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Rate Shock: NY Non-Profit Files For 15.2% Rate Hike

You Can’t Keep Your Premium Either Comment: We all know you can’t keep your doctor or your plan, and, except for a few lucky ones, you won’t be saving anything, much less $2,500.  Now the 3% of Americans forced into … Continue reading

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#RateShock – Study: Average Obamacare Hike is 49 percent

Comment: All the suffering we’ve seen so far has come from only about 5 percent of America–those who buy their own individual policies.  Delays in the employer provisions have hidden the impacts from most Americans for a couple more years–individual … Continue reading

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Our Lying Obamacare Overlords, Part II – Premiums

Comment: To save the 2014 election, the White House is forcing insurers to lie about their Obamacare premiums. HHS is coercing insurers to price Obamacare products below actual cost, and promising to pay off those that “play nicely” later with … Continue reading

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Obamacare Fines Poor People

200,000 earning less than 100 percent of the poverty level to pay fine Comment: Poor person: “I can’t afford it.” Obamacare: “That’s fine.” Poor Person: “You mean I don’t have to buy it?”  Obamacare: “No, we mean you owe us a … Continue reading

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Obamacare Takes Author Ann Coulter’s Health Plan

Comment: Author Ann Coulter liked her plan, but she can’t keep it. Instead she has to jump through hoops to get less-affordable, lower-quality Obamacare (and she’s NOT happy about it). “I’ve been thrown off my health insurance — THANKS, OBAMACARE! … Continue reading

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HHS Aggressively Eliminating Choices They Don’t Want You to Have

Comment: When it comes to health care choices, the Obama Department of Health and Human Services doesn’t want you to have any (other than theirs)–they’re using regulation to stamp out anything Americans had, or might possibly prefer. (So much for … Continue reading

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Individual Mandate Waivers? Yes We Can!

Administration Unlawfully Cancels Mandate for People with Cancelled Plans Comment:  Mandates, fees, fines, and penaltaxes(tm) gotcha down?  Don’t worry, there’s a Hope-n-Change waiver for that. Hypocrisy Alert: This administration told the Supreme Court their individual mandate was essential.  Now they’re … Continue reading

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Study: ACA Math Doesn’t Add for ‘Young Invincibles’

“Consumer price comparison site NerdWallet said its analysis suggests that healthy younger adults who go without insurance could on average spend up to five times less on health care than those who sign up in Affordable Care Act plans.” “The … Continue reading

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State Opposition to Obamacare Growing

[…] “…Oklahoma…is currently suing the federal government, claiming that awarding premium subsidies is unconstitutional in states with federally run exchanges…” […] “…South Carolina proposed to refund residents who pay a penalty for not having insurance next year, effectively canceling out … Continue reading

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The Coming Failure of the Obamacare Subsidies

[…] “…the notion that the subsidies will never stop, or that they are figuratively heroin-like in nature, is false.” “…For the healthy, the subsidies are… a month-by-month financial pain inflicting mandate forcing millions of Americans to buy a product they … Continue reading

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