Dollars and sense

“If you like your insurance you can keep it.” Tell that to the employees of Walgreen’s, the retirees at IBM and any number of present and past employees of some of America’s largest companies who are being thrown out of their present policies and on to the government exchanges.

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The politics of revulsion

The public doesn’t like Democrats. They like Republicans even less.

All of this revulsion doesn’t bode well for Republicans in the latest round of “continuing resolution” discussions to fund the government at sequester-spending levels …

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How Obamacare and Benghazi affect Syria

By Tom Quiner “If you like your current health insurance plan, you can keep it.” How many times did candidate and president Barack Obama say that his plan, Obamacare, wouldn’t affect your current health insurance coverage? Who can count that high? Even more, he promised to lower our insurance premiums by $2500 per year by…

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Obamacare riles up disability rights activists

Take the case of Deana Copeland.

Her daughter, Andrea Hood, was born with cerebral palsy, spina bifida, and autonomic dysreflexia. Deana is her daughter’s caretaker. This mother and daughter live in Oregon. Andrea requires round-the-clock care, which her mom provides. The government provides $1400 a month to the mom as a paid service provider.

Under Obamacare, this may have to change …

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Give me cheaper coverage

Human nature is simple: if someone else is picking up the tab for health insurance, a person will choose gold-plated coverage. If he’s paying for it himself, he selects the cost-effective product with the coverage he needs.

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Mixed feelings on Obama’s postponement of the mandates

In tacit admission of their collective incompetence, the administration is using the honor system in determining who will receive deep Obamacare discounts on the basis of need. Recall how candidate Obama promised “to root out waste and fraud” which is rampant in Medicare and Medicaid. They’ve taken the Reagan mantra of “trust, but verify,” and turned it on its head with their new “don’t verify AND trust” approach to governance.

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