Obamacare program asks for billions more while expecting to lose $3.1 billion; Congress investigates

Burning money

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Apparently $3.4 billion isn't enough. It now seems that the Obama Administration is asking for a total of $7.25 billion dollars to fund loan grants in its Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan (CO-OP) Program.

The same Administration that gave us Solyndra, had told us last year to expect a CO-OP loan default rate of 30% to 35%. Now it appears that the expected loss rate is 43%. That's $3,130,000,000 that the Obama Administration expects to lose! Read more »

Callling HHS to account for banning reporters from public forums

HHS Freedom of Information Act Request

Last week we reported that the Obama Administration’s Department of Health and Human Services banned reporters from public meetings on Obamacare’s Essential Health Benefits. This week we’ve taken action by filing a Freedom of Information Act request with HHS. Read more »

Turtle bites, walking into lampposts, and men accidentally becoming pregnant: Obamacare’s medical coding mandate

Turtle attempting to bite a finger.

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A new Obamacare regulation will require doctors to use a new 140,000 code system called the ICD-10. This new mandate forces a new level of complexity to the practice of medicine that not only may convince some medical practitioners to retire early but could also lead to some bizarre results. Read more »

Obama Admin banned reporters from key public Obamacare meetings

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The Obama Administration banned reporters from public meetings last year on a key aspect of Obamacare's Health Insurance Exchanges according to a report by the Association of Health Care Journalists. Read more »

Predictions by liberal media of Obamacare’s demise premature

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(CC)Photo of Jeffrey Toobin by Larry D. Moore

Yesterday, Jeffrey Toobin, a liberal legal analyst for CNN, was rebuked by Senator Harry Reid for predicting that, based on yesterday’s oral arguments, the Supreme Court would rule against Obamacare’s Individual Mandate. But despite early predictions of the Individual Mandate’s demise, a closer look at the oral arguments shows that such analysis is premature. Read more »

Mr. President: Here's the CBO ... er ... that is ... the "Banana" report

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Unless you were paying close attention, amidst all of the news about Obamacare at the Supreme Court, you may have missed a strange story about the President from the New Yorker:

...Obama became so frustrated with the C.B.O. that at one point during the health-care debate he banned his aides from using the term “C.B.O.” in his presence. Instead, the President called the C.B.O. “banana.”

Banana.

Two years of Obamacare and "We're still trying to find out what's in it."

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Today, is the second anniversary of the passage of Obamacare. And by our count there are now over one hundred Obamacare regulatory implementation documents that span over 10,000 pages and contain nearly 2.5 million words. You'd think that 2.5 million words would be enough to tell us exactly how Obamacare will work and operate.
 
Not so, says Governor Gary Herbert of Utah. Read more »

New lawsuit filed against contraceptive mandate by private business owner

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The American Center for Law and Justice announced that it has filed a lawsuit against the Obama Administration's contraceptive mandate on behalf of Frank R. O'Brien and O’Brien Industrial Holdings, LLC.

For a while now we've been watching to see if a private (but religious) business owner would file a case against the Obama Administration's contraceptive mandate.

Why? Because only a private business owner has standing to sue the Obama Administration. Read more »

Obama Administration Expects Veterans to Flee to Exchanges After Department of Defense Raises Tricare Rates

If Obama Administration defense officials get their way, expect to see military veterans leaving their Tricare insurance coverage for Obamacare’s Health Insurance Exchanges. Read more »

How long are the Obamacare regulations?: 5x the length of the Obamacare statutes

As long as the Obamacare statutes are, its implementing regulations are now five times its length. With the publication of two new regulations in the Federal Register on February 27, 2012, we calculate Obamacare regulations to contain 2,163,744 words compared to 425,116 words in the Obamacare statutes. That’s a million words longer than the last time we wrote about the length of Obamacare regulations last April. Read more »

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