Category Archives: Healthcare

Good Grief: Ocare To Pay For “Gender Reassignment” Surgery

Otherwise known as a sex change operation (Breitbart) Transgender Americans seeking gender reassignment surgeries are finding relief through Obamacare, The Daily Beast reported on Monday. Federal laws banning health insurance discrimination against transgender people, combined with Obamacare’s ban on denying coverage for those with pre-existing conditions, have paved a path for transgender patients who wish to make […]

Salon: Say, Those Obamacare Court Rulings Could Be Dangerous To Ocare

Salon’s Jonathan Siegel is in a frenzy Obamacare’s grave danger: Here’s how a future GOP president could kill it Remember those conflicting court rulings about the ACA? Even the favorable one allows a president to interpret it In passing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (also known as “Obamacare”), Congress made a minor mistake […]

Ocare Looking To Bring Breast-feeding To A Company Near You

Now, now, don’t misunderstand: there is nothing wrong with breastfeeding. There are tons of studies showing that breastfeeding and/or using breast milk is the best thing for babies. But, this is not really about breastfeeding: it’s about federal government interference in the economy, yet again (Reuters) Under the Affordable Care Act, employers must provide time […]

Surprise: Subsidies Were Meant To Be Only For State Run Exchanges

Make sure to read the whole thing at Reason, here’s the gist Jonathan Gruber, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist who helped design the Massachusetts health law that was the model for Obamacare, was a key influence on the creation of the federal health law. He was widely quoted in the media. During the crafting […]

Fake Applicants Easily Sign Up For Ocare

Um, surprise? (Fox News) Undercover government investigators were able to obtain thousands of dollars in taxpayer subsidies under ObamaCare using fake identities, according to findings being presented to Congress on Wednesday.  The probe by the Government Accountability Office has raised fresh concerns about the ability of the sprawling health care program to prevent or intercept […]

Court Strikes Down Key Obamacare Component

Big breaking news on a ruling that has been pending for a couple weeks (CNN) The battle over Obamacare took a dramatic turn Tuesday with a federal appeals court rejecting subsidies paid by the government to millions of new enrollees. In a 2-1 ruling, a three-judge panel found the federal money that helped people afford […]

Ruling On Obamacare Subsidies Could Come As Early As This Week

This has made Obamacare supporters Very Concerned (CBS News) The Supreme Court last week chipped away at one part of the Affordable Care Act, but its ruling in the Hobby Lobby contraception case left most of Obamacare intact. Other court cases, however, are making their way through the court system in an attempt to deliver […]

Team Obama Already In Spin Mode Ahead Of Obamacare Rate Hikes

Politico refers to the coming rate hikes as a “September Surprise“. How is it a surprise when ever already knows that Obamacare rates are going to take a nice little spike? Obamacare open enrollment closed March 31. The White House’s Obamacare war room did not. Most state health insurance rates for 2015 are scheduled to […]

Hobby Lobby Decision Means Companies Completely Rule Your Health Choices Or Something

It really wasn’t much of a stretch to predict that Liberals would continue to publish wacky things regarding the Sebelius v Hobby Lobby decision. This is what they do. Things that make no sense in the real world, but are really meant to scare the Low Information Voters and whip up their base, which seems […]

Liberals Proclaim Obamacare Rate Shock No Big Deal, Since Other People Pay For It

Well, of course they do. They’re all about Someone Else bearing the burden for the insane policies of Liberals (Avik Roy, Forbes) Over the past twelve months, there has been an energetic debate among health policy researchers about the extent to which Obamacare will increase the underlying cost of individually-purchased health insurance: what observers have […]

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