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News Boulderites can use – Canadian Health Care: Patients Waiting Longer Than Ever For Treatment – Investors.com The same report says that a Canadian consulting firm found that “as many as 900,000 Ontarians are experiencing problems accessing medical care, a … Continue reading

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The death spiral continues –  $7,150 ObamaCare Deductible Coming In 2017: HHS – Investors.com Americans are balking at ObamaCare’s high deductibles. The backlash will only intensify as bronze-plan deductibles max out at $7,150 in 2017, up another $300.

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I’m hopeful they saw this coming? – Local health-care execs: Current system ‘dysfunctional’ – BizWest Excerpts and comments: Flanagan co-founded Nextera in 2011, which offers primary-care service to members for a monthly fee. “Insurance should be used for what all types … Continue reading

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Obamcare: Apparently free birth control only goes so far

casey on Twitter: “What changed? http://t.co/ulbm5TpEJn“. Dream meets reality. You can’t make this stuff up.

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Health Care to Suppress Wages

If you are concerned about wage stagnation, you have to be concerned about health care. via Health Care to Suppress Wages Even More – The American Interest.

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You have to ask?

Faster please – Is Obamacare Destroying the Democratic Party? – NYTimes.com. The ability of the Democratic Party to convince middle-class voters that it is on their side is by no means guaranteed. In mid-November, 2008, just after Obama first won … Continue reading

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New Policy Cancellations in Colorado

Gardner Comments On Thousands of New Policy Cancellations | Cory Gardner for Senate. In a letter to the Colorado Senate Republicans today, the Colorado Division of Insurance announced that an additional 18,783 Coloradans have had their health insurance policy cancelled … Continue reading

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Daily Camera finally reports on CU capping student hours

CU-Boulder capping student employee hours – Boulder Daily Camera. Hey amateurs what took you so long? This issue showed up on the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal before the liberal Boulder Daily Camera reported on it. Guess it … Continue reading

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Obamacare’s Smoking Gun Fires Again

Obamacare’s Smoking Gun Fires Again – Bloomberg View. But though I do not fault his honesty, I also think that in January 2012, Gruber did believe that premium tax credits would only be available on state-created exchanges, and that this … Continue reading

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Judd Legum: “Two federal judges just ordered that Obamacare should be defunded based on a glorified typo”

The Halbig Freakout. This is, of course, untrue.  As the plaintiff’s lawyers point out, entitlements and subsidies are regularly tied to state participation — this includes Medicaid, SCHIP, and other health care tax credits. The idea that dealing with a … Continue reading

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Where VA has taken veterans, Obamacare is leading all Americans

Where VA has taken veterans, Obamacare is leading all Americans: Kevin O’Brien | cleveland.com. Another conclusion is probably just dawning on those Americans with the wit to see it, because so very few of us have had a brush with … Continue reading

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$2500 per insured

ObamaCare Overhead: $2,500 Per Newly Insured Enrollee – Investors.com. Add it all up, and ObamaCare’s startup cost is at least $6.7 billion. Even if every one of the 8 million enrollees pays their premiums all year, the cost is more … Continue reading

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Enroll America/HHS Shakedown Street

GAO report: White House directly involved in Enroll America fundraising « Hot Air. It’s worth noting at this point that HHS regulates these markets in significant ways, especially after the passage of ObamaCare. This wasn’t just a case of working … Continue reading

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Medicare for all

The preferred Boulder Single Payer solution. You’re on the clock: Doctors rush patients out the door. These days, stories like Eisenstodt’s are increasingly common. Patients — and physicians — say they feel the time crunch as never before as doctors … Continue reading

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Single payer all the way

OR NOT! – Vermonts Single-Payer Dream Is Taxpayer Nightmare – Bloomberg View. The cost, an optimistically estimated $1.7 billion. Keep in mind that the state’s present tax collection totals $2.7 billion. Megan McArdle concludes… So this is going to be … Continue reading

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The cost of Obamacare

For Obamacare supporters, a deal no matter the cost – US sees sharpest health insurance premium increases | The Daily Caller.

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Obamacare: Job Killer

The staggering costs of Obamacare | Power Line. Staffing decisions will, of course, be among the “implications.” If the estimates contained in the AHPI study are even close to accurate, Obamacare will likely prove to be a significant job-killer. Nothing … Continue reading

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Is Obamacare signing up the uninsured?

Is Obamacare signing up the uninsured? Its a tough call. Critics have suggested most of them had insurance before, but had to buy new plans because their old ones were not compliant with the new law. The Obama administration has … Continue reading

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The Lie of the Year: He said it over and over and over ….

The Obama Switch – YouTube.

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ObamaCare: An Unworkable Law

ObamaCare: The impossible enforcement of an unworkable law | Fox News. Remember the Government shutdown? To be clear, if any Republican tried to force these changes on ObamaCare – changes that go far beyond the changes Republicans tried to force … Continue reading

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