Disenchantment.

The number of labor unions now calling for the repeal of or changes to ObamaCare is starting to stack up as they progressively realize that in many cases they cannot, in fact, keep their same health care plans, as much as they may indeed like them — which is all rather interesting, seeing as how [...]

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Who coulda' thunk it?

Over at National Review, Veronique de Rugy highlights a recent Wall Street Journal article which brings home yet again the law of unintended consequences. (Assuming that the consequences of Obamacare are “unintended” based on the Pelosi theory of needing to pass the bill to find out what’s in it.) The short version of the analysis [...]

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Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!

Lest we forget amidst the several other scandals currently blowing up in the Obama administration’s face (it is rather difficult to keep up), last Friday we learned that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has been hitting up health-care industry executives and groups, directly asking them to make donations to the non-profits that are [...]

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So, tell us something we don't already know.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has already admitted that the “affordable” in the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” is something of a misnomer, to say the least, and with all of the hidden costs and complexities the law’s implementation is slowly but surely revealing, Democrats have every reason to be nervous. As [...]

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Bust.

As is always true when the Wrong Outcome is arrived at, there are two angles to this story. One is the study itself, two is the media hackwork in the aftermath to spin the hell out of it before the Wrong Outcome leads to Wrong Policy. First, the Wrong Outcome via Philip Klein. Oregon expanded [...]

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So pat yourselves on the back, guys; really, job well done.

Just a friendly reminder from Republican Sen. Mike Pompeo to his esteemed colleague Sen. Max Baucus about exactly where all of this “train wreck” blame belongs: Dear Senator Baucus, I was stunned, and also saddened, to read of your complaint that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is doing an insufficient job informing the [...]

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Price check.

A not-at-all surprising admission from President Obama’s budget release on Wednesday. We already knew that the administration’s mishandling of the whole situation was going to cost us, but Bloomberg reports on the more exact figures: The $1.3 trillion U.S. health-care system overhaul is getting more expensive and will initially accomplish less than intended. Costs for [...]

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At all times.

Via Newsbusters, something to tide you over on a news day that started out fast and has slowed considerably. Give Harris-Perry credit, at least, for fine-tuning her messaging. You’re not going to sell swing voters on far-left liberalism by telling them their kids don’t really belong to them, but tell them that they have a [...]

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New frontiers in non-accountability.

Under ObamaCare, insurers have the option of charging smokers up to 50 percent more to cover the associated higher costs of providing them with health care — but the District of Columbia, along with several other states, have decided that any plans being sold within their exchange are prohibited from adding tobacco surcharges. That simply [...]

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...Expectedly.

All of the uncertainty over ObamaCare’s increasingly messy implementation hasn’t exactly been doing many favors for the small-business community. The, ahem, Affordable Care Act requires all employers with 50 or more workers to provide health coverage for employees who work 30+ hours/week, or else pay a penalty of $2,000 per worker over a 30-worker threshold; [...]

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Hubris, plain and simple.

The administration’s rollout plans for their perfect ObamaCare timeline just keep getting punctuated with flaws and delays, from Sebelius oh-so-casually admitting that the overhaul is causing some insurance premiums to rise, to Congressional Democrats’ buyers’ remorse for the godawful medical device tax, to their recent decision to hold off on the promised small-business insurance-shopping option [...]

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Yes.

Things that could have been brought to our attention….three years ago! This segment is a bit myopic, dealing mostly with whether Sec. Kathleen Sebelius said this (yes, she did) and one study that shows costs going up. But it’s decent as far as it goes, and we could have used a whole lot more such [...]

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Cause, meet effect.

As you might remember, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was largely sold to the American people on the premise that it would help to make health care and health insurance more… well… affordable. Au contraire, says yet another study fleshing out the practical effects of the ObamaCare mandate: Under the Affordable Care Act, [...]

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This won't hurt a bit.

Some Americans could see their insurance bills double next year as the health care overhaul law expands coverage to millions of people. The nation’s big health insurers say they expect premiums — or the cost for insurance coverage — to rise from 20 to 100 percent for millions of people due to changes that will [...]

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Gee, thanks.

Part and parcel of ObamaCare is one particularly insidious little provision that adds a 2.3 percent excise tax on medical devices. The Affordable Care Act’s got to pay for itself somehow, you know, even if it does mean hiking up costs, discouraging innovation, and killing jobs in an industry that provides such necessary and life-saving [...]

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Oversight.

One of the myriad joys of universal health care: Many of the things that were once your own personal business, are suddenly very much society’s business. One of the country’s largest pharmacy chains is asking its workers to find out how fat they are and then disclose it to their insurance provider. Not only is [...]

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[Groan.]

We had to pass it to find out what in it’s, but now that we’re finding out about all of the expensive, inefficient, market-distorting facets of the health care overhaul, the Obama administration’s main failing is still — still — that they just haven’t explained it well enough to us simpletons. We’re just not getting [...]

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How unexpected.

So, apparently, we had to “pass it to find out what’s in it,” but finding out what’s in it first requires hiring an “army of counselors” to help everyone figure it all out. Awesome. The Associated Press reports that, as the state exchanges through which all Americans will soon need to purchase insurance (if they [...]

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Persuasion.

One of the most troubling aspects of the new Virginia transportation law signed by Gov. Bob McDonnell is the provision that will allow a bicameral commission to decide whether the state will end up expanding Medicaid. McDonnell added the measure to glean some Democratic support for his bill, confident in the legislature’s Republican majority to [...]

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C'mon.

Promoted from the Greenroom by popular demand: What’s on your menu? Just got off the phone with my health care provider asking them to explain why my premium jumped up. No good answer! — Donna Brazile (@donnabrazile) February 27, 2013 Hard to know why without knowing who her insurer is, but I can think of [...]

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Cave.

Looks like Florida’s abstention from designing their own health insurance exchange system was not a precursor of things to come, as Florida Gov. Rick Scott announced this afternoon that he’ll be joining the ranks of the other GOP governors in Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, North Dakota, and Ohio who have also given in to the [...]

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