Big Hospitals’ Obamacare Deal Betrays Seniors and the Poor

During their closed-room dealings with the Obama Administration, the hospital industry’s lobbyists agreed to support Obamacare—provided that the law placed restrictions on physician-owned “specialty” hospitals, noted WSJ. These innovative specialty hospitals frequently have quality outcomes better than most traditional facilities, but no matter—the big hospital lobbyists wanted to eliminate a source of competition. So Obamacare prohibits new physician-owned hospitals from receiving Medicare payments — and prohibits most existing facilities from expanding if they wish to keep treating Medicare patients.
Read the complete article by Christopher Jacobs at The Heritage Foundation.

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Snowe: President thought opposition to health law would eventually fade away

President Obama believed that opposition to his healthcare reform law would fade after the 2010 election, according to former Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine). Obama courted Snowe’s support in an attempt to make the bill bipartisan. He assured her GOP opposition to the law would be short-lived, she said.
Read the complete article by Alexander Bolton at TheHill.com.

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Small Business Owners File Lawsuit Against IRS Over Obamacare “Power Grab”

Small business owners in states that did not establish healthcare exchanges in advance of the implementation of the Affordable Care Act will be harshly impacted by a recent rule enacted by the Internal Revenue Service. Some small business owners have filed a lawsuit in Federal court over it.
Read the full article by Joshua Sophy at SmallBizTrends.com.

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This Week’s Reasons to Repeal Obamacare

It has been over three years since Obamacare became law. This week, the House voted again to completely repeal it.
There are plenty of reasons to repeal Obamacare, especially before its most egregious provisions begin next year, and just this week a few more were added to the list.
Read the full article by Alyene Senger at The Heritage Foundation.

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Lawsuits Against IRS May Exempt Millions from Obamacare

In more than half the country, the implementation of ObamaCare has been premised on a patently illegal regulation—a lawless “quick fix” designed by the Administration to circumvent the fact that roughly two-thirds of the states have effectively chosen to “opt out” of the Affordable Care Act’s intrusive mandates. A new lawsuit, recently filed by us in federal district court in D.C., will expose that flaw in ObamaCare’s very foundation.
Read the compete article by Mike Carvin and Sam Kazman at Forbes.com.

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More evidence MedObamacaid is no better than no insurance at all

Within the White House, within the Democratic chambers in Congress and among the (overwhelmingly liberal) health policy community there was considerable anguish last week. The reason: a new study finds that (as far as physical health is concerned) there is no difference between being in Medicaid and being uninsured.
Read the compete article by John C. Goodman at The Independent Institute.

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Rising health spending was always a fraudulent premise for Obamacare

Readers of Pull the Plug on Obamacare are not surprised by recent reports that health care spending in America is rising only at a modest rate. It was already so for three or more years prior to passage of the ACA, and gave lie to the claim that we had to pass Obamacare to rein in out-of-control spending (as if any recent administration has a good track record on that count).
Quoting the book published this past February, in the chapter 'Obamacare Mis-diagnoses the Problems': Prior to passage of the ACA, health expenditures in the USA had been growing at their lowest rate in 40 years. In 1970, the growth rate was 10.5%; in 1980, 13%; in 1990, 11%. In 2007, 2008 and 2009 the numbers were, respectively, 6.1%, 4.7% and 3.8%. Health care cost inflation was declining, not exploding, not in crisis.
It is Obamacare that is threatening to cause health spending to explode beyond anything 'affordable'. It's time to pull the plug while we still can.
See also:

• Sally Pipes: ObamaCare Doesn't Deserve Credit For Health Cost Slowdown
• The Wall Street Journal: The Health Spending Decline

Obamacare's Big Brother Database on Your Family

In order to determine eligibilty for health insurance subsidies, the new exchange has to bring together information about you and your family from the Treasury Department and the IRS, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, as well as your Social Security number — all coordinated by the Department of Health and Human Services.
Read the compete article by Stephen T. Parente and Paul Howard at USA Today.

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Poll: 61% of College-Age Students Want Government to Stay Out of Their Lives

While the mainstream media and our leaders in Washington want you to believe that the economy is getting better, thanks to more spending, higher taxes, and more regulation, six million people have dropped out of the work force since the recession began in 2008. Young Americans, especially, have it bad.


About 45 percent of 18 to 34-year olds are unemployed according to a recent poll by Demos, a public policy firm. I still know of college classmates who have yet to find meaningful jobs or are severely underemployed almost four years after graduation. However, a recent poll on young people's views of limited government, free markets, and economic liberty suggests some may be waking up to the conclusion that government, over-regulation, and more spending will not turn our futures around.

Read the complete article by Adam Tragone at CNSNews.com.

Obamacare Self-Destructing

Ezekiel Emanuel, a noted oncologist, has helped advise the Obama administration in its effort to create an economic system larger than France’s economy to distribute health care services to over 300 million people. Together, those facts encapsulate the essence of our federal government: hopelessly overextended, devoid of caution and chock full of hubris. If that isn’t succinct enough to signal the coming disaster that will be Obamacare, then Emanuel’s recent column in the Wall Street Journal should tip the balance.
Read the compete article by Yates Walker at The Daily Caller.

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