Kentucky’s Gov. Matt Bevin notified federal officials that he will “dismantle kynect, Kentucky’s health insurance exchange created under the Affordable Care Act,” according to The Courier-Journal.
“President Obama’s gall is stunning,” said Rep. Diane Black, author of the Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2015, in a statement. “He spent this week discussing the need to ‘protect innocent people’ and ‘save more lives’ yet he callously vetoed a bill to protect the most innocent and vulnerable among us from the heinous abuses of Planned Parenthood.”
President Obama announced today that he vetoed legislation sent to his desk from the Republican-led Congress that would repeal Obamacare and defund Planned Parenthood.
On Tuesday, Aetna, the third largest health insurance company in the country, announced it was quitting America’s Health Insurance Plan,(AHIP), the powerful lobbying group for the health insurance industry. The company is the second to leave the group, after UnitedHealthCare quit the group in June.
On Thursday, California Governor Jerry Brown proposed a tax in his new budget that would tax all health plans, replacing California’s current tax that only taxes health plans that participate in Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid plan.
On Tuesday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) laid out his strategies to take on the executive branch’s alleged overreach under the leadership of President Barack Obama. First, Ryan explained the game plan for repealing
Although 2.5 million new customers bought insurance through HealthCare.Gov after open enrollment began November 1, 10.5 million people eligible to buy coverage remained uninsured, according to the Obama Administration. One salient reason for the underenrollment may be that people opt to pay the fine for remaining uninsured rather that ante up the huge sums for insurance.
Even the New York Times is conceding that the huge number of Americans willing to pay a special tax to escape from ObamaCare is newsworthy, although the paper tries to sugar-coat the bad news as much as possible:
Congressional Republicans are touting a bill scheduled for a vote next week that would gut Obamacare’s mandates and taxes and eliminate taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood in favor of other health centers that do not perform abortions.
“McLaughlin Group” host John McLaughlin declared “the hunky-dory with Obamacare” is “super spin” on Friday. McLaughlin stated, “The best spin of the year: the hunky-dory with Obamacare, the health co-ops are closing down, major insurers like UnitedHealthcare may pull out of
In this week’s Republican address, Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-MO) touted legislation introduced legislation in the House of Representatives that would repeal parts of ObamaCare and defund Planned Parenthood. Transcript as follows: Hello, I’d like to first extend my thoughts and prayers to those
Next week, Congress is expected to send President Obama a bill that would both defund Planned Parenthood and repeal Obamacare’s mandates and the taxes that enable the law.
A new study from the Urban Institute finds lower income Americans paying 10-20 percent of their income on ObamaCare health benefits. These high costs come after generous federal subsidies covering premiums for individuals making up to $55,000 a year are considered.
House Republicans waited until the middle of the Republican presidential debate to announce details of their budget agreement with Democrats on the year-end $1.6 trillion spending and tax package. The deal failed to curtail or reform Obama’s refugee resettlement program, block his executive orders extending amnesty, roll back his plans to issue hundreds of thousands of new green cards to immigrants from the Middle East nor roll back any funding for Planned Parenthood.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Florida Sen. Marco Rubio says he’s the only Republican running for president who’s actually notched a win against President Barack Obama’s health care law, widely loathed on the political right.
On Sunday’s “The Cats Roundtable” on AM 970 in New York, Senate Health Care Committee chairman Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) warned that ObamaCare is in a “death spiral.” “If we look at what is happening right now, I think we’re witnessing
ObamaCare has taken another step towards towards its own end — the Associated Press informs us “the lone health insurance cooperative to make money last year on the Affordable Care Act’s public insurance exchanges is now losing millions and suspending individual enrollment for 2016.”
The Cadillac tax was made famous last year by Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber who said it was a ploy designed to fool “stupid” American voters. Now the tax is facing a 2-year delay as part of a congressional budget deal, with leading Democrats helping push the deal forward.
The U.S. Senate approved a bill Thursday that would strip Obamacare of key tax-raising features and would also eliminate taxpayer-funding of abortion businesses, including Planned Parenthood.
The Senate passed legislation Thursday to repeal key parts of Obamacare.
On Wednesday, three years early, the California Nurses Association announced that it was endorsing Democratic Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s 2018 gubernatorial bid.
From The Heritage Foundation, Rob Bluey explains how Sen. Mike Lee and Gov.-elect Matt Bevin kept a bill to gut Obamacare alive.
Arizona State Senator Kelli Ward (R-Lake Havasu City) announced Wednesday that she will resign her elected position and will work full-time to defeat entrenched D.C. Republican, Sen. John McCain.
UnitedHealth Group chief executive Stephen Hemsley told investors on Tuesday that he rushed the huge insurance company into the Obamacare government-run exchanges too soon, costing the company at least $425 million.
Senate Republicans will meet Monday night to discuss how to repeal Obamacare, reports The Hill.
