These tweets from Democrat consultant and Obamacare supporter will be an excellent source of Schadenfreude: Â Everyone in the galaxy understands that Obamacare is already driving health insurance premiums through the roof. Apparently, however, Ms. Brazile didn’t get the memo. Many more Obamacare supporters will also be waking up and smelling the coffee. The knuckleheads [...]
Like Bobby Jindal, Rick Scott, Scott Walker, and a growing number of additional state governors, Rick Perry has told HHS Commissar Sebelius that Texas won’t be creating a state-based insurance exchange or expanding Medicaid. His letter puts it as follows: Neither a ‘state’ exchange’ nor the expansion of Medicaid under the Orwellian-named PPACA would result [...]
My column in today’s American Spectator discusses the possibility that the states can cause ObamaCare to die on the vine by refusing to set up its insurance exchanges: Although the voters can put an end to the madness on November 6, the states don’t need to wait until Election Day to take aim at ObamaCare’s [...]
The Medicare program has an unfunded liability exceeding $30 trillion (yes trillion, with a T). So, you’d think that our masters in Washington would be happy if some citizens chose to save the taxpayers money by opting out of Medicare when they reach Social Security age. Unfortunately, as Quin Hillyer reports, that’s not how the [...]
It would appear that the people who run Georgetown University have the courage to stand up to faux feminist Sandra Fluke, the fraudulent “news” media and the flim flam man who occupies the oval office: Today, Georgetown University President John J. DeGoia released the following letter, in which he explained that the university would not cave to pressure [...]
Over at The Undercurrent, Paul Hsieh has a good column about the high cost of benefit mandates that states—and now the feds—impose on health insurance carriers: State regulators currently require health insurers to include numerous “mandatory benefits,” whether customers wish to purchase them or not. The exact mandatory benefits vary from state to state, but might include [...]
This time, the problem is ObamaCare’s “firewall,â€? a feature that denies subsidies to workers whose employers offer affordable coverage. In other words, if your company offers a plan with premiums that total less than 9.5 percent of your income, you’re SOL on subsidies: The problem is a huge headache for the Obama administration and congressional [...]
One of the President’s ostensible reasons for being passionate about health reform involved his mother’s alleged battles with her health insurance carrier about coverage for the illness that eventually killed her. One minor problem: It appears that a significant portion of this tale is fiction: I remember in the last month of her life, she wasn’t thinking [...]
Yesterday, Tom Price, M.D. (R-GA) questioned Donald Berwick, recess-appointed administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, at a hearing in the House Committee on Ways & Means. And Dr. Price was none too gentle about it. He pressed him especially hard on the promise that Americans could keep coverage that they like under ObamaCare. Berwick’s [...]
The President has repeatedly told us that ObamaCare would control costs and that we can keep our insurance plans if we like them. Well, Medicare’s Chief Actuary begs to differ. Richard Foster appeared at a House Budget Committee hearing earlier today and here are his answers to a couple of questions from California congressman Tom McClintock: McCLINTOCK: True or [...]
