Today, Tea Party Patriots, the nation’s largest tea party organization, blasted Speaker John Boeher, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and the Obama Administration for engaging in, according to news reports, “high-level, confidential talks” in order to exempt lawmakers and their aides from the mandated insurance exchanges under Obamacare. “If they want to repeal Obamacare for…

Politico has the scoop: Congressional leaders in both parties are engaged in high-level, confidential talks about exempting lawmakers and Capitol Hill aides from the insurance exchanges they are mandated to join as part of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, sources in both parties said. The talks — which involve Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid…

Political Ambitions Have Clouded his Memory Today, Tea Party Patriots, the nation’s largest tea party organization, blasted Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) after he called the implementation of President Obama’s health care law a “huge train wreck coming down.” Sen. Baucus was one of the key authors of the law as Chairman of the Senate Finance…

Last week, the Texas House almost opened the door to expanded Medicaid coverage via the Affordable Care Act. Fortunately, conservatives stepped up to prevent this disaster from happening. The Texas Tribune has the story: Hours after approving the measure, the Texas House backpedaled on an amendment to the 2013-14 budget that would have opened the…

Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act slightly over three years ago, we’ve seen Congress repeal a tax, and the Senate move towards repealing a second one. We’ve also seen an entire provision, the CLASS Act, be done away with. Now, a whole subsection of healthcare exchanges, those for small businesses, is being pushed…

On Tuesday, the Associated Press reported a new estimate showed costs under Obamacare those in the individual insurance market would increase dramatically: Insurance companies will have to pay out an average of 32 percent more for medical claims on individual health policies under President Obama’s overhaul, the nation’s leading group of financial risk analysts has…

Another piece of Obamacare may soon be on the trash heap of history: Medical-device companies scored a political victory when the Senate voted in a non-binding resolution to repeal a new device tax, and now they are turning their attention to the House, especially U.S. Representative Ed Markey. The 2.3 percent tax went into effect…

Last week, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) pushed for an amendment to the Continuing Resolution (CR) for the 2013 Fiscal Year. The amendment, which failed, was a simple one: it repealed Obamacare in its entirety. That amendment failed, 45-54, but got the votes of every single Republican in the Senate. Shortly afterwards, the Senate CR came…

H/T to Hot Air for this future of employer-based health care: One of the country’s largest pharmacy chains is asking its workers to find out how fat they are and then disclose it to their insurance provider. Not only is that company, CVS Caremark, telling workers who use its health insurance plan to have a…

Yesterday, as the political world focused on Senator Rand Paul’s (R-KY) filibuster heard ‘round the world, the House passed its version of the Continuing Resolution to keep the government running until the end of the 2013 fiscal year (FY). The legislation, which passed with strong bipartisan support, deserves a mix of reactions. It included sequestration,…