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Obama Administration Paves Way for Obamacare Bailout

A 436-page stack of regulations released on Friday by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) paved the way for the Obama administration to bailout health insurers who lost money on Obamacare.

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    A Big ObamaCare Success? Not So Fast

    The Obama administration is crowing that 7 million people filled out applications for ObamaCare plans. Don't pop the champagne bottles just yet.

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        CA Obamacare Exchange Extends Deadline, Enrollees Frustrated

        California extended the enrollment deadline for the state healthcare exchange, Covered California, until April 15. The website went down periodically on Monday, creating havoc for those who were scurrying to meet the original March 31 deadline.

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          5 Ways Obamacare Is Ruining Lives

          As the Obamacare enrollment period draws to a tentative close – and you never know when the period will close, given President Obama’s apparent willingness to manipulate the calendar repeatedly – horror stories about the Affordable Care Act mount.

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            On first day of Common Core testing, some NY students sit it out

            Don’t want your children to take the standardized Common Core tests?

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              Obama Rips Critics in Deeply Partisan Obamacare Speech

              President Obama seized on the veneer of good news about Obamacare to tear into his critics, issuing one of the most partisan speeches of his presidency and accusing opponents of lying about the law to scare the public because they're opposed to people

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                Brit Hume to the Obama Administration on ACA Enrollment: Not a Time 'to Be Dancing in the End Zone'

                Brit Hume to the Obama Administration on ACA Enrollment: Not a Time 'to Be Dancing in the End Zone'

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                    5 Reasons Obama's 7.1 Million Number Is Meaningless

                    On Tuesday, President Obama triumphantly announced that, with the power of the mainstream media, Hollywood, and the threat of the IRS, the mission had been accomplished: 7.1 million Americans had selected an Obamacare plan.

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                      Krauthammer on ObamaCare enrollment: ‘This is a phony number’

                      Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer said Tuesday on “Special Report with Bret Baier” that while the administration is celebrating hitting 7.1 million enrollees in the Affordable Care Act, that figure just isn’t accurate.

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                        Krauthammer: ObamaCare Deliberately Written 'To Force Employers to Kick People Off Their Plans'

                        Krauthammer: ObamaCare Deliberately Written 'To Force Employers to Kick People Off Their Plans'

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                          Media Fail: Study Shows ObamaCare Will Increase Emergency Room Visits

                          We now know that the left was practicing anti-science with those oft-repeated claims that insuring the uninsured will cut down on expensive emergency room visits. A Harvard study discovered that when the once-uninsured were given Medicaid, emergency room

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                            Study: Obamacare Shoppers Can't Find Cost-Effective Plans

                            A new study has found that consumers are consistently unable to choose health insurance plans that are the most cost effective on mock websites similar to HealthCare.gov. Without consumer competence creating market pressure, health care costs under Obamac

                              Politics | Health Care

                              Washington Post Falsely Reports 365,000 'Have Purchased' ObamaCare

                              The ObamaCare propaganda push over at The Washington Post's Wonk Blog just went into overdrive. Moving beyond the White House's misuse of the word

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                                No, You Can't Keep Your Drugs Either Under Obamacare

                                The President famously promised that you could keep your health plan and doctor. For many people, both of those pledges are turning out to be false. And now, you might not be able to keep your medicine, either. There are two reasons why. The first has to

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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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                                        NYT: Obamacare Website Still Busted

                                        Even as the Obama administration is busy taking a victory lap of sorts for recent Obamacare website corrections, the New York Times reported on Sunday that healthcare.gov is still busted.

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                                          ObamaCare Sign Ups Fall 85% Short of Goal

                                          Bloomberg puts the best spin possible on the number of new ObamaCare sign ups (these are not yet official enrollees who have paid their first month's premium) through the federal exchange that covers 36 states throughout the month of November. But 100

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                                                CBS’s Attkisson: Admin Always Knew Millions Would Lose Employer-Provided Insurance

                                                CBS’s Attkisson: Adminstration Always Knew Millions Would Lose Employer-Based Insurance

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                                                  FLOTUS Flashback: We Have To Give Up What We Had, Sacrifice For Obamacare

                                                  Rare footage of Michelle Obama at a campaign event in May of 08 telling the truth about the eventual cost of what was to become the ironically named Affordable Care Act...

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                                                      Obama Trashes America to Save ObamaCare

                                                      As support for ObamaCare collapses, the Obamas are using increasingly harsh language to attack the current system. They're now trashing the country.

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                                                        ObamaCare Website Is Like 'IdentityTheft.Gov'

                                                        Cyber security experts tell Congress that the ObamaCare website Healthcare.gov's security flaws make it vulnerable to hackers and identity theft.

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                                                          Obamacare’s Collapse: History Repeating Itself? - The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation

                                                          Analysts are noticing the similarities between Obamacare and another failed piece of social policy legislation, the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act.

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                                                            Map: Obamacare Exchanges Have Reduced Insurance Competition Nationally

                                                            A recent Heritage analysis found significantly less insurer competition in the Obamacare exchanges relative to the prior individual health insurance market.

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                                                              Obama's Legacy: More Americans than Ever Reject Government Role in Health Care

                                                              Gallup shows that more Americans than ever are rejecting government-run health care like Obamacare.

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                                                                White House braces for doctor dump

                                                                President Obama's if you like it pledge isn't the only bait-and-switch consumers may see under ObamaCare. 

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                                                                  CBS Poll: 84% of Democrats Want ObamaCare Changed or Repealed

                                                                  A fascinating number in Wednesday's CBS poll is that only 7% of the American public want ObamaCare

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                                                                      N.C. Man Still Can't Delete Personal Information from HealthCare.gov

                                                                      Justin Hadley is counting down the hours until his account is removed from HealthCare.gov. He's waited about 303 hours so far.

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                                                                        Congressman: 185 times more health plans canceled than selected on federal exchange

                                                                        Republicans are continuing to hammer the point that vastly more people have lost their health care than gained new health insurance coverage under Obamacare. In a Friday memo, House Ways and Means

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                                                                          Obamacare forces black college to cancel healthcare

                                                                          Bowie University, a historically black college in Maryland, is being forced to cancel its student healthcare policy because of Obamacare. Bowie administrators determined that the cost of complying

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                                                                            Obama's Priority: Save Democrats, Not the Sick

                                                                            The President Americans were told was “brilliant” suddenly does not seem to know much of anything, least of all about his own signature health reform law. What he does know, however, is that Democrats hoping to regain control of the House and keep the

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                                                                              Thousands of Doctors Dropped from Medicare Advantage

                                                                              The Wall Street Journal reports that private insurance provider United Health is dropping thousands of doctors from its Medicare Advantage networks. Medicare Advantage is very popular with senior citizens, but United Health says that

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                                                                                Hometown Paper That Endorsed Obama Calls for ObamaCare Repeal

                                                                                Barack Obama's hometown newspaper, the Chicago Tribune, endorsed the president twice for president. Friday, the same Chicago Tribune called for ObamaCare to be immediately repealed before it can do any more damage.

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                                                                                  Worst Yet to Come: Media's ObamaCare Cover Up Marches On

                                                                                  The media deserve zero points for covering the rolling catastrophe that is ObamaCare. It is not that I don't give credit where it's, it is that the media have no choice. The smoking guns of lies and incompetence are everywhere, and can't be ig

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                                                                                      CBO: Insurance Cancellations Just Beginning

                                                                                      Dozens of times (that we know of) over his campaign to pass ObamaCare and to win re-election, President Obama lied to the American people about being able to keep the health insurance they like. But that lie has only been replaced with another: the lie th

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                                                                                        All These Lies And Incompetence, Too

                                                                                        In his interview with NBC News last week, President Obama admitted that the government he's now put in charge of the nation's health care system is virtually incapable of handling it.

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                                                                                          More Special Obamacare Treatment — But Not for You

                                                                                          Unions haven’t been able to get special Obamacare subsidies like Members of Congress and their staffs did, but they may not go away empty-handed. The Obama Administration has indicated it will propose a new regulation that could give many unions a b

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                                                                                            Three More Apologies the President Will Be Making on Obamacare

                                                                                            [caption id=attachment_128451 align=alignnone width=640] Credit: Newscom[/caption] Faced with the grim reality of Obamacare, President Obama apologized that millions of Americans are losing coverage because of his law, which was supposed to make health in

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                                                                                              State and Local Governments Cutting Work Hours Due to Obamacare

                                                                                              [caption id=attachment_131563 align=alignnone width=576] Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call[/caption] It’s no longer just restaurants and stores cutting hours and employees due to Obamacare—state and local governments are making changes as well. The la

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                                                                                                After His Health Plan Was Canceled, The Cheapest Option Under Obamacare Was Anything but Cheap

                                                                                                Despite assurances from his insurance broker, and even the President, that it wouldn’t happen, John Hawkins recently learned his health plan has become another casualty of Obamacare. Hawkins is one of more than 3.5 million Americans (and increasing)

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                                                                                                  Doctors Will Be Left Paying Tab for Obamacare ‘Grace Periods’: Report

                                                                                                  The Affordable Care Act entitles consumers eligible for the federal subsidy to three “free” months of health care if they choose to default on their premiums, meaning  doctors and hospitals will be left paying the tab. If people can’t pay their pre

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                                                                                                    Three 20-Year-Olds Make Working Obamacare Website in Three Days

                                                                                                    Even as President Obama has issued a constant refrain of how upset he is that his Obamacare website doesn't work and promises that he's on top of the fix, three 20-year-old website designers in San Francisco made a working Obamacare website using

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                                                                                                      Married Couple Considers Divorce to Save Money on Obamacare

                                                                                                      Nona Willis-Aronoqitz, 29, and Aaron Cassara, 32, are full-time freelancers and earn more than $62,000 a year, which means they do not qualify for the subsidies under Obamacare. The couple realized, however, they would be able to afford the plans if they

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                                                                                                        Poll: Uninsured Americans Reject ObamaCare

                                                                                                        A new Gallup poll brings more terrible news for President Obama and his signature health plan, showing that only 22% of uninsured Americans who plan to buy insurance have visited the ObamaCare exchanges.

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                                                                                                            DC ObamaCare numbers show 5 people signed up for exchange

                                                                                                            While President Obama continues his cross country pitch on the merits of his landmark health care law, dismal new data shows only five people in the D.C. area have signed up for the Affordable Care Act – or ObamaCare.

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                                                                                                              Seven Devastating Obamacare Facts

                                                                                                              The Affordable Care Act, more commonly known as Obamacare, has taken a toll on President Barack Obama's standing in the polls. The latest Gallup poll now shows Obama's approval rating at just 39%.

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                                                                                                                The Nuclear Option: Sarah Palin Knew a Death Panel When She Saw One

                                                                                                                Mama Grizzly warned us this would happen. Under Obamacare, the sick and weak and old would stand before death panels of bureaucrats to be granted life or death. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was laughed off the stage for making what we now know is a pres

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                                                                                                                  Delaware reports 4 enrollments under ObamaCare

                                                                                                                  More than a month after the launch of Delaware's health insurance exchange, officials report only four Delawareans enrolled for insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act.

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                                                                                                                    It wasn’t just Obama: Red state Dems said ‘if you like your plan, you can keep it,’ too

                                                                                                                    American Crossroads is out with a set of videos and a press release showing how Senators Mark Begich (D-Alaska), Kay Hagan (D-North Carolina) and Mary Landrieu (D-Louisiana) 

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                                                                                                                      49-state report: Individual plans under Obamacare to increase average of 41 percent, young men hardest hit

                                                                                                                      The Affordable Care Act is ironically making health insurance less affordable, according to a new analysis of premiums for individual plans. According to a 49-state analysis (not including Hawaii d

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                                                                                                                        Administration will launch campaign to get young people into exchanges

                                                                                                                        The administration will spend December through March on a campaign to encourage people to enroll in the health-care exchanges, specifically targeting young people and the uninsured. On Tuesday, the

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                                                                                                                          Obama denies ‘you can keep it’ videotaped promises

                                                                                                                          President Barack Obama told his enthusiastic supporters Monday night that he never promised what video recordings show him promising at least 29 times. The videos show Obama promising 300 million A

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                                                                                                                            White House Blames Stage IV Cancer Victim for Insurance Loss

                                                                                                                            In a heartbreaking Wall Street Journal editorial, Edie Littlefield Sunby, a stage-four cancer survivor, details how ObamaCare cost her the health insurance Obama repeatedly promised she could keep, and how ObamaCare's alternative plans don't cover

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                                                                                                                              PolitiFact Ducks Questions On False ObamaCare Fact Checks

                                                                                                                              The Washington Examiner's Sean Higgins went back a few a few years did some research on Politicfact's fact checks of the president's claim that you can keep your health insurance if you like it, and warnings from Republicans that ObamaCare wil

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                                                                                                                                NY Post: White House Insider Says Not Enough Doctors, Nurses for ObamaCare

                                                                                                                                The New York Post reported Monday that an Obama administration official said the fact that there are not enough doctors for ObamaCare is a serious issue. Though website issues currently abound, once Americans can actually sign up for health insurance on t

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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.

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                                                                                                                                      Aides Debated Obama's 'If You Like It, You Can Keep It' Insurance Lie

                                                                                                                                      According to the Wall Street Journal, President Obama’s aides debated whether Obama should lie to Americans about keeping their health insurance plans as he pushed for Obamacare.

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                                                                                                                                        Health Policy Expert’s Insurance Gets Canceled by Obamacare

                                                                                                                                        As a health policy expert, Hadley Heath has warned about the problems with Obamacare for years. Now, like so many other Americans, she’s facing the real-life consequences of the law. Speaking to Fox News’s Greta Van Susteren, Heath said her cu

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                                                                                                                                          WhiteHouse.gov STILL claims Americans can keep their insurance plans [VIDEO]

                                                                                                                                          The White House website still informs visitors that if they like their healthcare plan,

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                                                                                                                                            The Four Other Obamacare Disasters the Media Ignored

                                                                                                                                            [caption id=attachment_94229 align=alignnone width=540] Newscom[/caption] In today’s Politico, reporters admit the mainstream media turned a blind eye and deaf ear to conservatives’ warnings about Obamacare—that not all Americans could k

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                                                                                                                                              Survey: Only 23% NY Doctors Say They'll Accept ObamaCare Patients

                                                                                                                                              A survey by New York State’s Medical Society found that of 409 doctors queried, only 23 percent say they will accept patients who have enrolled in an ObamaCare health exchange.

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                                                                                                                                                Starbucks CEO Jumps Off Obamacare Bandwagon

                                                                                                                                                Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz blasted the implementation of Obamacare on Thursday, just a month after he voiced his support for the law.

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                                                                                                                                                  NJ College Students Lose Low Cost Coverage Thanks To ObamaCare Regs

                                                                                                                                                  Along with documenting the many technical failures of Obama's so called signature website Healthcare.gov, this CBS New York item  reports the Obama sticker shock many Garden State college students now face thanks to the increasingly misleadi

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                                                                                                                                                    YOUR STORIES: Insurance Plans Cancelled Due to Obamacare

                                                                                                                                                    Estimates this week suggest that 11 million people could lose their current insurance plans because of Obamacare's mandatory requirements. We knew that included many Heritage readers, so earlier this week we asked: Has your health insurance plan been canc

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                                                                                                                                                      Is ObamaCare A Job Killer? Evidence Suggests Yes

                                                                                                                                                      Is the Affordable Care Act a job killer? Along with the fate of HealthCare.gov, this question stalks the ACA. Sadly, the answer seems to be yes.

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                                                                                                                                                          ObamaCare Costs 900,000 Californians Their Health Insurance

                                                                                                                                                          Almost a million Californians have so far lost the health insurance President Obama repeatedly and relentlessly promised them they could keep. SFGate reports that Covered California executive director Peter Lee predicts that upwards of 900,000 are expecte

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                                                                                                                                                            CNN Destroys Sebelius With Single Split-Screen

                                                                                                                                                            On Wednesday, as Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius testified that the Obamacare exchange website had “never crashed,” CNN undercut that case dramatically with a split screen of the Obamacare website – which was, at that point,

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                                                                                                                                                              NBC: ObamaCare Explodes Small Business Owner's Premium By 400%

                                                                                                                                                              On Tuesday's NBC Nightly News, Lisa Meyers told the story of a victim of President Obama's lie about being able to keep your insurance if you like it. ObamaCare not only kicked this small business owner off his plan, his new premium will cost 400%

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                                                                                                                                                                  NYC council votes to raise cigarette-buying age to 21

                                                                                                                                                                  Smokers younger than 21 may soon be barred from buying cigarettes in the nation's biggest city, where many local officials and public health advocates favor raising the tobacco-purchasing age to higher than all but a few other places in the United States.

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                                                                                                                                                                    One State’s 50 Stories of Obamacare Failure… and Counting

                                                                                                                                                                    A website based out of North Carolina has more than 50 personal stories detailing Obamacare failures. The “I Couldn’t Keep My Plan” website, created by the Civitas Institute, a conservative think tank based in Raleigh, is attempting to f

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                                                                                                                                                                      Obamacare Hurts America: The Story of Natalie Willis

                                                                                                                                                                      Every day we’re hearing more stories of Obamacare’s real-life impact on Americans. Three years after President Obama promised, “If you like your insurance plan, you will keep it,” people are receiving notices from insurance compani

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                                                                                                                                                                        How the Administration Knew Americans Would Lose Their Current Health Plans

                                                                                                                                                                        There has been much chatter about an NBC News report last night highlighting one clear fact: The Obama Administration knew millions of Americans would lose their current health plans due to Obamacare. That the Administration knew about the impact of Obama

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                                                                                                                                                                          More Obamacare Heartache: Tally Rises for Americans Losing Their Health Insurance

                                                                                                                                                                          The hype and dream are fizzling out with the Administration’s big promise on Obamacare—that every American who liked his or her health plan could keep it. According to a new tally, nearly 1.5 million customers in the individual insurance marke

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                                                                                                                                                                            CNN's Joe Johns: Not Clear How Many Times Obama Told Truth About People Losing Insurance

                                                                                                                                                                            What Johns and CNN are doing is trying to mitigate the political damage to Obama by manufacturing the idea that the administration did tell the truth, we just don't know how many times they did. Except CNN knows the White House didn't. CNN knows t

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                                                                                                                                                                                  Two Obama Voters Are Outraged Over Huge Insurance Hikes

                                                                                                                                                                                  California residents Cindy Vinson and Tom Waschura are proud to say they voted for President Obama in 2008 and 2012. They’ve also been proud advocates for his prized health care law. But after opening their health insurance bills last month, they&rs

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                                                                                                                                                                                    Obamacare Hurts America: The Story of Natalie Willis

                                                                                                                                                                                    Every day we’re hearing more stories of Obamacare’s real-life impact on Americans. Three years after President Obama promised, “If you like your insurance plan, you will keep it,” people are receiving notices from insurance compani

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                                                                                                                                                                                      Mad As Hell About ObamaCare?

                                                                                                                                                                                      In 1989, angry seniors forced the repeal of a costly new Medicare benefit just a year after it passed. It's time for the millions now being savaged by ObamaCare to rise up and do the same.

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                                                                                                                                                                                            Baltimore Ravens Get Taxpayer Dollars to Promote Obamacare

                                                                                                                                                                                            The contract between the Baltimore Ravens and the Maryland Health Connection, the state's Obamacare insurance exchange, details exactly what $130,000 in taxpayer money will go to: Obamacare promotions. The agreement, published Tuesday by Judicial Watch, c

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                                                                                                                                                                                              With His Premiums More Than Doubling, This Dad Would “Rather File Bankruptcy” Than Deal with Obamacare

                                                                                                                                                                                              [caption id=attachment_130792 align=alignnone width=640] Ben, Charla, Chaz, Zane, and Jenna Neptun[/caption] Ben Neptun and his wife Charla are “furious” their family’s health insurance premium will be raised from $419 to $899 per month

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                                                                                                                                                                                                Obamacare Website Calculator Doesn’t Show Real Cost of Many Plans

                                                                                                                                                                                                CBS News reports this morning on another problem with the flawed Obamacare exchanges: In many cases, the new online calculator available at healthcare.gov underestimates premium costs for health insurance: Industry analysts, such as Jonathan Wu, point to

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                                                                                                                                                                                                  Health insurance cancellation notices soar above Obamacare enrollment rates

                                                                                                                                                                                                  Hundreds of thousands of Americans who purchase their own health insurance have received cancellation notices since August because the plans do not meet Obamacare's requirements. The number of can

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                                                                                                                                                                                                    Hannity to Pay Year's Salary to ObamaCare Operator Fired After His Phone Call

                                                                                                                                                                                                    On his radio show Monday, Sean Hannity got through to an ObamaCare operator named Erling Davis. For about ten minutes, while knowing she was on the radio, the friendly and honest Erling answered all of Hannity's questions -- none of which made ObamaCa

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                                                                                                                                                                                                      How To Opt Out of ObamaCare Without Paying the Fine

                                                                                                                                                                                                      Less than two-hours ago I submitted a revised W-4 form to our payroll department. My goal is to avoid being in a position where at the end of next year I am owed a refund from the federal government. As an act of civil disobedience, I am refusing to purch

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                                                                                                                                                                                                          40% of CareFirst Customers in VA, MD, D.C. Lose Insurance Due to Obamacare

                                                                                                                                                                                                          CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield revealed to the Washington Examiner that 76,000 of its customers will lose their health plans with the advent of ObamaCare. The people affected come from Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. and comprise over 40% of the

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                                                                                                                                                                                                            Fox News Poll: 60 percent of voters think implementation of ObamaCare is 'a joke'

                                                                                                                                                                                                            Six voters in ten describe implementation of ObamaCare as “a joke,” and more voters than not say problems with the government’s health insurance website are so bad someone should be fired, according to a Fox News national poll. 

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                                                                                                                                                                                                              Website Fiasco Reveals Larger Truths About Obama Care And Its Originator

                                                                                                                                                                                                              ObamaCare's embarrassing false start raises a host of issues about the government-run health program going forward. It also exposes some larger truths about its namesake.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                CNN: ObamaCare Site Doomed, Riddled with Security Dangers

                                                                                                                                                                                                                Today, on the CNN Money site, there is a terrific story about the problems surrounding the ObamaCare website. The story includes all kinds of new information from a host of experts, and most of the news is flat-out terrible: the Half-billion dollar site n

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Lawmakers: Sebelius failed at government website projects prior to serving in Obama administration

                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Obama administration Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' failure at designing websites to provide government services began during her term as governor of Kansas, long before the Ob

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Hidden in ObamaCare Site: Applicants Surrender Right to Privacy

                                                                                                                                                                                                                    During Thursday's congressional hearing with the contractors responsible for building the troubled ObamaCare federal exchanges, we learned that whether you end up enrolling in ObamaCare or not, no one who puts any information into the ObamaCare websit

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Forbes: Obamacare website troubles are meant to weed out healthy middle class

                                                                                                                                                                                                                      The technical disasters of the Obamacare exchange debacle over the past two weeks are not an accident, but rather a way to disguise the costs of healthcare plans and weed out people who don't qualify

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Another ObamaCare ‘Glitch’: $30B blown on non-operational medical record system

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        The rollout of ObamaCare has been plagued by problems these past two weeks, as thousands complained they couldn’t sign up for coverage due to a deeply defective website.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The disastrous ObamaCare exchanges are just the tip of the iceberg

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Rarely has a government program rollout resulted in the level of disaster as the Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchanges over their first two weeks. The White House refuses to release enrollment statistics that should be easily gleaned from internal systems s

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                            ObamaCare Will Enrich Insurers At Taxpayers' Expense

                                                                                                                                                                                                                            The Affordable Care Act may give health insurance companies a virtually limitless power to tap the U.S. Treasury, thereby lifting insurers' profits to undreamt-of heights. This power derives from the mathematical formula for calculating individual subsidi

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Why Is Obama Hiding ObamaCare Enrollment Data?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                              After spending 3-1/2 years and $634 million building its ObamaCare exchange, the administration claims it can't manage to produce any enrollment data. Why?

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Obamacare in Action: This Man’s Premiums Are Going Up 61 Percent

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Higher insurance premiums are just one side effect of Obamacare, but many Americans are finding out that they will also be paying for benefits that they do not need. Tom Gialanella recently received a letter from his insurance company explaining what will

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Obamacare Has ‘Raped My Future,’ College Grad Says in Viral Letter

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  A 26-year-old university graduate penned an open letter this week expressing her deep displeasure with President Barack Obama's signature health care law, saying it has

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Liberals Mugged By ObamaCare Reality

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    While President Obama refuses to consider any delay of ObamaCare, his liberal base is waking up to the fact that

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Gov. actuaries say ObamaCare will increase health care spending by $621 billion over next 10 years

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      President Obama has made many promises about his signature health care plan, but one of the simplest was an assurance that it would lower national health care spending and save every family thousands of dollars -- but government actuaries have reached a d

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          SF Bay Obamacare Victims: 'I Was Laughing at Boehner -- Until the Mail Came Today'

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Sticker shock over Obamacare has arrived in San Francisco. Now that Obamacare exchanges are live (or are they?) people looking for health care are getting quite a surprise. And it's not just limited to those looking for exchanges, other people who alr

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            How Obamacare Hurts Americans: The Story of Ann Lorenz

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Ann Lorenz struggles with Parkinson’s disease and relies on Medicare to receive care. However, due to Obamacare, Lorenz worries that she will be limited in access to her doctors. “Patients like Ann will have to start spending more of their own

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              FEC Records Confirm Obamacare Signup Poster Boy Donated $1,000 to Obama

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              21 year old Chad Henderson has rocketed to fame over the past few days as the only known person to have successfully signed up for Obamacare. The mainstream media has trumpeted his story at every opportunity.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                As ObamaCare launches, people in all age groups report problems

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                From confusion over enrolling to soaring premiums and unnecessary coverage, people in all age goups report problems as ObamaCare launches.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Obamacare Down: National Headlines Document Insurance Exchange Failures

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  October 1 was D-Day for the nation-wide launch of the Obamacare exchanges. Embarrassingly, few of them worked as advertised, and not many people have been able to get themselves signed up for the government-sponsored insurance exchanges.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      SEIU Members Strike over Job Cuts Caused by Obamacare

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Service Employees International Union (SEIU) members in Chicago have gone on strike after a janitorial company cut some union jobs and hours because of Obamacare, a law the SEIU supported.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        President Obama lied to us -- he told America some real whoppers about ObamaCare

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Thursday I asked my Facebook community if they had faced hardships as a result of ObamaCare. The response was overwhelming.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          NBC to Air Obamacare Advertising Series as 'News'

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          NBC News has announced that it will air a special series that will

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Rep. Lee Claims Health Care Costs 'Down For The First Time in 50 Years' | CNS News

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            (CNSNews.com) – In a heated exchange with Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) on “Meet the Press” Sunday, Rep.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Obamacare ‘glitch’ costly for families

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              A glitch hidden in one of Obamacare's 10,000 pages of rules could increase some families' health insurance costs by thousands of dollars  and leave children uncovered. To qualify as

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Defunding Obamacare Not 'Suicide' After All

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Beltway conservatives have been warning for weeks that the movement to defund Obamacare through the upcoming budget debate is a political loser. Even columnist Charles Krauthammer, often sympathetic to the Tea Party movement, recently called the move to d

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Fox News poll: 68 percent concerned about their health care under new law

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Nearly 7 out of 10 voters are concerned about their personal health care under the Affordable Care Act and a majority wants to take the health care system back to 2009, according to the latest Fox News national poll.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Warren Buffett: Scrap Obamacare and Start Over

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Read conservative news, blogs and opinion about Barack Obama, Health Care, Obamacare, Repeal, Replace, Scrap and Warren Buffett from The Weekly Standard, the must read magazine available in online edition.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Over 100 Emory Healthcare Workers Laid Off Over Obamacare

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Over 100 Emory Healthcare workers have been laid off because of Obamacare.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          CNN Poll: Support for Obamacare Drops Below 40%

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [caption id=attachment_128733 align=alignnone width=576] Heritage's billboard in New York City's Times Square. (Credit: Nick Montalvo)[/caption] A new poll released today from CNN shows public support for Obamacare plummeting below 40 percent, a significa

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Hospital Finds Obamacare Harmful to Its Health

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            [caption id=attachment_128733 align=alignnone width=576] Heritage’s billboard in New York City’s Times Square. (Credit: Nick Montalvo)[/caption] Last night the Newark Star-Ledger reported that Obamacare is causing one large New Jersey hospital

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Worker for Minnesota ObamaCare 'exchange' releases private info in security breach

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              An employee at MNsure, Minnesota's new online health insurance exchange, accidentally distributed confidential information about more than 2,400 insurance agents. 

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                10 Ways Obamacare Isn’t Working

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Obamacare is an unworkable law. It’s obvious because the Administration keeps trying to “fix” it—to no avail. It has delayed parts of the law, ignored others, and carved out exemptions for its political allies. 1. WAIVERS: The Admi

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Obamacare polls give Republican health reformers hope

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  A newly released poll poll finds that two out of three Americans would like to see major changes to the Affordable Care Act. The poll by the Morning Consult, a medical industry trade publication, f

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Trumka: 'Mistakes' Were Made in the Writing of ObamaCare, Not Thought Through

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told reporters at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast on Thursday that “mistakes” were made in the writing of ObamaCare because it was

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Premiums Climbed $2,976 Since 2009, Despite Obama Vow

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Employer-based family health premiums are up $2,976 since 2009, says the Kaiser Family Foundation. President Obama had vowed ObamaCare would cut them by $2,500.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Obama Gives Congress Obamacare Relief — Illegally

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        “Heavens, I have staff who don’t make much money. This would be a really big bite for them.” That could be any employer talking about the costs of Obamacare. But it’s a Member of Congress—who’s happy the President will

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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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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            New Poll Shows Support for Defunding Obamacare

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            How do you feel about defunding Obamacare? A new poll of American voters shows a majority—57 percent—support defunding this unfair, unaffordable, unworkable law. Heritage Action for America and Basswood Research asked voters in 10 different co

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              ObamaCare To Punish The Good Samaritan

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              OnamaCare and the IRS will punish nonprofit hospitals with loss of tax-exempt status or heavy fines if they do not comply with new regulations.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                White House's ObamaCare Delay Confirms Law Is A Mess

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                The administration knows, but won't admit, that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is deeply flawed. Its continued delays of some provisions confirms this.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Poll: Less than 3 percent of federal workers want to join Obamacare

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Less than 3 percent of U.S. federal workers want to give up their current health plans and join Obamacare, according to a new poll. 92.3 percent of federal workers think that they should continue w

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Flashback: Sebelius called for a ‘single payer system eventually’

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid isn’t the only high-profile Democrat who has suggested the United States will eventually transition to a single payer health care system. The Nevada lawmaker gen

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        900,000 Reasons Obamacare Is Bad: Moving Americans from Work to Welfare

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [caption id=attachment_102523 align=alignnone width=540] Newscom[/caption] Obamacare is not only hurting small businesses and economic growth. It might also give nearly a million low-income individuals a reason to leave work for welfare. A new study from

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          CBO Study Underestimates Real Costs Of Delay Of ObamaCare

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The Congressional Budget Office's estimate for the impact of the Obama adminstration's delay of ObamaCare is flawed. It will cost taxpayers a lot more than $12 billion.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              IRS chief says he'd rather not switch to ObamaCare plan

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The head of the agency tasked with enforcing ObamaCare said Thursday that he'd rather not get his own health insurance from the system created by the health care overhaul. 

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  How to Use Obamacare to Scam Taxpayers

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Looking for a little extra cash? If you’re interested in defrauding taxpayers, it might be as easy as writing down a number on a form. The number is your income. The form is the Obamacare application. If you do not have “affordable” empl

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Hospital Networks Reject ObamaCare Initiative

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    ObamaCare's Accountable Care Organization Initiative will diminish the quality of care that Medicare patients receive.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Defunding: Framers' Remedy For Presidential Lawlessness

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Republicans threaten to cut off funding for the federal government in response to Obama's unconstitutional stance that he can pick and choose which parts of ObamaCare he will implement.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Detroit Shows How ObamaCare Will Bankrupt the Country

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Looks like Detroit will get a federal bailout by offloading its retiree health costs onto ObamaCare. It's a window into why ObamaCare costs will quickly spiral out of control.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Republicans suspect administration of trying to block self-funded insurance

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Republicans on Capitol Hill say the Obama administration is trying to regulate or prevent small companies from providing self-funded insurance for their employees because self-funded insurance plans c

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Legal group requests IRS investigation into organization promoting Obamacare

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            A conservative legal group has filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service calling for an investigation into the tax status of a group responsible for promoting Obamacare. Enroll America is

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              IRS employees union: Please don’t make us enroll in Obamacare

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The union that represents IRS employees is urging its members to write to their congressmen to help get the union out of Obamacare.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Obamacare Continues to Cut Workers Hours

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [caption id=attachment_90163 align=alignnone width=550] Newscom[/caption] A Washington Post front-page story reported what many of us already know: The employer mandate in Obamacare is causing employers to cut workers’ hours as well as the number of

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Fox News Poll: Voters say repeal ObamaCare, expect new law will cost them

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Voters think Obamacare is going to hurt their wallet and over half want the law repealed, according to a new Fox News national poll.