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Marijuana: Just make Obamacare cover it

D.C. government program to subsidize marijuana for poor patients – Washington Times. Seems obvious, if you want the poor to sign up, cover (medical) marijuana with a generic drug copay. Now THERE’s a marketing campaign for ya.

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Obamacare: I thought you could keep your plan

Low-premium, high-deductible health plans are endangered by Affordable Care Act : Stltoday. “I’m only really interested in catastrophic coverage,” says Coons, 58, who retired last year after selling an electronics manufacturing business in Indianapolis. Beyond their premium, the couple typically … Continue reading

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What happens when an Obamacare exchange is run by the State?

 Idaho on Obamacare: We’ll take it from here. Of the 16 states gearing up to operate online marketplaces — a central feature of the effort to expand coverage to millions of people starting in January — Idaho is the only … Continue reading

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HHS official: Immigrants who are ‘lawfully present’ but not citizens qualify for Obamacare subsidies

HHS official: Immigrants who are ‘lawfully present’ but not citizens qualify for Obamacare subsidies. Regardless of whether or not illegal aliens granted RPI status would get access to Obamacare subsidies in the end, Gerlach caught a major nexus point between … Continue reading

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“Now, as Obamacare founders, they are paying the price.”

concludes Michael Barone. Democrats Own Obamacare, and Its Political Cost Keeps Rising | RealClearPolitics. A second point is that Obamacare — unlike Social Security, Medicare and Part D — wasn’t consistently supported in public opinion polls. Quite the contrary. Please … Continue reading

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Obamacare inside the castle walls

Obama Promises to Help Congressional Staffers Avoid Obamacare. Some lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have been threatening to push through a legislative “fix” to the problem thereby exempting Congress and its employees from Obama’s healthcare law. But such … Continue reading

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Obamacare Irony: You are actually ‘part-time intermittent.’”

Many more surprises sure to come… Obamacare Call Center Will Not Offer Health-Care Benefits to Employees | National Review Online. One branch of that call center will be located in California’s Contra Costa County, where, reportedly, 7,000 people applied for … Continue reading

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Dems Offer Free ‘I HEART ObamaCare’ Stickers

Dems Offer Free ‘I HEART ObamaCare’ Stickers. Don’t disappoint Boulderites. I expect to see these bumper stickers right next to your Boulder municipalization stickers.

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Obamacare repeal

Poll: Most Americans Don’t Want Congress to Repeal Obamacare – NationalJournal.com. But they will but then it will be too late.

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Obamacare Navigators Unsafe at any Speed?

Obamacare’s Branch of the NSA | National Review Online. Because 34 states have declined to set up their own insurance “exchanges,” the job of guiding exchange enrollees in those states has been left to Washington. The identity of the groups … Continue reading

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Move over NSA, here comes the Obamacare Big Brother database | Rare

Move over NSA, here comes the Obamacare Big Brother database | Rare. Would you trust thousands of low-level Federal bureaucrats and contractors with one-touch access to your private financial and medical information? Under Obamacare you won’t have any choice. Actually … Continue reading

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Judge grants exemption for Hobby Lobby in ObamaCare challenge

Judge grants exemption for Hobby Lobby in ObamaCare challenge | Fox News. Hobby Lobby Inc. was given a temporary exemption Friday from a requirement in the new federal health care law to offer insurance coverage for the morning-after pill and … Continue reading

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Scary lessons for Americans and ObamaCare from UK’s National Health Service

Scary lessons for Americans and ObamaCare from UK’s National Health Service | Fox News. At Stafford Hospital, police are investigating the deaths of 300 patients over a four-year period. They suspect neglect, even criminality, may have contributed to their deaths. … Continue reading

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USA Today: Having lost in Congress and in court, they’re now using the most cynical of tactics: trying to make the law fail.

Having lost in Congress and in court, they’re now using the most cynical of tactics: trying to make the law fail. Never mind the public inconvenience and human misery that will result. via PJ Media » Yes, the GOP Is … Continue reading

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Grocery store chain axes health benefits for part-timers due to Obamacare

Michelle Malkin | Change: Grocery store chain axes health benefits for part-timers due to Obamacare «. According to the story, Wegman’s employs over 4,300 part-timers in the Buffalo-Niagra region that now might have to have taxpayers subsidize their health care, … Continue reading

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Steven Hayword asks Mayor Bloomberg: “Can we have our salt shakers back now, please? “

This is the Steven Hayword that will be the first Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy at the University of Colorado. He also asks: What Is It With Liberals and Food? Steven observes the obvious…. One thing we do know: Like … Continue reading

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The Employer Mandate: A Necessary Impossibility « Megan McArdle

Indeed: The Employer Mandate: A Necessary Impossibility « Megan McArdle. So a missing employer mandate creates problems, who would have thought such a thing… This has, I pointed out, big fiscal implications: offering subsidies only to people who can’t get … Continue reading

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Carney: Critics Of Obamacare Employer Mandate Delay Are “Willfully Ignorant”

Laughing out loud. What a stooge. Carney: Critics Of Obamacare Employer Mandate Delay Are “Willfully Ignorant” | RealClearPolitics. Video at link

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Smarter government in the Obama fantasyland

Obamacare is the prime example: President Obama’s Promises Of Smarter Government Don’t Pan Out – Investors.com. IBD points out, as I did earlier today… Public.Resource.org revealed this week that the IRS inadvertently exposed the Social Security numbers of as many … Continue reading

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Paul Ryan: Say, what’s this new ObamaCare delay and “honor system” going to cost us?

Paul Ryan: Say, what’s this new ObamaCare delay and “honor system” going to cost us? « Hot Air. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is requesting a new cost estimate for ObamaCare in light of a decision to delay … Continue reading

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