Thank you for visiting the "Health Care News" page where you can read all about how well health care is doing since Obamacare was enacted. It's no secret that Obamacare makes me sick! The very idea that we are forced to pay for health care whether we want it or not is not Liberty, but tyranny. Obamacare is not about health care but about control. Control people's health care and you control the people. Mr. Obama has stated publicly that he wants a single-payer system...so was Obamacare designed to be a gateway for single-payer?

The current VA Hospital scandal is government run health care at it's best and a look into the future of Obamacare. If our Veterans aren't receiving the best government managed care available, just think what you are going to receive...

December 2014

Tuesday,
December 9,
2014
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Beware of 2015 health insurance individual mandate penalty  
The Obamacare law imposes a penalty on individuals who fail to have so-called minimum essential health insurance coverage for any month. This requirement is commonly called the individual mandate, and the penalty is the cost of noncompliance with the mandate. The bad news is the penalty can be considerably more expensive in 2015. If you are like me and had your health insurance cancelled (again), you must obtain coverage quickly to avoid getting socked with the penalty in 2015. Here’s what you need to know.

November 2014

Monday,
November 17,
2014
Another rude Obamacare surprise awaits  
As the Affordable Care Act enters its second year of operability, a key and controversial element of the plan will begin to affect several million Americans for the first time. People who didn’t have health insurance during 2014 may soon have to pay a penalty fee that starts at $95 and goes up based on how much you earn. Some Americans know about the penalty, and they’ve budgeted for it or at least accepted its inevitability. But several million others could be in for a rude surprise when Washington assesses a fee they didn’t even know was coming.
Friday,
November 14,
2014
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Your “Children Will Be Fined” If You Fail To Sign Up For Obamacare: People Are Going To Be In for A Shock  
Free and affordable health care just gets better and better.

In 2015 the government will be activating some new “incentives” embedded in the Affordable Care Act in an effort to get more people to sign up.

But, as is often the case when the government says one thing, they mean exactly the opposite. In this case, when they say incentive what they really mean is that you are going to be penalized if you fail to acquire government mandated health insurance. But not just you. Your children, who apparently no longer belong to you anyway based on a recent court ruling, will be fined for your failure to get them on the insurance rolls. 
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
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Obamacare begins to unravel  
Three things happened during the first 10 days of November that amount to a major downgrade in the prognosis for Obamacare. First, Republicans won a majority of seats in the Senate, giving them control of both houses of Congress. Second, the Obama administration sharply lowered its estimate for how many people will enroll in Obamacare in 2015. Third and probably most important, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a sleeper legal case that could have devastating consequences for Obamacare if the justices side with the plaintiffs.
Monday, November 2, 2014
30,000 Indiana Residents To Lose Their Insurance Due To Obamacare [VIDEO]  
Notifications have been sent out to 30,000 residents of Indiana informing them their health insurance plans no longer meet the requirements of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, and will be cancelled at the end of this year.

Indiana joins Virginia (the hardest hit with 250,000 cancellations), Kentucky, Colorado, North Carolina, New Mexico, Tennessee and Maine, among the more than dozen states and the District of Columbia that are experiencing another round of health insurance cancellations this year.

October 2014

Wednesday,
October 8,
2014
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Democrat Voters Confused: “I Didn’t Realize I Would Be The One Who Was Going to Pay For It Personally”  
Back in 2008, when then-candidate Obama promised Joe the Plumber and the rest of America that he intended to spread the wealth around, most democrat and liberal voters embraced the notion of wealth redistribution under the guise of equality. A universal health care plan, that would be free for all Americans, was the promise from the candidate of hope and change. Tens of millions of Americans jumped on the bandwagon waving their flags, fainting at his appearances, and fawning over his every word.

None ever thought about where the money would come from for all this new found wealth he promised to bestow upon them.

But those who understand that socialism, communism and governance by the collective are failed experiments, warned where that money would come from. It would be taken by force from the toils of the middle class, and it’d impoverish them in the process.

Now the myrmidons who once vehemently supported the policies of President Barack Obama without question are coming to the realization that when Obama spoke about spreading the wealth he actually meant their wealth too!

September 2014

Monday,
September 1,
2014
High Health Plan Deductibles Weigh Down More Employees  
Just as employers replaced pensions with retirement savings plans, more large companies appear to be in a similar cost-sharing shift with health plans. Besides making workers responsible for more of their care, employers hope these plans will motivate employees to comparison-shop for medical services — an admirable goal but one that some say is hard to achieve.

June 2014

Monday, June 9, 2014
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Audit: More than 57,000 await first VA appointment  
WASHINGTON — More than 57,000 U.S. military veterans have been waiting 90 days or more for their first VA medical appointments, and an additional 64,000 appear to have fallen through the cracks, never getting appointments after enrolling, the government said Monday in a report newly demonstrating how deep and widespread the problem is.

It's not just a backlog issue, the wide-ranging Veterans Affairs review indicated. Thirteen percent of schedulers in the facility-by-facility report on 731 hospitals and outpatient clinics reported being told by supervisors to falsify appointment schedules to make patient waits appear shorter.

May 2014

Sunday, May 25, 2014
Health law: Embrace, avoid or in between for Dems   
ATLANTA (AP) - Democratic candidates are trying to figure out whether to embrace or avoid President Barack Obama's health care overhaul - or land somewhere in between.

The president says his party shouldn't apologize or go on the defensive about the Affordable Care Act.

Candidates aren't so sure.

Two top recruits for Senate races - Michelle Nunn in Georgia and Alison Lundergan Grimes in Kentucky - won't say how they would have voted when the Senate passed the bill in 2010. Their refusals are overshadowing their endorsements of individual parts of the law that are more popular than the law itself.
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
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Sarah Palin: VA Scandal Future of Obamacare If Democrats Not Voted Out 
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said President Barack Obama's Veterans Administration scandal involving 40 veterans who reportedly died after they were put on secret waiting lists represents Obamacare's future if Democrats are not voted out of office. "Friends, that’s rationed care. That’s the VA today. That's what's got to change," she wrote Wednesday on Facebook. "That's why Congress has got to change because until we elect leaders who'll buck the march to socialized medicine known as Obamacare, America’s health care system will go the way of the VA."

Palin had previously warned about the perils of socialized medicine and Obamacare before the law was enacted.

“Government health care will not reduce the cost; it will simply refuse to pay the cost,” Palin wrote in 2009 while predicting "death panels." "And who will suffer the most when they ration care? The sick, the elderly, and the disabled, of course.”

Politifact deemed Palin's remarks to be its "Lie of the year," and Palin was mocked years before liberals like Howard Dean, Paul Krugman, and some of President Barack Obama's former advisers – like Steven Rattner – finally conceded she was right

Palin said Wednesday that "Obama’s Democrat party must be defeated in the ballot box in November" so that America remains the strongest nation on earth. She posted a picture of Abraham Lincoln and referenced Lincoln's words about Americans having to guard their freedoms: "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

Last week, Palin sounded the alarm about the willingness of Democrats to use Obamacare's failures to push the country toward a single-payer healthcare system.

"What happens next is the Left will subtly suggest moving America toward a single-payer system, which was their intention all along. Watch for this gradual, but driving, descent into statism," Palin warned. "So, are you still relying on Obamacare to help and not hurt you? On the Democrats' watch, health care in the hands of unaccountable bureaucrats proves Reagan’s adage that government is not the solution; government is the problem."
Thursday,
May 1, 20014
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Thanks to Obamacare, more companies are likely to dump health benefits  
We may soon go back to a model in which employers provide healthcare more as a perk than as a routine benefit, requiring workers to get insurance from other sources. That could save big companies up to $700 billion by 2025, according to a new report from S&P Capital IQ. It’s hard to think of any other single change that could save companies that much money, indicating how powerful the Affordable Care Act (ACA) could become once it has fully impacted the U.S. healthcare system.

S&P predicts that companies will do the math and find it irresistible to move more and more of their workers off company-run plans and into the exchanges established under Obamacare, as the ACA is known. Companies with more than 50 workers will have to pay a penalty if they don’t offer insurance, but it could still be cheaper when factoring in the savings on healthcare; that’s because insurance costs have skyrocketed during the last 20 years, making healthcare one of the costs companies find most difficult to control.

April 2014

Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Waiting To Die? Man Says Insurance Rejected Due To Obamacare  
CHOWCHILLA, Calif. (KMPH) - A Chowchilla man says he is in a life or death situation because of the 'Affordable Healthcare Act' or 'Obamacare'. Gary Ray, who is battling bone cancer, says it's because doctors are rejecting his health insurance.

Ray says the health care plan he had for 20–years with 'Blue Cross' was eliminated by 'Obamacare' and he was bumped to what was supposed to be a similar one. However, the plans turned out to be very different.
Monday, April 14, 2014
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Little-Known Legal Challenge That Could Torpedo Obamacare  
The conflict at the center of the Halbig case (and three other challenges across the country) has to do with tax subsidies granted to those who seek to obtain insurance from the ex- changes. The ACA grants the credits to qualifying individuals in order to defray the cost of the insurance. Millions of Americans are expected to take advantage of the subsidies.

But challengers to the law dispute who is eligible for the tax credits.

On one side, the IRS interprets the law as authorizing the agency to grant tax credits to individuals using either the state or federal exchanges. On the other side are challengers to the law who question that interpretation.

The challengers say that while the text of the law allows the subsidies for the state-run exchanges, there is nothing in the law that says the subsidies should be available for the federal exchanges.

“This is yet another example where the president and his agencies are playing fast and loose with the text of the law because they are trying to get the result they want,” said Carrie Severino, chief counsel for the Judicial Crisis Network, who is a critic of the ACA.

Michael A. Carvin, a lawyer for the challengers, argued in court briefs that the IRS is wrong in its interpretation of the law and the agency purports to “dispense billions of dollars in federal spending that Congress never authorized.”
Monday,
April 14, 2014
Congressional Budget Office Says Obamacare Will Cost Less Than Projected  
Still, there is a downside to the lower costs, according to the report: “The plans being offered through exchanges in 2014 appear to have, in general, lower payment rates for providers, narrower networks of providers, and tighter management of their subscribers’ use of health care than employment-based plans do. Those features allow insurers that offer plans through the exchanges to charge lower premiums (although they also make plans somewhat less attractive to potential enrollees).”
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Political Ties of Top Billers for Medicare  
MIAMI — Two Florida doctors who received the nation’s highest Medicare reimbursements in 2012 are both major contributors to Democratic Party causes, and they have turned to the political system in recent years to defend themselves against suspicions that they may have submitted fraudulent or excessive charges to the federal government.
Monday, April 7, 2014
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Survey: US sees sharpest health insurance premium increases in years  
Americans have recently been hit with some of the largest premium increases in years, according to a Morgan Stanley survey of insurance brokers.

The investment bank’s April survey of 148 brokers found that this quarter, the average premium increase for customers renewing an insurance plan is 12 percent in the small group market and 11 percent in the individual market, according to Forbes’ Scott Gottlieb.

The hikes — the largest in the past three years, according to Morgan Stanley’s quarterly reports — are “largely due to changes under the [Affordable Care Act],” analysts concluded. Rates have been growing increasingly fast throughout all of 2013, after a period of drops in 2012.
Thursday, April 3, 2014
The Coming Obamacare Shock for 170 Million Americans  
Consider that presidential wish casting in a midterm cycle in which Democrats will have to constantly defend their support for the unpopular law. As Jimmy Fallon pointed out later the same evening, the numbers were neither impressive nor reliable. “It’s amazing what you can achieve when you make something mandatory,” Fallon told his laughing audience, “fine people if they don’t do it — and keep extending the deadline for months.”
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
3 things to watch as Obamacare deadline passes  
Les Funtleyder, partner at Bluecloud Healthcare, says there’s three things to watch now that the deadline has passed. “We may not know if Obamacare is going to work for a couple of years actually,” Funtleyder says. Case in point, final prices for insurance premiums depending on individual specifics may not be known until the late fall, he claims. This is because insurers require a few months to see who’s signed up and determine initial rates.

March 2014


Friday, March 28, 2014
How Much Does Obamacare Rip Off Young Adults? We Ran The Numbers. Here Are The Results.  
The final number of young enrollees is well below the required cohort. Premiums will rise next year as a result of the adverse selection of older, and probably less healthy consumers. Why are young adults staying away? In one word, economics.
Thursday, March 27, 2014
More than 6 million Americans enrolled under the ACA, White House says  
More than 6 million Americans have now signed up for private insurance under the Affordable Care Act, according to the White House, with just four days to go until the end of its first open enrollment period.
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
THE LIST Democrats Do Not Want You to See: 27 Senate Democrats Who Lied To Americans About Keeping Their Health Plans Under Obamacare…
(Byron York via The Washington Examiner) -- How many Democrats made the promise? There's no comprehensive list of all of them, but Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's office has compiled a list of 27 Democratic senators who pledged that Americans could keep their coverage under Obamacare. The list includes the entire Democratic leadership in the Senate as well as Democrats facing tough re-election races in 2014, like Mary Landrieu, Mark Begich, and Kay Hagan. Here is that list, compiled by McConnell's office:
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Judging Obamacare state by state  
Earlier this month the Department of Health and Human Services announced that more than five million people had selected plans on the public insurance exchanges, a sign that the pace of enrollments is quickening as the March 31 deadline for choosing a plan approaches. But a look at the exchanges during the last month of the sign-up period shows that the enrollment picture isn’t equal across the map. “A handful of states have done great,” says Katherine Hempstead, the senior program officer for the coverage team at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a philanthropy dedicated to health care. “But there are some states that are really not getting much traction at all.”
Posted Thursday, March 20, 2014
Monday, March 3, 2014
Obamacare Architect: ‘Be Prepared to Kiss Your Insurance Company Good-Bye Forever’  
Ezekiel Emanuel, one of the architects behind Obamacare, is now claiming that “insurance companies as we know them are about to die.” Critics of President Barack Obama’s signature health care law have long alleged that one of the real goals of the law was to put private insurance companies out of business.
Monday, March 3, 2014
One in Three Say They’ve Been Personally Hurt by Obamacare  
One-third of Americans say the Affordable Care Act has had a negative impact on them personally, while 14 percent say the law has helped them, according to a new Rasmussen survey. The poll finds that public dissatisfaction with Obamcare remains nearly as high as it was during the height of the website’s problems last year.

February 2014


Thursday, February 27, 2014
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Convicted international terrorist hired as Obamacare navigator in Chicago  
Rasmieh Yousef Odeh’s navigator status was quietly revoked in November “based on an investigation which revealed that she had been convicted in Israel for her role in the bombings of a supermarket and the British Consulate in Jerusalem and failed to reveal the conviction on her application,” according to the National Review Online.
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Police officers arrested in car impound scheme  
( KTVU-AP) KING CITY, Calif. — Police officers in a Central California town took part in a scheme in which cars belonging to poor Hispanic people were impounded, towed and later sold or given away for free to some officers when the car owners couldn't pay the fees, authorities said Tuesday.
(Most law enforcement officers are good people...but there is always those few individuals who give law enforcement a bad rap; after all, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. It's human nature. But tyranny is tyranny. How long did it take for Citizens to complain before action was taken? "If you don;t know your rights, you don't have any rights." -Carl Miller) - Rodney Spooner.
Monday, February 17, 2014
Health Data Under Cyberattack!
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Rep. James Lankford brings up Obamacare opt-out bill 
“The Health Care Compact is a way for states to protect their residents from the top-down, one-size-fits-all health care ‘solutions’ that have been imposed from Washington, D.C., including Obamacare,” Mr. Lankford said, Breitbart reported. “The compact transfers health care decision-making authority and responsibility from the federal level to members states.”
Thursday, February 6, 2014
Health-Care Law Expected to Take Greater Toll on Workforce 
WASHINGTON—The Affordable Care Act is projected to reduce the number of full-time workers by roughly 2.3 million people through 2021 and insure 2 million fewer people this year than previously estimated, the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday.

January 2014

Wednesday, January 29, 2014
The Arkansas private option could be in trouble  
A minority of state legislators may put health coverage for 100,000 Arkansans in jeopardy.