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Senator Compares Compares Obama Cabinet Official To Convicted Felon Oliver North
A top Senate Republican is comparing Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to convicted felon Oliver North for soliciting private donations to help implement the Affordable Care Act. In an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) charged that Sebelius circumvented Congress’ refusal to provide funds for the [...]
Bill Inspired By IRS Scandal Would Increase Health Care Premiums
A Senate Republican has seized on the growing controversy surround the IRS scandal to introduce a bill that would effectively repeal a huge chunk of the Affordable Care Act and significantly increase health care costs for millions of Americans. Sen. Dean Heller’s (R-NV) “IRS Accountability Act” would prohibit “the IRS from receiving any ObamaCare funding [...]
Four Better Ways To Spend The $55 Million Wasted On Votes To Repeal The Affordable Care Act
For the 37th time since 2011, House Republicans will hold a vote to repeal Obamacare on Thursday, bringing the total cost of all of their failed repeal votes to roughly $55 million in taxpayer money, according to one estimate. Last year, CBS News calculated that the number of hours spent on 33 repeal votes — [...]
Senator Who Criticized Sebelius For Soliciting Donations Asked For Private Funds While Serving In Bush Administration
A top Senate Republican who compared the Obama administration’s efforts to solicit private donations for a campaign encouraging Americans to enroll in the Affordable Care Act to the Iran-Contra scandal, asked for private donations to fund education reform while serving in the George H. W. Bush administration. On Saturday, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) criticized Sebelius [...]
Senator Suggests Obama’s Efforts To Implement Obamacare Are ‘Illegal,’ Like Iran-Contra
A top Republican senator is comparing Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’ ongoing effort to implement the Affordable Care Act in partnership with the health care industry and nonprofit organizations to the Iran-Contra scandal, during which officials secretly sold arms to Iran to fund a resistance movement in Nicaragua. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) made [...]
How The Media Invented The Latest Obamacare Controversy
After a Politico article on Wednesday evening suggested that Congress is plotting to “exempt” itself from enrolling in the Affordable Care Act’s health care exchanges, other media outlets quickly began using the piece to accuse Democrats of trying to avoid complying with the law. But a close reading of the original Republican amendment behind the [...]
Why Republicans Are To Blame For Obamacare’s Delays
The Obama administration’s decision to delay the enactment of the Affordable Care Act’s small business exchanges –so-called SHOPs that are designed to offer employers and employees a range of private insurance options in a new health care marketplace — has provided renewed ammunition for critics of the law who see the announcement as a sign [...]
Ted Cruz: Obamacare Forces States To Release Violent Criminals Onto The Streets
States that expand their Medicaid programs under a provision in the Affordable Care Act will be forced to open their prison doors and allow violent criminals to roam the streets, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) claimed during a radio interview on Monday, insisting that the cost of providing health care to lower-income residents would reduce state [...]
Senate Republicans Unanimously Support Repeal of Student Loan Reform Law
All 45 Senate Republicans voted Friday for a budget amendment that endorsed the repeal of both Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. While Congressional Republicans attempting to repeal Obamacare is nothing new — this mark’s the 39th repeal attempt — this proposal also aimed to [...]
On Obamacare’s Third Anniversary, Here Are Three Ways The Reform Law Has Helped Real Americans
Saturday marks the three year anniversary of President Obama signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the most sweeping overhaul of the U.S. health care system since the enactment of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. While some the law’s most significant provisions won’t go into full effect until next year, many of its important [...]
SC Lawmaker Gave Rush Limbaugh’s Guest Host A $6,400 Plane Ride And Stuck Taxpayers With The Bill
South Carolina state Rep. Bill Chumley really hates the Affordable Care Act. So much so that he introduced a wildly unconstitutional bill that would imprison any federal official who enforces Obamacare in the state of South Carolina for up to five years. Chumley, however, isn’t just wasting the state legislature’s time with unconstitutional fantasies about [...]
Health Insurers Threaten To Increase Premiums, Even As Profits Soar
Some of the nation’s largest health insurance companies are warning investors that they’ll raise insurance premiums by as much as 116 percent next year, as the coverage expansion provisions in the Affordable Care Act go into effect and millions of uninsured Americans begin purchasing coverage. The threats of premium increases come as the industry is [...]
Michele Bachmann: Obamacare Will ‘Literally’ Kill People
As the country prepares to celebrate the third anniversary of health care reform, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) insisted on Thursday that the Affordable Care Act will “kill” vulnerable women and children during a speech on the floor of the House. In a long diatribe against the law, Bachmann predicted that the American people will “pay [...]
FDA Stalls On Obamacare’s Calorie Labeling Rule To Accommodate Special Interests
As part of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, Congress passed a national menu labeling law in 2010 that would require restaurant chains with more than 20 locations post calorie counts for each standard menu item. Three years later, the Food and Drug Administration is still deliberating on the “extremely thorny” issue of how to accommodate [...]
Paul Ryan Makes Big Admission: Republicans Helped Write Obamacare
Days after top House Republicans asked President Obama to expand a provision in the Affordable Care Act, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) admitted on Wednesday that the ACA incorporates provisions that Republicans “have always been talking about,” including solutions he himself proposed in 2009. During an appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Ryan singled out state-based exchanges [...]
Ryan Doesn’t Repeal Obamacare: Maintains Cuts And Taxes, Eliminates Benefits
Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) new budget pledges to repeal the Affordable Care Act in at least five different places and specifically promises to eliminate “the health-care rationing board,” the new health care exchange subsidies, regulations, and Medicaid expansion. But the House Budget Chairman, who campaigned against the law so vociferously and voted to rescind it [...]
Top Republicans Demand Obama Provide Coverage To People With Pre-Existing Conditions
Republicans voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act more than three dozen times, ran on a pledge to eliminate the law on “day one,” and sought to underfund the measure at every opportunity. But since the Supreme Court upheld the ACA and President Obama won re-election the political dynamics of reform have changed: Republican governors [...]
Paul Ryan Balances New Budget By Embracing Obama Policies
Throughout the 2012 presidential campaign, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) railed against the Medicare savings included in the Affordable Care Act, campaigned against President Obama’s desire to increase marginal tax rates on the very wealthy, and promised that a Romney administration would offset the looming sequester. But next week, just four months after losing the November [...]
GOP Senator Launches The Most Dishonest Attack Against Obamacare You’ve Ever Heard
During a Budget Committee Hearing on Tuesday, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) announced that the Affordable Care Act — which had been projected to reduce the deficit by billions over 10 years — would actually increase long-term debt by $6.2 trillion, undermining administration claims that the law would expand coverage to millions of Americans and help [...]
GOP Senator Would Take Away Health Coverage From 30 Million Americans To Avoid Military Cuts
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said Sunday the government should protect the Defense Department from automatic spending cuts by slashing $1.2 trillion from the Affordable Care Act. During an appearance on Fox News Sunday, Graham suggested that the sequester’s across-the-board cuts to federal spending, including about a roughly 7.5 percent reduction in military spending, would be [...]