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Hawaii Exchange Pearl-Dives; ‘Health Connector’ Disconnects

Posted on May 12, 2015 by OCTS4

(For you non-hipsters, “pearl-diving” is the rookie mistake of catching your surfboard’s nose in the water while catching a wave, sending its rider flying, then plunging toward the bottom instead of toward the beach. It’s the surfing equivalent of being … Continue reading →

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Obamacare State Exchanges Set to Gruber Consumers?

Posted on May 7, 2015 by OCTS4

Comment: Gruber told us his ‘break through’ way to tax your employer health plan was to tax insurers, then blame them when they had to raise your rates, and the American voters would be too stupid to know what happened. … Continue reading →

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Patients Abandoning Meds Due to Obamacare Cost

Posted on April 15, 2015 by OCTS4

Comment: Good news, fellow serfizens!  Obamacare has both increased total number of people with subsidized-or-free Obamacarp insurance, increased  drug spending, and at the same time decreased the number of people who can afford their medicines (even with insurance)!  Most cost, … Continue reading →

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Obamacare Exchanges’ Brutal Collapse

Posted on April 13, 2015 by OCTS4

Comment: The ordinary, healthy people Obamacare exchanges need to work aren’t buying.  “Exchanges” that were sold as spurring competition, lowering costs, and helping Americans in general connect with better, more affordable insurance, are instead already collapsing into a giant new … Continue reading →

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FLASHBACK: Obamacare Scrooges Cancer Care

Posted on April 6, 2015 by OCTS4

Comment: New HHS jingle? “Don’t worry, there are no death panels.  If you get cancer we’ll just withhold your care.  (Euthanasia, however, is fully-covered, hint hint.)” “ But there’s a catch with Keller’s new Humana Gold gold plan: His surgical … Continue reading →

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Consumers’ 2014 Health Care Spending Up 11.3%

Posted on April 3, 2015 by OCTS4

Comment: Consumer income fell, yet health care spending rose 11.3 percent. So, people who are hurting, earning less, were forced to spend more on health care. Thanks Obamacare! “While the majority of incomes fell, consumer spending, which accounts for about … Continue reading →

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Proof: Obamacare is Actually ObamaCAID

Posted on March 31, 2015 by OCTS4

Universal Medicaid: Nearly Every Net New Insured is on Medicaid.  Millions Lose Employer Insurance. Comment: Our new self-appointed health care liars overseers have pronounced 14.1 million people covered by Obamacare.  On closer inspection, what they really meant, it seems, is … Continue reading →

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RATE SHOCK: 2015 Obamacare Premiums Are 6-9% Higher

Posted on March 30, 2015 by OCTS4

Comment: Thanks to Obamacare, people who actually pay for their insurance are paying a lot more.  Obamacare’s proponents said they were going to ‘bend the cost-curve’.  They forgot to mention they’re bending it up. (Suggested double-think slogan: “Here are the … Continue reading →

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Obamacare Poisoning Small Businesses’ Coverage

Posted on March 23, 2015 by OCTS4

Comment: Small business owners report that the fallout from 2013′s Lie of the Year (‘you can keep your plan’) continues. Obamacare is still relentlessly violating its promises, trampling the plans small business owners liked which President Obama promised they could … 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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