After a bruising week of public relations blunders, the Obama Administration announced that its all but inoperable Obamacare website would be temporarily offline for weekend repairs. President Barack Obama claimed that the website failures were the result of massive traffic
Standing before a blue screen dotted with #LetsTalk hashtags, Speaker John Boehner blasted President Barack Obama and Democrats on Friday for playing a game of brinksmanship over the government shutdown and the hitting of the looming debt ceiling. “This isn’t
On Thursday, the government’s official Obamacare Facebook page was riddled with people expressing sticker shock over the government’s high cost premiums after struggling for hours to wade through the technical failures vexing Obamacare exchanges all across the country. “I
A new analysis by University of Chicago professor of economics Casey Mulligan finds that when the Obamacare employer penalty goes into full effect in 2015, the government will confiscate 10% more in taxes from full-time median income workers than it
The Associated Press says the Tea Party’s growing power and influence has unmoored Republican politicians from their traditional alliance with Wall Street in favor of grassroots conservative activists. AP reporters Charles Babington and Jim Kuhnhenn cited the “corporate community’s
Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) took to Twitter to brag that his state’s Obamacare online exchange, Access Health CT, received 28,000 visitors on day one–and took just 167 insurance applications. That works out to a 0.59% conversion rate of visitors to
With President Barack Obama’s Gallup approval rating down to just 45% after his mishandling of the Syrian crisis, and with CNN reporting that only 39% of Americans support Obamacare, White House officials tell Politico that “Obama doesn’t see any reason
The moribund U.S. economy and the bleak jobs picture have collided to produce the highest college loan default rate in 18 years, according to data released Monday by the Department of Education. “Some colleges are simply masking default problems until
The government’s official Obamacare Facebook page has been inundated with hundreds of questions and complaints from individuals experiencing myriad technical problems while trying to enroll in Obamacare online. One user wrote on the government’s HealthCare.gov Facebook: “Says cannot create account
Maryland’s Obamacare healthcare exchange, Maryland Health Connection, is announcing via its Facebook page that its website and toll-free call center are “presently experiencing unexpected connectivity problems” and that citizens should “please come back and visit the site at noon.”
The online customer information chat feature on the government’s main Obamacare page, www.HealthCare.Gov, is not working. Users are receiving error messages that read: Sorry, Health Insurance Marketplace Live Chat isn’t available right now. We’re having technical problems. We apologize for
The federal government has had three and a half years to build its Obamacare insurance exchanges, yet just nine states will have fully functioning exchanges tomorrow upon Obamacare’s national grand opening, reports the Washington Post. “With the launch deadline mere
With just hours to go until the government’s Obamacare healthcare exchanges go live nationwide, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said on Monday that Obamacare’s grand opening will be a historic success, “shutdown or no shutdown.” “We’re about
For the first time in its 79-year history, the Federal Housing Agency (FHA) announced on Friday the need for a $1.7 billion bailout from the Treasury to cover losses on its reverse home mortgage programs. FHA Commissioner Carole Galante said
A stunning new actuary report on Detroit’s pension implosion has revealed that Detroit trustees doled out nearly $2 billion in undisclosed holiday “bonuses” to Detroit workers and retirees negotiated by the city and its unions. Internally, officials called the bonuses
Communist dictator Mao Tse-tung’s infamous Little Red Book–also known as Quotations from Chairman Mao–is the second most published book in history, second only to the Bible. Now, just in time for Christmas, Chinese readers will be able to purchase a
Obama Administration officials led by Attorney General Eric Holder will travel to Detroit on Friday to meet with officials to discuss President Barack Obama’s plans to give a package of at least $320 million to the bankrupt Motor City, which
Goldman Sachs analyst Alec Phillips said in a client note that a short government shutdown could be a good thing if it forces Republicans to raise the debt ceiling: It would be a mistake to interpret a shutdown as implying
A Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration report released on Wednesday found that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) cannot account for $67 million spent from an Obamacare implementation slush fund. “Specifically, the IRS did not account for or attempt to
With just four days until the grand opening of Obamacare’s healthcare exchanges, the Obama Administration quietly told Latino groups on Wednesday that the Spanish version of the healthcare.gov website will not be ready for weeks. The delay could potentially affect
The Washington, D.C. Obamacare exchange announced on Wednesday it will not be ready on October 1 to calculate the taxpayer-funded subsidies people can receive to purchase health insurance. It will also be unable to determine Medicare eligibility. Officials say determining
On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve said U.S. household wealth jumped $1.3 trillion in the second-quarter. During the same period, however, food stamp enrollments–a classic measure of personal economic instability–jumped by 211,708 people. Between April and June, America’s net worth increased
A year-long investigation by NBC Bay Area has revealed that Google executives bagged millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded fuel to fly their private aircraft. A Google-owned company, H211, purchased $7,891,175.35 in jet fuel at rates two to four and a
An analysis by the Daily Mail has found that 19.5 million of President Barack Obama’s 36.9 million Twitter followers (53%) belong to phony Twitter accounts. The study, which used StatusPeople.com to conduct its analysis, found that First Lady Michelle Obama
Andy and Amy Mangione of Louisville, Kentucky say their health insurance nearly tripled overnight from $333 a month to $965 due to Obamacare. “When I saw the letter when I came home from work, it said ‘your action required, benefit
