obamacare

Marketing studies help craft health overhaul pitch

By: The Associated Press 03/31/13 9:47 AM

How do you convince millions of average Americans that one of the most complex and controversial programs devised by government may actually be a good deal for them?With the nation still split over President Barack Obama's health care law, the administration has turned to the science of mass marketing for help in understanding the lives of uninsured people, hoping to craft winning pitches for a surprisingly varied group in society. Read More

High court gives Affordable Care Act healthy endorsement

By: Reuters 06/29/12 1:48 PM

The Supreme Court upheld President Barack Obama’s health care law in an election-year triumph for him and fellow Democrats who championed the most sweeping overhaul since the 1960s of the unwieldy U.S. health care system. Read More

Lack of family coverage is another unpleasant Obamacare surprise

By: Diana Furchtgott-Roth 10/29/11 1:26 PM

Proponents of the new health care law appeared to be on solid ground when they said that it would extend affordable health insurance to millions of Americans.No longer.At a hearing of the health subcommittee of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Cornell University economics professor Richard Burkhauser showed that in 2014, millions of low-income Americans may be unable to get subsidized health insurance through the new health care exchanges. Read More

Sebelius admits the CLASS Act is flunking out

By: SF Examiner Editorial 10/17/11 8:40 PM

Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius quietly pulled the plug last Friday on an alleged federal long-term care program for the disabled. We use the word “alleged” in this odd way only because the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act, a key component of Obamacare, was in reality little more than an accounting fiction designed to conceal the actual cost of health care reform. Read More

Obama Skips CLASS

By: Nate Beeler 10/17/11 8:00 PM

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Obamacare will put patients’ records at risk

By: SF Examiner Editorial 10/04/11 9:00 PM

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wasn’t kidding a few years ago when she said Congress had to pass Obamacare so the rest of the country could discover what it contained. Ever since then, a steady stream of problems has emerged as people pored through the law’s 2,700 pages of legalese. Just last week, Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-Kan., found a new shocker that ought to be especially worrisome to anybody who cares about protecting the privacy of their medical records. Read More

California workers could suffer under Obamacare

By: Joseph Perkins 10/02/11 4:00 AM

A coalition of 26 states filed a petition recently asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of President Barack Obama’s health care reform law. California should have been the 27th. That’s because no state stands to take a bigger economic hit when and if Obamacare is fully implemented. Read More

Obamacare decision looms

By: Ken Klukowski 09/28/11 7:20 PM

Obamacare’s fate will almost certainly be decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 2012, either in June or shortly after November’s election. And neither conservatives nor President Barack Obama can be sure whether they want a decision before or after the election. There are more than 30 Obama-care cases at some stage of litigation nationwide. Read More

GOP leader offers alternative to Obamacare

By: SF Examiner Editorial 09/27/11 10:22 PM

Republicans seem to understand that repeal of President Barack Obama’s health care law is necessary. Unfortunately, many of them seem to think repeal is sufficient as well. It isn’t.This is why it’s so important that a GOP leader such as House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., began presenting a viable plan to replace it, with his speech Tuesday at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. Read More