Category: ObamaCare

Hobby Lobby: Should Employers be Forced to Provide Abortifacients?

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments last week in the Hobby Lobby case, to decide whether a business that provides health-care insurance to its employees can be forced to include abortifacients in its coverage. Hobby Lobby filed a lawsuit against the federal government over the Obamacare mandate of providing abortifacients. Hobby Lobby is a […]

 

Senator says administration ‘cooking the books’ on Obamacare numbers, there is no fix

Posted on by Tom Tillison

With the March 31 deadline to sign up for: Obamacare: upon us, “Fox News Sunday” took a close look at the numbers, prompting U.S. Sen.John Barrasso, R-Wyo., to say theObama: administration: is “cooking the books.” The White House announced late last week that more than 6 million people have now enrolled in Obamacare, bringing the total to just: a million […]

 

Obamacare Misses The Target

Posted on by William Teach

Over at the Boston Globe, John Sunuunu offers a scathing look at Obamacare, noting that it misses the target The law clearly states that today is the final day to sign up for Obamacare. Only it isn’t. The extension announced last week covers anyone who merely claims they intend to apply. Allowing such a frivolous […]

 

Obama Administration Goes Out of Its Way to Enroll Mexican Nationals in ObamaCare

Posted on by Dave Blount

Readers will recall when Obama proclaimed that illegal aliens would not be sucking still more of our blood by getting free healthcare through ObamaCare, and Congressman Joe Wilson (R-SC) could not restrain himself from shouting, “You lie!” The establishment media really ripped him a new one: not Obama for lying, but Wilson for pointing it […]

 

Progressives Really Worried About “Slippery Slopes” For Contraception Case

Posted on by William Teach

Even a few Leftist Supreme Court justices were worried about “slippery slopes” during the oral arguments Tuesday at the Court. The lawyers should have told them “hey, that’s an interesting point, however, we are concerned with the government forcing our client to provide free abortifacients in the insurance they partially pay for, not some nebulous […]

 

Surprise: Obama Makes Another Change To Ocare

Posted on by William Teach

It’s a small change, but another change to It’s. The. Law. (Washington Post) The Obama administration has decided to give extra time to Americans who say that they are unable to enroll in health plans through the federal insurance marketplace by the March 31 deadline. Federal officials confirmed Tuesday evening that all consumers who have […]

 

Washington Post Upset That “Vocally Devout” Justices Will Decide Ocare Contraception Case

Posted on by William Teach

Tuesday is the day when the Supreme Court will hear the case on the Ocare mandate requiring companies to provide insurance that includes free contraception, sterilization, and abortifacients. Many religious companies find this to be against their religious beliefs. And, per the Washington Post’s Robert Barnes, it’s horrible that religious justices might decide the case […]

 

OFA Hijacks Gadsen Flag For Obamacare

Posted on by William Teach

The Gadsen Flag was a symbol of freedom, standing against tyranny. An “American guesser“, who many believe to be Benjamin Franklin, wrote of the rattlesnake, a uniquely American animal, which was nowhere else in the world “She never begins an attack, nor, when once engaged, ever surrenders: She is therefore an emblem of magnanimity and […]

 

What the Heck… Karl Rove Warns Republicans to Stop Attacking Obamacare?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

By nearly every metric, Democrats are finding that Obamacare is a millstone around their necks for the upcoming 2014 midterm elections. Yet so-called Republican Karl Rove is telling the GOP to stop attacking Obamacare? What is he thinking? Yet, even as Rove says Republicans shouldn’t Attack Obamacare, elections statistician Larry Sabato Says Obamacare is killing […]

 

Obamacare Premiums Said To Soon Skyrocket

Posted on by William Teach

And right in time for the 2014 midterms. I feel an Obama delay coming shortly (The Hill) Health industry officials say ObamaCare-related premiums will double in some parts of the country, countering claims recently made by the administration. The expected rate hikes will be announced in the coming months amid an intense election year, when […]

 

Are You Ready For Obamacare March Madness?

Posted on by William Teach

Yet another event Team Obama plans to ruin (CNN) As hoop heads across the country prepare for the Big Dance, President Barack Obama’s administration is banking on a new March Madness-focused campaign to help boost Obamacare enrollment. To coincide with the start of NCAA basketball tournament, a White House official says the administration is launching […]

 

Obama: Hey, We’ve Got Enough Enrollments To Ensure Obamacare Survives

Posted on by William Teach

He’s pretty casual in throwing out the supposed enrollment figure, though strangely unable to provide the risk pool mixes (Washington Post) President Obama said Friday he was confident enough Americans had enrolled under the Affordable Care Act to make the program “stable.” In an interview with WebMD (transcript here), Obama said the fact that 4.2 […]

 

Pelosi Claims Democrats Won’t Run From Obamacare

Posted on by William Teach

That’s incredibly easy for her to say, being in an ultra-safe seat. She should perhaps consult with those in not so safe seats, especially in the Senate (Real Clear Politics) Nancy Pelosi said her Democratic colleagues should not shy from the Affordable Care Act in their 2014 midterm campaigns, arguing that Republicans “are wasting their […]

 

Obama Tells Us to Cancel Cell Phone and Cable to Pay for Obamacare

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

So, if you make less that $40,000 a year and find the high cost of Obamacare to be overwhelming, President Obama has a message for you: cancel your stupid cable TV and you dang iPhone service you ingrates. THEN you will be able to afford his mandated-by-law take over of our national healthcare system. This […]

 

Hooray, Obamacare Slightly Reducing Uninsured Rate

Posted on by William Teach

This is one of two stories the media is crowing about, the other being CNN’s poll about approval for Ocare “rebounding” (IBT) The uninsured rate among all major demographic groups in the U.S. is going down, but Hispanics are still among the least insured in the country, a new survey found. The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, […]

 

Union: Obamacare Will Cause More Income Inequality

Posted on by William Teach

This is not the first time Unite Here, a prominent union that supports those in the the hotel, food service, laundry, warehouse, and casino gaming industries, with major links to SEIU and other far left unions, has slammed Obamacare (though they were a big supporter of it initially, and certainly got out the vote for […]

 

What Say To An “Individual Shared Responsibility Payment” To The IRS?

Posted on by William Teach

Of course this must be about Obamacare (Townhall) Here’s your Orwellian Phrase for the Week: Individual shared responsibility payment. Yeah… Go ahead and try to wrap your brain around that amalgamation of contradictory concepts. The phrase is not gleamed from some glossy DNC spin-office, or a Harvard professor’s latest psychobabble posing as an academic paper. […]

 

Suprise! Uninsured Barely Signing Up For Obamacare

Posted on by William Teach

Wasn’t the stated purpose of the “Affordable” Care Act to make sure that the 30-45 million Americans without health insurance receive health insurance? How’s that working out? (Washington Post) The new health insurance marketplaces appear to be making little headway in signing up Americans who lack insurance, the Affordable Care Act’s central goal, according to […]

 

Are You Excited To Learn About Health Code V9542XA?

Posted on by William Teach

You should, because it’s part of the increase from 17,000 health codes to 155,000 (Weekly Standard) Ever considered suicide by jellyfish? Have you ended up in the hospital after being injured during the forced landing of your spacecraft? Or been hurt when you were sucked into the engine of an airplane or when your horse-drawn […]

 

Team Obama May Announce New Obamacare Delay

Posted on by William Teach

And it’s all about attempting to protect Democrats for the mid-terms New ObamaCare delay to help Democrats in midterm elections The Obama administration is set to announce another major delay in implementing the Affordable Care Act, easing election pressure on Democrats. As early as this week, according to two sources, the White House will announce […]

 

Without Taxpayer Subsidies, Obamacare Is Really Expensive

Posted on by William Teach

In other news, water is wet (Jacksonville Business Journal) Unless your coverage is subsidized by taxpayers, health insurance on the individual market is much more expensive under health care reform. That’s the takeaway from a new index compiled by eHealth Inc., which tracked how much people are paying for insurance through its private online health […]

 

Harry Reid Claims Those Who Say Obamacare Costs Them More Are Liars

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

From the floor of the Senate, Democrat Majority Leader Harry Reid has stated that all those thousands of Americans that have reported that Obamacare is driving up their costs, not reducing them, and that Obamacare is a “horror story” are simply lying. Yes, Harry Reid just called thousands of Americans liars. During remarks he made […]

 

11 Million Small Business Employees Could See Premium Hikes

Posted on by William Teach

Um, surprise? (Daily Caller) Obamacare is once again under fire after federal estimates that health insurance premiums will increase for 11 million people who work for small businesses, according to a report from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). House Speaker John Boehner blasted the Obama administration over the report Monday, calling it […]