Showing posts with label Healthcare Reform. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Healthcare Reform. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Outrageous!

November 04, 2014 Healthcare Reform , Insurance Industry 0 Comments
UNPRECEDENTED: Obama Forces Insurance Industry To Withhold 2015 Prices Until After Election

By Jim Hoft, Nov. 3, 2014, Thegatewaypundit.com

For the first time in modern history, the Obama administration has forced insurance companies to withhold 2015 prices until after the election.
So he can shield Democrats.

In the past, new prices were announced 60 days before the first day of the year.
Not this year.

Warner Todd Huston reported:
Barack Obama is again playing political games with our health insurance industry and has turned in another underhanded move against it by forcing insurance carriers, brokers and agents to withhold their 2015 prices until after the 2014 midterm elections are over all so that the news of higher prices won’t hurt Democrats on Election Day. 
This means that customers looking to get new insurance or those wishing to scout new policies to see if they can get a better deal are not able to shop for insurance. 
Before we get into that, though, millions of new cancellations will be hitting on January 1, 2015. Much of this news has gone under the radar as Democrats and their lapdog media are keeping this as quiet as possible.
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Sunday, August 3, 2014

BUT 60% want OCARE "improved"--not repealed!!!

August 03, 2014 Barbara Boland , CNSNews.com 0 Comments
Poll: Record 53% Disapprove Of Obamacare

By Barbara Boland, Aug. 1, 2014, CNSNews.com

53% of Americans have an unfavorable opinion of Obamacare, up 8% since last month. This is the largest unfavorable opinion of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in the survey's four year history, a poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation finds. Only 37% of people actually have a favorable opinion of the law.

Obamacare lost favorability with women, whites, and those in the low and middle income brackets, along with other groups - including Democrats.

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Monday, July 14, 2014

ObamaCare’s Next Court Threat --A most SERIOUS threat to OCare

July 14, 2014 Elise Viebeck , Halbig v. Burwell 0 Comments
By Elise Viebeck, Jul. 13, 2014, Thehill.com

A federal appeals court is poised to rule in a case that could blow a gaping hole in ObamaCare's scheme for providing healthcare coverage.

The plaintiffs in Halbig v. Burwell argue that the healthcare law does not authorize the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to offer premium subsidies on the federal exchanges.

It's an issue that strikes at the heart of the Affordable Care Act's insurance benefits and could potentially end financial help for nearly 5 million enrollees.

That is, if the plaintiffs succeed. Legal experts have generally looked askance at the lawsuit, which has a losing record in federal court so far.

But some believe that a looming decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit could break that trend. A ruling could come out on Tuesday.

Either way, it's a case that could wind up at the Supreme Court.

"The IRS has arrogated for itself the power to rewrite a federal statute, triggering federal appropriations and financial penalties beyond those authorized by the legislature,” wrote Jonathan H. Adler and Michael F. Cannon in an amicus brief to the D.C. appeals court in support of the plaintiffs.

“Such 'administrative hubris' cannot stand," they said.

Adler and Cannon, from Case Western Reserve University and the Cato Institute, crafted the legal theory behind the case.

The lawsuit's critics, though, say plaintiffs are missing the forest for the trees.

"Courts do not read statutes by cherry-picking single phrases to defeat the entire purpose of laws," wrote Washington and Lee University Law School Professor Timothy Jost in the Washington Post.

"If one views the totality of the [law] ... it's clear that tax credits are available in the federal exchange."

Court watchers expect Judge Thomas Griffith to be the swing vote in the case.

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Monday, June 2, 2014

NHS Beds Shortage: Mother Forced To Wait 10 Weeks For Cancer Surgery--Now Told It's Too Late --Our fate...

June 02, 2014 Dailymail.co.uk , Healthcare Reform 0 Comments
By Stephen Adams, May 31, 2014, Dailymail.co.uk

A cancer patient who was told she had a good chance of making a full recovery has now been diagnosed as terminally ill - after waiting ten weeks for surgery because of a beds shortage at her local NHS hospital.

When Heather Crisp was diagnosed with bladder cancer last year, doctors were optimistic because the disease had not spread.

She underwent a programme of chemotherapy which ended in early December and according to NHS rules, should have been operated on within a month. But the surgery was repeatedly delayed because of the lack of an available bed at Wexham Park Hospital near Slough.

In late February this year, the mother-of-two was finally sent for treatment at a private hospital but by then the cancer had spread to her pelvic wall making it inoperable.

She was later told the cancer was probably terminal. Her family are now launching legal action against Wexham Park, which was put in 'special measures' in April.

Last night, Mrs Crisp, 62, from Burnham in Berkshire, said: 'I truly believe that if they had done the operation when they should have, in early January, I would not be in this situation. It's now inoperable, and they've said there's nothing more they can really do.'

She recalled how, after being turned away for her operation the first time, her surgeon had told her to stage a sit-down protest if it happened again. When she went in a few days later and was told once more that there were no beds, she decided to try the tactic. But after walking around intensive care, the surgeon told her there was no point.

That second delay, on February 9, prompted a referral to a Spire private hospital. But it was not until February 21 that she went under the knife.

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Friday, May 30, 2014

PELOSI: How To "Fix" Obamacare--Single Payer

May 30, 2014 Healthcare Reform , Nancy Pelosi 2 Comments

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