The Prescription Pad

  • ObamaCare Results in 30,000 New Yorkers Losing their Current Health Benefits
    Nov 29, 2010  - A New York Service Employees International Union (SEIU)-affiliate recently announced they are dropping health care coverage for the children of more than 30,000 home health care workers, in part because of the new mandates contained in the Democrats’ health care overhaul.  Mitra Behroozi, Executive ... More
  • Obama Administration Repeats Discredited Claim that “You Can Keep Your Health Plan If You Like It”
    Nov 23, 2010  - MYTH: "No one is going to lose their coverage." - Jay Angoff, Director of the Obama Administration’s HHS Office of Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight FACT:  The Obama Administration has already predicted that as many as 7 out of 10 Americans with employer-provided health coverage could lo... More
  • Insurance Regulators Warn: ObamaCare Won’t Let You Keep What You Have
    Oct 29, 2010  - The Democrats’ health care overhaul tasked the non-partisan experts at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) with developing important regulations that will influence how every private insurance plan operates.  This week, the NAIC sent a letter to Secretary of Health and Human S... More
  • ObamaCare's Inconvenient Truth: First You Lose Your Health Plan, then You Lose Your Hospital
    Oct 8, 2010  - It’s not just insurance coverage that families are losing because of ObamaCare.  Now their hospitals are in jeopardy, too.  Three Catholic hospitals in Pennsylvania have been put up for sale, with ObamaCare cited as a main reason for the decision.  One of the hospitals, Mercy Hospital in Scranton, h... More
  • ObamaCare – CAN’T Keep What You Have and Like
    Oct 1, 2010  - The Principal Financial Group announced yesterday that it will stop selling health insurance because of the Democrats’ health overhaul.  This means that 840,000 Americans will lose their current health plan.  Even more alarming, the New York Times reports that, “More insurers are likely to follow Pr... More
  • Obama’s Oft-Broken Promise
    Sep 28, 2010  - Harvard Pilgrim Health Care is ending its Medicare health and prescription drug plan for seniors in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine because of changes to the program made by the Democrats’ health overhaul.  As a result, the Boston Globe reports that 22,000 seniors will lose their Medicare pl... More
  • FACT CHECK: 90% of Seniors Will See NO BENEFIT from Administration’s “Important” Prescription Drug Announcement
    Sep 23, 2010  - Today, Vice President Joe Biden and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius tried to put the best spin possible on the Administration’s unpopular health care law by touting changes to the Medicare prescription drug “donut hole.” Here’s what the Obama Administration won’t tell you: the ... More
  • Six Months Later: Top 6 Reasons to Repeal ObamaCare
    Sep 22, 2010  - Tomorrow marks the six-month anniversary of ObamaCare being enacted into law.  During that time, Congressional Democrats and President Obama have been travelling the country attempting to tout the “positive” effects of their new health care overhaul.  Americans, however, are not buying it, with over... More
  • And So the Medicare Cuts Begin…
    Sep 21, 2010  - Less than six months after ObamaCare became law, President Obama is breaking his promise that, “If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.”  According to an announcement made today by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS):  Next year, 1.2 million se... More
  • ObamaCare Price Tag Keeps Growing
    Sep 17, 2010  - Before breaking for the November elections, Congressional Democrats plan to pass a massive stop-gap spending bill that may also include a slew of unrelated or extraneous provisions.  The Obama Administration is also asking Congressional Democrats to include $250 million dollars to “increase the prim... More