Barack Obama

New Year’s resolution for ObamaCare: #ComeClean on enrollment numbers

By Naomi Lopez Bauman
01/06/2014
The Obama administration’s Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced that 2.1 million have enrolled in a private insurance plan in the ObamaCare exchanges and at least another 3.9 million are eligible for Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program, or CHIP. While the announcement was thin on details, it is safe to assume that these...

TAGS: ACA: Affordable Care Act, Barack Obama, enrollment

If you like your crummy health insurance plan, you can’t keep it — but now you can buy ours!

By Naomi Lopez Bauman
12/20/2013
To paraphrase political humorist P.J. O’Rourke, “Giving the Obama administration control over one-sixth of the economy is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” Last night provided yet another example of ObamaCare rollout chaos. The Obama administration announced that people who had their plans canceled by ObamaCare regulations (because they were inferior plans,...

TAGS: ACA: Affordable Care Act

ObamaCare’s awkward, hipster Christmas

By Naomi Lopez Bauman
12/18/2013
The same president who wanted gift registries filled with donations to his campaign and to infiltrate Thanksgiving dinner with an ObamaCare enrollment push is back at it again. This time, the Obama administration has added a mascot. And he wears a plaid onesie. Obama’s #GetTalking campaign aims to stir up conversations about ObamaCare and encourage...

TAGS: ACA: Affordable Care Act, Barack Obama, health insurance

Hundreds of policies canceled for every ObamaCare enrollee in Illinois?

By Naomi Lopez Bauman
12/16/2013
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has announced that 7,043 Illinoisans enrolled in the ObamaCare health insurance exchanges through the end of November. But about 185,000 policies in the individual market have been canceled or terminated as a result of ObamaCare.  The new health care scheme may cost more than 175,000 Illinois individuals and families health insurance coverage come...

TAGS: ACA: Affordable Care Act

7,000 Illinoisans enrolled in ObamaCare plans in the first 2 months

By Naomi Lopez Bauman
12/11/2013
Almost 365,000 Americans have “enrolled” in the ObamaCare exchanges, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. That number is far below the Obama administration’s impending goal of enrolling 3 million people by the end of December and 7 million by the end of March. But the true number of people who have...

TAGS: enrollment

President pushes for a side of ObamaCare this Thanksgiving

By Naomi Lopez Bauman
11/27/2013
The same president who wanted gift registries filled with donations to his campaign is back with another turkey of an idea. This time, the idea is to infiltrate Thanksgiving dinner with an ObamaCare enrollment push. Never mind that talking politics is right up there with the “when are you going to finally get your life...

TAGS: ACA: Affordable Care Act

Illinois to allow insurers to extend canceled health insurance policies

By Naomi Lopez Bauman
11/22/2013
In an effort to curb the tide of millions of health insurance cancellations as a result of ObamaCare, the president called on state regulators to extend the terminated health insurance policies that were canceled as a result of ObamaCare mandates. In response, Illinois Department of Insurance Commissioner Andrew Boron announced that the department “will follow...

TAGS: IDOI: Illinois Department of Insurance

Will County union strikes over proposed health insurance contributions

By Paul Kersey
11/21/2013
Will County is going through a perfect storm of unionism: an unjustified strike called by a union that is spooked by ObamaCare but unwilling to admit it. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 1028 called for a walkout by about 1,000 county employees in spite of a pretty good offer from the...

TAGS: AFSCME: American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees, strike

Taxpayers have spent $90K per potential Illinois ObamaCare enrollee

By Naomi Lopez Bauman
11/20/2013
The federal government has spent almost $155 million on Illinois’ state ObamaCare websites, according to government figures compiled by the Washington, D.C.-based Americans for Tax Reform. Just 1,370 Illinoisans added a plan to their shopping cart – a total that falls woefully short of the 17,000 enrollments federal officials had hoped for in the month...

TAGS: ACA: Affordable Care Act, enrollment

Now that they know what is in ObamaCare, how can they make it stop?

By Naomi Lopez Bauman
11/14/2013
The dismal ObamaCare “enrollments” reported yesterday tell only one small part of the larger ObamaCare train wreck. For those watching closely, there is an uncomfortable realization that ObamaCare is actually increasing the number of uninsured Americans. Five millions and counting Americans across the country have received notices that their health insurance plans in the individual...

TAGS: ACA: Affordable Care Act