Author: David Hogberg

When Somebody Says It’s Not About The Money…

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With apologies to H.L. Mencken, when Obamacare supporters say it ain’t about the cha-ching or ba-bling, it’s about the cha-ching and ba-bling. That is the the lens through which one should view the video “Forget About the Price Tag,” the winner ...
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Health Care Odds & Ends

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MyCancellation Town Hall. The Independent Women’s Voice is kicking off a town-hall tour of its “My Cancellation” project this Saturday: My Cancellation town-hall tour will begin on Saturday, December 7th at 12:30pm at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois.  The panel ...
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The Quality Of Exchange Plans Is Not Better

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Contrary to the claims of the President, the quality of exchange insurance is not necessarily better. Yesterday at a Ways and Means Committee hearing, Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute testified: …it’s now well established ...
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ObamaCare Enrollment: The Mt. Everest Of Data Compilation

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The political left is always telling us that “health care is different.”  And seeing how hard it is for the Administration to tabulate enrollment numbers, one can’t help but think that the left might be right.  For example, here is ...
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Guess It Can’t Handle 50,001

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Well, just tried to log on to Healthcare.gov and got this message: Hmm…this new-and-improved website looks an awful lot like the old clunker. I don’t know what the problem is, exactly, but here is my best guess:  The administration insisted that ...
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Obamacare Propaganda Isn’t Effective When The Hard Truth Is Smacking You In The Face

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Yesterday the Dept. of Health and Human Services made another sad attempt at convincing people that the number of people losing their health insurance isn’t really that bad. Citing a study from the liberal FamiliesUSA, HHS claimed “less than 1 percent ...
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Spirit Airlines, Wellmark, Call Your Tax Attorneys…

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…because you are going to be getting an audit soon from the I.R.S.  I mean, Spirit, you just can’t run advertisements like this and expect the Obama Administration won’t come after you: And Wellmark?  An insurance company mocking Obamacare!?!?!  Oh, ...
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Health Care Odds & Ends

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1. “It’s not that it’s not working. It’s still being developed and tested.”  Thus spake Henry Chao, deputy chief information officer of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, during an Energy and Commerce Committee hearing yesterday.  Apparently 30%-40% (or is ...
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And The Obamacare Hits Just Keep On Coming…

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First people were losing their insurance.  Now they are either losing their insurance subsidies or seeing them reduced thanks to the incompetence of the exchanges.  Indeed, one of the first victims is someone who got a shout out from President ...
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A ‘Surreal’ Train Wreck

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How bizarre has Obamacare become?  Well, bizarre enough that for the first that I can remember, I find myself agreeing with Howard Dean. As you’ll see in the clip below, Dean questions whether President Obama has the legal authority to ...
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