December 13, 2013
Greta Van Susteren Clarifies CBS News' Interview With Obamacare Opponent (VIDEO)
The Huffington Post | By Catherine Taibi
Posted: 10/30/2013 12:32 pm EDT | Updated: 10/30/2013 12:32 pm EDT
A blog post by the Washington Post's Erik Wemple on Tuesday highlighted a discrepancy in a recent misleading interview on CBS involving yet another Obamacare horror story. In the interview, CBS' Jan Crawford spoke with 56-year-old Dianne Barrette who said that Obamacare was forcing her to drop her current insurance plan and face huge cost increases. Click to read more and see interview
Wis. governor offers a way around ObamaCare problems
By Mike TobinFoxNews.com
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker wants to give people in his state a way around ObamaCare’s problems.
He is floating a proposal that would still channel federal subsidies to Wisconsin’s poor and uninsured, but his plan would allow them to purchase coverage directly from the insurer and sidestep the on-line “exchange” created by the Affordable Care Act. Click to read more
The Two Most Notable Moments From Wednesday’s Sebelius Hearing Include Shouting and ‘Freedom’
Dec. 11, 2013 4:02pm
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius appeared before Congress Wednesday to testify on the failed implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
And although Wednesday’s House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee hearing was mostly a retread of previously discussed points on the botched Obamacare rollout, there were two notable moments involving lawmakers from both sides of the aisle. Click here to read more...
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The Public Doesn’t Like Obamacare, Wishes For President Romney
11 facts about the Affordable Care Act
Posted by Ezra Klein on June 24, 2012 at 6:25 pm
In the past week, both Alec MacGillis and Sabrina Tavernise have written articles touching on how little the uninsured actually know about the Affordable Care Act. Given that polling shows the law remains unpopular even as its component parts -- with the notable exception of the individual mandate -- are very popular, it seems they're not alone. So here's a refresher on some of the law's most significant policies and consequences: Click here to read full articleWhite House emails chronicle serious health care site concerns before launchBy Eric Pfeiffer 3 hours ago
An internal government email shows concerns over the health care website prior to launch (house.gov).
A series of White House emails show members of the Obama administration expressing concern over the HealthCare.gov site’s viability in the days leading up to its launch on October 1st.Read More.......... Oregon healthcare exchange website never worked, has no subscribers
By Jonathan Kaminsky 5 hours ago
Obamacare ‘success story’ says she can’t afford newhealth plan
By Eric Pfeiffer
20 hours ago
Obama to announce 'keep your plan' Obamacare fix?By Liz Goodwin and Olivier Knox 1 hour ago November 14, 2013 9:15 am PST
Washington Post....Click Link To Read Story
Media split over use of ‘lie’ in reference to Obama health-care promise By Erik Wemple
Senator: US administration 'untruthful' on Obamacare
November 6 , 2013 58 minutes ago
Washington (AFP) - US senators
unloaded fresh attacks on the Obama administration's handling of the rollout of
the new health care law Wednesday, with one Republican accusing officials of
being "untruthful" about its impact.
Five weeks into the rocky launch of
the website through which millions of Americans are expected to register for
health insurance, Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius faced criticism that the
Affordable Care Act was putting the entire health care system in jeopardy.
Last week Sebelius apologized to the
nation for what she acknowledged was a "miserable" start to the
HealthCare.gov, and on Wednesday she again took the blame, saying "I am
focused on fixing it, and I'm accountable."
She insisted, however, that the law
was already working well for millions by no longer allowing insurers to deny
coverage because of pre-existing conditions, impose coverage caps, or charge
women more for health care.
But Senator Orrin Hatch and other
Finance Committee Republicans pointed to higher insurance costs, and thousands
of consumers getting notices that their existing plans were being dropped
despite Obama's pledge that consumers who liked their policies could keep them.
"Put simply, there is a long
track record of broken promises and untruthful answers to both this committee
and the American people with respect to how this law would work and the impact
it would have," Hatch told Sebelius at a committee hearing.
"I hope that will stop today.
No more caveats, no more excuses, no more spin. Just give us the truth,"
he said.
The White House has been under fire
for weeks about the botched website debut, with Republicans accusing the
administration of obfuscating potential pitfalls in order to press ahead with
Obama's signature domestic policy achievement.
Republicans demanded that Sebelius
explain why she and others insisted the website, HealthCare.gov, go live on
October 1 despite insufficient testing and warnings in August by inspectors in
her own Health and Human Services Department who said there were critical
security and privacy issues that required attention.
Sebelius shot back: "No one, I
would say, suggested that the risks outweighed the importance of moving
forward."
Committee chairman Max Baucus, a
Democrat, joined in the frustration, asking "Why keep limping along"
instead of temporarily shutting down the troubled website until the kinks are
worked out.
"We've been advised that that
actually doesn't help," Sebelius responded, saying "it's better to do
routine upgrades" while the system is running.
Authorities have created a
"punch list" of priorities for getting the website up to full speed
by the end of November as promised, and Sebelius said her teams have identified
"a couple of hundred functional fixes" that take priority.Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas, a
state where Sebelius served as governor, accused her of knowing full well that
the exchanges would not be ready October 1.
"In your zeal to implement this
law, not warnings, not advice, not counsel would deter you from implementing
the exchanges," said Roberts, who repeated his request for Sebelius to
resign.
"I believe to protect the
administration, you chose to ignore these warnings, and as a result, you have
put our entire health care system and one-sixth of our economy in
jeopardy."
Obama, in a bid to counter the
stream of criticism, travels Wednesday to Texas to highlight the role of
volunteers who help consumers enroll through the health care exchanges.
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