Monthly Archives: March 2016

Chelsea Clinton: “The Crushing Costs of the Affordable Care Act”

Posted on March 31, 2016 by OCTS4

Comment: Oh dear Reader, sometimes life is so good to us at the OCTS that we wonder what we’ve done to deserve it. Here’s Chelsea Clinton caught explaining how her mom will try to deal with “the crushing costs” of … Continue reading →

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Obamacare’s Small Business FAIL

Posted on March 29, 2016 by OCTS4

Comment: “It’s as if the Affordable Care Act’s tax credits for small business were designed to fail.”  We couldn’t have said it better. “It’s as if the Affordable Care Act’s tax credits for small businesses were designed to fail: Six … Continue reading →

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Hillary Clinton: Obamacare Is Encouraging Employers to Shift to Part-Time Workers

Posted on March 28, 2016 by OCTS4

Comment: Yes, Obamacare discourages employers from hiring full-time workers.  Now they’re saying it.  Refreshingly honest, but about seven years late. “ Well, that’s why [employers] are going to part-time. That, and also, the Affordable Care Act. You know, we got to … Continue reading →

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UPDATED Obamacare Endgame: 20 Hospital Systems Leading to Single-Payer

Posted on March 25, 2016 by OCTS1

by Tom Barilovits The Obamacare endgame is to consolidate hospitals locally, then regionally and nationally into 20 massive systems across the U.S., each with around 250 hospitals and thousands of clinics. Why? Because it’s easier to nationalize twenty hospitals into … Continue reading →

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Employers Dropping Coverage in Wyoming

Posted on March 22, 2016 by OCTS4

Comment: Remember being told employers wouldn’t drop coverage?  That it was only a ‘scare’ tactic?  Well here it is, folks. Nice job, Obamacare. “Navigators who help people obtain coverage said they’re meeting with more Wyomingites who have been laid off … Continue reading →

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Schadenfreude Special: Obamacare Grubers Discovering That Unicorns Aren’t Free

Posted on March 21, 2016 by OCTS4

Comment: After years of operation Obamacare experts have suddenly discovered that Obamacare does the exact opposite of what it was supposed to do.  But don’t worry, they have a solution: more. “For years, leading health experts have said the way … Continue reading →

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Top Tweets – A Bridge in Brooklyn

Posted on March 19, 2016 by OCTS1

Why did anyone ever believe any of the claims that were made to sell Obamacare? PT Barnum File: woman wants to keep voting Dem but #ACA “cost me a lot of money” (spiked from $490 to $1,080 /mo) http://www.weeklystandard.com/woman-to-hillary-i-would-like-to-vote-democratic-but-it-has-cost-me-a-lot-of-money/article/2001540 6yrs, … Continue reading →

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Obamacare “Way Costlier”

Posted on March 18, 2016 by OCTS4

Comment: It’s rough sledding for Obamacare’s crony bedfellows so far.  Oscar, the oft-cited Obamacare “success”, lost $105 million on $127 million in premiums in 2015.  (That means Oscar has to nearly double premiums or cut costs in half to break … Continue reading →

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Report: ACA Hikes Cost and Reduces Competition

Posted on March 17, 2016 by OCTS4

FLASHBACK: “So just by pooling and creating competition so that insurers have to go after people’s business the way they go after a group plan, we have drastically reduced premiums and costs.” –President Barack Obama, making delusional remarks about the … Continue reading →

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Top Tweets – All the Bad Stuff in One Set of Tweets

Posted on March 13, 2016 by OCTS1

Obamacare is a disaster in so many ways and news stories this week highlighted a number of them: RULE OF LAW Total illegal funding for #ACA- $8.5B (hope u get your tax refund – fund raided for #ACA) http://patriotpost.us/articles/41214 FOLLY … Continue reading →

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