March 18, 2024

BernieCare thirty-two trillion increase called a decrease

A recent Mercatus working paper from George Mason University that detailed the tremendous cost of Bernie Sandersā€™ health care plan spread like wildfire the last few days with false headlines from Leftist media outlets saying it showed government health care spending would decrease by 2 trillion dollars. Butā€Ŗ the Mercatus white paper itself says right […]

President Trump Promises To ‘Fight Like Hell’ To Reform Veterans Affairs Department.

President Trump on Tuesday assured attendees at the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States National Convention that he would “fight like hell” to pass legislation to help veterans returning from war. In his fiery speech in Kansas City, Missouri, Trump pledged big reforms are coming to the Department of Veteran Affairs. Trump also […]

Trump Touts Proposal to Lower Drug Prices.

“We are getting tough on the drug makers that exploit our patent laws to choke out competition,” President Trump said outside the White House Friday outlining his plan to lower prescription drug prices. “Our patent system will reward innovation,” he said. “But it will not be used as a shield to protect unfair monopolies.” The […]

McCain reveals that Obama called him to thanks for killing Obamacare repeal.

As he unburdens himself from the cares and bonds of a lifetime, and never will face Arizona voters again, Senator John McCain is letting it all hang out. Ā In his forthcoming final book, which may sell more copies to Democrats than to Republicans, he reveals a friendship of sorts. Caitlin Yilek writes in The Daily […]

Palin Vindicated: GOP Sends IPAB to the Death Panel

The budget bill signed by President Trump killed yet another Obamacare provision. Despite what we keep reading in the ā€œnewsā€ media about the failure of the GOP to repeal Obamacare, congressional Republicans and President Trump are steadily dismembering the justly reviled healthcare law, limb by pernicious limb. The latest appendage to be lopped off was […]

Single-Payer in Crisis: Britain’s NHS Cancels 50,000 Surgeries Amid Long Waits For Care, ‘Third World’ Conditions.

Last time we checked in on Britain’s National Health Services — often hailed as the model of a functioning socialized healthcare regime — government bureaucrats were proposing a suspension of certain surgeries for smokers and obese patients. Ā Why? Ā To alleviate funding crises via an extreme government rationing scheme, under which “NHS will ban patients from […]

The nightmare of Obamacare, about to be finished off.

The best part of this week’s vast tax cut reform package, set to be approved this morning, is the end of the hellish Obamacare mandate. What a massive relief to millions of Americans, stuck between the rock of having to buy overpriced, under-delivering Obamacare health insurance policies and the hard place of paying large, gratuitous […]

Republicans Move To Scrap Obamacare Individual Mandate In Tax Reform Bill

The Republican Senate is now moving to include repeal of the Obamacare individual mandate in their tax reform bill. That move is largely designed to quell conservative complaints about the Senate bill, which is weaker than the House version of the same bill: it delays corporate tax cuts, and retains the estate tax; pass-through businesses […]

Trump calls for Congress to fix ‘ObamaCare mess,’ end ‘bailouts’ for insurers

President Trump on Tuesday evening praised bipartisan efforts in the Senate to find compromise on stabilizing the nation’s health-care markets while calling on lawmakers to end “bailouts” for insurers. Trump told a conservative audience at the Heritage Foundation that he “commends” the work being done by Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.), as […]

Constitutional Lawyer: Yes, Obamaā€™s Affordable Care Act Subsidy Provision Was Illegal

Thereā€™s are a lot of liberals frothing at the mouth over the Trump administrationā€™s decision to end the unconstitutional subsidies to insurance companies under the Affordable Care Act last week. The subsidies were given to insurance companies to help offset costs from lower-income individuals concerning deductibles and other out-of-pocket expenses. It’s meant to prevent premium […]

Boom! Trump Hits Democrats and Insurance Companies in One Awesome Tweet

On Thursday night, the Trump White House announced it is ending critical subsidies to insurers. The move was a huge blow to the Obamacare law. Trump administration to end cost-sharing reduction payments to insurance companies under Obamacare. pic.twitter.com/b8QaDkV4QV — Josh Caplan (@joshdcaplan) October 13, 2017 Health Insurance stocks, which have gone through the roof during […]

President Trump Suspends Obamacare Subsidies

President Donald Trump suspended the Obamacare cost-sharing reduction payment program on Thursday, otherwise known as Obamacare subsidies, as part of a strategy to dismantle Obamacare. White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement: Based on guidance from the Department of Justice, the Department of Health and Human Services has concluded that there is […]

Bravo: Trump Makes Three Correct, Controversial Decisions on Obamacare, Iran and the UN.

The Trump administration is facing searing criticism over a trio of significant decisions this week, all of which are eminently defensible, if not entirely correct. Ā (1) On Obamacare’s cost sharing subsidies, an issue we touched onĀ  a number of weeks ago, the president has decided to cease making payments of dollars that were never appropriated […]

Hereā€™s How Trump Has Silently Gutted Obamaā€™s Legacy

President Donald Trump has surgically dismantled Obamacare over the course of his first year in office, largely under the noses of the American public, Democrats and members of his party that have spent the last nine months trying to upend the American health care system. Over the course of his first nine months in office, […]

Trump to cut off key ObamaCare payments

President Trump will end key payments to insurers selling ObamaCare plans, the White House announced lateĀ Thursday, marking Trump’s mostĀ aggressiveĀ move yet toĀ dismantle the law after multipleĀ GOP efforts to repeal and replace it failed this year. The Trump administration has continued making the the disbursements to insurers, known as cost-sharing reduction payments, on a monthly basis. But […]

Why Trumpā€™s Executive Order on Health Care Is a Positive Step

President Donald Trump signed a new executive order on Thursday that moves health care a step in the right direction. The executive order instructs the secretaries of treasury, labor, and health and human services to propose regulatory changes that would increase choice and competition in health insurance. This is the right course of action. In […]

Sen. Rand Paul Writes Op-Ed Explaining New Executive Order

In an op-ed penned for Breitbart, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) explained that President Donald Trump’s upcoming executive order–which would legalize the sale of health insurance across state lines–would come at zero cost for the taxpayer and would enable 28 million people “left behind” by Obamacare to purchase insurance cheaply. According to Paul, the executive order […]

Trump clears way for ObamaCare ‘alternatives’ in new executive order, goes around stalled Congress

President Trump on Thursday took executive action on health care, calling for a plan that could let employers band together and offer coverage across state lines as Congress stalls on efforts to overhaul ObamaCare. ā€œSo this is promoting healthĀ care, choice and competitionĀ all across the United States,ā€ Trump said as he signed the order in the […]

Universal Coverage? My Fourth Health Care Plan Just Died Thanks to Obamacare

Cue the funeral bagpipes. My fourth health insurance plan is dead. Two weeks ago, my husband and I received yet another cancellation notice for our private, individual health insurance coverage. Itā€™s our fourth Obamacare-induced obituary in four years. Our first death notice, from Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, arrived in the fall of 2013. […]

NEW OBAMA IRS SCANDAL => Docs Show Confidential Taxpayer Info Was Used to Push Obamacare

Thank God for Judicial Watch. Judicial Watch recently announced they received documents from the IRS revealing the Obama IRS coordinated with the Department of Health and Human Services and the Obama White House Behavioral Sciences ā€œTeamā€ in a $5 million program to pressure Americans to sign up for Obamacare. Even worse, the documents also contain […]

Obamacare Update: It’s Getting Worse

Premiums Continue To Skyrocket While Congress Does Nothing Health insurance providers are planning some double-digit increases in premiums for plans offered on the Obamacare state exchanges in 2018, a sign that the insurance marketplace woes are only getting worse. Insurance premiums in states from Georgia to New York will increase dramatically in 2018, rising as […]

Tom Price Out as HHS Secretary

After those embarrassing reports about his travel expenses, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price is exiting the Trump administration. "Secretary of Health and Human Services Thomas Price offered his resignation earlier today and the President accepted" — Burgess Everett (@burgessev) September 29, 2017 Price was outed this week as having used private jets for […]

President Trump Goes There => Blasts Liar John McCain over His Obamacare Deceit and Lies

Never Trump Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) said Monday that she will be voting against the most recent Obamacare repeal legislation, effectively killing the Graham-Cassidy bill. Republicans John McCain, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul joined Susan Collins to kill Obamacare reform. Republicans will now have to wait until next year to repeal and replace Obamacare. The GOP […]

BREAKING: McConnell Says Republicans Are Giving Up on Latest Obamacare Repeal Bill

Senate Republican leaders stopped a planned vote on the latest Obamacare repeal bill on Tuesday, effectively admitting defeat in their latest attempt to overhaul the Affordable Care Act-which isnā€™t affordable for the Americans who actually pay for the disaster. The New York Times reported: ā€œWe havenā€™t given up on changing the American health care system,ā€ […]

Think Obamacare Is Bad? ā€˜Medicare for Allā€™ Would Make Things Even Worse.

As Republican senators look to scrape together the votes for a deal on health care, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is pushing his own proposal. He calls it ā€œMedicare for All,ā€ and it has already garnered support from 16 Democratic senators. As nice as Medicare for All may sound, Sandersā€™ proposal is a classic example of […]

Newt Gingrich: Health care in America — the single-payer disaster

A recent poll should worry all Americans who care about the quality and availability of health care in our country. According to POLITICO/Morning Consult, 49 percent of American voters say they would support a single-payer health care system, where the only provider of health insurance in the United States would be the federal government. Think […]

7 Things the Media Doesnā€™t Want You to Know About Graham-Cassidy

Should Graham-Cassidy, the latest manifestation of the seven-year Republican promise to repeal and replace Obamacare, manage to pass the Senate next week, ironically enough, conservatives will owe a debt of thanks to Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), the man single-handedly responsible for saving Obamacare in the last vote-around. Had McCain not held out, we would not […]

President Trump: I Thought When I Won I Would Sit Down at My Desk and Sign Obamacare Repeal ā€“ It Hasnā€™t Happened (Video)

President Trump discussed the Obamacare debacle today during a meeting with the Egyptian president outside the United Nations. Pres Trump was asked about the health care bill to replace ObamaCare at end of photo op with Egyptian Pres el-Sisi. pic.twitter.com/Vt6Jl3eaE5 — Mark Knoller (@markknoller) September 20, 2017 Trump was asked about the Obamacare disaster. The […]

Five things to know about the new ObamaCare repeal bill

The new ObamaCare repeal bill under consideration in the Senate includes some controversial policies that have divided Republicans in the past. Some senatorsĀ havenā€™t taken a position on the bill from Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.), saying that they have yet to fully digest the bill and how it would work. In short: […]

Bernie Sanders Dodges Question About The Cost For His Socialist Health Care Utopia

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is pushing his single-payer health care initiative. Alternatively called Medicare-for-All, the self-described democratic socialist has decided now was the time to split his party in two over this issue. Itā€™s going to call for $32 trillion in new taxes; itā€™s not going anywhere. Sanders even had Canadian doctors flown in to […]

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