obamacare is on track. But that’s not true, it seems, for anyone who wants to file an appeal regarding ... MOREJohn Stossel: Re-State Of The Union
What if you owned your body and your mind? President Barack Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday wasn't what I wanted to hear. This is what the president should have said: "I cannot imagine what I was thinking when I pushed Obamacare. I now see it is folly to entrust government, which cannot balance its books and ... MOREObamaCare Creates New Class Of Free Riders
by Rituparna Basu and Yaron Brook. Welcome to Obamacare, land of skyrocketing premiums, cancelled insurance policies, and a website that is exhibit A of government incompetence. If Republicans are serious about stopping this destructive law, they must criticize more than its rollout troubles, which are fixable. They must expose the ... MOREObamaCare's Top 12 False Premises And Broken Promises
Sorry, Liberals: Obamacare Won’t Lead to Single Payer
by Peter Suderman. If you spend any significant amount of time talking to conservative activists who oppose Obamacare, you’ll eventually hear some variant on the theory that Obamacare was never meant to work. Instead, it was meant to destroy the existing health care system, and in the process pave the way for liberals to step in with the ... MORE
Obamacare Puts Millions At Risk For Asset Forfeiture
Walter McLaughlin on Medicaid cost recovery. When a bill the size and scope of Obamacare is dropped onto the desk of the average member of Congress, it’s safe to assume that they haven’t read it cover-to-cover before casting their vote. Had they done so with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, however, they ... MOREThomas Sowell: A New Year And Old Problems
Caring is not a matter of words. Whenever we stand on the threshold of a new year, we are tempted to forget the hazards of prophecy, and try to see what may lie on the other side of this arbitrary division of time. Sometimes we are content to try to change ourselves with New Year's resolutions to do better in some respect. ... MORE
Obamacare Holds Some Nasty Surprises For Taxpayers
by Rick Moran. If you are currently receiving a subsidy from the government for your health insurance, you better be aware that any "life changes" that occur during the year - marriage, divorce, increase in income - has to be reported to the IRS. Otherwise, you're liable to get a nasty surprise come tax time. Politico: It's a new responsibility ... MOREObama's Top 10 Constitutional Violations Of 2013
By Ilya Shapiro. One of Barack Obama’s chief accomplishments has been to return the Constitution to a central place in our public discourse. Unfortunately, the president fomented this upswing in civic interest not by talking up the constitutional aspects of his policy agenda, but by blatantly violating the strictures of our founding document. ... MOREDoug Bandow: Obamacare's War On Civil Society
One more gift from big government. Washington offers many opportunities for Schadenfreude, that wonderful German word which means to enjoy the misery of others. The sudden realization of liberal professionals who voted for Barack Obama that they will be forced to spend thousands more on health insurance was one of those ... MOREVictor Davis Hanson: Young People Have Been Had
Hornswoggled by hope and change. There are all sorts of time bombs embedded within Obamacare. Will we force doctors to treat the millions of new Medicaid patients who are signing up for services that can be only partially reimbursed? How exactly will the IRS collect penalties from millions of off-the-books youth who choose not to buy ... MOREPeggy Noonan: The Grinch Who Stole Health Care
You know what I am talking about. This is the year that the Democrats "have blown up the American health-care system." The quote is from Peggy Noonan's qualified approval of the Ryan-Murray copout. You see, back in the golden age of George W. Bush, Democrats were mad as hell. How could the American people be so stupid, ... MORE
The Legacy Of Obama's Health Care Lies
by Peter Suderman. Less than a week before the
October launch of the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance
exchanges, President Obama delivered a speech in Largo, Maryland
explaining how the new health care would work, and what Americans
in different circumstances could expect. “Even before the Affordable Care Act fully takes effect, about
85 ... MORE
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