“Why should American taxpayers be bailing out insurance companies, many of whom cooperated with, conspired with alongside the Obama administration to get Obamacare passed?” Senator Marco Rubio asks. “And now they want to come with their lobbyists and basically force the American taxpayer to put money into a fund that bails them out for having lost money on the Obamacare exchanges.”
When America’s largest insurance provider, UnitedHealth Group, announced disastrous losses due to ObamaCare and started talking about exiting from the program last week, I wondered if they, along with other companies grumbling about ObamaCare red ink, might be looking for a bailout.
Last week’s devastating Obamacare announcement by United Healthcare — it expects to lose $600 million on Obamacare policies next year — further confirms what conservatives have known and said all along: Obamacare is a disaster.
In May, Republicans voted for a budget agreement that “affirmed the use of reconciliation for the sole purpose of repealing the President’s job-killing health care law.” It was a position that united an all-too-often fractured party. The promise to repeal Obamacare in its entirety delivered Republicans the House in 2010 and the Senate in 2014.
Health insurance industry expert Bob Laszewski says the threat by insurance giant United Health to quit Obamacare is proof that the program is a “huge failure” with the middle-class.
The departure of UnitedHealth Group could be the death blow not even ObamaCare’s most stubborn and dishonest defenders can spin away.
New Hampshire GOP Sen. Kelly Ayotte is facing a tough reelection fight next year, as Republicans battle to retain control of the U.S. Senate. Her path to reelection could become impossible, however, if the state’s Republican legislature goes through with a plan to reauthorize ObamaCare’s Medicaid expansion in the state.
But before ACA proponents break out the champagne, they should consider another statistic: The number of Americans on Medicaid programs increased by 10.8 million between October 2013 when open enrollment under the ACA began and December 2014, according to Medicaid.gov. (Over 70 million Americans – about one in five – are now enrolled in Medicaid, double the number enrolled in 2000.)
Senator Steve Daines (R-MT) said, “In the coming weeks…We will uphold our promise to the American people and vote to repeal President Obama’s broken health care law” during Saturday’s GOP Weekly Address during Saturday’s GOP Weekly Address. Transcript as Follows:
Last week Arizona State Senator Kelli Ward, a practicing emergency room doctor, released the Patient Power Plan to repeal Obamacare and provide an alternative approach centered around patients. This weekend she joined guest host Matthew Boyle to guide listeners through her plan.
President Barack Obama is offering himself as a reward to the city that signs up the highest percentage of enrollees in his signature healthcare reform during open enrollment season.
The Obama administration has released an updated welcome guide for new immigrants in the U.S. featuring detailed sections about obtaining public benefits including food stamps, welfare, and Obamacare.
On Saturday, President Obama used his Weekly Address on Saturday to promote enrollment in health insurance under the Affordable Car Act, during which he said the law is “certainly not the myths and scare tactics that the cynics have peddled
Facing a flood of condemnation, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has shifted blame to the Obama administration for the collapse of America’s largest Obamacare co-op, Health Republic.
The Supreme Court announced today it would hear oral arguments in seven cases where Christian organizations say Obamacare violates their religious liberty that is shielded by the so-called “wall of separation” between churches and the ever-expanding state.
This week’s election returns cement numbers proving that President Barack Hussein Obama is the greatest builder of the Republican Party since President Ronald Wilson Reagan.
The Obama administration is sending a new message to people on the Obamacare e-mail list. Sign up for health insurance by December 15 or face big fines.
Consumers Mutual Insurance of Michigan has announced it will be winding down its operation prior to 2016, making it the twelfth Obamacare co-op to fail this year.
The open enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) exchanges began this week among signs of serious trouble – the biggest being price.
On Monday, leading John McCain U.S. Senate primary challenger Doctor Kelli Ward unveiled her Patient Power Plan to repeal and offer an alternative solution to Obamacare.
On Friday the Arizona Department of Insurance placed Meritus Health under supervision, which prevents the insurer from renewing or issuing new policies. Meritus Health is the 11th Obamacare Co-Op to fail in 2015.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) says the cost of Obamacare’s benchmark plans will increase by 7.5 percent starting in January 2016.
Arches Health, an Obamacare Co-Op, was put in receivership Tuesday by the Utah Insurance Department. Arches is the 10th Obamacare Co-Op to close its doors this year.
Not a single promise has been kept, health insurance is objectively worse than it was before Barack Obama got his hands on it, and enrollment is only half what we were promised. The last detail is key, because low enrollment means everything bad about ObamaCare is going to get much worse in the years ahead, if we don’t kill it now.
This week, the New York Times reported that the overwhelming majority of entry-level employees are forgoing employer-based, mandatory insurance under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). For good reason.
