Browsing All posts tagged under »ObamaCare Catastrophe«

He Predicted Obamacare Wouldn’t Be ‘Affordable.’ Democrats Didn’t Listen.

October 29, 2016 by

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By Sharyl Attkisson ~ Robert Laszewski is a policy adviser and analyst for the health insurance industry. He’s correctly predicted Obamacare’s pitfalls since Day One. In an interview with “Full Measure” this Sunday, Laszewski says he warned the Obama administration and other Democrats not to call it the “Affordable Care Act.” Earlier this week, the […]

Obama Is Looting The Treasury To Pay Off Insurers

February 29, 2016 by

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By Betsy McCaughey, PhD ~ The Obama administration will tell any lie and break any law to prevent the president’s signature health-care program from collapsing. Insurance companies such as UnitedHealthcare and Aetna are losing billions trying to sell ObamaCare plans, and the risk is they’ll drop out at the end of 2016. No insurance companies […]

ObamaCare’s Latest Victims: 100,000 New Yorkers And Taxpayers Everywhere

October 2, 2015 by

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By Betsy McCaughey, PhD ~ Bad news for New Yorkers, thanks to ObamaCare: More than 100,000 policyholders just learned that their Health Republic insurance plans will be canceled on Dec. 31. The start-up insurer (spun off from the Freelancers’ Union) is hemorrhaging red ink and has to close down. That’s unfortunate for the policyholders, who […]

Sarah Kliff Discovers Obamacare Stinks

May 21, 2015 by

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By P.J. Gladnick ~ Over the past few years there has been no greater Obamacare cheerleader than Sarah Kliff (pictured) of General Electric Vox. Therefore it was quite a revelation today to discover she had a change of heart and has found her formerly beloved program to be deeply flawed. Is it too harsh to claim […]

The Obamacare Disaster

September 26, 2014 by

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By Alan Caruba ~ By far the worst law passed by Congress in 2010 was the Affordable Care Act (ACA) otherwise known as Obamacare. It was passed without a single Republican vote and as more Americans experience the higher costs and other aspects of it realize how it has negatively affected their lives, it should […]

Obamacare Must Be Repealed

July 17, 2014 by

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By Alan Caruba ~ While the issue of immigration is uppermost in people’s minds right now, it is likely at this point halfway through his second term that President Obama will be identified by historians most closely with his signature, namesake legislation, the Affordable Patient Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare. They will do so […]

Give Veterans The Care They Earned

May 19, 2014 by

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By Betsy McCaughey, PhD ~ Leave it to President Obama and Democrats in Congress to enact “comprehensive” health reform and overlook the plight of 8.5 million veterans. That’s what they did in 2010 when they passed ObamaCare. It provides coverage for convicts and even for newcomers to this country with no waiting period, but it […]

Depends On When You Were Born

May 2, 2014 by

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By Alan Caruba ~ “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.” ~ Ronald Reagan My Father was born in 1901 and was too young for World War […]

Market Pricing, Solving Problems

April 21, 2014 by

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By Rich Tucker ~ In medical care, you have to get the diagnosis correct. But if you want to solve the problem, you’ve also got to get the treatment right. At the Vox website recently, reporter Sarah Kliff posted a blog titled: “Our Health Spending Problem is All About Prices.” That diagnosis is only partially […]

The Next ObamaCare Disasters

April 18, 2014 by

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By Betsy McCaughey, PhD ~ On Friday the president used the long-awaited resignation of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to again claim victory for his namesake health law. “She got it fixed, got the job done,” Obama said. Right. Sorry, there is plenty of more bad news ahead. It’s not called SebeliusCare, and she wasn’t […]

Obamacare Was A Huge Mistake

April 16, 2014 by

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By Star Parker ~ Congressional Budget Office report in February projects that Obamacare will shrink the American economy by 2.5 million jobs. The announced departure of HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius marks the end of a chapter of American history. Sebelius, aside from President Obama, has been the most prominent public face on the signature initiative […]

Sebelius Resigns As HHS Secretary After Obamacare’s Shaky Start

April 11, 2014 by

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By Ken McIntyre ~ Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has resigned, nine days after President Obama trumpeted the news that 7.1 million Americans had signed up for Obamacare by the first deadline despite a near-calamitous rollout of the health care law under her leadership. Some White House watchers noted at the time that […]

Obamacare Is An American Catastrophe

March 31, 2014 by

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By Alan Caruba ~ If you type in “Obamacare” on Wikipedia you will discover 25,500,000 links. That’s a lot of news coverage and related commentary about the Affordable Care Act. Most of it is negative. The more people have learned about it, the less they like it and, if we had a Congress that could […]

Obamacare’s Tough Day In Court

March 27, 2014 by

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By Roger Aronoff ~ Since its passage, a number of lawsuits have attempted to undermine Obamacare as a law, with varying degrees of success. The individual mandate challenge failed before the Supreme Court in 2012, despite what seemed like positive reception to the challenge during oral argument. Hobby Lobby went before the Supreme Court on […]

Obama Makes Insurance Company Bailout Bigger Despite Public Outrage

March 21, 2014 by

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By Betsy McCaughey, PhD ~ Some people insist ObamaCare is here to stay. Nonsense. President Obama is dismantling it himself, lawlessly hacking off  provisions as they  become unpopular in order to minimize Democratic losses in the fall election. Health reform be damned. Gone is the Washington definition of “essential benefits” that plans must include. Gone is […]

Moms: This Is What Your Government Expects Of You

March 19, 2014 by

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By Amy Payne ~ If you’re a mom of grown children, this is for you. Did you know that the Obama administration and the state of Rhode Island are counting on you to nag your kids into signing up for Obamacare? Good old-fashioned guilt and annoyance—that’s the ticket, apparently. But just giving your kids a […]

My Family’s Misadventures With Obamacare, Continued

March 13, 2014 by

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By Michelle Malkin ~ Back in September, our family received an Obamacare-induced health insurance death notice. We joined millions of other Americans whose individual market health plans died after Democrats lied about our ability to keep the plans and doctors we liked. President Obama tried to “fix” the mess he created. But as usual, the […]

How ObamaCare Slaps The Sick

March 6, 2014 by

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By Betsy McCaughey, PhD ~ “Lies,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid calls the TV ads that feature people complaining about ObamaCare. Sorry: The people in those ads are sick, but their new health policies don’t let them see the specialists or get the medications they need. These patients aren’t liars; they’re people President Obama claimed […]

Obama Set To Delay Another Health Care Mandate; Networks Ignore

March 5, 2014 by

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By Matt Hadro ~ President Obama will be enacting yet another delay for ObamaCare, but the networks were silent about the prospect of it on Tuesday night. The administration is set to allow insurers to keep offering health plans that don’t meet ObamaCare standards, and the delay will be tailored around the November Congressional elections. […]

Harry Reid: All Obamacare Horror Stories Are Lies (VIDEO)

February 28, 2014 by

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By Todd Thurman ~ Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) gave a speech on the floor of the Senate yesterday about “plenty of horror stories being told” about Obamacare and said that “all of them are untrue.”  He then went on to specifically target claims made by the Koch brothers claiming they were trying to […]

Voter’s Remorse Over Obama

February 26, 2014 by

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By Alan Caruba ~ I don’t recall when I first wrote about Obama telling lies, but it surely must have been early in his first term, if not even earlier in the 2008 campaign. So much of the information about his life was subject to question that it raised my concern. The way Obamacare was […]

Obama Silences Complaining Employers With IRS

February 26, 2014 by

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By Betsy McCaughey, PhD ~ President Barack Obama is using the IRS to silence employers unhappy about Obamacare. That’s the hidden purpose behind the employer mandate delay announced on Feb. 10. The administration released 227 pages of mind-numbing regulations ridiculously billed as making “the compliance process simpler and easier” for employers. Hidden in the gobbledygook (on […]

Obama(S)care: Con Artists And Criminals In Charge

February 20, 2014 by

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By Michelle Malkin ~ Question: If Obamacare officials cannot prevent accused embezzlers from infiltrating their offices, how can they protect enrollees from grifters, con artists, and thieves in the federal health-insurance-exchange system? Here in my home state, a director of Connect for Health Colorado – the state-sponsored Obamacare health-insurance exchange – was just put on […]

Obama’s New Thoughtcrime

February 17, 2014 by

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By Edward Cline ~ The quotations below say it all: Fox News February 11th: THOUGHT POLICE: FIRMS MUST SWEAR OBAMACARE NOT A FACTOR IN FIRINGS Is the latest delay of ObamaCare regulations politically motivated? Consider what administration officials announcing the new exemption for medium-sized employers had to say about firms that might fire workers to […]