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Obamacare? We were just leaving … (1)

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 … Continue reading

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Moran: Obamacare to increase premiums in Ohio 88%

The increase will be on plans that people buy individually. It’s estimated that about 15 million of these policies will be purchased as many businesses will be dropping their group coverage and forcing their employees to buy it on their … Continue reading

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Moran: Expansion of Medicaid under Obamacare a failure

Designers of Obamacare and the administration all predicted confidently – even after the Supreme Court ruled that states could not be forced to expand Medicaid – that even Republican states would fall in line eventually. After all, the reasoning went, … Continue reading

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Walker: Retiree benefits and ObamaCare collide

States can unload their retirees’ health insurance responsibilities on Affordable Care Act exchanges Oct. 1, 2013 is a focus of increasing anxiety in this country. That’s the date when enrollments begin for the federally run health insurance exchanges, created under the Affordable … Continue reading

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ObamaCare Bait and Switch (2)

Liberals have spent years claiming that “rate shock” under the Affordable Care Act—the 20% to 30% average spike in insurance premiums that every independent analyst projects—is merely the political imagination of Republicans and the insurance industry. So they immediately claimed … Continue reading

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IRS: Cheapest Obamacare Plan Will Be $20,000 Per Family (1)

(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 … Continue reading

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Rate Shock: In California, Obamacare To Increase Individual Health Insurance Premiums By 64-146%

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. … Continue reading

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Epstein: Watching Obamacare Unravel

The “Affordable Care Act” is becoming an unsustainable mess. It’s time to scrap it entirely. On Friday, May 10, President Obama ventured into Ohio to give a Mother’s Day defense of the sagging fortunes of his signal achievement, the misnamed Patient Protection … Continue reading

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Blumer: ObamaCare’s 30-Hour Work Week

One summer during the early 1970s, I was given a document distributed by a protest group which came from the Students for a Democratic Society or one of its radical affiliates. The item pretended to present a comprehensive platform for … Continue reading

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Ignorance about health law remains high

WASHINGTON – President Obama’s healthcare law remains largely a mystery to most Americans, three years after the president signed it, a new survey shows. Today, nearly six in 10 Americans say they still don’t have enough information to understand how the … Continue reading

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The Hardball Realities of Obamacare (1)

While Paul Ryan shrugs, the media mocks. That’s the impression that Chris Matthews gave on his recent MSNBC segment from “Hardball,” where he criticizes Representative Ryan for his new budget plan which would get rid of most of the spending outlined in … Continue reading

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Taranto: The Devil Made Them Do It

“Powerful Democrats” subjected a top Obama administration health-care official “to withering criticism” last week, notes Walter Russell Mead. When Gary Cohen, head of the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, appeared before the Senate Finance Committee, chairman Max Baucus of … Continue reading

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