Happy New Year! CAGW is pleased to announce that it will reconstitute its Healthcare and Science Division. Why you ask? The October 1, 2013 roll-out of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), better known as Obamacare, and the following chaos demonstrated the need for CAGW to increase its focus on health policy. I’ll be heading up […]
Obamacare Has Taken a Lickin…And It Still Isn’t Tickin
Well, now that January 1 has come and gone many of us get to experience the joys of government-controlled health insurance, better known as Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act. (Yes they ARE the same thing. There have been polls, which indicate people believe they are two different laws.) Three interesting stories popped up within […]
You Think Obamacare’s Problems Are Over? Just Wait.
Last week a lot of information was revealed about Obamacare and it’s not good. One Wednesday, December 11, the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health held a hearing entitled,” PPACA Implementation Failures: What’s Next?” The sole witness was the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. Her testimony can be found […]
Pesky Lawsuits Threaten Obamacare
Obamacare is a top-down, authoritarian law that has already spawned untold confusion, astronomical costs, and widespread dysfunction. Still, in an attempt to confer an air of finality to the whole mess and deter the law’s opponents from attempting to repeal or replace it, Obamacare supporters are vested in the narrative that it is “settled.” However, it is far from settled legally and its authority is being threatened by several lawsuits rising from below, the states.
The Young Aren’t Buying It
More and more stories are appearing about growing opposition to Obamacare, also known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA), from America’s youth and that’s not good news for the Obama administration. Simply put, when it comes to signing up for Obamacare the “young invincibles,” the cohort of the U.S. population that are desperately needed to make the […]
Obamacare: Still Not Ready for Primetime
The New York Times provided numbers yesterday on Medicaid enrollment compared to Obamacare enrollment during the month of October. Those of us who follow health policy are not really surprised by the numbers; we expected more people were signing up for Medicaid for some time. Here’s part of the article: The Obama administration said Tuesday […]
Healthcare.gov is Up and Running…Sort of
The administration declared success in its efforts to meet its self-imposed deadline of November 30 to improve the Healthcare.gov website. With little fanfare, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the agency charged with overseeing Obamacare, stated “we believe we have met the goal of having a system that will work smoothly for the […]
Businesses and Obamacare: Not a Good Mix
Public Opinion Strategies (POS) is a well-respected market research company specializing in corporate and public policy research. The company recently undertook a survey of 208 decision makers in franchise-owned businesses and 206 decision makers in non-franchise businesses that have between 40-500 employees and asked them about the impact of the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, […]
Think Obamacare is Fixed? Think Again
On Tuesday, the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations had a hearing on the Obamacare website roll out and the numerous computer “glitches” that have and are continuing to surface since its opening on October 1. It was an eye opening hearing and shows the website still is not really ready for prime […]
They Knew. They All Knew.
We are seeing a lot of panic on Capitol Hill these days as Obamacare continues to unravel. Certainly, the functionality of the Healthcare.gov website was initially the primary focus of concern. But when millions of Americans began to lose healthcare policies they liked in spite of the president’s numerous promises that “you can keep your […]