Category: Health

New Study: Three Ways Consumers Could Pay Exorbitantly Higher Premiums on the ObamaCare Exchanges in 2015

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Back in September, the Indiana Business Journal noted that, although some new insurers were offering lower-priced plans on Indiana’s ObamaCare exchanges, consumers wouldn’t necessarily save money:  ”Because of wrinkles in how Obamacare’s generous tax subsidies are calculated, the entrance of new ...
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IRS Gives ObamaCare Tax Delinquents Special Treatment

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The Administration is granting more special privileges under the banner of ObamaCare.  This time, it’s for people who owe taxes on the subsidy they received on the exchanges for 2014.  From Kaiser Health News: Consumers who received too much in ...
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CoOportunity Health: The Solyndra of ObamaCare

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Under ObamaCare, health Co-Ops—non-profits that provide insurance—are allowed to receive federal grant money to start up operations in the ObamaCare exchanges.  There are 23 such Co-Ops. CoOportunity Health, which serves Iowa and Nebraska, was the first one to collapse. The ...
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HealthCare.Gov: Incompetence on a Massive Scale

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Last Friday, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of Health and Human Services released its report on what went wrong with HealthCare.gov in 2013.  (“You would have had a lot less to read if they’d just focused ...
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Governor John Kasich (R-OH) Should Stop Insisting Christians Must Support ObamaCare’s Medicaid Expansion

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New Parody Exposes Kasich's Absurdity Christian Charity Is Voluntary; Medicaid Expansion Is Government Force Is Kasich Aware "How Lousy Medicaid Is"? Washington, D.C. - "If John Kasich actually thinks people will suffer eternal damnation for not supporting ObamaCare's Medicaid expansion, ...
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Parody: Why All Good Christians Must Support ObamaCare’s Medicaid Expansion

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People who do not support ObamaCare’s Medicaid expansion aren’t very good Christians.  So says Ohio Governor John Kasich. Last Tuesday, when asked about his expansion of Medicaid, Kasich replied, “Now, if you ever read Matthew 25, I think, ‘I wanna ...
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Medicaid Money Laundering–It’s Perfectly Legal!

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Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam is trying to build support for his Medicaid expansion plan.  One method he’s proposing is a long-running scam called “hospital assessment fees.” To understand how these fees work, it’s important to know first that Medicaid is ...
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Post Coverage of March for Life Suggests Liberal Newsroom Is Reasserting Control

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Almost two years ago, I took the leadership of the then-publicly-traded Washington Post Company to task for their coverage of the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C. Representing the National Center’s Free Enterprise Project and using the shares of ...
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ObamaCare’s ‘Success’ Is One of Making Americans More Dependent on Government

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During last night’s State of the Union speech, President Obama made one grandiose claim regarding ObamaCare: “And in the past year alone, about ten million uninsured Americans finally gained the security of health coverage.” The claim is based on an ...
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National Center Risk Analysis Division Director Comments on Michigan Governor Snyder’s Veto of Bill to Ban Sale of E-Cigarettes to Minors

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New York, NY / Washington, D.C. - Jeff Stier, director of the National Center for Public Policy Research's Risk Analysis Division, has the following comments about Michigan Governor Rick Snyder's veto of legislation to ban the sale of e-cigarettes to ...
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