Category: ObamaCare

Where you have ham-fisted, one-size-fits-all, centralized coercion, you have unintended consequences. ObamaCare is no exception. One goal of ObamaCare is to reduce costs by punishing hospitals that have above-average readmissions for Medicare patients. The result: Researchers found that the 30-day readmission rate (adjusted for patient risk) declined to 18.4% from 20% after the penalties were […]

Who would have thought that a judge would not require the federal government to not make payments to insurance companies that another judge had already ruled unConstitutional (The Hill) A federal court in California has struck down an emergency motion that would have forced the Trump administration to continue making ObamaCare subsidy payments to insurers. […]

As you can imagine, this has sent Obamacare supporters (who mostly do not use Ocare themselves) into a tizzy. Moonbat Level 10. Given them the vapors (Politico) President Donald Trump plans to cut off subsidy payments to insurers selling Obamacare coverage in his most aggressive move yet to undermine the health care law, according to […]

While Republicans are furious at McCain for voting no on the healthcare bill that would’ve started the process of getting rid of Obamacare, celebrities are now McCain’s biggest fans. Yep, the lefties who thought he and Palin were the devil 9 years ago are now taking to social media to praise him. This is English, […]

This morning, two Manhattan residents, a man and his wife, jumped to their deaths into the street below. The incident happened early Friday morning on the corner of Madison Avenue and 33rd Street – just a block from the Empire State Building. A 53-year-old chiropractor and his 50-year-old wife jumped out of a window of […]

The Alabama Republican Rep. Mo Brooks took to CNN today to blast the Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell over the failure of the GOP to repeal Obamacare this morning. In the seven minute interview with Chris Cuomo, he blamed McConnell’s leadership more than any other failure on the part of the Republican Party. In the […]

For the most part, overhauling Obamacare, otherwise known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (otherwise known as the Putting Government In Control Of Your Healthcare And Raising Your Premiums and Deductibles Act), is all the Republicans in Congress have been doing from the start. Once they found a way to start debate, they […]

CNN thinks they’re on to something, and they might well be As repeal and replace falters, more say GOP should abandon repeal plan A new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds a growing share of Americans want to see the GOP abandon its effort to repeal and replace the 2010 health care law known as Obamacare, […]

What a shame, the Senate’s terrible, no good, does-not-actually-repeal-Obamacare plan, similar to the House’s does-not-actually-repeal-Ocare plan, has collapsed, as it has not garnered the necessary support. Talking Point Memo’s Tierney Sneed plays it straight in reporting what comes next (interestingly, the article from the hardcore left site is more straight news than most of the […]