Entries from August 2013 ↓

Here’s what the typical family is reading today:

(9/16/2013)Obamacare’s popularity – a mere 39-percent in a recent CNN – is on the decline. And over the weekend, the negative headlines kept piling in:

• WSB-TV (GA): Georgia Healthcare Company to Lay Off Over 100 Because of Obamacare
• Washington Free Beacon: Medicare Cuts, Obamacare Prompt Hospital Layoffs
• USA Today: Health law offers quandary for youths
• Forbes: Obama To Labor Unions With Multi-Employer Health Plans: Drop Dead

“Ohio health care premiums could increase 40 percent with ObamaCare” (Logan Daily News, 8/7/13)
“S.C. Health Insurance Rates Expected to Go Up 50-70%” (WLTX News, 8/5/13)
“In California … middle-income residents could see individual health premiums increase by an average of 30 percent” (Associated Press, 7/19/13)
“Obamacare in Georgia: Sticker shock” (Savannah Morning News Editorial, 8/1/13)
“National health care overhaul apt to push up costs” (Boston Globe, 7/17/13)
“Florida insurance officials: Rates will rise under Obamacare” (Associated Press, 7/30/13)
“State says Obamacare will force 72 percent increase in individual insurance plan rates” (Indianapolis Star, 7/19/13)

“The bottom line is we’re not broke, there’s plenty of money, it’s just the government doesn’t have it,” said Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), “The government has a right, the government and the people of the United States have a right to run the programs of the United States. Health, welfare, housing – all these things.”