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Who do you want deciding whether you or your loved one lives or dies?
“The bill is passed.” These are the words of then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) after the monstrosity that is Obamacare was passed in the U.S. House of Representatives more than six years ago. For some, the words might as well have been “The die is cast,” as Pelosi’s words sounded the impending death…
Read MoreBusiness Insider: ‘Americans’ out-of-pocket healthcare costs are skyrocketing’
Obamacare proponents are quick to point to the relatively slow rise in premium increases of employer-sponsored health-insurance plans as a way of dismissing those frustrated by the president’s signature health-insurance law. These same critics, however, fail to consider the hidden costs of Obamacare in out-of-pocket medical expenses like deductibles, which have spiked in recent years.…
Read MoreVA executives awash in bonuses despite ongoing wait-list scandal
Veteran Affairs employees raked in a combined $177 million in bonuses in fiscal-year 2015 even though VA offices across the country remain plagued by reports of mismanagement and continued manipulation of veteran wait-list times. USA Today has the scoop: More than 300 senior executives of the troubled agency received $3.3 million in bonuses, for an…
Read MoreNew York Post editorial: ‘Worst of Obamacare is yet to come’
As if a 25-percent-average increase to federal Obamacare insurance premiums in 39 states isn’t enough, a slew of other problems associated with the botched health-insurance law are bound to arise in the weeks and months ahead. The New York Post has the details: More, the law also pushed consolidation — penalizing doctors who stay in independent…
Read MoreSen. David Perdue: Time to ‘usher in the return of the citizen legislator’
Lawmakers weren’t always in office year after year and decade after decade. It used to be that legislating was a secondary job held by ordinary Americans — and it still is that way in some legislative chambers around the country — but not so much anymore in Washington, D.C. Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) explains why that’s…
Read MoreNew York Times: Obamacare tax penalty ‘has not worked all that well’
The New York Times documents the people choosing to go without Obamacare this coming year because of the price spikes sweeping the country and instead take the tax penalty and pray they don’t need health insurance. Here are some of the details: It has not worked all that well, and that is at least partly…
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