Category: Health

6 People Signed Up On Day One — Ho Hum

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 document request from the ...
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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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Daily Caller Covers New National Center Report on Kathleen Sebelius and Enroll America

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Word is spreading about the National Center’s new exposé of Kathleen Sebelius’s shady dealings with ObamaCare front-group Enroll America, which was published as part of our GroupSnoop.org series this past Wednesday. Today, the Daily Caller covered our report.  Columnist Patrick ...
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ObamaCare Problems a Path to Single-Payer? Project 21’s Arps Thinks So

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It’s been a rough first month for ObamaCare.  On purpose? The troubles began on the very first day with the failures of the health care exchange web sites.  And that’s an ongoing problem.  Then came the rate shock, as people ...
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The Next Moves in the ObamaCare Deception, by Elaina F. George, MD

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Americans are being led down the wrong path. There has been, and continues to be, a concerted effort on the part of liberal politicians — who are encouraged by the media — to convince the American people that their health ...
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“Race Card” Not Enough to Protect Obama from Lies and Incompetence, by Derryck Green

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To say the ObamaCare rollout has been difficult for President Obama is an understatement. It is the epitome of a disaster. Obama has been in damage-control mode since October 1. The release of his signature legislation, the misnamed Affordable Care ...
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A Practicing Physician’s Prescription for Fixing Health Care, by Elaina F. George, MD

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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 ...
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Oh, SNAP: What They Forget to Say About Food Stamp Cuts, by Hughey Newsome

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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 ...
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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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