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Obama announces he will allow subpar or junk policies to be sold by bad apple insurance companies
Post Date: 2013-11-14 15:32:51 by nolu chan
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Obama announces he will allow subpar or junk policies to be sold by bad apple insurance companies Thomas Lifson November 14, 2013 President Obama's press conference on Obamacare "fixes" today started more than half an hour after its announced time, a good indicator of last minute panic over wording. That's because appearances, not substance, are the essence of this "plan." For one thing, state insurance commissioners must approve any new plans. In California, health insurers have been required to sign contracts promising to end old policies, and the federal government lacks the authority to change lawful contracts. The idea that 50 state insurance ...
Strategic Move Exempts Health Law From Broader U.S. Statute
Post Date: 2013-11-14 15:24:30 by nolu chan
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Strategic Move Exempts Health Law From Broader U.S. Statute By Robert Pear Published: November 4, 2013 WASHINGTON — The Affordable Care Act is the biggest new health care program in decades, but the Obama administration has ruled that neither the federal insurance exchange nor the federal subsidies paid to insurance companies on behalf of low-income people are “federal health care programs.” The surprise decision, disclosed last week, exempts subsidized health insurance from a law that bans rebates, kickbacks, bribes and certain other financial arrangements in federal health programs, stripping law enforcement of a powerful tool used to fight fraud in other health care ...
OBAMACARE ENROLLMENT REPORT, 13 Nov 2013
Post Date: 2013-11-13 15:59:24 by nolu chan
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OBAMACARE ENROLLMENT REPORT, 13 Nov 2013
Bill Clinton May Have Just Penned ObamaCare's Epitaph I
Post Date: 2013-11-13 08:59:19 by A K A Stone
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Politics: Who would think the president who proposed HillaryCare would help kill ObamaCare. Bill Clinton just gave congressional Democrats cover to oppose their party's president — and try salvaging their political skins. When New Coke failed back in the 1980s, the Coca-Cola Co. didn't "fix" it; the company swiftly brought back the real Coke, calling it "Coca-Cola Classic." In the end, New Coke was scrapped and the fiasco made consumers appreciate "The Real Thing" that they had taken for granted. ObamaCare can't be "fixed" any more than New Coke could. But the pressure's on for Democrats to get rid of it, even if, like the Coke ...
Obamacare Death March - Day 44 (13 Nov 2013)
Post Date: 2013-11-13 01:12:52 by nolu chan
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Obamacare Death March - Day 44 (13 Nov 2013) http://www.whitehouse.gov/healthreform/healthcare-overview Whitehouse, November 13, 2013: "If you like your plan you can keep it and you won't have to change a thing due to the health care law." As for the White House Web page still saying "If you like your health-care plan you can keep it," Jay Leno said: "The White House said they're trying to change it, they just can't log on!" - - - - - On Monday, it was revealed that Henry Chao, Chief PM, testified in closed session that "he was unaware of a Sept. 3 government memo written by another senior official at CMS. It found two high-risk ...
RPT: DEMS GIVE WH UNTIL FRI TO 'FIX' HC OR THEY MAY BACK GOP PLAN
Post Date: 2013-11-12 22:34:42 by nolu chan
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RPT: DEMS GIVE WH UNTIL FRI TO 'FIX' HC OR THEY MAY BACK GOP PLAN Megyn Kelly, The Kelly File November 12, 2013 On screen: RPT: DEMS GIVE WH UNTIL FRI TO 'FIX' HC OR THEY MAY BACK GOP PLAN Megyn Kelly: We heard congressional Democrats reportedly gave the President 72 hours to do something significant about the disastrous Health Care rollout. Otherwise, they are reportedly ready to join congressional Republicans on an Obamacare fix. Then, tonight, late breaking news that Senator Dianne Feinstein, a top Democrat, challenged the White House directly by backing a bill that would allow Americans to keep their health care.
Memo warned of "limitless" security risks for HealthCare.gov
Post Date: 2013-11-12 00:28:30 by nolu chan
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November 11, 2013 7:14 PM Memo warned of "limitless" security risks for HealthCare.gov By Sharyl Attkisson (CBS News) WASHINGTON -- CBS News has learned that the project manager in charge of building the federal health care website was apparently kept in the dark about serious failures in the website's security. Those failures could lead to identity theft among buying insurance. The project manager testified to congressional investigators behind closed doors, but CBS News has obtained the first look at a partial transcript of his testimony. Henry Chao, HealthCare.gov's chief project manager at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), gave nine hours of ...
Delbert Belton Murder Update: Suspect in beating death of WWII vet caught on video stealing phone before attack, report says
Post Date: 2013-11-11 15:52:59 by sneakypete
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(CBS) SPOKANE, Wash. -- Kenan Adams-Kinard, a suspect in the beating death of World War II veteran Delbert Belton, was captured on surveillance video stealing a cell phone out of a woman's lap on a bus in May, authorities said. cnettv.cnet.com/av/video/...cbsnews_player_embed.swf" type= CBS affiliate KREM reports that Adams-Kinard, 16, pleaded guilty to theft and fourth degree assault in the incident. He served just over one month and paid the victim $400, reports the station. The second suspect in the murder and robbery of 88-year-old Belton, Demetrius Glenn, pleaded guilty to an assault and riot charge after investigators said he was among a group that attacked a teenage boy ...
Day 41 - The Obamacare Death March
Post Date: 2013-11-10 17:44:29 by nolu chan
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Day 41 - The Obamacare Death March nolu chan November 10, 2013 As we start a new week, the Obamacare website keeps trudging along to nowhere. Glitch Girl has gone into witness protection to salvage her reputation, while a less sensitive replacement has taken her place. Sticker shock has taken hold as millions of ploicy holders have been sent cancellation letters and have been introduced to the cost of The Unaffordable Care Act. The new Obamacare lead software engineer is working 24/7 to get the website operating optimally with few error for the majority of users. The main surge is by QSSI and CGI, now household names. As of last report, the site was only generating 2 ...
Tennessee v Powell, Cir Ct, Williamson Cty 1-CR-086639-B, Response to Government's Motion in Limine Two - Govt Motion to Ban the Word Government
Post Date: 2013-11-10 01:03:34 by nolu chan
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Tennessee v Powell, Cir Ct, Williamson Cty 1-CR-086639-B, Response to Government's Motion in Limine Two - Govt Motion to Ban the Word Government Defense counsel Drew JUSTICE: The government has moved to ban the word "government." [...] In any event, such a ban on terminology would violate the First Amendment. [...] Should this Court disagree, and feel inclined to let the parties basically pick their own designations and ban words, then the defense has a few additional suggestions for amending the speech code. First, the Defendant no longer wants to be called "the Defendant." This rather archaic term of art, obviously has a fairly negative connotation. It ...
Jay Leno - Video metaphor for Obamacare
Post Date: 2013-11-07 19:21:47 by nolu chan
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Jay Leno - Video metaphor for Obamacare
Obamacare by Morning CMA Awards Carrie Underwood & Brad Paisley
Post Date: 2013-11-07 13:00:19 by nolu chan
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR3_mM4bpCY Obamacare by Morning CMA Awards Carrie Underwood & Brad Paisley
The Republican Establishment Lost Virginia
Post Date: 2013-11-07 06:36:42 by CZ82
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The Republican Establishment Lost Virginia By: Jason Johnson (Diary) | November 6th, 2013 at 05:58 PM | 29 Much ink is being spilled concerning the elections yesterday. In my view, the spin being offered by Democrats and much of the media misses what really happened. Several observations on the elections: (1) Chris Christie should be congratulated. He won a big victory in a state that is historically very tough for Republicans. And his blunt, brash style is a refreshing change from the timidity of many Washington Republicans. (2) Ken Cuccinelli should have won in Virginia. (a) Despite weeks of polling showing him down by double-digits, the race was decided by just 2 percentage ...
Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine
Post Date: 2013-11-06 21:47:52 by nolu chan
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRdLpem-AAs Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine Uploaded on Aug 1, 2007 From the 1961 Operation Coffee Cup Campaign against Socialized Medicine as proposed by the Democrats, then a private citizen Ronald Reagan Speaks out against socialized medicine. There is no video because this was an LP sent out by the American Medical Association
FINAL RULE, Reinsurance Exemption
Post Date: 2013-11-06 16:19:19 by nolu chan
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FINAL RULE, Reinsurance Exemption Fed Reg 78-210, pg 65051 (30 Oct 2013) C. Part 153—Standards Related to Reinsurance, Risk Corridors, and Risk Adjustment Under the Affordable Care Act In the proposed rule, we proposed certain provisions related to program integrity for State-operated risk adjustment and reinsurance programs, including provisions governing reporting requirements and restricting the use of reinsurance funds for administrative expenses. In addition, we proposed record retention standards for States operating risk adjustment, for contributing entities, and for reinsurance-eligible plans when HHS operates reinsurance on behalf of a State. We intend to propose additional ...
Top Official Retiring From Agency Charged With Obamacare Website
Post Date: 2013-11-06 15:35:25 by nolu chan
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Top Official Retiring From Agency Charged With Obamacare Website Catherine Thompson TPM November 6, 2013, 11:01 AM EST The Obama administration announced Wednesday that a top official for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the federal agency charged with creating the notoriously glitchy Obamacare website, is retiring. Chief Information Officer Tony Trenkle will step down on Nov. 15 and move into a private sector position, according to an email circulated to agency employees and quoted by the New York Times. Trenkle declined to discuss his future plans with the newspaper. Both House Ways and Means Committee Chair Dave Camp (R-MI) and House Oversight Chair Darrell Issa ...
Gallup Poll - Obama Approval 39%-53%
Post Date: 2013-11-05 13:47:28 by nolu chan
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Gallup Daily: Obama Job Approval Each result is based on a three-day rolling average
% Approve % Disapprove
11/2-4/2013 39% 53%
Obamacare problems are just starting
Post Date: 2013-11-05 13:00:41 by nolu chan
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Obamacare problems are just starting By Jennifer Rubin Washington Post November 5 at 8:45 am If the government shutdown briefly drove up support for Obamacare, then the experience of Obamacare has driven it down, dramatically so. And unlike the shutdown, there is no immediate end to the ordeal that has soured more Americans on the program. [...] In order to rescue himself and his party, the president must accomplish the following in the next few months: Make HealthCare.gov fully functional by the promised Nov. 30 date; Convince several million people to sign up in the health-care exchanges; Convince those who had catastrophic coverage or even higher-cost plans that they are now ...
Lying About Lies: Why Credibility Matters to Obama
Post Date: 2013-11-05 12:28:40 by nolu chan
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Lying About Lies: Why Credibility Matters to Obama The president is trying to reinvent the history of his you-can-keep-it promise on health care. By Ron Fournier November 5, 2013 It might not seem possible that President Obama could do more harm to his credibility and the public's faith in government than misleading Americans about health insurance reform. But he can. The president is now misleading the public about his deception. In a speech last night to his political team, Obama said: "Now, if you have or had one of these plans before the Affordable Care Act came into law and you really liked that plan, what we said was you can keep it if it hasn't changed since the ...
Two Men "Married" [sic] At West Point Chapel For First Time
Post Date: 2013-11-03 18:22:38 by Brian S
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WEST POINT — Two West Point graduates were married Saturday in the military academy’s first wedding between two men.
Larry Choate III, class of 2009, married Daniel Lennox, class of 2007, before about 20 guests.
Choate taught Sunday school at the US Military Academy’s Cadet Chapel and said he always thought of it as the place he would get married if he could.
West Point hosted two same-sex weddings of women in late 2012, more than a year after New York legalized gay marriage. But Saturday’s wedding was the first time two men wed at West Point.
“It’s maybe one more barrier that’s ...
Cincinnati Must Face the Crisis that Sealed Detroit’s Fate
Post Date: 2013-11-02 08:11:52 by A K A Stone
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Editor's Note: This column was co-authored by Prof. Richard Vedder, the Distinguished Professor of Economics Emeritus at Ohio University. Cincinnati and Detroit are separated by barely more than 250 miles – a five-hour drive at worst, or under an hour by plane. Despite this proximity, many Cincinnatians would prefer to believe that Detroit’s horrendous fiscal situation couldn’t possibly hit their city. Not so fast. As the largest bankrupt city in America, Detroit has seen its population drop by more than half, unemployment soar to well over double the national average, and services decline. This is what happens to a locality mired in $18.5 billion of debt. No, ...
Apple and Microsoft’s Patent Troll Sues Google Over Android
Post Date: 2013-11-01 23:18:17 by A K A Stone
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A patent troll funded by Apple, Microsoft, and a handful of other tech companies is suing Google and a number of its Android partners, including Samsung, HTC, Asustek, and LG. The lawsuits were filed on Thursday by a tiny company called the Rockstar Consortium, as first reported by Reuters. Rockstar is a new breed of company. It’s jointly owned by five tech giants — Apple, Microsoft, Blackberry, Sony, and Ericsson — and it’s chartered with making back the $4.5 billion these companies pooled together to build its patent portfolio. Rockstar was born in 2011, when Google and Intel lost a high-profile bidding war for the remains of Canadian telecom giant Nortel’s ...
The Truth Comes Out: Obamacare's Website Enrolled A Grand Total Of Six People On Oct. 1
Post Date: 2013-11-01 15:31:41 by nolu chan
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The Truth Comes Out: Obamacare's Website Enrolled A Grand Total Of Six People On Oct. 1 Avik Roy, Contributor Forbes 11/01/2013 @ 1:34PM There’s been a lot of spin coming out of the White House regarding the botched launch of Obamacare’s health insurance exchanges. When it was clear that people were having problems with the healthcare.gov website on its launch day, October 1, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius called it a “great problem to have.” The “glitches” were great, she said, because they were being caused by the overwhelming interest of millions of visitors to the website. But whenever she was asked how many people had actually ...
Why Letting Everyone Keep Their Health-Care Plan Is a Terrible Ide
Post Date: 2013-11-01 13:16:38 by nolu chan
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Why Letting Everyone Keep Their Health-Care Plan Is a Terrible Idea By Jonathan Chait New York The current furor over President Obama’s broken “keep your plan” promise confusingly melds together two very different claims. The first is a simple question of accuracy and honesty: Obama made a promise about his legislation, the promise has not come true, and a certain level of abuse is deserved. (Karl Rove huffs, “This is a serious breach of trust with the American people.” And you know that Karl Rove takes breaches of presidential trust with the utmost seriousness.) The justifiable scrutiny of Obama’s veracity has melded seamlessly into a second and very ...
Obamacare Initial Enrollment Statistics, War Room Memos (248 by 3 Oct)
Post Date: 2013-10-31 22:04:08 by nolu chan
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Obamacare Initial Enrollment Statistics, War Room Memos (248 by 3 Oct) CCIIO-Wide War Room Notes 10.2.13 AM, page 1 (LMI 0000337) -- 6 enrollments have occurred so far with 5 different issuers. 10.2.13 pm, page 3 (LMI 0000302) -- Approximately 100 enrollments have happened as of this meeting. 10.3.13 AM, page 4 (LMI 0000304) -- As of yesterday, there were 248 enrollments. http://www.scribd.com/doc/180657833/Obamacare-Initial-Enrollment-Statistics-War-Room-Memos-248-by-3-Oct
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