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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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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 Co-ops Crumble: Tennessee

Posted on October 19, 2015 by OCTS4

Comment: See?  We told you so.  (And all the King’s horses and all the King’s men, couldn’t put Obamacare together again…) UPDATE – at this writing, eight Obamacare co-ops have flopped. “Tennessee will become the sixth state to shut down … Continue reading →

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IL–The Death Spiral Begins

Posted on October 16, 2015 by OCTS4

Comment: When costs rise unsustainably (thanks Obamacare!), the first things to go are benefits, to the bone. Then come the rate increases.  And kiss PPOs goodbye. “The state’s largest health insurer is eliminating its most popular individual plan, called Blue … Continue reading →

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ACA Apparatchik: Good News! Obamnocare’s Limited Choice and Higher Cost-Sharing Are Intentional

Posted on October 8, 2015 by OCTS4

Comment: Another Obamacare bait-and-switch—your wallet-busting rate-shock premiums would be even higher except they buried some of the cost into higher deductibles, coinsurance, and co-pays.  It’s a classic Obamacare bait-and-switch (which would be illegal if it were a defective used car, … Continue reading →

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The Administration is Lying About Premium Increases

Posted on September 15, 2015 by OCTS4

Comment: The Administration is publicly boasting about Obamacare’s supposedly low premium hikes. Meanwhile, they’re paying insurers under the table to keep rate increases lower than they otherwise would be. OCTS has previously published documentation showing that Obamacare has raised individual … Continue reading →

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RATE SHOCK Season III – 34.6% Hikes in North Carolina

Posted on August 11, 2015 by OCTS4

Comment: As insurers’ Obamacare bailouts end–and as they are finally able to tally their actual, real-life cost of providing bloated Obamacare policies–the cruel Orwellian irony of calling 2010′s Act of bloated government medicine “the Affordable Care Act” becomes inescapable. As … Continue reading →

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Obamacare Pumping (Your) Money Into Insurance Co. Profits

Posted on May 6, 2015 by OCTS4

Comment: Remember when the problem was supposedly BIG BAD INSURANCE COMPANIES, jacking up your costs with their horrible profits? Obamacare is making them bigger, at least for the moment. (Question for our slow-learners: does that make medical care cost more, or … Continue reading →

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Obamacare to Kill 190,000 Plans in Colorado

Posted on March 20, 2015 by OCTS4

Comment: Next year 190,000 Coloradans can look forward to losing the plans President Obama promised they could keep, “period.”  State officials have zero concern, however, being more worried about taking these people’s money for revenue to support the shiny new … Continue reading →

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Predatory Hospitals Forcing Other Hospitals Out of Business

Posted on February 21, 2015 by OCTS1

Comment: We received the following account from a reader. It should give pause to those predisposed to giving hospitals whatever they want, including more bucket loads of taxpayer money. Hospitals are not entirely benign – nor are they above human … Continue reading →

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