Now that the first deadline has passed and healthcare.gov is more or less working as it should have been in October, a new problem is beginning to reveal itself. So far, the mix of young, healthy enrollees in the risk
President Barack Obama’s administration will use taxpayer funds to promote Obamacare during the Sochi Winter Olympics at a time when young Americans that the administration needs to sign up for Obamacare have not been doing so in numbers the administration
(AP) India takes aim at privileges held by US diplomatsBy ELIZABETH A. KENNEDYAssociated PressNEW DELHIIndia chipped away at America’s diplomatic perks Wednesday, ordering the envoys to obey local traffic laws and warning that a popular U.S. Embassy club violates diplomatic
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: Tens of thousands of migrants to Israel protest in Tel Aviv Mideast ‘peace talks’ near collapse as Kerry leaves without deal Hamas welcomes the Palestinian Authority back to Gaza Tens of thousands of migrants to
We are rapidly approaching the eight-year anniversary of Rush Limbaugh’s count toward the ten-year Al Gore deadline for the earth to cook. On January 27, 2006, Rush mentioned Gore’s appearance at the Sundance Film Festival to promote his film An Inconvenient
Just in time for the 2014 midterm elections, conservative group ForAmerica is launching a six-figure social media and digital ad campaign targeting the Obama administration–specifically, the IRS’s handling of several scandals involving pro-America groups. ForAmerica, a conservative non-profit civic league
This weekend, California’s Obamacare exchange extended the deadline for the first month’s premium payment by another week. The state exchange had already extended the deadline to Monday, January 6. “Covered California” announced the news as news outlets across California started
The NFL has granted the Cincinnati Bengals, the Green Bay Packers, and the Indianapolis Colts extensions on ticket sales to prevent their games from being blacked out over the weekend in their respective local markets. The Packers are reportedly “about
Never mind the purging of hundreds of his family members or the bizarrely ominous faxes threatening war with the South. And never mind anything having to do with Dennis Rodman. What Kim Jong-un really wants the international media to focus
A December 31 deadline to remove part of the Syrian regime’s chemical weapons arsenal from the country for destruction has been missed, with ships due to receive the materials returning to Cyprus. In Syria, meanwhile, a newspaper quoted government officials
As of the December 23 deadline, fewer than 13,000 Nevadans had signed up for their state-run health insurance exchange. Half of those signed-up, have yet to pay. The target sign up number for the state is 118,000 by March 2014.
(AP) Federal health market surpasses 1 million signupsBy JOSH LEDERMANAssociated PressHONOLULUA December surge propelled health care sign-ups through the government’s rehabilitated website past the 1 million mark, the Obama administration said Sunday, reflecting new signs of life for the problem-plagued
On Saturday, an estimated 1.3 million long-term unemployed Americans will lose their unemployment insurance benefits. For the first time since 2008, Congress failed to extend the benefits went it passed a budget just before Christmas. The Obama Administration has warned
Will opponents of California’s new transgender law for students K-12 have enough signatures on their petitions to get a referendum blocking the law onto a state ballot? The law, which will take effect January 1 unless the referendum qualifies, allows
There was a surge in enrollment in December which brought Obamacare back from the brink of abysmal failure to something more like plain-old failure. A spreadsheet suggests enrollment in private plans is now at 26 percent of the goal for
After delaying the deadline by a day for which to apply for Obamacare for residents of 36 states that have to buy insurance on HealthCare.Gov, the Obama administration said this week that any user who “legitimately tried to apply” for
With the deadline to sign up for Obamacare having come and gone, many Americans have decided to “opt out” of President Obama’s signature health care reform law, choosing instead to pay the $95 penalty for sidestepping the individual mandate. “For
On Christmas Eve, the Obama administration announced yet another Obamacare enrollment extension on its HealthCare.gov blog for anyone who claims to have missed the myriad sign-up deadlines due to problems with the website. The New York Times called the announcement
A day after the Obama administration extended the deadline to apply for insurance through the federal exchanges, Politico declared that if Obamacare were a movie, it would be a “horror” or “disaster” film. Politico observed that each time the Obama
Explaining the latest of President Obama’s executive changes to the Affordable Care Act extending today’s deadline for January 1 coverage Assistant to the President and Director of Communications Jennifer Palmieri on MSNBC.
I just went to healthcare.gov to see how it was doing on the eve of the newly announced deadline (today was the deadline until this morning). Here’s what I found: Right now on http://t.co/q5M34LsNOW: pic.twitter.com/hwNSlIPcAB — John Sexton (@verumserum) December
As the Obama administration scrambles to corral individuals into Obamacare before today’s deadline, experts worry that first-time health insurance buyers may be in for a rude awakening once they understand the conditions and terminology contained in their policies. A recent
The left-leaning journalism organization ProPublica says the only Obamacare deadline that matters is the one few are talking about: the recently extended January 10 deadline by which so-called Obamacare “enrollees” must make their first premium payment to officially activate their
Last week the White House announced that Obamacare itself could count as a hardship, meaning anyone with a cancelled plan could opt out of the individual mandate for 2014. Friday, CBS This Morning got some reaction from insurers, who were
The Obama administration has extended the deadline for enrollment from Monday at midnight to Christmas Eve at midnight. There was no public announcement of the change. According to the Washington Post, which published the news Monday, CMS declined to comment
