While rallying public support for the Affordable Care Act, commonly referred to as ObamaCare, then-House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi famously said that Congress “[has] to pass the bill so you can find out what’s in it, away from the fog of controversy.” It appears that Illinois state officials are taking a page from the Pelosi playbook when...

The American people are about to receive yet another ObamaCare trick in the coming weeks. While many small businesses thought they would be safe from the costliest provisions of the Affordable Care Act, or ACA, commonly referred to as ObamaCare, some of the nation’s small employers are finding out that they may be counted as “large employers”...

If you were told that your health insurance premiums would be doubling next year, would you be celebrating? Only if you were expecting them to triple. A new study of ObamaCare health insurance premiums in 17 states and the District of Columbia suggests that the cost for consumers will be lower than the previous Congressional Budget Office...

A recent editorial in the Chicago Tribune criticized the state Department of Insurance for not publicly releasing health insurance premium rates for the health care exchange. The exchange is a central feature of ObamaCare in which individuals and small businesses will begin buying private insurance coverage Oct. 1. With rates expected to go up dramatically, it’s no...

This year, the Department of Healthcare and Family Services, or HFS, promised lawmakers that it had no plans to conduct outreach or marketing if the state decided to expand Medicaid eligibility under ObamaCare. Lawmakers explicitly asked whether the state would be conducting any kind of “marketing or other initiatives to recruit new enrollees.” Here’s how...

Illinois Medicaid officials are under fire for awarding no-bid ObamaCare contracts for tracking, storing and processing electronic files for individuals’ most-sensitive personal health and financial information. Circumventing a competitive bidding process is disturbing, but it is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to privacy concerns under ObamaCare. The bigger concern is how ObamaCare might...