Category Archives: Designed to Fail

Insurers Not Pushing Money-Losing Policies, Grubers Stunned

Posted on April 4, 2016 by OCTS4

Comment: The Jonathan Gruber-types who designed your  mandatory, unaffordable, and inferior new health care are upset.  Healthcare Grubers are shocked to discover that companies don’t relish selling money-losing Obamacare policies, foiling perfect Gruber-plans the Gruberworld over. Whoddathunkit? “Insurers increasingly are … Continue reading →

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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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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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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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Obamcare: Gov’t and Industry Colluding, Deciding What YOU Have to Buy

Posted on March 4, 2016 by OCTS4

Comment: America was the idea that ordinary, free people could make their own decisions & live their own lives, without needing a handful of self-appointed “betters” to tell them what to do. Obamacare is the opposite theory and, as such, completely … Continue reading →

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5 Stunning Obamacare Failures

Posted on March 4, 2016 by OCTS4

Comment: 1) Enrollment is about half, 2) program costs are over 50% more than ‘expected’, 3) the risk corridors are collapsing, 4) 7.5 million people prefer the penalty(!) to over-priced Obamacarp, and 5) millions of people are still uninsured. “The … Continue reading →

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8 of the 11 Surviving Obamacare CoOps Are On the Brink

Posted on March 3, 2016 by OCTS4

Comment: Can we waste a boat load of taxpayer money on pointless government health schemes?  Yes We Can! “An official with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services told lawmakers last week that eight of the 11 remaining Obamacare co-ops … Continue reading →

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