ARCHIVE – 2013

ObamaCare Kills Affordable Health Coverage for Black Students

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I guess if you like your coverage you really can’t keep it as millions of Americans have been finding out over the last month.  As the plan the university has provided for many semester[s] is considered to be out of compliance with the rules that the [Department of Health and ...

Statement on President Obama’s ObamaCare “Fix” by National Center for Public Policy Research Health Care Expert Dr. David Hogberg

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Washington, D.C. - The following is the statement of David Hogberg, Ph.D., senior fellow for health care policy at the National Center for Public Policy Research, on President Obama's ObamaCare announcement today: Today President Obama displayed the arrogance and contempt for the American people that has become a hallmark of ...

Black Conservatives Draw Attention to ObamaCare’s Navigator-Gate

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Wasn’t ObamaCare supposed to help pay for itself by reducing waste, fraud and abuse? In its latest bombshell investigative video release, Project Veritas found that federally-subsidized ObamaCare “navigators” — the people supposedly helping get Americans enrolled in the President’s namesake health care takeover — were willing to engage in less-than-ethical behavior ...

Obama Administration Inflates Enrollment Numbers

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Health and Human Services just released numbers on enrollment.  The press release states that “Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today that 106,185 individuals have selected plans from the Marketplace.”  Notice that it says “selected,” not “enrolled.” If they were enrolled, that would mean they have qualified and are ready to make payments for ...

Hail to the Redskins

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It used to be that the word "queer" was considered an epithet -- an insult. A "q-word," if you will. Nowadays, however, the rulers of political correctness inform us that it is all about context: "It's true that for many years lots of people were called 'queer' and it was ...

About Those Jobs Numbers… October 2013

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Unemployment is up again. Back to normal operations after being shuttered during the federal government slowdown last month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics today released its regular report on American employment statistics. It’s more of the same… but it’s trending worse. Overall, the national jobless rate rose by a tenth ...

Papa John Was Right

A year ago today John Schnatter, founder and CEO of Papa John’s Pizza, remarked that Obamacare’s employer mandate would likely result in Papa John’s franchise owners reducing the number of hours that their employees worked. (Quick refresher: Under Obamacare’s employer mandate companies with 50 or more full-time employees—“full time” defined ...

Papa John Was Right About the Impact of ObamaCare, Says National Center for Public Policy Research

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Over 360 Employers, Including 75 Private Businesses, Have Reduced Worker Hours in Response to Obamacare's Employer Mandate "More and more businesses will reduce employee hours as January 2015, when the employer mandate goes into effect, approaches," says National Center's Dr. David Hogberg Washington, D.C. - "The CEO of Papa John's ...

Project 21 Members: No Excuse for ObamaCare Policy Cancellations

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Having heard excuses and redefinitions aplenty, members of the of the Nation Center’s Project 21 black leadership network are aghast at the way the Obama Administration is trying to spin how ObamaCare is failing the American people.  In particular, there is concern over how ObamaCare’s implementation is leading to the ...

Next Moves in the ObamaCare Deception

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Over the weekend, a candidate for the Virginia statehouse is said to have made a radical suggestion about the way ObamaCare could be administered in the commonwealth. With so many doctors now choosing to not take Medicare and Medicaid funding as a way of keeping the government out of their ...

Jonathan Gruber: Society’s Spokesman

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The Agency for Determining Society’s Opinion has apparently hired MIT economist Jonathan Gruber as its spokesman. Gruber, one of the architects of ObamaCare, is constantly informing us what society thinks and what decisions it has made. For example, in October 2012 Gruber claimed that “We as a society are not ...

6 People Signed Up On Day One — Ho Hum

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CBS News reports that, Early enrollment figures are contained in notes from twice-a-day “war room” meetings convened within the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services after the website failed on Oct. 1. They were turned over in response to a document request from the House Oversight Committee. The website launched ...

6 People Signed Up On Day One — Ho Hum

Early enrollment figures are contained in notes from twice-a-day “war room” meetings convened within the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services after the website failed on Oct. 1. They were turned over in response to a document request from the House Oversight Committee. The website launched on a Tuesday. Publicly, ...

32 Dems Have Broken Rank On ObamaCare–Update 3

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The number of Democrats who support either a delay in the individual mandate or an extension of the open enrollment period keeps increasing.  The count is now up to 32. Rep. Dan Lipinski of Illinois has proposed the Health Care Access Fairness and Penalty Delay Act. This legislation would require ...

Daily Caller Covers New National Center Report on Kathleen Sebelius and Enroll America

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Word is spreading about the National Center’s new exposé of Kathleen Sebelius’s shady dealings with ObamaCare front-group Enroll America, which was published as part of our GroupSnoop.org series this past Wednesday. Today, the Daily Caller covered our report.  Columnist Patrick Howley quoted my succinct description of the political policy organization: ...

ObamaCare Problems a Path to Single-Payer? Project 21’s Arps Thinks So

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It’s been a rough first month for ObamaCare.  On purpose? The troubles began on the very first day with the failures of the health care exchange web sites.  And that’s an ongoing problem.  Then came the rate shock, as people discovered their deductibles and premiums were going up and their ...

Too Big for One Man, or Just Obama? by Hughey Newsome

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After the recent revelation that the National Security Agency monitored cell phone conversations in foreign countries, including the cell phone conversations of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other world leaders, the excuse of President Obama's spokesmen and most ardent defenders was that he didn't know the NSA was conducting such ...

The Next Moves in the ObamaCare Deception, by Elaina F. George, MD

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Americans are being led down the wrong path. There has been, and continues to be, a concerted effort on the part of liberal politicians — who are encouraged by the media — to convince the American people that their health care system is the worst in the industrialized world, that ...

Has Radical Feminism Achieved A Deceptive Victory? by Darryn “Dutch” Martin

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American men are fed up and angry — and rightfully so. Sick of being constantly portrayed as rapists, abusers, bumbling idiots, irresponsible losers, deadbeat dads (if they're absent), immature fatherly buffoons (if they're present) or overall "bad guys" by the mainstream media and Hollywood, many men have reached a tipping ...

“Race Card” Not Enough to Protect Obama from Lies and Incompetence, by Derryck Green

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To say the ObamaCare rollout has been difficult for President Obama is an understatement. It is the epitome of a disaster. Obama has been in damage-control mode since October 1. The release of his signature legislation, the misnamed Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare), has been disastrous. Bureaucratic incompetence is on full ...

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