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The defects of the Obamacare website have become well known. But the problems with the law go further than the website. These problems are not incidental, but central to its design and the intentions of its architects. Many Obamacare backers, including Barack Obama, would prefer "single-payer" health insurance. The government would pay for everything and you would get health care for free. There is an inconsistency here with the way we treat other things regarded as the basics of life -- food, shelter, clothing. Government subsidizes food purchases only for some -- though a sharply increasing number in the Obama...

The Obama administration once gave us "man-caused disasters" for acts of terrorism and "workplace violence" for the Fort Hood shootings. Now it has trumped those past linguistic contortions by changing words to mask the Obamacare disaster. The president and his advisors apparently knew long ago that millions of the insured would face cancellations or premium hikes once Obamacare would be fully implemented. Yet to get the 906-page bill passed, they had to convince the public of the very opposite scenario. So they repeated ironclad guarantees that no one would lose their coverage or doctors -- "period!" Now the administration explains...

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) proposed a bill on Tuesday that would eliminate a provision of ObamaCare that "allows for taxpayer-funded bailouts of insurance companies at the Obama Administration’s sole discretion." The bill would repeal the Affordable Care Act’s "risk corridors" clause, whereby insurance companies that take on high-risk consumers are partially reimbursed from those insurers whose pools end up being less risky. Insurance companies must pay into a federal fund to participate in the exchanges, and the law transfers the money from lower risk plans to higher risk plans to keep premium prices stable. However, Rubio and his co-sponsors, Sen....

Thursday's announcement of President Obama's Affordable care act (ACA) giving health insurance carriers the option for consumers to keep their insurance plans that would otherwise be canceled is too little too late, according to industry expert Jeff Cline. Mr. Cline from 1-800-MEDIGAP states "the consumer is going to feel increased expenses. Insurance carriers don't have to give consumers the same insurance plan back at the same rate. Mr. Cline goes on to say that many people who had health conditions and were on insurance plans will now have to go through the underwriting process again. Some may not even qualify...

"got insurance? Keg stands are crazy. Not having health insurance is crazier. Don't tap into your beer money to cover those medical bills. We got it covered. Now you can, too. Thanks obamacare. doyougotinsurance.com"

Dan from Squirrel Hill's Blog Obama tells health insurance companies to break the law! In March 2010, President Obama signed the Obamacare bill into law.Obamacare requires all insurance policies to cover pre-existing conditions, maternity care, treatment for heroin addiction, and certain other things. Therefore, based on simple logic, any policies that do not cover these things are rendered illegal by Obamacare, and must be canceled at the end of 2013.The Washington Post said of this:“Beginning Jan. 1, the new plans must cover 10 essential benefits including pediatric care, prescription drugs, mental-health services and maternity care. In general, policies that don’t offer...

President Obama’s decision to let insurers offer limited plans that do not meet ObamaCare’s requirements could sink the entire healthcare law, the head of the group representing state insurance commissioners said Friday. “It threatens the solvency of the system and it threatens to spike the cost to policyholders across the board,” said Jim Donelon, president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). Donelon argued on CNN that the White House proposal is not logistically feasible and would be an administrative nightmare. He said premium prices have been set based on assumptions about what plans would be available. “The problem...

President Obama took to the podium today to address the myriad problems associated with the rollout of ObamaCare. As usual, he expressed outrage and sympathy while promising to fix the problems. The main problem is that Obama is lying through his teeth. The only thing he's upset about is that the forced movement of American citizens to government-run health care isn't going smoothly. He again lied about his constant lying to the public over whether one could keep their health insurance or their doctor if they liked them. He said, "The way I put that forward unequivocally ended up not...

Since the grand opening of Healthcare.gov - the federal home of Obamacare - on October 1, 2013, the federal government has been able to sign up only 26,794 people. 26,794 people is something short of what the Administration of Barack Obama had hoped for, had sneered at Republicans for doubting, and had assured the American public it was on target to produce. Put another way, after spending over three years and, according to the Washington Post, between $170 and $300 million (just for the website), the geniuses at the Department of Health and Human Services have been able to sign...

Some numbers have come been released over the number of people who have signed up for ObamaCare through the federal website and it isn't pretty. It appears that less than 50,000 people have signed up, which is only ten percent of what big government liberals wanted and need. If millions of young people don't sign up for health insurance they don't need, then the entire ponzi scheme falls apart. However, the Obama administration's tenuous relationship with the truth continues as the 50,000 number cited isn't actually correct. It appears that the government is counting every person who had an insurance...

President Obama has come under fire recently for promises about the Affordable Care Act. The President repeatedly assured doubters that under the Affordable Care Act, Americans would be able to keep their existing health insurance. As a growing number of Americans receive cancellation notices from their insurance companies, many are describing this promise as misleading, if not an outright lie. These cancellation notices are particularly infuriating to young people, who are now forced to subsidize the health care of older, more affluent Americans. In a speech defending the law on Wednesday, the President attempted to shift the blame for these...

President Obama calls them “substandard” insurance plans. But to many of the people who bought individual insurance policies that are now being canceled under the Affordable Care Act, their choice of insurance was a prudent decision that met their needs at a price that will be hard to beat under the ACA. Jim Stadler is one of the “5 percenters”—the 5% of Americans with health insurance policies they purchased on their own—who got notified recently that their carrier was canceling coverage because it didn’t meet the tougher new minimum requirements of the ACA. “The thing that gets me,” says Stadler,...

Today, Team Obama isn’t getting any support from its normally active cheering section at CNN. Bob Laszewski, an executive who provides consulting services to many major American insurance companies, told CNN’s Anderson Cooper: “The White House is exerting massive pressure on the industry, including the trade associations, to keep quiet.” Here’s what’s Bob is talking about: Insurers who expose Obamacare’s most sinister effects are told they can’t become authorized Obamacare insurance providers – that means they’d be denied access to the largest market in the country just for telling the truth about how many people are being forced off their...

Like the proverbial Boogeyman, ObamaCare continues to wreak havoc in the lives of hardworking Americans. People are losing jobs over the implementation of the laughably-named Affordable Care Act or, if they're lucky, getting pushed from full-time to part-time positions. Insurance premiums are skyrocketing, causing severe sticker shop to the most ardent Obama worshipper (they're fine if somebody else is footing the bill, but Heaven forbid if they have to pony up any of their own money!) and vast numbers of people are having their health insurance canceled as they do not meet the criteria of ObamaCare. However, the biggest news...

Barack Obama made a lot of promises when he was selling the Affordable Care Act to the American people. The most famous one was, If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. Period. No one will take it away. No matter what.” Well, that promise turned out not to be true and I can tell you that from personal experience. Originally, my health insurance provider told me that my plan wasn't going to be canceled. The agent just said it wouldn't qualify under Obamacare and so, I'd have to pay a...

Before the Affordable Care Act became law in 2010, President Obama promised Americans they could keep their healthcare plan if they liked it. But already hundreds of thousands of citizens are receiving notification that their plans are being cancelled because they don't comply with the new law, and, according to NBC News, the Obama administration has known for at least three years the cancellations were coming. While campaigning for health care reform in 2009, Obama went out of his way to make one thing perfectly clear: if you like your current health care plan, you will be able to keep...

For many, their introduction to the Affordable Care Act has been negative: a broken website, and now cancellation notices from insurance companies followed by sticker shock over higher prices for the new plans. It's directly at odds with repeated assurances from the president, who has said "if you like your insurance plan, you will keep it. No one will be able to take that away from you." But people across the country are finding out they're losing their existing insurance plans under Obamacare because requirements in the law, such as prenatal and prescription drug coverage, mean their old plans aren't...

The short version? Obamacare contains a partial bailout for insurers with losses greater than 3 percent in any of the first three years...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- More U.S. adults were uninsured in the third quarter of 2013 than in any quarter in nearly six years of Gallup and Heathways tracking, with 18% reporting they lacked health insurance. This represents the third consecutive quarter in which the uninsured rate has ticked up.The uninsured rate has increased since Gallup and Healthways started monitoring U.S. adults' health insurance coverage status daily in January 2008 as part of the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index. The rate hovered in the 14% range in 2008, rose to the 16% range in 2009-2010, and ticked up to the 17% range for most...

May 3, 2013 – When the dust settled and the insurers announced their proposed rate requests for Oregon’s insurance exchange, the state’s largest health insurer – Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon – decided to back away. That decision came on the heels of Regence having the highest enrollment last year compared to its rivals -- 472,902 members – just slightly ahead of Kaiser Permanente – which had 464,637 members. ... Onlookers came away stunned. Regence had been at the table all along, testifying in favor of the exchange during legislative hearings and had staff attending work sessions organized by Cover...