Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has resigned, nine days after President Obama trumpeted the news that 7.1 million Americans had signed up for Obamacare by the first deadline despite a near-calamitous rollout of the health care law under her leadership. Some White House watchers noted at the time that […]
By Walter Williams April 9, 2014 12:15 pm “Engineering Evil” is a documentary recently shown on the Military History channel. It’s a story of Nazi Germany’s murder campaign before and during World War II. According to some estimates, 16 million Jews and other people died at the hands of Nazis (http://tinyurl.com/6duny9). Though the Holocaust ranks high […]
(Fox News) There is yet another ObamaCare surprise waiting for consumers: from now until the next open enrollment at the end of this year, most people will simply not be able to buy any health insurance at all, even outside the exchanges. “It’s all closed down. You cannot buy a policy that is a qualified […]
Dr. Ben Carson put forward seven principles today that he says will guide him as he develops the conservative alternative to Obamacare. Carson is chairman of the American Legacy PAC’s “Save Our Healthcare Project” and former director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Here are the principles, as reported by The Daily Caller: Our health […]
How do you get from 5 million Obamacare enrollees to 7.1 million Obamacare enrollees in two weeks? You start the applications yourself. Health and Human Services was mailing out letters notifying certain Americans that they had already started a healthcare coverage application on their behalf. HHS had started the applications for them. The Shark Tank […]
Obama boasts 7.1 MILLION have signed up to Obamacare – but study shows just 858,000 newly insured Americans have paid up! Obama took a victory lap and took political shots at Republicans, but ignored shortcomings in his administration’s official numbers Press secretary Jay Carney will only say ‘we’re aggregating a lot of data’ when asked […]
As the Obamacare enrollment period draws to a tentative close – and you never know when the period will close, given President Obama’s apparent willingness to manipulate the calendar repeatedly – horror stories about the Affordable Care Act mount. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) originally maintained, “All of [the horror stories] are untrue, but […]
The CEO of the Cleveland Clinic says that a majority of Americans who signed up for Obamacare have seen their premiums rise. “About three-quarters of them find that their premiums are higher than they had been previously with other insurance,” Toby Cosgrove told Fox News. Obamacare, the plan purportedly created to provide health coverage for the uninsured, […]
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Wednesday that, “I have never come to the floor, to my recollection, I’ve never said a word about examples that Republicans have given regarding ObamaCare and how it’s not very good.” “Mr. President, the junior senator from Wyoming has come to the floor several times recently talking about […]
Dignity hasn’t been the hallmark of the Obama administration’s push to ignite interest in Obamacare in recent months. Obama did an awkward interview with comedian Zach Galifianakis earlier this month. And he even met with N’Sync’s Lance Bass – an incident that The Foundry’s Amy Payne summed up succinctly with this headline: “The White House Jumped […]
