Jun 18, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from BUZZFEED WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is ramping up a plan to use the federal government’s social media accounts and websites to help convince millions of Americans, including those who “mistrust government,” to sign up for health insurance through Obamacare, according to a confidential administration presentation obtained by BuzzFeed. The White House last Tuesday hosted ...
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Jun 17, 2013 No Comments ›› Jack Flash
Excerpted from Health Watch: House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) subpoenaed documents from a controversial ObamaCare program on Friday after charging that the Obama administration had denied his request several times. Issa is seeking information on a federal attempt to boost nonprofit health plans, known as CO-OPs (consumer oriented and operated plans), which compete with ...
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Jun 17, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from POLITICO Dozens of lawmakers and aides are so afraid that their health insurance premiums will skyrocket next year thanks to Obamacare that they are thinking about retiring early or just quitting. The fear: Government-subsidized premiums will disappear at the end of the year under a provision in the health care law that nudges aides ...
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Jun 17, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WASHINGTON EXAMINER A new rule issued late Friday requires state, federal and local agencies as well as health insurers to swap the protected personal health information of anybody seeking to join the new health care program that will be enforced by the Internal Revenue Service. Personal health information, or PHI, is highly protected under ...
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Jun 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Spit Stixx
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) - Until now, much of the debate swirling around Obamacare has focused on the cost of premiums in the state-based health insurance exchanges. But what will enrollees actually get for that monthly charge? States are starting to roll out details about the exchanges, providing a look at just how affordable coverage under the Affordable ...
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Jun 6, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE HILL President Obama's signature healthcare law is more unpopular than ever as officials prepare to implement its largest provisions, according to a new poll. NBC News and the Wall Street Journal found that 49 percent of people call Affordable Care Act a bad idea, while about four in 10 say they will be ...
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Jun 4, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from NY TIMES WASHINGTON — Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of health and human services, disclosed on Tuesday that she had made telephone calls to three companies regulated by her department and urged them to help a nonprofit group promote President Obama’s health care law. She identified the companies as Johnson & Johnson, the drug ...
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Jun 3, 2013 No Comments ›› Toro520
Excerpted from Real Clear Politics: NEERA TANDEN, PRESIDENT OF CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: If I were a conservative, I would just say, 'I won.' Okay? They have a centrist plan, there's competition. JAMES POULOS, HUFFINGTON POST & FORBES : You have everything that's wrong with capitalism and everything that's wrong with big government. Big business and big ...
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May 31, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from Forbes: Last week, the state of California claimed that its version of Obamacare’s health insurance exchange would actually reduce premiums. “These rates are way below the worst-case gloom-and-doom scenarios we have heard,” boasted Peter Lee, executive director of the California exchange. But the data that Lee released tells a different story: Obamacare, in ...
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May 25, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
Excerpted from The Weekly Standard: t would be a major understatement to say that Obamacare has had a bad spring. Around the time of Lincoln’s birthday, registered voters told Fox News that, by a margin of 6 percentage points (48 to 42 percent), it would “be better to go back to the health ...
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May 23, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE HILL The links between a nonprofit promoting President Obama’s healthcare law and the White House have created an “air of expectation” that insurers will contribute to the group, according to an insurance industry official. Current and former administration officials have taken on leadership and fundraising roles for Enroll America, a nonprofit aiming to ...
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May 22, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WASHINGTON EXAMINER The Internal Revenue Service, charged with implementing the biggest change in tax laws in 20 years due to Obamacare, has created eight offices and special "teams" to handle the chore, way more than initially revealed. Besides the top office headed by the woman in the middle of the IRS-Tea Party scandal, there ...
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May 21, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE HILL Labor unions are breaking with President Obama on ObamaCare. Months after the president’s reelection, a variety of unions are publicly balking at how the administration plans to implement the landmark law. They warn that unless there are changes, the results could be catastrophic. The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) — a ...
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May 16, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE HILL The House voted to repeal ObamaCare on Thursday for the third time since Republicans took over the chamber in 2011. Only two Democrats sided with Republicans in the party-line 229-195 vote — Jim Matheson (Utah) and Mike McIntyre (N.C.). All Republicans voted in favor of repeal. This is the 37th time the House GOP ...
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May 16, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE HILL Republicans and Democrats clashed on Twitter over President Obama’s healthcare law ahead of a House repeal vote. On the same day House Republicans planned a vote to repeal the president’s signature legislation, House Oversight Committee chairman picked a fight with the White House, challenging his followers to say in three words why the ...
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May 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WASHINGTON EXAMINER Internal cost estimates from 17 of the nation's largest insurance companies indicate that health insurance premiums will grow an average of 100 percent under Obamacare, and that some will soar more than 400 percent, crushing the administration's goal of affordability. New regulations, policies, taxes, fees and mandates are the reason for the ...
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May 12, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from ATR When Obamacare’s individual mandate takes effect in 2014, all Americans who file income tax returns must complete an additional IRS tax form. The new form will require disclosure of a taxpayer’s personal identifying health information in order to determine compliance with the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate. As confirmed by IRS testimony to the ...
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May 12, 2013 No Comments ›› Jack Flash
Excerpted from National Review Online: Democratic senator Max Baucus is retiring because he is “fed up” with the Affordable Care Act, according to his Republican colleague Chuck Grassley. Speaking at Friday night’s Lincoln Day dinner in Iowa, Grassley told the audience the Montana senator is leaving office ”because he’s so fed up with the possibility ...
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May 11, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from HUFFINGTON POST Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) took to Facebook Friday night to tear into the Internal Revenue Service for targeting conservative groups during the 2012 election. "I'm sure President Obama is grateful for all the help the IRS gave his reelection campaign, but, still, you have to wonder how the bureaucrats who tried ...
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