Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and John Barrasso (R-WY) introduced a bill on Wednesday that would require states who ditch their busted Obamacare exchanges and join the federal HealthCare.gov to pay back the money they wasted. The bill, known as the
Financial disclosure forms released on Thursday reveal that President Barack Obama lists assets worth between $1.95 million and $7.15 million. Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama reported $503,183 in income. Obama receives a presidential salary of $400,000. Obama also reported
A whistleblower in St. Louis, Missouri, came forward to reveal that Obamacare contractor Serco, a British company that receives $1.2 billion in taxpayer money to process paper Obamacare applications, pays employees to sit and do nothing. “Serco, as a contractor,
National Public Radio (NPR) reported Wednesday that mail order company AmeriMark Direct, which employs 700 people, has seen its health care premiums jump 8% and may consider dropping coverage for its employees due to Obamacare. NPR says a key driver
Opponents of President Barack Obama’s controversial Obamacare program warned that the health law would fail to reduce insurance costs and could result in double-digit premium jumps. Now it’s official: 2015 filings in the states of Washington and Virginia show large
New filings from Virginia insurance companies reveal that Obamacare will result in premium spikes of up to 16.6% for some customers. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Anthem HealthKeepers Inc plan’s 110,000 Virginia customers can expect an average 8.5%
Democratic California Gov. Jerry Brown warned on Tuesday that his state’s Obamacare program will cost California taxpayers $1.2 billion more than the state originally budgeted for. “I’m proud we did it,” said Brown. “But we also have to take into
The Los Angeles Times reported on Sunday that private insurance agents were responsible for enrolling nearly 40% of California Obamacare enrollees. “Agents deserve credit. They brought in big numbers,” Consumer Union Special Projects Director Betsy Imholz told the Times. “They
On Sunday, Politico reported that Oregon, Nevada, Maryland, and Massachusetts have thus far spent $474,000,000 in taxpayer dollars on busted Obamacare exchanges. “Nearly half a billion dollars in federal money has been spent developing four state Obamacare exchanges that are
A devastating new McKinsey & Co. report finds that Obamacare’s purported purpose – providing coverage for the previously uninsured – has failed. The report concludes that 74% of Obamacare enrollees at the end of the first open enrollment period already had insurance; just 26%
A new CNN poll finds that just 12% of Americans consider the Obamacare program a “success.” President Barack Obama has pressed fellow Democrats to laud and run on his signature legislative achievement. However, other polls confirm that the law, which
A California ballot initiative to be voted on Nov. 4 would stymie the state’s Obamacare exchange, known officially as Covered California, by permitting the state insurance commissioner to reject health insurance rate hikes. Opponents of the measure, like advocacy group
This Sunday, 60 Minutes will re-air an investigative report by award-winning CBS reporter Steve Kroft and Government Accountability Institute (GAI) President and Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer that revealed how members of Congress exploit leadership PAC loopholes to bankroll lavish
A new report finds that Obamacare customers are in for sticker shock because, unlike many employer-sponsored insurance plans, the fine print in many Obamacare policies requires patients to meet their deductible before lower-cost prescription drug co-pays kick in. That means
California Obamacare patients are finding it more affordable to drive to Tijuana, Mexico for health care treatment than to use their high-deductible Obamacare plans. Irma Montalvo tells USA Today seeing a Tijuana doctor only costs $15 and that she likes her
President Barack Obama’s much-touted eight million Obamacare “enrollment” figure contains “many duplicate enrollments,” according to the health insurance industry’s leading trade group. “Insurers have many duplicate enrollments in their system for which they never received any payment,” Senior Vice President
President Barack Obama’s Tuesday launch of a renewed focus on global warming left Democrats mystified and Republicans jubilant, as the much-discussed Pew Research/USA Today poll does not even list environmental issues as among voters’ top concerns. The Obama White House’s
Anti-poverty advocates blasted California’s Obamacare executives for prioritizing the processing of Covered California exchange applications to ramp up enrollment numbers at the expense of processing the 900,000 pending low-income Medi-Cal applicants. “People who don’t have health care are all in
California legislators considered a new law on Tuesday that would stop state lawmakers facing criminal charges from receiving paychecks, a commonsense measure that many Californians may have already assumed was in place. Three California Democrats–Ron Calderon, Roderick Wright, and Leland
Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS) joined the American Legion and other veterans groups Tuesday in calling for the ouster of President Barack Obama’s Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki in the wake of recent revelations that up to 40 veterans may have
On Monday, Attorney General Eric Holder announced he is willing to punish financial institutions for criminal practices in a video posted to the Justice Department website. “I intend to reaffirm the principle that no individual or entity that does harm to
The FBI is investigating the busted Oregon Obamacare exchange which received $305 million in taxpayer-funded federal grants yet failed to enroll a single Oregonian online. The Wall Street Journal reports that the FBI investigation has already begun conducting interviews with
Billionaire Internet browser inventor Marc Andreessen tells the New York Times that smartphones have become a human need. “The P.C. isn’t in the first five rungs of human needs, but the smartphone certainly is,” said Andreessen, a venture capitalist at
With only 183 days until the Nov. 4 midterm elections, a new Pew Research/USA Today poll shows Obamacare and the bleak jobs picture have coalesced to put Democrats in a weaker political position than they were before the historic GOP
As many as 90,000 Nevadans may have their health insurance plans canceled this fall due to Obamacare, reports the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Despite the Obama administration’s decision to delay Obamacare’s employer mandate, early plan renewals are beginning to trickle in,
