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Federal judge strikes down key ObamaCare requirement as 'unlawful'

A federal judge in Texas on Thursday ruled that a narrow but essential part of ObamaCare is unlawful in a ruling the Biden administration says could upend the entire U.S. health care system.

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US medical model: ‘sick, overmedicated, and shaped by Big Pharma’

The United States is the most medicated country in the world, with 70 percent of Americans using at least one prescription drug daily.

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Canada: the Country of the Long Wait

A few days ago my wife and I brought her mother, who was suffering from a serious leg infection, to the local ER. We were worried about the possibility of gangrene, which an acquaintance some years ba...

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David Axelrod & AOC's health care complaint thread adds up to 'another Obamacare success story'

Will Biden call this another "big f***ing deal"?

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FACT CHECK: More People Delaying Health Care Over Costs Now Than Pre-Obamacare

A common myth being presented during the Amy Coney Barrett hearings is the notion that many Americans who couldn’t afford healthcare before the Affordable Care Act was passed and implemented suddenly could.

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The new panic lie: Increased coronavirus hospitalizations and cases in the southwest

The media thinks we don't understand arithmetic.

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Italians over 80 'will be left to die' as country overwhelmed by coronavirus

Coronavirus victims in Italy will be denied access to intensive care if they are aged 80 or more or in poor health should pressure on beds increase, a document prepared by a crisis management unit in Turin propose. Some patients denied intensive care will

This is the same socialized healthcare that Bernie, AOC, and the rest of the extreme Dems push.

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Orthopedic Surgeon: Princess Diana Would Have Lived If It Weren’t For Socialized Medicine

Speaking at CPAC on Thursday on a panel discussion called “Prescription for Failure: The Ills of Socialized Medicine,” an orthopedic surgeon ripped socialized medicine, stating that Great Britain’s Princess Diana would still be alive today if she had not

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Meanwhile, Obamacare Was Just Basically Killed By the 5th Circuit

Unconstitutional.

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‘NEW LOW in deceitful politics’: Dan Crenshaw BLISTERS House Dems for lying about pre-existing conditions in BRUTAL thread

Dems ... lying about health care?! WE'RE SHOCKED!

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Thousands Of Elderly Patients Go Blind In Britain Due To Eye Surgery Rationing | Daily Wire

Healthcare rationing is a regular part of the United Kingdom, which has nationalized healthcare in a way Democrats in America want to bring here.

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Obama: He Was Honest, Eventually

Last week, Barack Obama finally did what Democratic activists had been desperately hoping he would do—he reproached his successor ahead of the midterm election. It was a long, discursive oration, as Obama’s orations usually are, and it contained lots

The man is a liar. We all know that. But still, the ease with which he lies, arrogantly, is still astonishing.

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Yes, It Was The 'Affordable' Care Act That Increased Premiums

It turns out that across the board, for all ages and family sizes, for HMO, PPO, and POS plans, premium increases averaged about 60% from 2013, the last year before ACA reforms took effect, to 2017. In the four years preceding the ACA, premium increases

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Why Is Health Insurance so Complicated? | PragerU

Why is health insurance so complicated, while car insurance and life insurance are so simple? Can health insurance be more like, well, insurance? Lanhee Chen, fellow at the Hoover Institution, explains.

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NPR and Harvard Say: Obamacare Is a Complete Failure | Power Line

National Public Radio collaborated with Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to survey Americans' recent experience with health care. As to the Affordable Care Act, the survey's findings are damning. They sugg

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NPR and Harvard Say: Obamacare Is a Complete Failure

National Public Radio collaborated with Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to survey Americans’ recent experience with health care. As to…

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You're about to pay A LOT more for health insurance

Health insurers are seeking steep rate increases, saying their new customers under the Affordable Care Act turned out to be sicker than expected.

Americans who believed that you could add everyone to the insurance rolls without a massive rate increase are children...and extremely gullible. But hey, Obama said that insurance would be cheaper and Obama would never lie. Right? Er, uh, I mean....

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CBO: Repealing Obamacare would boost economic growth | WashingtonExaminer.com

Repealing Obamacare would boost economic growth by an average of 0.7 percent after several years, according to an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office released on Friday. CBO has determined what many in Congress have known all along, Republican Sen

I would like to remind everyone that the CBO is non-partisan.

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White House, HHS: We Want Your #HealthySelfie | Truth Revolt

The social media president is once again capitalizing on trending hashtags, and the latest, #HealthySelfie, has been seized to promote Obamacare and healthy lifestyles.

The more they attempt to be "cool," the more out of touch they appear. These pictures are like suddenly seeing your co-workers dance. It's not pretty.

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‘Does the @WhiteHouse even know how Obamacare works?’ All signs point to NOPE | Twitchy

With all due respect, White House, shut up. This afternoon, the House passed a bill banning abortion — with notable exceptions — after 20 weeks of pregnancy. And that was enough to prompt the White House to weigh in like so:

Hello? None of this has ever been about health care. Only idio...I mean Democr...I mean gullible people ever believed that.

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Rising Health Insurance Costs Thanks To Obamacare Hit Liberal Harvard Faculty, And They Are LIVID

Faculty at Harvard University are complaining that they will have to pay more for their health insurance under Obamacare, even though overall costs to faculty remain modest and employees of the Ivy Le

So the whiny elitists are upset. Boo-hoo. Yet, they will still not admit that they were wrong about the Obamacare fiasco.

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Why You Can't Keep Your Plan Under Obamacare, in 3 Minutes

In a video Robert Graboyes of George Mason University's Mercatus Center explains in simple language why insurers cancel plans under the Affordable Care Act.

So easy even a leftist should be able to understand it!

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Congresswoman Lummis’ Heartbreaking Speech At Gruber Hearing [VIDEO]

WASHINGTON - Republican Wyoming Rep. Cynthia Lummis made a powerful personal speech in Tuesday's House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing that featured testimony from disgraced Obamacar

This is heartbreaking.

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Jonathan Gruber quotes contradict Obama promise - CNN.com

Who is the MIT economist at the center of a new Obamacare scandal and why should you be paying attention?

I am happy that one of the "mainstream" news outlets is actually covering this debacle."

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Barney, Frank: Admits Key Obamacare Clause Before Supreme Court Was 'Mistake'

Barney Frank lived up to his last name, and might live to regret it in Dem circles. Appearing on this morning's Up with Steve Kornacki, Frank admitted that the key Obamacare clause that the Supreme Court just agreed to consider was a "mistake."

This guy is such a raving idiot and he did some real damage to the country.

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Majority Say They No Longer Trust, Believe in Obama After Obamacare Fiasco | Mediaite

The White House could not be happy with the results of the latest CNN/ORC survey. The poll shows that, as a result of the problematic implementation of the Affordable Care Act, majorities no longer believe in President Barack Obama’s competency or trust

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Foreigners hacked Obamacare website on July 8 but HHS only discovered it 10 days ago | Mail Online

HHS says Healthcare.gov 'was not specifically targeted' and it's beefing up security, but the embarrassing episode shows critics had well-reasoned fears before the site's disastrous launch.

These people really are on the job, aren't they? Maybe they should be in charge of nude celebrity photos.

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Obamacare Now Pays for Gender Reassignment - The Daily Beast

The nation’s health law opens the door for transgender people to gain coverage for gender reassignment surgeries they previously could not afford.

It amazes me that the same people who claim that conservatives don't "believe in science," seem to believe that you can literally "re-assign_ gender. You can't. It is literally impossible. But pretending for the sake of ideology is a hallmark of the left.

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If You Like Your Obamacare Plan, It'll Cost You

Consumers could be hit with major price increases, without even knowing it, if they don't switch their health care plans.

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Doctors Begin To Refuse Obamacare Patients

Obamacare plans have shrunk payments to physicians so much that some doctors say they won't be able to afford to accept Obamacare coverage, NPR reports. Many of the eight million sign-ups in Obama

Well this is another shocker. A real shocker.

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Women-Owned Businesses Hit Hard By ObamaCare Tax

What’s the harm in hitting businesses with another tax and regulation? Conservative economists lecture about costs rippling through, hitting consumers and employees as well as business’s bottom-lines. But their estimates are just numbers on a

How was this not obvious to people? And now, they will (they already have) fire up the "war on women" stupidity-all the while knowing that, not only are they lying, but their policies are highly damaging to women and minorities. It's the hypocrisy that really gets to me - the left is supremely hypocritical.

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Video: Long wait times in ERs due to ObamaCare - Hot Air

Wait times for seeing doctors have become an issue even outside the VA, which was a totally predictable outcome of ObamaCare. What wasn’t predicted was that the impact on wait times would be seen in emergency rooms, since one of the arguments for ObamaCare was to shift patients out of ERs and into clinics with an expansion of coverage.

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Obamacare Employees Behind Failed Oregon Exchange Now Getting Cushy Bonuses

Now that Oregon's Obamacare exchange has entirely given up on fixing or running its own Obamacare website, the state exchange is handing out hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer funding as bon

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Obamacare's Exchanges Fall Well Short of Enrollment Target

Fewer than 4 million newly insured “doesn’t put much of a dent in the problem,” says an Obamacare supporter. The Obama administration hoped for 26 million.

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SC Woman Refused Medicine Because ObamaCare Says She Is a Man

SC Woman Refused Medicine Because ObamaCare System Says She Is a Man

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A Doctor's Declaration of Independence

In The Wall Street Journal, Daniel F. Craviotto writes that It's time to defy health-care mandates issued by bureaucrats not in the healing profession.

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Liberals in rose-colored glasses consider ObamaCare a ‘victory’

Ever since ObamaCare supposedly hit the arbitrary target of 7 million sign-ups by March 31, its supporters have been taking the most premature victory lap since conservative proponents of the…

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Opinion: "Sebelius' term was a disaster"

Newt Gingrich says Kathleen Sebelius presided over a dysfunctional and extra-legal rollout of Obamacare; she was right to resign

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The Charts That Obama and Sebelius Don't Want You to See

Heritage’s newly updated Obamacare in Pictures has 15 charts that show the law’s effects on Americans.

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Latest ObamaCare surprise: Most won't be able to buy health insurance until end of year

There is yet another ObamaCare surprise waiting for consumers: from now until the next open enrollment at the end of this year, most people will simply not be able to buy any health insurance at all, even outside the exchanges.

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Can Anyone Tell How Obamacare Is Doing?

Does Obamacare really deserve credit for making people buy insurance when it caused them to lose it?

So it seems like before Obamacare 14.4% Americans were uninsured. Now, after the POTUS' victory speech, 15.8% don't have insurance. Great job Mr. President. Does anyone care that the emperor is standing there completely naked and 1/2 the population won't acknowledge it?

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PLUNGE: New poll shows Obamacare support at 26%

A new poll shows that just 26 percent of Americans support Obamacare, but at the same time only 13 percent think the law will be completely repealed.

This will be ignored by most of the media. It will also mean little to what's left of the hard core "believers."

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Doctor Wait Times Rise As Obamacare Rolls Out

Patients are waiting an average of 18 days to schedule an appointment for a doctor, according to a study of appointments for commonly used specialty physicians in 15 major U.S. cities. see photosDwight Nadig/Getty ImagesClick for full photo gallery: Citie

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Report: Obamacare’s regulatory costs more than double benefits

The annual costs of Obamacare regulations come in at $6.8 billion a year so far -- around 2.5 times the total benefits of its heavy-handed regulations, according to study released Monday. The feder

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Study: Emergency room visits up under Obamacare-like Mass. law

A recent study of Massachusetts emergency care departments may imply more crowding under Obamacare, according to its lead author. President Obama and other advocates of Obamacare claimed that incre

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White House turns to cat pictures to sell Obamacare

With the deadline for enrolling in the Obamacare exchanges just days away, the White House is scraping the bottom of the barrel for ideas — including turning to cat GIFs, or animated videos made of multiple still photos.

These people are amazing. Really really amazing. I can't wait until we have adults running the country again.

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Unlike Kudlow, Networks Ignore Newest ObamaCare Delay for Those With 'Hardship' | NewsBusters

None of the network evening news casts have yet mentioned President Obama’s delay of the individual mandate for anyone claiming

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Obama Just Guaranteed ObamaCare's Failure

Two years ago, President Obama's solicitor general told the Supreme Court that without the individual mandate, ObamaCare would fail. Last week, the administration itself effectively killed the mandate

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Obamacare is definitely NOT as cheap as your cellphone bill

One of President Barack Obama's favorite new Obamacare sign-up pitches is that young enrollees, which the law banks on for sustainability, can get health insurance for the price of a monthly cellphone

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Fourth Georgia hospital closes due to Obamacare payment cuts

The fourth Georgia hospital in two years is closing its doors due to severe financial difficulties caused by Obamacare's payment cuts for emergency services. The Lower Oconee Community Hospital is,

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Andrew Johnson - Obamacare's Unpopularity Rises Among Uninsured

Obamacare's Unpopularity Rises Among Uninsured -

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Average wait times to see doctors in U.S.

How long do you typically wait to see your doctor? Well if your physician is in D.C., you will most likely wait about 17 days to schedule an appointment. A survey of physicians nationwide found the average wait time for a new patient is nearly 19 days.

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Watch: Employees in Pennsylvania Company Learn of Increased Health Costs Due to Obamacare

Read conservative news, blogs and opinion about Barack Obama, Costs, Health Care, insurance and Obamacare from The Weekly Standard, the must read magazine available in online edition.

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Jimmy Kimmel Savages ObamaCare and Uninformed Young People Who Support It

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Millions of Young Americans Refusing to Enroll in Obamacare - Tea Party

Feds use social networks, Lady Gaga to sell unpopular healthcare program (Info Wars) – Poll after poll indicate young people are disillusioned with Obamacare. In early December, a Harvard University Institute of Politics poll found that 56% of Ame

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‘Lie of the Year’ – aided and abetted by media

Larry Elder shows how Obama could count on reporter 'watchdogs' looking the other way

PolitiFact has awarded their “Lie of the Year” to President Barack Obama for his promise that “if you like your health care plan, you can keep it.”

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Cavuto: Mr. President, we at Fox News are not the problem

Cavuto, in telling the truth, blasts Obama.

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Another ObamaCare Lie: Protecting Those With Pre-Existing Conditions

President Obama promised to protect people with pre-existing conditions and help the uninsured. Yet these vulnerable groups are getting clobbered. Congress needs to act.

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The Media's Lying to You About ObamaCare Enrollment Numbers

If you have

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No security ever built into Obamacare site: Hacker

It could take a year to secure the risk of "high exposures" of personal information on the federal Obamacare online exchange, a cybersecurity expert told CNBC on Monday.

Seriously: these people are incompetent morons. The other day Obama commented that the site was approaching the private sector site in terms of performance. That was a lie, but what does that tell you about the private sector? But the Kool Aid drinkers still would prefer to have their health care handled in the public sector. It defies all logic.

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ObamaCare's Plans Are Worse

The Wall Street Journal explains how the Affordable Care Act raises prices and limits medical choices.

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CBS's Major Garrett Grills President on ObamaCare Debacle: Where's the Accountability?

CBS journalist Major Garrett grilled Barack Obama at a White House news conference, Thursday. On the subject of ObamaCare's disastrous rollout, the reporter repeatedly zeroed in on what the President knew and when:

I love this. He wasn't correctly "informed" about the website. NOTHING is ever his fault. We defeated three fascist empires between the end of 1941 and 1945-in just over three years. This guy couldn't get a website up and running. Yet, astoundingly, people still support him.

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Dianne Feinstein joins push to keep health plans

It’s not just red-state Democrats who want to take aggressive steps to mend controversial provisions in Obamacare. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said Tuesday that she will co-sponsor a bill by Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) to require insurance compa

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Government awards more contracts to company that created glitchy ObamaCare website

CGI Federal Inc, the company that created large parts of the error-plagued ObamaCare exchange website, which it says it is scrambling to fix, has recently been awarded several other government contracts.

How are people not completely outraged about this kind of thing - no matter WHAT their politics are???

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Free Market Healthcare Ramps Up As ObamaCare Self-Destructs

Nancy Pelosi’s flippant remark to “pass the bill first, then find out what’s in it,” has led Americans to the discovery that ObamaCare is indeed a “nightmare,” fraught with bureaucratic tangles, the risk to personal privacy, and the real possi

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Obamacare Faces A 'Death Spiral' -- But It Turns On The Declining Participation Of Health Plans, Not Just Rising Premiums

Given the failed launch of Obamacare, there’s a real chance that the entire scheme falls into an “insurance death spiral” -- but not as visibly (or rapidly) as the way these sorts of unsuccessful insurance pools usually unravel. A death

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At the White House: Obamacare success stories that aren't

President Obama invited a number of people to stand behind him as he delivered his speech on the state of Obamacare at the White House Monday morning. One of them, Janice Baker, a small business owner from Delaware, introduced the president, and Obama spo

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Thousands get health insurance cancellation notices - NBC News.com

Health plans are sending hundreds of thousands of cancellation letters to people who buy their own coverage, frustrating some consumers...

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'So much wrong': Aetna CEO blasts Obamacare tech debacle

Aetna chief Mark Bertolini gave a harshly critical review of the federal government's insurance marketplace.

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A job engine sputters as hospitals cut staff

Hospitals, a reliable source of employment growth in the recession and its aftermath, are cutting thousands jobs amid falling insurance payments and in-patient visits.

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Obamacare's winners and losers in Bay Area

For years the nation has been embroiled in the political rhetoric of Obamacare, but this past week the reality of the new health law sank in as millions of Americans had their first look at how the law will affect their pocketbooks.

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Will Obamacare hurt job creation and marriage? Diana Furchtgott-Roth

The Affordable Care Act appears to create substantial disincentives both to hiring and marriage, potentially changing the fabric of American society in serious ways, writes Diana Furchtgott-Roth.

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Ten states where Obamacare wipes out existing health care plans

President Barack Obama famously promised,

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Study: Young people better off not enrolling in Obamacare

Millions of young Americans could save money by simply paying Obamacare penalties rather than buying insurance when the controversial health-care law is implemented in 2014, according to a new study.

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Eliana Johnson - Obamacare Call Center Will Not Offer Health-Care Benefits to Employees

Obamacare Call Center Will Not Offer Health-Care Benefits to Employees -

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John Fund - Obamacare’s Branch of the NSA

Community organizers will use a Federal Data Hub to sign up people for subsidies — and even ballots.

DEFINITELY not ok. When did we start accepting this stuff? Obama props up community organizers and used the Obamacare AND the NSA to do it? When did we become this complacent??? A few years ago the country would have gone nuts over something like this!