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ObamaCare

CalPERS Health Premiums to Leap Again; Expect Private Industry to Follow
The Sacramento Bee reports: It’s known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – and its title begs the question: Why are insurance rates continuing to climb? On Wednesday, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System approved an average increase of more than 9 percent in health premiums next year for its state and local [...]

White House Moves To Keep Employers From Dropping Insurance
The Hill reports: The White House on Monday outlined broad new rules designed to prevent employers from dropping health insurance benefits for their workers or shifting huge new costs onto them. The regulations empower the administration to revoke the so-called grandfather status of businesses that shift “significant” new burdens onto employees — a considerable penalty [...]

This Would Be Funny If It Wasn't So Sad
From the New York Times: In a new report, the Congressional Research Service says the law may have significant unintended consequences for the “personal health insurance coverage” of senators, representatives and their staff members. For example, it says, the law may “remove members of Congress and Congressional staff” from their current coverage, in the Federal [...]
Boehner: Repeal Is Number One Priority
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Monday that repealing the health care law is his “No. 1 priority” as Congress returns from a two-week spring recess. Speaking on a Tampa, Fla., radio talk show, Boehner said that Democrats were trying to “put their imprint” on the future of American governance with hefty investments in [...]
Support for Repeal of Health Care Plan Up To 58%
Three weeks after Congress passed its new national health care plan, support for repeal of the measure has risen four points to 58%. That includes 50% of U.S. voters who strongly favor repeal. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely voters nationwide finds 38% still oppose repeal, including 32% who strongly oppose it. But [...]

Dems Are Going To Try And Ram Healthcare Through
Roll Call reports: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is pinning the blame on Republicans for a lack of bipartisanship in Congress and plans to bypass them if they continue to oppose efforts to enact near-universal health care. This is the clearest indication yet that Democrats are gearing up to jam the Senate version of [...]

Obama Budget Rigs Healthcare Numbers
IGNORING INEPENDENT ANALYSIS IS A PATTERN FOR THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION – For the first time by any administration in memory, the Obama budget forecast rejects the Medicare Trustees’ projections for long-run healthcare cost growth. The Obama administration’s fiscal year 2011 budget continues a pattern of ignoring independent analysis and rigging economic assumptions to meet political [...]
The GOP's Chance To Shine In The Health Care Debate
IF YOU HAVE IDEAS BRING THEM ON – President Barack Obama has so lowered expectations for the Republican Party that if they come to the healthcare summit he has called at the White House with concrete and well-articulated proposals, it will blow the country away. Repeatedly, the president has fashioned the GOP as the party [...]
Labor Union Leaders Are Angry With Dems
THIS SOUNDS LIKE PROGRESS - Labor groups are furious with the Democrats they helped put in office — and are threatening to stay home this fall when Democratic incumbents will need their help fending off Republican challengers. The Senate’s failure to confirm labor lawyer Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board was just the latest blow, but [...]

Healthcare Talks Collapse
THIS IS EXCELLENT NEWS – Health care reform teetered on the brink of collapse Thursday as House and Senate leaders struggled to coalesce around a strategy to rescue the plan, in the face of growing pessimism among lawmakers that the president’s top priority can survive. The legislative landscape was filled with obstacles: House Democrats won’t [...]

Will Obama Come To Regret Health Care Reform?
Even the ultra liberal Newsweek hates ObamaCare: “was it wise for the president to spend most of his first year and political capital on a monumentally complicated overhaul of the nation’s health-care system? And will the results of that gamble—not fundamental reform, but rather an expensive set of patches, bypasses, an…d trusses bolted onto the [...]
U.S. Loan Effort Is Seen as Adding to Housing Woes
From the NY TImes: The Obama administration’s $75 billion program to protect homeowners from foreclosure has been widely pronounced a disappointment, and some economists and real estate experts now contend it has done more harm than good. Some experts argue the program has impeded economic recovery by delaying a wrenching yet cleansing process through which [...]