Category Archives: Government Takeover

Highmark Health Loses $565 Million in 2015

Posted on April 7, 2016 by OCTS4

Comment: Highmark Health is spending $1.20 for every dollar they receive in Obamacare premiums.  Isn’t this where we’re supposed to say “Oh goodie, that wonderful, wonderful Obamacare is squeezing those awful insurance companies to death”? Sorry, here at OCTS we … 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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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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Hospitals Are the Obamacare Winners

Posted on March 9, 2016 by OCTS4

Comments: Obamacare logic(tm). Q: Name a great way to make healthcare cost less? A: Throw boatloads of money at people who were already charging too much !  Query: why should hospitals get a tax exemption and subsidies, too? “PORTLAND, Ore. … 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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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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TAKEOVER–Has Obamacare Killed Private Insurance (Yet) ?

Posted on February 16, 2016 by OCTS4

 Comment: Remember how Obamacare would save money by “increasing competition”? Instead we have the opposite–even the biggest, healthiest established companies, who’ve served Americans for decades, can’t make it work. That’s by design. Before any legislation hit paper, activists plotted the … Continue reading →

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Medicaid Expansion – Pouring Infinite Resources into a Bottomless Pit

Posted on February 12, 2016 by OCTS1

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Covered California’s Lead Gruber, Apoplectic

Posted on February 5, 2016 by OCTS4

Comment: We here at the OCTS are beyond amused to see CoverCA’s top health-slavery official moaning, wailing, and lashing out at UnitedHealth Group. UHC’s offense? Balking at throwing $500 million a year into his parasitic organization. Delightfully, UHC’s self-survival savvy has California’s Gruber-in-Chief holding … Continue reading →

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