Mar 11, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WASHINGTON EXAMINER: The fight over Obamacare, so far held at the 30,000-foot level, is about to hit home. The latest impact hot off the grill: prices of burgers and hot dogs at Five Guys, the national chain that started in Washington, are going to rise to cover the president's mandated insurance coverage. "Any added costs ...
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Mar 11, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from CNS NEWS: - When the U.S. Senate this week takes up the continuing resolution to fund the federal government for the remainder of fiscal year 2013, Sen. Ted Cruz (R.-Texas) will offer an amendment that will prohibit funding for the implementation of Obamacare during that period. “I believe we will have a vote on ...
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Mar 10, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
Excerpted from The Los Angeles Times: Republicans in Congress are renewing their political assault on the nation’s new healthcare law, trying to repeal President Obama's signature domestic achievement as part of the next battle over the federal budget. Rep. Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, last year's Republican vice presidential nominee, said Sunday his forthcoming budget proposal ...
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Mar 7, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from ATR: “It is unprecedented in recent history, the amount of responsibility the IRS is being given in an area that most people don’t think of as an IRS function." On Wednesday, March 5, Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration J. Russell George tesified before the House Appropriations Committee. As part of his ...
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Mar 6, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from CNS NEWS: - The Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted 267-151 on Wednesday to approve a $982-billion continuing resolution (CR) to fund the federal government through the rest of fiscal 2013 that fully funds the implementation of Obamacare during that period. The House Republican leaders turned aside requests from groups of conservative members to ...
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Mar 6, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from INFOWARS: Montana lawmaker Krayton Kerns warns that President Obama’s recent executive orders on gun control could lead to a chilling future scenario where Americans are forced to hand in their firearms in order to receive critical hospital treatment under Obamacare. Republican Kerns, sponsor of a recently passed bill that prohibits “a healthcare ...
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Mar 5, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE DAILY CALLER: A controversial new fee on health insurance providers that was part of the Affordable Care Act was introduced into the Federal Register Monday. While the Internal Revenue Service is expecting to raise tens of billions of dollars from the fee, industry groups have harshly criticized the move, warning the fee ...
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Mar 3, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE BLAZE: Is President Obama using his administration’s landmark legislative accomplishment as a vehicle to reward a longtime friend and political ally to the tune of $340 million? That viral accusation has just begun making the rounds thanks to several conservative news sites, most notably Lifesitenews and the Washington Examiner. These sites allege ...
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Mar 1, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE HILL: The Obama administration on Friday released more than 700 pages of new regulations to implement portions of the Affordable Care Act. The four rules, which are scheduled for publication in mid-March, finalize both major and minor parts of the healthcare reform law that Congress passed in 2010. Three of the regulations are ...
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Feb 26, 2013 No Comments ›› Toro520
Via Forbes: President Obama bludgeoned Obamacare through Congress on the claim, backed by the Congressional Budget Office, that it would not add to the deficit, even though it adopts or wildly expands three entitlement programs. As I discuss in my new book available this week from HarperCollins, America’s Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb, close analysis of the CBO ...
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Feb 26, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from NJ: TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie will expand the state's Medicaid program to cover 300,000 uninsured New Jersey residents, The Star-Ledger learned today. The governor's new budget, which he plans to unveil at joint session of the Legislature this afternoon, also relies on state revenue growth of 4.9 percent and delays some property tax ...
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Feb 24, 2013 No Comments ›› Toro520
Via CNS News: (CNSNews.com) – The Affordable Care Act sets up a new arena of whistleblower protections for employees who complain that their company-provided health insurance doesn’t do what it’s supposed to do. On Friday, the Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published an interim final rule in the Federal Register that establishes procedures and ...
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Feb 19, 2013 No Comments ›› Toro520
Via The Washington Times: Who knew Obamacare was bad for workers? Unions, or rather the professional class of union leaders, were vehement supporters of Obamacare’s federal takeover of health care. Now that they’ve had a chance to actually read the 2,801-page bill and “find out what is in it,” they are upset and want out. Major unions ...
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Feb 19, 2013 No Comments ›› Toro520
Via Forbes: Though Democrats denied it during the 2012 campaign, Obamacare cut Medicare by $716 billion in order to partially fund $1.9 trillion in new entitlement spending over the next ten years. A big chunk of those Medicare cuts came from the market-oriented Medicare Advantage program. Cleverly, the Obama administration postponed the Medicare Advantage cuts until ...
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Feb 12, 2013 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Daily Caller: The Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon who made headlines recently by pointing out the flaws of Obamacare to President Barack Obama’s face announced Monday on “Your World with Neil Cavuto” that he is retiring from surgery in June, which he admitted “does open up a lot of opportunities” — including potentially a ...
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Feb 8, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Excerpted from Fox News: If the Food and Drug Administration gets its way, your trip to the grocery store could get a tad pricier. Supermarket owners argue a pending federal food-labeling rule that stems from the new health care law would overburden thousands of grocers and convenience store owners -- to ...
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Feb 5, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
Excerpted from Health Watch: The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated Tuesday that President Obama's signature healthcare law will cost about $1.3 trillion over the next 10 years. The figure represents a slight increase since August, when the nonpartisan budget office estimated that the law would cost about $1.17 trillion before 2022. Tuesday's total incorporated 2023, and ...
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Feb 5, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
Excerpted from The Washington Times: President Obama's health care law will push 7 million people out of their job-based insurance coverage — nearly twice the previous estimate, according to the latest estimates from the Congressional Budget Office released Tuesday. CBO said that this year's tax cuts have changed the incentives for businesses and made it less ...
Continue ReadingJan 31, 2013 No Comments ›› Toro520
Via CNS News: (CNSNews.com) – In a final regulation issued Wednesday, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) assumed that under Obamacare the cheapest health insurance plan available in 2016 for a family will cost $20,000 for the year. Under Obamacare, Americans will be required to buy health insurance or pay a penalty to the IRS. The IRS's assumption that ...
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Jan 31, 2013 No Comments ›› Toro520
Via The Wall Street Journal: Labor unions enthusiastically backed the Obama administration's health-care overhaul when it was up for debate. Now that the law is rolling out, some are turning sour. Union leaders say many of the law's requirements will drive up the costs for their health-care plans and make unionized workers less competitive. Among other things, ...
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Jan 30, 2013 No Comments ›› Infidel
Excerpted from The Washington Times: A Texas lawmaker has introduced legislation that would provide state-level tax breaks to companies that flout a provision in President Obama's health care law that requires employers to cover contraception. Republican State Rep. Jonathan Stickland's bill is designed to protect companies that view the contraception mandate as an attack on their ...
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Jan 30, 2013 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Hill: The Obama administration took new steps Wednesday toward implementing the individual mandate in its signature healthcare law, downplaying the scope of the unpopular provision by stressing rules that allow exemptions from the requirement to purchase insurance. The Internal Revenue Service and the Health and Human Services Department emphasized exceptions to the mandate, ...
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