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The Obamacare Enrollee Lie

They start with a faulty 2016 baseline that predicts that 18 million people will be covered by Obamacare in 2017, when the people who are actually in charge of tracking Obamacare enrollments, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services,report that the … Continue reading

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Et tu, Sen. Shaheen?

While I am a strong advocate for repealing Obamacare, I have yet to analyze the replacement plan, and so my opinion on it is simply not yet developed. This is about the misleading propaganda and tactics Sen. Shaheen invoked in … Continue reading

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Video: Why Is Healthcare So Expensive?

The Affordable Care Act was supposed to lower healthcare costs, but it has done just the opposite. Why? Because it ignored the realities of how markets work. | Prager U

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NH Democrats Lying About the AHCA (Just Like They Lied About Obamacare)

Democrats lied repeatedly about Obamacare when they were trying to pass it.  The video below, for example, shows 36 instances when Obama lied about being able to keep your current healthcare plan.  Actually, Obamacare would have forced insurance companies to … Continue reading

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Health Insurance: Big Spikes and Little Things

My local Sunday paper had an above-the-fold headline the other day: “Obamacare rate could see big spike in NH next year.” This refers only to my state, where an unidentified government official leaked to the press a document projecting an … Continue reading

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NH conservative groups critical of possible Obamacare rate increases

Granite State conservative groups weighed in Monday on a report in the New Hampshire Sunday News that health insurance policies through the Affordable Care Act could see high rate increases in the coming year. “The latest premium increases under Obamacare … Continue reading

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Fact Check: It’s a Lie That the GOP Healthcare Bill Abandons People With Pre-Existing Conditions

As we described yesterday, there are some concerning policy elements of the House-passed American Health Care Act, which the Senate would be wise to explore and rectify over the coming weeks. The bill — and that’s all it is at this point: … Continue reading

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We Can’t Ignore The People Hurt By Obamacare

[T]two years ago, I was a seven-month-pregnant widow with one toddler who got a letter two weeks after my husband died, informing me I’d lost my third or fourth health insurance plan since the Affordable Care Act passed. If you’ll … Continue reading

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Kentucky governor with NH roots leads way to dismantling Obamacare

[Links fixed] Kentucky is poised for a new distinction: to be the first state to save money by reducing the number of people on Medicaid, the government health insurance program for the poor and disabled and a central tenet of … Continue reading

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US House Passes Health Care Reform Bill

The U.S. House voted by a very narrow margin today to pass a health insurance act (H.R. 1628) which faces grim prospects over in the U.S. Senate. Among other reported provisions, the act passed today would prevent federal funds from … Continue reading

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