Report: Obamacare Helped Cover Cost of Sex Change Surgery
Lisa Larson of South Carolina was told sex change surgery could cost $70,000, but Larson claims that thanks to Obamacare the price will be closer to $5,000.
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ObamaCare’s Numbers Still Don’t Add Up
ObamaCare apologists figure they have a fairly low hurdle to clear in order to keep the program alive, bureaucratic inertia being what it is. They only have to keep public discontent below a certain boiling point, to prevent a political tsunami from rippling forth and sweeping ObamaCare away.
Obama Mocks ‘Unending Chicken Little Warnings’ About Obamacare’s Massive Failures
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Tuesday declared his health care law a firmly established “reality” of American life even as the legality of one of its key elements awaits a decision by the Supreme Court.
Obama: ObamaCare ‘Restored the Basic Promise of America’
Tuesday in Washington D.C. at the the Catholic Health Association’s annual assembly, President Barack Obama defended his Affordable Care Act saying it was a “critical part” of his administration’s attempt to “restore the basic promise of America.” Partial transcript as
Washington Post Poll: Obamacare Hits Record Unpopularity
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds that a record 54% of Americans oppose Obamacare–the highest disapproval rating ever in the Post-ABC poll–and a six point increase in unpopularity since last year.
Florida Beats Covered California in Obamacare Signups
Despite the fact that California, with 38.8 million residents, has virtually double the number of the state of Florida, which holds 19.9 million, Covered California, the California health-insurance exchange, has been surpassed by Florida’s as the largest in the nation.
No Obamacare Exemptions for DC
Out on the campaign trail, congressional members go out of their way to relate to hardworking Americans. They trade in their fancy cars for pickup trucks and their designer suits for roughed up jeans. They are desperate to prove that they are just like us.
Obama To Address Future of Health Care at Catholic Health Association Assembly
On June 9 President Barack Obama plans an address to the Catholic Health Association (CHA) that will focus on the future of health care and Obamacare – his signature health reform initiative.
White House: Proposed Health Insurance Rate Hikes Is Proof Obamacare Is Working
“Our goal of this has been to slow the growth in health care costs, and that has been our mantra,” Press Secretary Josh Earnest said after insurance companies proposed massive increases in insurance rates. “And we have seen, as our economists can demonstrate to you, that since the health care law went into effect — since the Affordable Care Act went into effect health care costs in this country have grown at the slowest rate in recorded history, the slowest rate in 50 years.”
Covered California Has a One-Star Rating on Yelp
Covered California, the Obamacare insurance marketplace in the Golden State, has a one-star review on Yelp, the ratings site which allows individuals to post reviews of local businesses.
California Senate Approves Healthcare for Illegal Immigrants
Senate Bill 4, known as the Health for All Act, passed in California’s Senate on Tuesday, 28-11, taking illegal immigrants residing in the Golden State one step closer to attaining health insurance coverage.
Obamacare Insurance Premium Increases Could Spike by 50 Percent
Every year since the passage of Obamacare, insurance premiums have risen, sometimes nearly 50 percent, quite despite that Obama claimed at least 19 times that he’d save every American $2,500 a year on their insurance.
CA Legislature Offers $1 Billion to Extend Obamacare to Illegal Aliens
The California Senate’s Appropriations Committee passed SB 4 to give health care to all illegal/undocumented aliens. Breitbart News estimates that based on the non-partisan Legislative Analysts’ Office projections, SB 4 will cost at least $1 billion, and the cost will undoubtedly go much higher over time.
Covered California May Merge with Bankrupt State Obamacare Exchanges
With major insurers in some states proposing up to 51 percent Obamacare insurance premium increases, liberal Democrats are scrambling to avoid a political and financial disaster. One proposal is to merge California’s financially troubled “Covered California” exchange with the even more insolvent state exchanges, like “Cover Oregon,” which was forced to shut down last year.
NY Times Article on Genesis of Obamacare Subsidies Omits Key Detail
A NY Times story published Monday focuses on the genesis of “four words” in the Affordable Care Act which are at the center of the Supreme Court case King v. Burwell. However, the story leaves out important details which undercut the claim that drafters of the bill never considered withholding subsidies from the states.
Troubled Covered California to Cap Prescription Drug Prices
Covered California, the Golden State’s exchange for Obamacare, has announced that it will cap the price of prescription drugs for the 2.2 million Californians who have bought individual insurance plans.
Sens. Cory Gardner and Kelly Ayotte Push Bill For Over-the-Counter Birth Control
Cory Gardner and Kelly Ayotte are pushing joint legislation that would incentivize drug companies that manufacture “routine-use contraceptives” to apply to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a switch to over-the-counter (OTC) sales.
Obama Bails Out Florida Legislature
The federal government has just bailed out Florida’s embattled legislature by giving them more Low Income Pool (LIP) dollars to pay for health care, essentially giving them the funds they need to come to a state budget agreement in the upcoming special session.
Democrat Senator Introduces ‘Shruggie’ on Senate Floor
Ever ready to lift the intellectual level of debate in the Senate, a Democrat resorted to the Internet’s emoji-like “shruggie” symbol to describe the response to Obamcare by Senate Republicans.
Obama Administration Cuts Program Funding to Expand Florida Medicaid
On Thursday—possibly triggered by the lawsuit brought by Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) last month to get the Obama administration to back off its plans to expand Medicaid in his state—the Obama administration announced it would not entirely withhold funds for a federal program called the Low Income Pool (LIP).
Circuit Courts Strike Blows Against Religious Liberty
This week, various appeals courts across the country ruled on whether religious institutions should be exempted from the Obamacare contraception mandate. The court decisions make it all but inevitable that the Supreme Court will be forced in the next few months to consider whether religious institutions must cover contraception in violation of their religious freedom.
Jeb Bush: We Can Replace Obamacare with the Apple Watch
In his latest head-scratcher moment, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush left himself wide open for a swipe from Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL)—never a good idea—while leaving others wondering what the heck it was he was thinking, let alone talking about.
Nancy Pelosi: If SCOTUS Ends Obamacare Subsidies, GOP Will Suffer at Polls
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi predicted Wednesday that Republicans will “rue the day” if the Supreme Court buys their arguments and invalidates tax subsidies for millions of people under President Barack Obama’s health care law.
GOP Senators’ Pro-Congressional Exemption from Obamacare Crusade Draws Scorn – from America
For decades now, the largest political gap in this nation has not been the gap between Republicans and Democrats, nor even that between conservatives and liberals – it has been the gap between the Washington Ruling Class on the one hand, and the rest of us who pay for them on the other. And no issue provides a contrast as stark as Congress’ special exemption.
House Conservatives Worried Leadership May Cave on ObamaCare Repeal
GOP conservatives in the House are worried that establishment Republicans like Speaker John Boehner and his buddies may betray them once again, this time with the effort to repeal ObamaCare.
