ObamaCare

  • Time has come to repeal the Obamacare individual mandate

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    Senators have passed tax reform legislation that includes a repeal of Obamacare’s individual mandate. In this writer’s opinion, the House of Representatives, which passed its version of tax reform without…

  • Never back down in the fight to cremate Obamacare

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    I just received an unusually blunt mass-email from Adam Brandon, president of Freedom Works (annoyingly spelled FreedomWorks — hey people, this isn’t German — lay off all the compound words —…

  • Dear John McCain

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    I’m no financial expert. But I’m one heck of a well-informed consumer. And as a former healthcare lobbyist and someone who worked several jobs serving poor, disabled, immigrant, and underclass…

  • Senate health care bill on life support

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    Senate Republicans’ health care reform legislation that purports to repeal and replace failing Obamacare is currently on life support. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has tried repeatedly but failed…

  • GOP rallies behind idiotic bill

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    By Ann Coulter Republicans are about to do something very stupid. Using bribery, threats and cajolery, they intend to pass a catastrophically unpopular bill on a party-line vote. GOP: Obamacare is…

  • Will Senate GOP get preexisting conditions right?

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    Do Senate Republicans have no understanding of how health insurance markets work? Or are they so afraid of taking political heat that they just don’t care? Probably a bit of…

  • RINOcare: Can’t anybody here play this game?

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    I couldn’t agree more with my one-time colleague Andrew Malcolm: It’s worse than embarrassing. After seven long years of Obamacare opposition, Republicans couldn’t agree on what to repeal and…

  • Trump demands health care vote today

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    President Trump is finished with negotiating and is demanding lawmakers get down to business and vote on House Speaker Paul Ryan’s Obamacare-replacement package today. Trump is dropping the hammer because…

  • RINOcare: it still sucks

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    Speaker Paul Ryan’s proposed “American Health Care Act” (a.k.a. RINOcare) got a bit of a makeover on Monday. Now the pig has rouge and eye shadow in addition to lipstick.

  • Paul Ryan’s Obamacare fix is no fix at all

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    There has been a running conversation over the last few days between David Catron of the American Spectator and me about House Speaker Paul Ryan’s proposed “American Health Care Act”…

  • Nancy Pelosi versus Nancy Pelosi on Obamacare

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    By Daniel Greenfield, Special to Bombthrowers Nancy Pelosi has many views on Obamacare. Here’s one of them. “The truth? ACA resulted from one of the most transparent drafting processes in…

  • Killing Obamacare the Cloward-Piven way

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    By Daniel Greenfield, Special to Bombthrowers It’s not a good time for ObamaCare. Aetna pulled out of most of the exchanges last year. Humana has announced that it will leave…

  • GOP unwisely embraces Obamacare ‘repair’

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    After Republicans have been promising seven long years to remove the metastasizing malignancy that is Obamacare, GOP messaging guru Frank Luntz suddenly thinks it’s a good idea to “repair” the…

  • The Stupid Party is screwing up Obamacare repeal

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    While Obamacare collapses under its own weight congressional Republicans are preparing to save it and make it worse. Obamacare is causing premiums on the government-created exchanges to rise higher and…

  • Republicans are on track to fake-repeal Obamacare

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    If Republicans in the brand new 115th Congress want to enrage supporters and destroy whatever grassroots goodwill remains they are off to an excellent start. Daniel Horowitz has the gory…

  • Surprise, surprise: Republicans stalling on Obamacare repeal

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    First congressional Republicans said they couldn’t repeal Obamacare because they didn’t have full control of Congress. Then when they gained control of both chambers of Congress congressional Republicans said they…

  • Was Obamacare designed to fail?

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    Well, DUH! Of course Obamacare was designed to fail. The system is built on lies. It is a Trojan horse for a total government takeover of health care in the…

  • VA Scandal: This Is What Death Panels Look Like

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    Capital Research Center's Matthew Vadum has an article in today's FrontPage magazine well worth reading. Here it is:   VA Scandal: This Is What Death Panels Look Like By…

  • Obamacare bites AmeriCorps

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    Over at PhilanthropyDaily.com, I have a piece on what may be the funniest of all the grim unintended consequences of Obamacare. It involves the endlessly controversial federal program…

  • MoveOn freaking out over Obamacare

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    I just received this panicky mass email from MoveOn:   Dear MoveOn member, There's no sugar-coating it: Obamacare is in serious political trouble. And progressives need to step up and…