Colorado’s exchange, Connect For Health Colorado, has a function that allows you to shop for policies without first setting up an account. To see it, go here and then select “Find a Plan.” I gave it a test run by ... READ MORE
The Grand Canyon is closed. Not really, but the federal government has cut off access to this grand work of nature. It's part of a pressure campaign to convince the American people that it really can't do without a bloated ... READ MORE
I haven’t yet tried setting up an account on the Washington, D.C. exchange, but I have tried its calculator function. A few days before the D.C. exchange opened, Reuters reported that it would “be unable to calculate the size of ... READ MORE
Under normal circumstances, the first Friday morning of every month is when the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics releases its report on the previous month’s employment statistics. But it’s far from normal circumstances right now in Washington, D.C. Due to ... READ MORE
Sigh. I tried to sign in to the Federal Exchange again and what should appear but this now almost iconic webpage: After about 20 minutes, the log-in page came up. I put in my username and password, which yielded this ... READ MORE
Thanks to a twitter exchange, I decide to check out the shop/comparison tool at the Covered California site (yes, it does work!) I entered in the following information: age 29, 1 person in the household, $40,000 annual income, zip code ... READ MORE
Sometimes the left approaches satire in its ongoing propaganda campaign to make the partial government shutdown seem worse than it is. Take Amanda Marcotte's October 1 Slate article "Government shutdown: From WIC to the panda cam, seven ways the shutdown ... READ MORE
What do anti-chemical activists do when they can’t persuade the U.S., the E.U., and other government bodies to ban a safe chemical they’ve been targeting for years? They try France. And the ploy may work. But in a piece for ... READ MORE
For the third straight day, “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel featured the National Center’s Dr. David Hogberg on the issue of ObamaCare implementation difficulties and rising costs to consumers. In this segment that aired on 10/2/13, Dr. Hogberg ... READ MORE
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