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From Cathy McMorris Rodgers and the House Republican Conference:
CHARGE: “You should know that once we have fully implemented, you’re going to be able to buy insurance through a pool so that you can get the same good rates as a group that if you’re an employee at a big company you can get right now — which means your premiums will go down.”(President Obama, speech in Cincinnati, Ohio July 16, 2012)
RESPONSE: Nothing could be further from the tru...
After $1 trillion in new taxes and more than $2 trillion in new spending, three years later the Democrats’ law has failed to deliver on the promise of affordable health care for Americans.
Instead, American families and businesses are facing the tough and costly realities of ObamaCare: higher health insurance premiums, the loss of the health plan you have and like, lower wages, and less hiring and business expansion. Now, on the eve of the 37th vote in the House to repeal all or some of t...
The Obama administration’s tax policies have been an attack on farm and ranch families. The tax and spenders fail to understand that taxes punish the very things we want more of: productive work, risk-taking and success. In essence, this administration wants to see less productive work, fewer goods and services provided, fewer jobs created, and ultimately less success in our country.
Beginning this year, Obamacare or what I sometimes refer to as the Un-affordable Care Act, will impose enormous...
Second term presidents usually get almost two years to pursue their agendas before the midterm elections and the next presidential election cycle slams the door.
For President Obama, the second term timetable has been cut short. Next week marks only four months since Obama took the oath of office to begin his second term and it is already over. He’s a lame duck walking way before his time.
This is no idle prediction. The administration is mired ...
HHS Seeks Insurance and Healthcare Industry Funds To Promote Obamacare
In Barack Obama’s Washington it’s a new scandal every day, with the Secretary of Health and Human Services joining the chorus-line led by the former Secretary of State and the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service.
Kathleen Sebelius, the boss at Health and Human Services, is responsible for implementing Obamacare. It’s a tough job, with a deadline of October 1 to have the insurance exchanges up and running and ...
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By Michael Cahill
The unintended effects of Obamacare
On Jan. 1, 2014, President Obama’s Affordable Care Act will fully take effect, and whether or not it’s the right move for ...
President Obama was in his element in the White House Friday, relishing the role of Campaigner in Chief in a new effort to save Obamacare.
The scene was familiar. First there was the grandeur of the East Room, a reminder of the pomp and power of the presidency. Second was the usual human backdrop of supporters gathered to exploit the message of the moment. Third was the president himself, speaking with vigor and even anger to defend the righteousness of his cause.
WASHINGTON, DC – House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) today sent the following letter to President Obama informing him that they will be declining to recommend appointments to the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). “We believe Congress should repeal IPAB,” they wrote, “just as we believe we ought to repeal the entire health care law” which is driving up costs and making it harder for small businesses to hire new workers.
Congress is about to make the same mistake with immigration reform that it did with Obamacare: Pass a massive program that lacks support among the voters.
Politicians live and die by the polls. They obsess over polls at election time, but they also follow polls closely as they consider crucial votes.
Not so with Obamacare. Democrats ignored public opinion throughout the healthcare debate in 2009 and passed the law on party line votes in early 2010. ...
As public support for Obamacare falls to one of the lowest levels since the bill was passed, the president now shows serious signs of denial about the failures surrounding implementation of the law.
In a White House press conference Tuesday, Obama reacted to reports that a growing number of Democrats are growing nervous over the impact of Obamacare on their reelection chances next year.
The president pushed back hard, responding with a long-winded answ...
We know Obamacare is on the rocks when the New York Times, the flagship of the mainstream media, is compelled to report growing concerns about implementing the complex and unpopular law.
In a headline Monday that deserves consideration for a Pulitzer Prize in journalistic understatement, the Times said, “Next Big Challenge for Health Law: Carrying It Out.”
The Times story was a balanced account of the pros and cons of Obamacare, careful to give both sides of the law’s chances for success ...
The Democrats who stitched together ObamaCare and shoved it into law are starting to admit, one-by-one, the whole thing is a mess – “complex,” “confusing,” and heading for a “huge train wreck”:
“NERVOUS”: The New York Times says Democrats are “getting nervous that they could pay a political price if the rollout of the law was messy or if premiums went up significantly.”
“CONCERNED”: Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) admitted in Politico, “I’m concerned — because w...
The Democrats who stitched together ObamaCare and shoved it into law are starting to admit, one-by-one, the whole thing is a mess – “complex,” “confusing,” and heading for a “huge train wreck”:
“NERVOUS”: The New York Times says Democrats are “getting nervous that they could pay a political price if the rollout of the law was messy or if premiums went up significantly.”
“CONCERNED”: Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) admitted in Politico, “I’m concerned — because w...
In Peter Ackroyd’s The History of England Volume I: Foundation, 2011 (www.amzn.com/125000361X) we read…
“The belief that the king’s touch could cure the skin disease of scrofula emerged at some point in the twelfth century, although Edward the Confessor was accredited with miraculous powers at an earlier date. It is possible that Henry II was the first king to make a ritual out of healing those afflicted by the disease, and one o...
“The belief that the king’s touch could cure the skin disease of scrofula emerged at some point in the twelfth century, although Edward the Confessor was accredited with miraculous powers at an earlier date. It is possible that Henry II was the first king to make a ritual out of healing those afflicted by the disease, and one o...
Unrest over the fate of Obamacare has landed in the United States Senate, where fears are rising among Democrats about a possible political backlash in the 2014 midterm elections.
The concern went public late last week when Senate Democrats confronted the White House Chief of Staff in a caucus meeting about implementation of Obamacare.
The New York Times reported that Democrats in both houses of Congress said some members of their party were “getting nervous t...
CONSERVATIVES VOICE SUPPORT FOR H.R. 1549 Helping Sick Americans with Pre-Existing Conditions Should Be an Easy Choice for Congress
The Bill Redirects Money That’s Currently Being Used to Implement Some of the Worst Aspects of the Existing Law
Tomorrow the House will hold a full committee vote on H.R. 1549, also known as the “Helping Sick Americans Now Act.” Still working toward full repeal, many high-profile conservatives (21 in total) have sent a letter to U.S. House lea...
In the latest example of why the American public has almost no respect for the United States Congress, the leaders of the majorities in the House and Senate are reportedly busy concocting a scheme to exempt lawmakers and their aides from the insurance exchanges mandated under Obamacare.
In a report from Politico, House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid are said to be engaged in “high-level, confidential talks” to engineer ...
We know Obamacare is in deep trouble when one its chief architects says he fears a “train wreck” in implementing the complex healthcare program.
In a Senate Finance Committee hearing Wednesday with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Committee Chairman Max Baucus said he is concerned that the public does not understand the law.
“I just see a huge train wreck coming down,” Baucus told Sebelius. “You and I have discussed this m...
