Category Archives: Healthcare

Team Obama May Announce New Obamacare Delay

And it’s all about attempting to protect Democrats for the mid-terms New ObamaCare delay to help Democrats in midterm elections The Obama administration is set to announce another major delay in implementing the Affordable Care Act, easing election pressure on Democrats. As early as this week, according to two sources, the White House will announce […]

Without Taxpayer Subsidies, Obamacare Is Really Expensive

In other news, water is wet (Jacksonville Business Journal) Unless your coverage is subsidized by taxpayers, health insurance on the individual market is much more expensive under health care reform. That’s the takeaway from a new index compiled by eHealth Inc., which tracked how much people are paying for insurance through its private online health […]

Good News: Only 35 Of 50 State Exchange Websites Were Deemed “High Risk”

Or is that 35 out of 58 states? Does the 58th have an Exchange? Has Obama visited it yet? (Fox News) Security experts worried that 35 state health exchange websites were vulnerable to hackers and were rated as “high risk” for security problems before ObamaCare’s launch, documents obtained by Fox News show. Fears that the […]

11 Million Small Business Employees Could See Premium Hikes

Um, surprise? (Daily Caller) Obamacare is once again under fire after federal estimates that health insurance premiums will increase for 11 million people who work for small businesses, according to a report from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). House Speaker John Boehner blasted the Obama administration over the report Monday, calling it […]

Whoops: Public Sector Restricting Work Hours, Health Insurance, Due To Obamacare

Perhaps they’re just trying to free people so they can be poets and play the bongos and commune with nature? Here’s that ultra-Conservative newspaper the NY Times to tell us all about it Cities, counties, public schools and community colleges around the country have limited or reduced the work hours of part-time employees to avoid […]

Obamacare Turns Massachusetts From Model To Mayhem

At one point, Massachusetts was the model for Obamacare. Whatever your opinion of a state run insurance program, with a requirement that people must purchase health insurance, it seemed to work. Most residents supported it. Most liked it. Roughly 98% of the citizens obtained health insurance. And under the stewardship of Republican governor, it wasn’t […]

Obama Wants Others To #GetCovered

Good thing there’s nothing important going on in the world right now Watch a special message from President Obama on how you can #GetCovered right now ? http://t.co/mFUD6eGuAo, pic.twitter.com/jHCbo2UdtJ — White House Archived (@ObamaWhiteHouse) February 21, 2014 Says the man who only obtained Obamacare symbolically, but doesn’t actually have to use it himself. And keeps […]

Kay Hagan Is Bummed About Those Medicare Cuts She Voted For

She and other vulnerable Democrats finally realized that their Obamacare votes have consequences, so they wrote a letter (via NRO) (NRSC) Hagan’s ObamaCare “enacted $200 Billion in cuts to Medicare Advantage over 10 years” In 2009, Senator Kay Hagan (D-NC) promised North Carolinians who depend on Medicare that she was going to “protect Medicare” and that […]

Man Who Needs Back Surgery Learns About The Downfalls Of Obamacare

Another horror story regarding Obamacare (CBS Sacramento) A Sonora mechanic is in so much pain that he can barely walk, but he can’t seem to find a doctor to fix his ailing back after he and his wife switched their insurance coverage through Covered California. (snip) He’s still working, despite the pain. But finding a […]

Bummer: Government No Longer Spending Gobs Of Money To Help Newly Insured

This is apparently a HUGE major issue, and, of course, Republicans are mostly to blame Who will help the newly insured? Newfound health benefits often come with newfound questions. But most states have either spurned or run out of federal funding for consumer assistance programs aimed at guiding Obamacare’s newly insured through the complexities of […]

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