The Affordable Care Act included a way for insurance companies to recoup their losses from covering everyone regardless of their health If insurers lose money, the government’s funds – taxpayer dollars – cover between 50 and 80 percent of… Read More ›
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Obamacare: 42 percent of Americans can’t explain a deductible
First baseline results of health care survey show most vulnerable populations are least informed about changes under new health care laws, but also the most optimistic The week before open enrollment closes for new health care exchanges, a study by… Read More ›
Democrats promote positive message on Obamacare and work hours
– casting an expected decline in American work hours as a boon to worker freedom and family values – Obamacare would mean more family time for mothers, more study opportunities for college students and less job stress for older workers…. Read More ›
Obamacare enrolment numbers reveal critical lack of young customers
– ” sign that prices may have to rise to keep insurers in the program “ Figures show more older people have signed up for plans Insurance companies need young people to balance books Key White House aide announces departure… Read More ›
‘A public safety disaster’: Obamacare could force THOUSANDS of volunteer fire departments to close
The Affordable Care Act forces companies with more than 50 workers to buy them all health insurance or pay hefty fines The IRS says volunteer firefighters are ’employees,’ even though the Department of Labor says they’re ‘volunteers’ Out of more… Read More ›
Media Smoke and Mirror game at the expense of a child?
EEV: Commentary Rarely do I comment on events; However, when it involves children I do. Recently an article was run titled “ Boy, 7, born with rare cancer loses his insurance because of Obamacare…leaving his parents needing $50,000 to pay… Read More ›
Boy, 7, born with rare cancer loses his insurance because of Obamacare…leaving his parents needing $50,000 to pay for life-saving chemotherapy
A Gainesville, Texas family is fighting for their cancer-stricken child’s life after he was removed from his insurance plan Ron and Krista Alford’s seven-year-old boy Hunter is in need of another round of chemotherapy costing $50,000 He has lost his… Read More ›
Obamacare website ‘either hacked or will be soon’ Exposing highly sensitive and personal information about US citizens, warns infosec expert
And it won’t be from hacktivists wielding dud ‘Destroy Obama Care’ ray gun By John Leyden Hackers have thrown multiple attacks at US President Obama’s medical insurance bazaar HealthCare.gov since it went live in October, according to a senior US… Read More ›
Revealed: Obamacare plans will cost MORE ‘in many cases’ even with government subsidies, officials admit for the first time
By David Martosko, U.s. Political Editor PUBLISHED: 16:18 EST, 14 November 2013 | UPDATED: 17:04 EST, 14 November 2013 The Obama administration has directly conceded for the first time that ‘in many cases,’ health insurance plans offered through government… Read More ›
Penalty flag? Super Bowl champs Baltimore Ravens are being PAID $130,000 to promote Obamacare in Maryland
By David Martosko, U.s. Political Editor PUBLISHED: 15:57 EST, 22 October 2013 | UPDATED: 16:25 EST, 22 October 2013 The Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens inked a sponsorship agreement in September with Maryland Health Connection, the state’s Obamacare insurance… Read More ›
Obamacare woes widen as insurers get wrong data and experts say website built on ten-year-old technology will need to be constantly fixed and then totally overhauled
Technology experts say the flaws could do lasting damage Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius criticized for declining to testify before an oversight panel Administration officials blame problems on an unexpectedly high volume of 14.6 million visitors in its… Read More ›
Obamacare activists STRIP to their underwear in taxpayer-funded, PETA-style stunt to persuade young Coloradoans to ‘get covered’
By David Martosko, U.s. Political Editor PUBLISHED: 15:53 EST, 3 October 2013 | UPDATED: 16:25 EST, 3 October 2013 Obamacare organizers in Colorado are taking Obamacare promotion to a new low – at least in terms of their dress … Read More ›
Feds are building a detective squad to target consumers and companies that don’t follow Obamacare’s rules
Post-Obamacare law hiring at the Department of Health and Human Services included 86 ‘criminal investigators,’ but just two ‘consumer safety’ officers On the day President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law in 2010, HHS received authority to make… Read More ›