Ow. Ow. My head hurts. How is it possible for one website’s costs to come anywhere near $2 billion? But a recent report by the Department of Health and Human Resources (HHS) indicates that Healthcare.gov, the troubled online market for Obamacare, is going to end up costing the federal government about 1.7 billion dollars: The […]
Continue reading →The Affordable Care Act, known “affectionately” as Obamacare, rests very precariously on a few key contingencies. For one, a large number of people have to enroll in order to make it financially solvent. Second, in order for these people to enroll, they rely on federal subsidies (tax credits) to make Obamacare affordable to them. If […]
Continue reading →If you had to pay for your own hospital care, what would be important to you? Lowering the cost of healthcare, preventative measures, cutting out the middle men, researching effective cheap cures, and cutting down on any unnecessary expensive hospital visits (like the ER, for instance). Well, guess which kind of hospital visit has become […]
Continue reading →Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had some insightful commentary on why Obamacare has been so fabulously halting in its botched rollout. Reid thinks one of the major problems with the online signup process is that people aren’t educated on how to use the internet: We have hundreds of thousands of people who tried to […]
Continue reading →“What is it like to be the last black president?” That was probably the best line in a moderately funny faux interview between Zach Galifianakis and President Obama that was featured on Funny or Die’s Between Two Ferns. Between Two Ferns, the mock interview web show created and hosted by Galifianakis, is an awkward, sometimes […]
Continue reading →Republican Senator Tom Coburn, whose primary profession is as a doctor, has crunched some numbers (He’s pretty good at crunching numbers—you might have read his highly illuminating “Government Wastebook”) and given us an estimate of the bloat escalation of existing government health programs. Forget Obamacare. Even when all we had was Medicaid, we were already […]
Continue reading →One of the reasons conservatives try to conserve the status quo is because they recognize that there may be unintended consequences to change. Conservative policy is based on the modest idea that, up to this point, we have been able to survive (if not thrive) with the systems and procedures we have been using heretofore, […]
Continue reading →In the newest business-crippling injustice from the Obamacare debacle, new requirements are being put in place dictating that employers will have to swear to the IRS that they aren’t firing employees because of Obamacare. That’s right. If an employer wants to get into that sweet spot of employee numbers (50-99) to keep his Obamacare costs […]
Continue reading →According to the Youth Misery Index (apparently that’s a thing), Obama is the worst president ever as far as the well-being of young people is concerned. The Youth Misery Index has risen over 18.1 percent since Obama took office. That’s more than under any other president. An article in the College Fix uncovers the cruel […]
Continue reading →If your insurance policy was cancelled because it did not comply with Obamacare’s standards (read: your insurance company couldn’t afford to maintain your coverage anymore), the Obama administration has a little Christmas miracle for you: you will be exempt from Obamacare’s contentious individual mandate, for the time being. The Obama administration says that this will […]
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