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Business & Economics
Regulatory decisions should be inclusive and based on facts
Creating the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was never a good idea. Now that the Bureau is up and running, its actions are removing all doubt. New auto-lending rules stand out as the latest example of the CFPB’s shortcomings. Due to these new rules, buying a car may soon ...
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Don’t Be Fooled By Kathleen Sebelius’s Healthcare.gov ‘Progress’ Report
This month, Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius trudged up to Capitol Hill for her second public grilling over the flaws with the Obamacare healthcare exchanges. Sebelius was insistent that HealthCare.gov has vastly improved since its October launch, noting that about a quarter of a million new people signed up in November. ...
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Flash: Obamacare Dangerous To Health of Poor
Well, Halleluiah. The Obamacare website is up and running. Of course, at only half a million applications processed so far
and accounting for the ones that the system garbled or couldnt verify or seems to have lost
and anticipating the tens of millions of Americans predicted to lose coverage once ...
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It’s Not Just Healthcare.gov: Obamacare Has A Serious Age Discrimination Problem
The Obama Administration is desperate to get young people to sign up for health insurance under the federal healthcare reform law. So theyve enlisted a team of almost universally trusted spokespeople to lobby the youth of America their mothers. One ad from the Obama-allied group Organizing for Action encourages ...
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In California, efforts to reduce health disparities raise privacy concerns
Californias health insurance exchange wants to collect and use data on a raft of sensitive customer information, from race and ethnicity to sexual orientation and gender identity. How officials will tackle the task without running afoul of privacy laws remains an open question. A policy on collecting demographic characteristics ...
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Obamacare Is In Serious Trouble, And Obama’s Subsidies Are Worth Refusing
President Obama and his signature legislative accomplishment Obamacare are in deep trouble. The health insurance exchanges established by the law arent working properly; it now appears that the federally operated HealthCare.gov will not be fixed by November 30, as the president promised. Millions of Americans are irate that ...
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Here come more Obamacare lawsuits
The Obamacare rollout has been a debacle, with delays in the implementation of mandates, technical glitches in the exchanges, cancelled individual policies and more. It’s about to get worse. The federal judiciary is currently hearing four cases challenging decisions made by the Internal Revenue Service that could soon deliver more ...
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How Obamacare costs full-time employees
Some 60 percent of Americans nearly 160 million people get insurance through their jobs. Thanks to Obamacare, that number is about to nosedive. The presidents signature law is hiking the cost of health insurance for American businesses of all sizes. Theyre responding by dumping coverage for workers, spouses, ...
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President Obama Actually Meant, ‘If You Like Your Insurance Plan, Too Bad’
He didnt say it just once. No, the president said it at least twenty-three separate times over a four-year period: If you like your insurance plan, you will keep it. No one will be able to take that away from you. Liar, liar, pants on fire. Hundreds of thousands of ...
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The indispensable man revisited
We are in San Francisco visiting daughter number two, who is working here for a start-up. We picked this weekend to visit so that we could attend the gala annual dinner held by the Pacific Research Institute. This years dinner honored George Shultz. Charles Krauthammer was the featured speaker and, ...
Regulatory decisions should be inclusive and based on facts
Creating the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was never a good idea. Now that the Bureau is up and running, its actions are removing all doubt. New auto-lending rules stand out as the latest example of the CFPB’s shortcomings. Due to these new rules, buying a car may soon ...
Don’t Be Fooled By Kathleen Sebelius’s Healthcare.gov ‘Progress’ Report
This month, Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius trudged up to Capitol Hill for her second public grilling over the flaws with the Obamacare healthcare exchanges. Sebelius was insistent that HealthCare.gov has vastly improved since its October launch, noting that about a quarter of a million new people signed up in November. ...
Flash: Obamacare Dangerous To Health of Poor
Well, Halleluiah. The Obamacare website is up and running. Of course, at only half a million applications processed so far
and accounting for the ones that the system garbled or couldnt verify or seems to have lost
and anticipating the tens of millions of Americans predicted to lose coverage once ...
It’s Not Just Healthcare.gov: Obamacare Has A Serious Age Discrimination Problem
The Obama Administration is desperate to get young people to sign up for health insurance under the federal healthcare reform law. So theyve enlisted a team of almost universally trusted spokespeople to lobby the youth of America their mothers. One ad from the Obama-allied group Organizing for Action encourages ...
In California, efforts to reduce health disparities raise privacy concerns
Californias health insurance exchange wants to collect and use data on a raft of sensitive customer information, from race and ethnicity to sexual orientation and gender identity. How officials will tackle the task without running afoul of privacy laws remains an open question. A policy on collecting demographic characteristics ...
Obamacare Is In Serious Trouble, And Obama’s Subsidies Are Worth Refusing
President Obama and his signature legislative accomplishment Obamacare are in deep trouble. The health insurance exchanges established by the law arent working properly; it now appears that the federally operated HealthCare.gov will not be fixed by November 30, as the president promised. Millions of Americans are irate that ...
Here come more Obamacare lawsuits
The Obamacare rollout has been a debacle, with delays in the implementation of mandates, technical glitches in the exchanges, cancelled individual policies and more. It’s about to get worse. The federal judiciary is currently hearing four cases challenging decisions made by the Internal Revenue Service that could soon deliver more ...
How Obamacare costs full-time employees
Some 60 percent of Americans nearly 160 million people get insurance through their jobs. Thanks to Obamacare, that number is about to nosedive. The presidents signature law is hiking the cost of health insurance for American businesses of all sizes. Theyre responding by dumping coverage for workers, spouses, ...
President Obama Actually Meant, ‘If You Like Your Insurance Plan, Too Bad’
He didnt say it just once. No, the president said it at least twenty-three separate times over a four-year period: If you like your insurance plan, you will keep it. No one will be able to take that away from you. Liar, liar, pants on fire. Hundreds of thousands of ...
The indispensable man revisited
We are in San Francisco visiting daughter number two, who is working here for a start-up. We picked this weekend to visit so that we could attend the gala annual dinner held by the Pacific Research Institute. This years dinner honored George Shultz. Charles Krauthammer was the featured speaker and, ...
