Our View
From the Conference
More Unpopular Than Ever
Aug 01 2014
ObamaCare is less popular than Darth Vader:
- Washington Post: Suddenly, Obamacare is more unpopular than ever
- Forbes: How Obamacare encourages some millennials to become uninsured
- Investor’s Business Daily: Another ObamaCare Promise Flatlines
- National Review Online: First look at enrollment under Obamacare
- Washington Free Beacon: Aetna CEO: Obamacare Numbers ‘Worse Than We Expected’
Driving up costs:
- Associated Press: Insurers: 2015 exchange rates likely to spike
- Syracuse Post-Standard: Consumers on proposed Obamacare rate hikes: ‘This all smells like a scam’
- Bloomberg: California Health Insurance Rates Rise Up to 88% in ’14
- Reuters: California’s proposed 2015 Obamacare premiums to rise 4 percent in 2015
- Associated Press: Hikes sought in health coverage rates
- Montgomery News: Sellersville’s employee health insurance costs more than doubling to meet federal Affordable Care Act
- Associated Press: Plan to simplify 2015 health renewals may backfire
What happened to “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor”?
- USA Today: New health plans’ limitations anger enrollees
- Miami Herald: Some Florida doctors are refusing to accept Obamacare
More exchange problems, expenses lie ahead:
- Washington Free Beacon: CMS Official Admits Healthcare.gov ‘Won’t Be Perfect’, Will Have ‘Bumps’ This Fall
- New York Times: Problems with HealthCare.gov Could Force Delays in Fall
- Reuters: Federal Obamacare market still faces cost overruns, delays: watchdog
- Associated Press: Probe exposes flaws behind HealthCare.gov rollout
- NBC News: Rushed HHS Let Contractors Fumble Obamacare Website, GOA Says
- Bloomberg: Obamacare Web Cost Approaches $1 Billion as Fixes Needed
- Fox News: Emails show White House adviser intervened on ObamaCare ‘bailout’ after industry appeals
- Wall Street Journal: ObamaCare’s Insider Testimony