October 12, 2013 – 10:12 am
I’m waiting for the opinion piece “Obamacare killed my family when my employer dropped my hours to part time and dropped our coverage” Obamacare saved my family from financial ruin House Speaker John Boehner and his tea party friends shut down the U.S. government because of people like me. I am the mother of an […]
October 11, 2013 – 8:55 am
That’s out of tens of millions of web-hits. They had over 3 years to plan for this. $634 million spent on setting up the federal ACA website. $313 million to set up the website for “Covered California”. Huge sums to set up the ExchangeFails in the other states that are participating. Yet… (UK Dailymail) Just […]
October 9, 2013 – 5:07 pm
I’m not sure if telling Americans they aren’t particularly smart is the best way to sell a product…but, then, we did have over 50% vote for Obama Are We Smart Enough for Obamacare? Leaving aside the perceptions of Obamacare that prove so vexing to conservatives, there’s a huge problem with the current conception of the […]
October 8, 2013 – 8:47 am
I’m thinking they’ll report the numbers sometime between the 27th and 29th (Jake Tapper) The Obama administration is not planning on releasing enrollment numbers on Obamacare until November, senior administration officials said Monday, as they continued to insist that delays with the healthcare.gov website were entirely the result of high volume. “We will release monthly […]
October 7, 2013 – 9:02 am
“If you like you insurance plan, you can keep it” continues to ring hollow (NJ.com) Â Hundreds of thousands of New Jerseyans opened the mail last week to find their health insurance plan would no longer exist in 2014 because it does not cover all the essential benefits required by the Affordable Care Act. The news […]
October 6, 2013 – 8:00 am
Will the “Affordable” Care Act end up helping some Americans? Sure. Even the worst written law will help some people. The ACA will surely help illegal aliens. It’ll also help those with pre-existing conditions. Not only can they not be denied coverage, but they supposedly can’t be charged more than healthy people (though the example […]
October 5, 2013 – 8:06 am
No website is perfect. Things happen. My host, Dreamhost, has certainly had their share of issues over the years, from minor annoyances to huge outages. Of course, they, like all sorts of giant individual websites, like CNN, Fox News, Youtube, etc, rarely go down, especially for “planned maintenance”. Obamacare? (The Hill) Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) […]
October 2, 2013 – 2:55 pm
He has more cajones than Congressional Republicans (via Ace) (UK Daily Mail) The lawsuit, filed by Dr. Larry Kawa, claims that the regulatory changes violate the Administrative Procedure Act and go beyond President Obama’s constitutional powers. ‘He has no more power to do that than your or I,’ Kawa told reporters during a press conference […]
October 1, 2013 – 8:25 am
President of the Democrat Party Barack Obama says that his signature law will have “glitches” for at least several months. Who’s shocked? (Fox News) The sales pitches for and against ObamaCare have all been made. It’s now up to Americans to judge whether the law works as advertised, as the so-called insurance “exchanges†launch Tuesday. […]
September 30, 2013 – 5:57 pm
They’ve only had 3+ years to get this done (Reuters) The U.S. government on Thursday announced new delays in rolling out President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform, saying small business and Spanish-language health insurance enrollment services would not begin on October 1 as planned. The postponements amount to a few weeks out of a months-long enrollment […]
