A Practicing Physician’s Prescription for Fixing Health Care, by Elaina F. George, MD
Despite the desperate attempts at distraction and demonization and the outright lies about what ObamaCare does, the truth remains that having health insurance does not equal getting quality health care. There are definitely problems with the American health insurance industry. If anyone bothered to ask independent private physicians why they ...
Oh, SNAP: What They Forget to Say About Food Stamp Cuts, by Hughey Newsome
At the end of October, supplemental aid to the federal food stamp program — officially called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP — ran out. USA Today reported "[v]ulnerable populations will be hardest hit." CNN posted a column by Feeding America's Bob Aiken that warned of the new "strain ...
Enroll America
Introduction Enroll America is an American nonprofit organization organized primarily to sign up consumers for the health coverage plans that are dictated by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – commonly known as “ObamaCare.” Engaging with hospitals, doctors, insurers and pharmaceutical companies, Enroll America’s mission is to sign up ...
ObamaCare Subsidies Won’t Stop Death Spiral
Will the subsidies that people on the ObamaCare exchange protect them from premium increases and, thus, mitigate, if not prevent, a death spiral? Yuval Levin made that case recently at NRO. According to Levin, “The talk of a death spiral in recent days has often overlooked a crucial feature of ...
Dems Breaking Rank On ObamaCare Delay: Update 2
A few more Democrats are expressing interest in either extending the open enrollment deadline or delaying the individual mandate. (Also see previous posts.) Reps. Bruce Braley and Dave Loebsack, both from Iowa, “cite the freeze-up of the government’s health insurance website, Health Care.gov, since it opened Oct. 1 as the reason to ...
Rep. Hoyer: “Accurate…Just Not Precise”
Now that the MSM is reporting that contra President Obama’s promise people are losing their health insurance, Democrats are starting to come clean. Sort of. Via Jonathan Strong, here is Minority Whip Steny Hoyer this morning: “We knew that there would be some policies that would not qualify and therefore people ...
Almost 1.5 Million Insurance Cancellations Under ObamaCare
Unless you’ve been living in a cave, you are aware that many policyholders are receiving cancellation notices from their insurance companies. Turns out that these policies don’t meet ObamaCare requirements. But how many people have received these notices? Let’s do a tally: -800,000 in New Jersey. -119,000 from Blue Shield in ...
Dems Breaking Rank On ObamaCare Delay: Update 1
A previous post noted that more than a few Democrats had expressed interest in delaying the individual mandate and/or extending the open enrollment period. Here are some more Democrats who have expressed similar sentiments since then. A full list follows. According to Politico, Sen. Jeane Shaheen has offered a plan ...
Congratulations to Project 21’s Stacy Washington
Congratulations to Project 21 National Advisory Council member Stacy Washington, as KFTK Radio FM News/Talk in St. Louis has just announced the debut of the “Stacy on the Right with Stacy Washington” radio program. Talkers Magazine announced the details today: KFTK, St. Louis Debuts Stacy Washington Weekend Program Stacy Washington ...
Individual Mandate: Obama Ignores The Law Again
I have an article today at the American Spectator on the Administration’s decision to “clarify” that no one who gets insurance by the end of the open enrollment period on March 31 will be subject to a penalty under the individual mandate. As I explain in the article, that means ...
ObamaCare’s Death Omen PR Campaign
Judicial Watch apparently has learned that the Baltimore Ravens have accepted $130,000 to promote ObamaCare. They're the only professional sports team that has agreed to do so. Here's the story: The professional football team that won this year’s Super Bowl is getting $130,000 from American taxpayers to promote Obamacare, according ...
“Don’t Send Me This Crap”
So says a self-described reporter about the press release we issued this morning, "Shareholder Activists Repeat Call for Costco to Reconsider Controversial Membership in RILA." Yet another objective journalist, we suppose! ...
Obama’s Rose Garden Distortion
Yesterday I had an article at The Federalist titled “The Eight Biggest Falsehoods in Obama’s Rose Garden Speech.” Today I want to look at another of President Obama’s claims in that speech, one that isn’t a falsehood but does qualify as a distortion: In states where governors and legislatures have ...
Grayson’s Groundless Gripe About Tea Party Panned
Some Tea Party activists turn TEA into an acronym: Taxed Enough Already. But one member of Congress is making a much more sinister and unproven allegation about the word to raise money for his re-election campaign. Supporters of Congressman Alan Grayson recently received an e-mail that opens to a picture ...
Regulatory Morass
When Congress passes ideological legislation, the devil in the details is generally handed to America’s regulatory machine to iron out. Consider ObamaCare – the massive legislation designed to alter the nation’s entire health insurance landscape and place the federal government in charge of another 1/6 of the economy. It was ...
Dems Breaking Rank On ObamaCare Delay
Uh-oh. Don’t look now, but some Democrats are beginning to call for relief from ObamaCare’s individual mandate. The latest is Colorado’s Jared Polis: Health insurance rates are so high in Colorado’s mountain resort areas that U.S. Rep. Jared Polis plans to seek waivers from the federal government so people who skip ...
Project 21’s Green Unchanged in Pessimism About Obama Economy
After 18 days of waiting due to the government slowdown (the Bureau of Labor Statistics was a shuttered agency), today’s release of the September jobless numbers ended up being much ado about nothing. In a word, used throughout the BLS press release, the misery for so many Americans was “unchanged.” ...
Project 21’s Green Unchanged in Pessimism About Obama Economy
After 18 days of waiting due to the government slowdown (the Bureau of Labor Statistics was a shuttered agency), today’s release of the September jobless numbers ended up being much ado about nothing. In a word, used throughout the BLS press release, the misery for so many Americans was “unchanged.” ...
Obama’s Lack of Respect for the Common Working Man
As praise and a raise is bestowed upon the federal workforce in the wake of the government slowdown that only actually furloughed a small percentage of the total federal payroll, Project 21 member Derryck Green wonders why President Obama doesn’t seem to have similar concern for the plight of the ...
EPA Power Grab May Go Up in Smoke
As the federal government reopens, some workers at the Environmental Protection Agency may soon find their powers to choke the American economy – seemingly their primary mission under President Obama – is limited. That is because a Texas-sized fight over federal agency power is heading to the U.S. Supreme Court, and ...
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