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The fee would pay for half of the annual operating costs of Connect for Health Colorado, the state Obamacare exchange, according to Health News Colorado. The exchange’s latest financial plan comes soon after its oversight board rejected a proposal to hike fees on those who use the website from 1.4 percent to 1.7 percent. Connect for Health Colorado staff has said the increase was needed to keep it solvent. Board members said staff should look at cutting expenses before raising fees, and many had the same reaction to the proposed $13 million fee, which is being called a “general market health insurer assessment.” Others call it...

It seems that the crumbling house of cards that is ObamaCare continues to crumble. Every day, some new scandal is reported, new heart-breaking stories of hard-working Americans losing their health insurance, and legal challenges mount. It's so bad that Obama supporters are madly spinning lies in the vain hope that the public will continue to be fooled despite the curtain already having been drawn back. Obama has done his best to deflect the mounting criticism over his so-called Affordable Care Act by pointing at the economy, making a terrible deal with Iran that lets them continue enriching uranium, and embarking...

Starting in 2012, the government will charge a new fee to your health insurance plan for research to find out which drugs, medical procedures, tests and treatments work best. But what will Americans do with the answers? The goal of the research, part of a little-known provision of President Barack Obama's health care law, is to answer such basic questions as whether that new prescription drug advertised on TV really works better than an old generic costing much less. But in the politically charged environment surrounding health care, the idea of medical effectiveness research is eyed with suspicion. The insurance...