Tag Archives: premiums

How Obamacare Just Made Your Taxes Harder

Posted on April 12, 2016 by OCTS4

Comment: How can you tell when something’s better and more affordable?  When they have to force you to buy it! “In 2015, for example, annual premiums for “low-cost” bronze plans obtained through the law’s exchanges averaged $2,484 for individuals and … Continue reading →

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Another Lie Explodes: Obamacare Has INCREASED the Health Premium Inflation Rate

Posted on April 8, 2016 by OCTS4

Comment: Obamacare adds taxes, fees, extra goodies, bureaucrats, and people who don’t pay onto the cost of health care.  None of that reduces costs; it all increases costs. This study finds health insurance premiums were rising 2.6 percent faster than … Continue reading →

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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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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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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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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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Take Back Our Healthcare!

Posted on February 23, 2016 by OCTS1

This is a true story of how Obamacare torpedoes the dignity and self-sufficiency of ordinary Americans. It robs people of their freedom and their individual sovereignty, pillars of the American Idea. We are not state property – TAKE BACK OUR … Continue reading →

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Obamacare’s Premium ‘Big Lie,’ Exposed

Posted on December 16, 2015 by OCTS4

Comment: We told you so. OCTS has repeatedly warned that the Most Honest Administration Ever was pressuring insurance companies to set premiums artificially low, offering teaser rates so that the public would not feel the actual cost of this ghastly Obamacare … Continue reading →

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Obamacare, the Rate-Shocking Choice Mutilator

Posted on November 17, 2015 by OCTS4

Comment: The horrors of WWII left traumatized soldiers shell-shocked.  Under Obamacare, zombie-like individual-plan buyers have been wandering the countryside in a stupor, rate-shocked. Now that Obamacare’s swept-under-the-rug and delayed pain is finally arriving for small companies, they are starting to … Continue reading →

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173,000 Obam-No-Care’d in Illinois

Posted on November 4, 2015 by OCTS4

Comment: Can you still keep your plan this year, Illinois?  How about your doctor?  How’s that socialism working out for you? “Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, the state’s dominant player, is taking drastic actions to reduce costs. It’s … Continue reading →

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