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Last week we reported that “Hospitality Health CO-OP,” the union-sponsored organization that on Friday received a $66 million grant from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is not registered as an entity in Nevada where HHS reports it will be offering insurance. Now HHS has some explaining to do because the CO-OP grant program requires that CO-OP grant applicants have an “official certificate of organization.” Read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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.