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Obamacare Is Hard To Defend Or Something

Not because it’s unconstitutional, but because it’s not socialist enough. According to Reid Cherlin, who was the White House spokesman on healthcare, the easiest way to defend Obamacare would be to have passed single payer healthcare and then simply tell the Supreme Court, and everyone else, to just get over it. It so happens that [...]

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Trashing Tricare: And so it begins …

Bill Gertz at The Washington Free Beacon reports: The Obama administration’s proposed defense budget calls for military families and retirees to pay sharply more for their healthcare, while leaving unionized civilian defense workers’ benefits untouched. It’s nice to have friends in high places.  But there’s more: The proposal is causing a major rift within the [...]

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Of Buried Ledes and Elephants in the Living Room

More than half of those in favor of Obamacare agree that at least one of its provisions is Unconstitutional, yet they are still in favor of it.

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Union Leadership Denies Half A Million Members Access To Better, More Affordable Healthcare

Well, at least that’s what I’m getting from this Daily Caller story: Documents released in a classic Friday afternoon news dump show that labor unions representing 543,812 workers received waivers from President Barack Obama‘s signature legislation since June 17, 2011. By contrast, private employers with a total of 69,813 employees, many of whom work for [...]

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The Least Suprising News of the Day

Supreme Court to hear challenge to Obamacare. Given the circuit split (different circuit courts reaching different conclusions as to the constitutionality of the so called “Affordable Care Act”) which has previously been mentioned by various of the bloggers here, it was virtually certain that the Supreme Court would have to take up the issue. The [...]

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ObamaCare killed the economy

The economy was on a path to recovery in early 2010, but ObamaCare put a stop to that almost immediately. The Heritage Foundation gives us all the details. Here is just a portion: Obamacare Discourages Hiring In March 2010, Congress passed President Obama’s health care reform legislation. The bill had appeared in serious jeopardy, and [...]

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Another entrepreneur “unexpectedly” laments the Obama Administration

This time it’s Bernie Marcus, co-founder of Home Depot.  Marcus makes a lot of serious (and sadly, all too familiar) observations about today’s economy, but this one is just devastating: Investors Business Daily: If you could sit down with Obama and talk to him about job creation, what would you say? Marcus: I’m not sure [...]

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Another bug in the Obamacare law

Another bug in the Obamacare law

… or is it a feature?President Barack Obama's health care law would let several million middle-class people get nearly free insurance meant for the poor, a twist government number crunchers…

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ObamaCare gets an F from medical providers

From the AP, via Yahoo News (emphasis mine): President Barack Obama's main idea for getting quality health care at less cost was in jeopardy Wednesday after key medical providers called…

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ObamaCare's outrageous crony bailouts

ObamaCare's outrageous crony bailouts

Via Byron York at the Washington Examiner, and El Rushbo, who mentioned this on his program yesterday:Investigators for the House Energy and Commerce Committee have discovered that a little-known provision…

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Yet another ObamaCare dishonesty update

Yet another ObamaCare dishonesty update

I've been collecting these stories for a few weeks, but with the release of yet another batch of ObamaCare waivers, the time has finally come to tie them all together…

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MSM; the self appointed arbiters of correct thinking

MSM; the self appointed arbiters of correct thinking

This is a large part, and perhaps the crux, of why the LSM hate Sarah Palin: her plain spoken truths eviscerate the narrative the LSM would have us accept as right thinking.

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BREAKING: Obamacare struck down as UnConstitutional by FL Federal Judge

The end of the Beginning or the beginning of the End?  Details to follow.Because the individual mandate is unconstitutional and not severable, the entire Act must be declared void. This…

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There are now over 700 ObamaCare waivers

There are now over 700 ObamaCare waivers

The new count of organizations granted waivers from employer health care requirements in the ObamaCare law has swelled from 222 in October to 729 through the end of December.  The…

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New ObamaCare meme: "Congress passed socialized medicine in 1798!!"

New ObamaCare meme: "Congress passed socialized medicine in 1798!!"

A blog post by Rick Ungar at Forbes.com has been getting a lot of attention in the leftwingosphere:In July of 1798, Congress passed – and President John Adams signed -…

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McDonalds May Be Forced To Drop Hourly Employee Health Benefits

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that McDonalds Corporation may be forced to drop medical coverage for nearly 30,000 hourly restaurant workers, due to new ObamaCare regulations that stipulate the…

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A whopping TWO New Jerseyans sign up for new ObamaCare benefits

I'm not making this up, folks: Just two people in New Jersey will begin receiving coverage Monday under new plans created by federal health care reforms. NJ Protect plans are…

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Democrats abandon cost cutting and deficit reduction as selling points for ObamaCare and implement brand new winning strategy

Democrats abandon cost cutting and deficit reduction as selling points for ObamaCare and implement brand new winning strategy

Well, it's been five months since President Obama signed his comprehensive health care reform legislation into law, and in that time something remarkable has happened. The number of people who…

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The FDA considers revoking its approval for breast cancer drug for cost reasons

The FDA considers revoking its approval for breast cancer drug for cost reasons

Sarah Palin coined the term "death panels" when she wrote about the rationing that would inevitably occur with ObamaCare. She was immediately slammed by ObamaCare supporters for fear mongering,…

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Harry Reid finally reads ObamaCare bill and realizes it sucks

Harry Reid finally reads ObamaCare bill and realizes it sucks

The American people understood how awful this bill was from the getgo because they read it. But Harry, Nancy, and all the other Democrats were convinced they were smarter than…

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Federal judge allows Virginia's ObamaCare challenge to go forward

When Barack Obama and the Democrats in Congress passed ObamaCare, it was not only done in the face of the vociferous outrage of the American people, but its passage also…

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Federally funded abortions in ObamaCare, brought to you by Bart Stupak

Bart Stupak signed on to ObamaCare after President Obama gave him an executive order and his promise that taxpayer money would not be spent on abortions. And as everyone but…

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Massachusetts insurance commissioner: MassCare will be "a train wreck"

If you want to know what ObamaCare will look like in a few years, you don't need to look any further than Massachusetts. As Joseph Rago notes in the Wall…

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Rahm Emanuel Is Doing Some Serious CYA After ObamaCare Passage: Does He Hear Clinton Footsteps?

Liberal blogger Greg Sargent has an interesting piece out today about Jonathan Alter's new book "The Promise". I haven't read the book but Sargent offers some interesting teasers from Alter's…

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Obama Bemoans "Poisonous Political Climate"

President Obama is concerned about the heated rhetoric that accompanies much of the debate about his policies. In a commencement address in Ann Arbor, Michigan today the President asked the…

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