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Obamacare Rollout – It’s More Than Just Glitches

11/14/2013 Elizabeth Wright

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif), when queried on October 18 about the problems with the disastrous Obamacare online rollout on October 1, said:

There’s no question that what’s happening with the systems, the national plans is something that has to be improved. They were overwhelmed by the traffic. Okay, but now let’s see how long it’s going to take to have that be fixed. But, that’s about the technology — about the benefits, about the liberation of people to a healthier life of liberty, freedom to choose their happiness, that all remains.

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I’m Shocked, Shocked to Find That Fraud is Going on in Obamacare!

11/13/2013 staff

When I first saw the headline on the Drudge Report, “VIDEO SHOCK: O’Keefe reveals Obamacare corruption…,” I immediately thought of the classic movie, “Casablanca” and heard those immortal words, “I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!” James O’Keefe, the well-known videographer, is at it again. John Fund has written an eye-opening, […]

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Those Pesky Obamacare Grandfather Regs and Why We’re All Doomed

11/06/2013 staff

Certainly the latest news about Obamacare is how millions of people across the country are losing their health insurance in spite of numerous assurances by President Obama over a period of four-plus years that, “if you like your health-care plan, you will be able to keep your health-care plan, period.” In other words, he was […]

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We Will Have Those Numbers in November

10/30/2013 staff

Oh, and that Obamacare really is working too, in spite of the website’s problems. That pretty much sums up the witness’s testimony in today’s hearing on the Affordable Care Act in the House Ways and Means Committee. The sole witness was Marilyn Tavenner, the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, an agency […]

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Massive Glitches and Monkey Courts

10/25/2013 staff

There were fireworks today at the House Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing on the roll out of the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. The hearing, entitled, “PPACA Implementation Failures: Didn’t Know or Didn’t Disclose?” questioned representatives from the major contractors that constructed the portal or website that is supposed to help individuals […]

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Run Away Run Away!

10/24/2013 staff

It is no secret that the Obamacare roll out for its on-line portal to the healthcare exchanges has been a disaster. Taxpayers are shocked to learn they have paid $394 million (according to a Government Accountability Office report) for a system that has not worked since the Oct 1 opening day. The Obama Administration throws […]

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Reality is Starting to Set In

10/18/2013 staff

Now that Washington has a temporary reprieve on budget and debt ceiling issues, perhaps the media will focus more on the continuing Obamacare slow-motion train wreck. It has been largely ignored by the main stream media but the news about the disastrous roll-out is trickling out. We all know the on-line system to shop and […]

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Conn Artist?

10/13/2013 staff

This week, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs lead by Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) released an investigative report on Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) entitled, “How Some Legal, Medical, and Judicial Professionals Abused Social Security Disability Programs for the Country’s Most Vulnerable: A Case Study of the Conn Law Firm.” In the […]

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This Is Another Nice Mess You’ve Gotten Us Into

10/10/2013 staff

The New York Times had an interesting story yesterday, which also raised some questions that need to be answered. According to the Times, the delays for signing up for insurance on the healthcare exchange are directly tied to a software crash when Obamacare officially opened on October 1. The problem occurred at the very beginning stage of […]

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Computer Glitches or Poor Program Management

10/10/2013 Deborah Collier

According to a July 17, 2013 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) had obligated $303.4 million (77 percent of its total obligations for Obamacare) to establish the healthcare data hub, provide information technology support for federal employees working on the healthcare exchange, the Healthcare.gov website, and a healthcare […]