Purely Obama. Never his fault. =========== WSJ 8/18/2016 Democrats claimed for years that ObamaCare is working splendidly, though anybody acquainted with reality could see the entitlement is dysfunctional. Now as the law breaks down in an election year, they’ve decided to blame private insurers for their own failures. Their target this week is Aetna, which has announced it is withdrawing two-thirds of its ObamaCare... Read more
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Ah, But You Should Have Asked Sooner…
April 8 | Posted by mrossol | Big Govt, ObamaCareLet me know if this surprises you… ===== WSJ 4/8/2016 By Justin Haskins Legislators in Arkansas, New Hampshire, South Dakota and elsewhere have spent the past three months considering whether they should expand Medicaid under the terms of the Affordable Care Act, or renew their previous commitment to do so. But new projections by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and Joint Committee on Taxation... Read more
Obamacare disaster
December 3 | Posted by mrossol | ObamaCareJust the facts… ===== Insurance analyst Robert Laszewski writing online for the Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review, Nov. 19: When are Obamacare apologists going to stop spinning the insurance exchange enrollment as some big victory that is running smoothly? Yes, Obamacare has brought the number of those uninsured down—because of the Medicaid expansion in those states that have taken it and because... Read more
ObamaCare’s Failure Contagion
November 9 | Posted by mrossol | ObamaCare, The LeftWSJNov. 9, 2015 7:41 p.m. ET The majority of ObamaCare’s insurance co-ops—12 of 23—have now folded, and their $1.24 billion in federal loans has all but vaporized. More will fail, nearly a million Americans may lose coverage, and now the contagion from their failures is spreading. The co-ops are government-sponsored nonprofits that were supposed to increase competition, but instead they’re causing the... Read more
An Off-Ramp From ObamaCare
March 7 | Posted by mrossol | ObamaCareIt could get interesting when the Supreme Court rules. Lots of details lacking, but at least someone has offered a proposal. ============ March 2, 2015 7:00 p.m. ET Editor’s note: The following was written by Republicans John Kline, Paul Ryan and Fred Upton, chairmen, respectively, of the House committees on Education and Workforce, Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce. On Wednesday the... Read more
