Barack Obama

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

ObamaCare: Illinois enrollment numbers

By Naomi Lopez Bauman
11/13/2013
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services just released the much-anticipated enrollment numbers for the ObamaCare health insurance exchanges. But instead of reporting on actual enrollments, the administration is, instead, reporting on the number of people who have put a health plan in their checkout cart, but haven’t actually checked out. The distinction is...

TAGS: ACA: Affordable Care Act, Get Covered Illinois

Who counts as an ObamaCare enrollee?

By Naomi Lopez Bauman
11/12/2013
The federal government is expected to announce this week how many Illinoisans and Americans across the country have enrolled in the federal health care program known as ObamaCare. But instead of reporting on actual enrollments, media sources are predicting that the Obama administration will, instead, be reporting on the number of people who have put a health plan in their online shopping cart, but...

TAGS: ACA: Affordable Care Act

59% of Americans disapprove of Obama’s handling of health care policy

By Naomi Lopez Bauman
11/12/2013
According to a recent poll by Pew Research, President Barack Obama’s overall job approval rating is tanking. While the president is seeing better marks for his handling of the economy, he is facing growing disapproval in a number of areas, including health care. According to the report: Obama also gets negative ratings on health care...

TAGS: ACA: Affordable Care Act

ObamaCare: Congressional membership has its privileges

By Naomi Lopez Bauman
10/31/2013
While millions across the country are losing their health plans –  despite repeatedly being promised by the president that they could keep them – Congress and the Obama administration have been playing fast and loose with the rules to ensure that many on Capitol Hill won’t lose theirs. Under the Affordable Care Act, or ACA,...

TAGS: ACA: Affordable Care Act

ObamaCare: Millions losing their health insurance plans

By Naomi Lopez Bauman
10/29/2013
President Barack Obama promised in 2009, “If you like your health plan, you will be able to keep your health plan.”  Yet Americans across the country are receiving notices that their health insurance plans in the individual market are being canceled as a result of ObamaCare. A recent Chicago Sun-Times article featured Sue Klinkhamer, a former...

TAGS: ACA: Affordable Care Act, Medicaid