Category Archives: Healthcare

Surprise: Small Business And Hispanic Enrollment Services Delayed

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 […]

Republican CR Adds A “Conscience Clause”

The GOP passed a revised continuing resolution Saturday, which seeks to delay the “Affordable” Care Act individual mandate for a year, along with repealing the tax on medical devices (that last is popular with Democrats, too). As John Boehner pointed out, this is what the American People want (well, most want the “Affordable” CA immolated […]

Obama Discusses “Affordable” Care Act And “Far Right Republicans” In Weekly Address

Continuing with his normal use of the resources of the White House, owned by The People of the USA, for hyper-partisan campaign style speeches, (NMP) Obama loves him some “Affordable” Care Act for Other People, and whines at Republicans (video here, if you can stomach it) in his Weekly Address Hi, everybody Democrat voters (WT-had […]

Obama To Speak At Community College About ACA To Folks Who Will Have No Job Prospects

Thanks in part to the “Affordable Care Act”, all these youths will wait in long lines to get substandard health care from a limited amount of doctors. Oh, and will be lucky to get a low paying part time job in the fast food industry, thanks to Obama policies, including the ACA (Patch) President Obama […]

New ACA Ad Uses Sister Of High Ranking DHS Official For Sob Story

Everything in Liberal World is a sob story, meant to tug like Mastiff with a sock on the heart strings in some form or fashion, regardless of the damage Democrat policies do (Daily Caller) A bright-eyed young woman featured as a happy participant in an ad for the government’s new Obamacare exchanges is also the […]

Oops: Washington Post Notices “If You Like Your Doctor, You Can’t Keep ‘Em”

The Washington Post’s Sandhya Somashekhar and Sarah Kliff spend a long, long time telling us just how super great awesome the new Obamacare premiums will be, based on a DHS report released Wednesday (which is interesting, since the article was posted at 12:01 am on Wednesday) The report, released Wednesday by the Department of Health […]

It’s One Blow After Another To ObamaCare

Politico finally notices that Obamacare is a train wreck. Of course, said train wreck is based on a throwaway line the Obama campaign came up with on the spur of the moment because Obama knew nothing about healthcare prior to attending a campaign event. This follows on the heals of the Washington Post noticing that […]

Rand Paul Wants John Roberts, All Federal Workers Enrolled In Obamacare

Let them live under the rules they seem to like so much (Daily Caller) Arguing federal workers should not get special treatment, Rand Paul says he does not want taxpayers subsidizing the personal health care plans of any federal employee — including Chief Justice John Roberts — anymore. With some in Congress arguing lawmakers and […]

Walgreens, Other Companies Dump Insurance Due To ObamaCare

I bet you’re really, really surprised (Forbes) Walgreen and another 17 large employers are turning to a new concept of giving them money to buy health benefits via private online marketplaces known as exchanges. Aon Hewitt, the large employee benefits consultancy, said Walgreens will be the largest employer thus far to join its Aon Hewitt […]

Restaurant Owners Head To Washington To Plead For Obamacare Sanity

They can ask, but they won’t get it (The Hill) Franchise restaurant owners have come to Washington seeking a change to ObamaCare that they say could prevent them from having to cut their employees’ hours. The healthcare law requires large employers to provide insurance to employees who work at least 30 hours per week. Franchise […]

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