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September 2017

September 27, 2017

Judge Roy Moore wins & so does Obamacare

Senate Republicans again failed in their latest effort to kill and replace Obamacare. And President...

September 21, 2017

Short takes

Short takes on current events: Hurricane Maria, earthquake in Mexico City, Donald Trump takes on...

August 2017

August 02, 2017

Unanswered misconceptions about the Health Care plan

The Republican Health Care plan that went down in flames was portrayed in the...

July 2017

July 31, 2017

Republican health care reform is dead

Senate Republicans failed to pass a health care bill, failed to repeal Obamacare, and failed...

July 26, 2017

Using the legislative process for a Health Care Bill

Though the Republican Health Care Bill, as formulated by the Senate leadership, lacks the vote...

July 19, 2017

Republicans again fail to repeal & replace Obamacare

Two more Republican Senators announced that they would oppose the latest attempt to repeal and...

July 14, 2017

OK, try this health care bill

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has released yet another health care bill, designed to pick...

June 2017

June 23, 2017

The Senate’s health care bill

Senate Republicans released their proposed health care bill, which, if it passes, must be reconciled...

May 2017

May 05, 2017

House votes to repeal & replace Obamacare

The House of Representatives voted to repeal and replace Obamacare, a long-time Republican commitment that...

May 02, 2017

Congress gets busy on the budget & Obamacare

Congress has passed a spending deal that will keep the government from shutting down. The...

March 2017

March 27, 2017

Trump vs. his own supporters?

The plan to "repeal and replace" Obamacare that was shot down on Friday was complicated...

March 24, 2017

Trump will keep Obamacare if his healthcare bill fails–which it did

Republican lawmakers, seeing that they don't have the votes, postponed voting on President Trump's healthcare...

March 22, 2017

Trump threatens opponents of his health care bill

President Trump is pressuring conservative Congressmen who are opposed to his health care bill. The...

March 09, 2017

Trump pushing conservatives to adopt GOP health care bill

President Trump is taking ownership of the Republican bill to replace Obamacare with an alternative...

March 07, 2017

Trumpcare vs. Obamacare

The Republicans have finally introduced a bill to "repeal and replace" Obamacare. Let us call...

October 2016

October 26, 2016

Obamacare blows up

2017 may be the year that Obamacare blows up. The number of mandated free coverages...

June 2016

June 29, 2016

California churches to be forced to pay for abortions?

The state of California has classified abortion as a "basic health service," which means that under...

May 2016

May 13, 2016

Obamacare funding ruled unconstitutional

A federal judge has ruled that the mechanism for subsidizing insurance companies under Obamacare violates...

August 2015

August 03, 2015

Planned Parenthood fights back against defunding

We taxpayers give Planned Parenthood a half-billion dollars a year, something a measure that goes...

June 2015

June 26, 2015

Supreme Court upholds Obamacare

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Obamacare, saying that the language of a passage...

March 2015

March 05, 2015

Supremes hear case on Obamacare language

The Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday on the most serious legal challenge to Obamacare so...

January 2015

January 02, 2015

Obamacare employer mandate goes into effect

Now that it's 2015, the next phase of Obamacare kicks in: Employers of more than...

November 2014

November 17, 2014

The Obamacare confession

When I heard about the Obama operative who said that the passage of Obamacare was...

August 2014

August 25, 2014

The revised contraceptive mandate

In response to the Supreme Court decision that the Obamacare contraception mandate can violate the...

July 2014

July 23, 2014

Contradictory court rulings on Obamacare subsidies

One federal appeals court threw out the Obamacare subsidies, but hours later, another federal appeals...

June 2014

June 23, 2014

Obamacare numbers

A Kaiser study has found that 57% of the 8 million who have signed up...

May 2014

May 19, 2014

Yet another Obamacare problem

Another Obamacare fiasco: The government may be paying incorrect subsidies to more than 1 million...

April 2014

April 07, 2014

The 7.1 million who signed up for Obamacare

So 7.1 million Americans signed up for Obamacare, which is being hailed as a great...

April 01, 2014

The Obamacare deadline is past

If you don't have health insurance and didn't sign up for Obamacare, you are in...

March 2014

March 18, 2014

Songs about health insurance

In a desperate, last-ditch attempt to get 18-34 year-olds to sign up for Obamacare--those "young...