AFP Photo/Jewel SamadJEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images President Obama has announced a 1 percent across-the-board federal pay increase in 2014. This comes on top of federal employees’ already scheduled seniority-based raises. Unless Congress intervenes, the gap between federal and private pay will rise even higher next year. President Obama suspended the uniform federal pay increases in 2011 […]
Here’s what the President said in 2009: My guiding principle is, and always has been, that consumers do better when there is choice and competition. That’s how the market works. Unfortunately, in 34 states, 75 percent of the insurance market is controlled by five or fewer companies. In Alabama, almost 90 percent is controlled by […]
On both sides of the pond, in London and Washington, policymakers are struggling to weather their budget crises. Therefore, it may astound American and British taxpayers that the precious dollars and pounds they deploy in Israel and the Occupied Territories fungibly funds terrorism. The instrument of this funding is US and UK programs of aid […]
Despite assurances from his insurance broker, and even the President, that it wouldn’t happen, John Hawkins recently learned his health plan has become another casualty of Obamacare. Hawkins is one of more than 3.5 million Americans (and increasing) who have had their individual health plans canceled because those plans don’t comply with the stringent mandates […]
(CNSNews.com) – The number of Americans who are 16 years or older and who have decided not to participate in the nation’s labor force has climbed to a record 91,541,000 in October, according to data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The BLS counts a person as participating in the labor force if […]
Credit: Newscom Faced with the grim reality of Obamacare, President Obama apologized that millions of Americans are losing coverage because of his law, which was supposed to make health insurance available and affordable. Sadly, this is not the last apology the President will need to make about his health care law. Although not comprehensive, here […]
Obamacare’s rollout has become a punch line for late-night comedians, Saturday Night Live, and the Country Music Awards, which all noted that only six people enrolled in the federal health exchange’s website on its first day. But the federal exchange isn’t the only part of the health law that’s suffering. Several states and the District […]
Iranian President Hassan Rowhani (Newscom) The Obama Administration, eagerly seeking a deal on Iran’s nuclear program, is now signaling that it will ease the sanctions that finally forced Tehran to the negotiating table. On Thursday, White House press secretary Jay Carney said that the Obama Administration is considering the easing of some sanctions to further […]
A San Francisco couple that considers themselves longtime liberals and followers of President Barack Obama say the president’s hallmark health care legislation has left them struggling to find a new insurance plan. According to a ProPublica report published on Wednesday, architect Lee Hammack claims the ordeal that his family has endured as of late is […]
Did you get your Health insurance increase yet in the mail, well that’s only the beginning. Get ready to be blindsided by a barrage of new taxes. $1 trillion worth… They’ll be coming courtesy of the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare… Thank you Obama! Oh And they won’t just be affecting those who […]
