December 2, 2013 – 5:43 pm
The Washington Post’s Marc Thiessen echoes something I’ve been saying for weeks (though he gets paid to say it): it’s not the website Dems have to worry about Democrats are praying that this weekend’s relaunch of the Obamacare Web site will save them from an electoral bloodbath in 2014. Their hopes are misplaced. Here are […]
November 30, 2013 – 2:55 pm
It’s all about shifting the goalposts (Washington Post) Administration officials are preparing to announce Sunday that they have met their Saturday deadline for improving HealthCare.gov, according to government officials, in part by expanding the site’s capacity so that it can handle 50,000 users at once. But they have yet to meet all their internal goals […]
November 30, 2013 – 6:53 am
I’d go with the “something”. Here’s the Washington Post’s Colbert King trotting out the “morality” argument Obamacare — a question of morality There was a lot of bloviating about the Affordable Care Act on the talk shows last weekend. The Obamacare critics’ chief focus was the open-enrollment fiasco, the un-kept presidential promise and the millions […]
November 29, 2013 – 6:54 am
As it is, there is already a dearth of doctors and medical facilities that accept Medicaid. Why? (NY Times) Dr. Ted Mazer is one of the few ear, nose and throat specialists in this region who treat low-income people on Medicaid, so many of his patients travel long distances to see him. But now, as […]
November 27, 2013 – 8:23 am
This has driven Progressives to their typical barking moonbat level 10 status (The Hill) The Obama administration faces a tough task in convincing the Supreme Court to rule in favor of ObamaCare’s contraception mandate, according to legal experts. They say Chief Justice John Roberts’s court, which upheld the health law in a landmark 2012 decision, […]
November 25, 2013 – 4:17 pm
Yeah, that’s not working out so well (via Hot Air) (CNN)But a CNN analysis shows that in the largest city in nearly every state, many low-income younger Americans won’t get any subsidy at all. Administration officials said the reason so many Americans won’t receive a subsidy is that the cost of insurance is lower than […]
November 25, 2013 – 8:40 am
The headline of this Washington Post article should give everyone a huge case of the willies, and get worse while reading the article For beleaguered IRS, a crucial test still awaits after troubled rollout of health-care law The success of the Affordable Care Act could ultimately turn on the performance of an agency that has […]
November 23, 2013 – 8:38 am
This goes to the overall incompetence and fecklessness of Team Obama more than how bad Obamacare is as a law (Daily Caller) One of the subcontractors working on the Obamacare website is currently under investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Client Network Services Incorporated (CNSI) became a sub-contractor on the Obamacare website in 2012, […]
November 22, 2013 – 7:59 am
Strange how this ends up being after the 2014 mid-terms election date, wouldn’t you say? (Bloomberg) The Obama administration plans to push back by a month the second-year start of enrollment in its health program to give insurers more time to adjust to growing pains in the U.S. law, a move that may stave off […]
November 21, 2013 – 5:51 pm
Seriously, you guys, who would have predicted this? (Washington Post) As Americans have begun shopping for health plans on the insurance exchanges, they are discovering that insurers are restricting their choice of doctors and hospitals in order to keep costs low, and that many of the plans exclude top-rated hospitals. The Obama administration made it […]