The news that insurance giant Aetna was canceling future ObamaCare expansion plans and also pulling out of most ObamaCare markets has fused the Affordable Care Act bomb for one final, cataclysmic detonation. The whole rotten scheme is falling apart, and it’s
The Aetna insurance company is terminating coverage for 73 percent of its Obamacare individual policies, facing huge financial losses and the need to hike health insurance premiums by 20 percent just one week before the November 8 elections.
Double-digit Obamacare premium hikes projected in 2017 may bode in Donald Trump’s favor, as several swing states are being impacted by double-digit increases under the law and consumers are expected to see the hikes around Nov. 1 — one week before heading to the polls.
Blue Shield of California (BSC) will be shutting down for four days following Labor Day weekend as a way to stop the financial bleeding resulting from losses in “Covered California,” the state’s Obamacare exchange program.
Whoever wins the White House in 2016 will have the pleasure of dealing with an ObamaCare crisis that The Hill describes as an impending “meltdown,” although we already had a perfectly good name for it: the ObamaCare Death Spiral.
The Affordable Care Act dramatically increased the number of people eligible for Medicaid, which is why ObamaCare apologists frequently tried to lump Medicaid recipients in with actual private-sector insurance purchasers during the early days of the program, in a desperate bid to inflate the number of “ObamaCare enrollees.”
Obama was unfit for the presidency — and remains so. He leaves office as one of the worst presidents in U.S. history. Here are five ways Obama was unprepared* — and the results:
Soaring costs prompted Aetna to cancel its plans to expand into more states, and the company is “undertaking a complete valuation of future participation in our current 15-state footprint,” as CEO Mark Bertolini put it.
Obama is exercising his constitutional clemency power on a scale larger than any president has done in more than a century.
Howard Dean, the physician, former governor of Vermont, and failed presidential candidate, replayed his infamous “Dean Scream” — that effectively ended his president run in 2004 — to encourage the delegates at the Democratic National Convention to help make Hillary Clinton president.
The cost for Obamacare’s supposedly “Affordable” health coverage under Covered California will leap by 13.2 percent in 2017.
“We took the best ideas to reform healthcare and put them together in one bill,” said Rep. Peter A. Sessions (R.-Texas), who in addition to chairing a committee referred to as “the Speaker’s Committee” because of its role in giving the speaker control over the lower chamber, also serves on the House Republican Steering Committee.
Critics of Obamacare warned in 2009 and 2010 that the so-called “Affordable Care Act” was merely a “Trojan Horse” that would eventually to a complete government takeover of health care. For that, conservatives were mocked and demonized.
U.S. Senate candidate Kelli Ward called on Republicans to fight back against Democratic presumptive presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in the wake of the FBI’s findings and recommendation not to indict Clinton over what it called “extremely careless” handling of national security information.
The drop in Obamacare enrollment represents a nearly 13 percent decline in the number of people paying their premiums and maintaining an active policy as of March 31.
Nine congressmen from the Golden State signed the letter, including Issa, Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA), Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA), Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-CA), Rep. Paul Cook (R-CA), Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), and Rep. Mimi Walters (R-CA).
Providers have been bailing out of ObamaCare across the land, but not Blue Cross/Blue Shield providers. Until now.
How do the authors of The Affordable Healthcare for America Act (Obamacare) view the piece of legislation as a great success, while many doctors and health care professionals view it as “The Great Government Overreach of 111th Congress?”
Republican candidate Donald Trump focused this weekend on his economic platform: cut taxes and regulations across the board while also saving Social Security, Medicare and other government safety-net programs.
Chairman and CEO of Wynn Resorts Steve Wynn blasted both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in recent interviews with conservative radio host Bill Bennett.
A report has found that Obamacare premiums, even for the cheapest plans that many low income families purchased, are set to go up at least 11 percent just ahead of Election Day in November.
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Libertarian icon and former candidate for President of the United States Ron Paul is endorsing Dr. Kelli Ward for U.S. Senate from Arizona in the Republican primary against five-term incumbent Sen. John McCain.
Liberals have been working overtime trying to re-define commonsense border security as a cruel mix of racism, ‘nativism,’ and even fascism, or a set of devil words to scare voters during the 2016 election.
The Obama Administration’s promises of expanded coverage, keeping preferred doctors and saving money took another hit as Texas’ largest insurer in the Obamacare marketplace announced a 60 percent premium hike for 2017.
The California Assembly approved a bill on Tuesday that would permit up to 390,000 illegal aliens to buy Covered California health insurance.
The New York Times reports on a secret meeting from 2014, exposed thanks to sworn testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee, at which a vanload of IRS officials were told to stifle their complaints about billions of dollars in flagrantly illegal ObamaCare funding.
A new poll finds that a considerable majority of Texas residents support the idea of expanding Medicaid under Obamacare, despite longstanding opposition from statewide office holders.
The House government oversight panel is demanding that Oregon and federal law-enforcement officials investigate illegal control of the state’s failed Obamacare exchange by the state’s disgraced Democratic former governor.
The latest White House deputy to pick a fight with the House GOP is the former Obamacare czar who now oversees the massive Medicare and Medicaid programs.
Professional Republicans in the #NeverTrump movement continue to oppose the presumptive nominee selected by the GOP electorate and are now floating strategies to throw the election to Hillary Clinton. However, an examination of Clinton’s campaign promises reveals that Republicans who
On Monday, California began covering health care for poor illegal aliens under the age of 19 with potential to cover adults in the future.
The insurance division of Pittsburgh-based Highmark Health is pressing a $223 million lawsuit against the federal government, seeking partial reimbursement of a vast sum it lost on the ObamaCare exchanges, plus interest and legal expenses.
The Supreme Court in Zubik v. Burwell (the official name for the various “Little Sisters of the Poor” cases) punted the latest Supreme Court fight over Obamacare to 2017 or beyond — but did so in a fashion that conservatives can be happy about for now, teeing up yet another issue that will be decided one way or the other by 2016’s presidential election.
The Wall Street Journal notes that the exodus of insurance companies from the collapsing ObamaCare system leaves many rural customers with only a single provider option. This effectively turns ObamaCare into a state mandated monopoly,
A federal district court held Thursday that the Obama administration’s payments to insurance companies under Obamacare are unconstitutional, since Congress has declined to pass spending bills funding those payments.
A federal judge ruled Thursday that the Obama administration’s additional spending to cover the rising costs of Obamacare is unconstitutional.
Expected double-digit Obamacare health insurance premium hikes coming just one week before the November 7 election are expected to drag the program’s favorability ratings to new lows, as support from independents and Democrats continues to fade.
The conservatives who have declared war on the primary victor are displaying a myopia that could be deadly in November when Donald Trump will lead Republicans against a party that has divided the country, destroyed its borders, empowered its enemies, and put 93 million Americans into dependency on the state.
It’s always a challenge to notice something that isn’t there, but should be there—the absence of a presence, one might say. And so, as we read the article in the April 28 Washington Post, “There’s a New Sheriff in town in Silicon Valley—the FDA,” we can hunt for what, or who, is missing.
