Author: David Hogberg

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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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ObamaCare Subsidies Won’t Stop Death Spiral

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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 ...
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Dems Breaking Rank On ObamaCare Delay: Update 2

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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 ...
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Rep. Hoyer: “Accurate…Just Not Precise”

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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 ...
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Almost 1.5 Million Insurance Cancellations Under ObamaCare

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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 ...
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Dems Breaking Rank On ObamaCare Delay: Update 1

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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 ...
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Individual Mandate: Obama Ignores The Law Again

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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 ...
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