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Clock is running out on ObamaCare enrollments: Illinois update

By Naomi Lopez Bauman
03/11/2014
Only one month remains in the ObamaCare open enrollment period for this year. Even though the Obama administration is pulling out all the stops, Illinois is less than half-way to its goal of nearly 237,000 enrollees for 2014. March 31 is the deadline to obtain qualified health-insurance coverage or face a penalty under ObamaCare. Despite...

Clock is running out on ObamaCare enrollments: Illinois update

By Naomi Lopez Bauman
03/11/2014
Only one month remains in the ObamaCare open enrollment period for this year. Even though the Obama administration is pulling out all the stops, Illinois is less than half-way to its goal of nearly 237,000 enrollees for 2014. March 31 is the deadline to obtain qualified health-insurance coverage or face a penalty under ObamaCare. Despite...

TAGS: enrollment

Madigan bill would appropriate $100M for Obama library

By Jane McEnaney
03/05/2014
House Speaker Michael Madigan just introduced a bill to the Illinois General Assembly that appropriates $100 million to build a presidential library and museum “dedicated to the legacy of President Barack Obama.” Illinois is sitting on $7.6 billion in unpaid bills. The state’s credit rating has been downgraded five times since the largest tax hike...

TAGS: Mike Madigan, Obama presidential library

ObamaCare: One-third of Americans hurt by health-care law

By Naomi Lopez Bauman
03/04/2014
According to the most recent Rasmussen survey, one-third of Americans believe that the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as ObamaCare, has negatively affected them personally. But that is only part of the story. A scant 14 percent believe that the law has helped them. Sold as reducing the number of the insured and lowering health-care...

ObamaCare part-time employment by the numbers

By Naomi Lopez Bauman
02/25/2014
The rollout of the president’s signature legislation has been a calamity, as it further threatens the prospects of the lowest-wage workers in Illinois and across the country. There is mounting evidence that employers have already been cutting employees’ hours in the low-wage employment sectors. This trend has been observed in Illinois – and among the...

CBO estimates minimum wage hike to cost 500,000 jobs

By Michael Lucci
02/19/2014
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, or CBO, released an estimate Tuesday afternoon saying that the Obama administration’s proposed minimum wage hike would result in 500,000 fewer Americans being employed. The proposal, supported by Democrats in Washington, D.C., and Springfield alike, is to hike the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour. Low-wage workers would see a...

Three things the Illinois media aren’t telling you about ObamaCare enrollments

By Naomi Lopez Bauman
02/19/2014
Media outlets across Illinois have been reporting that the Obama administration is hitting its enrollment targets for the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as ObamaCare. But to see the reality of ObamaCare enrollments, one needs to dig deeper than the Obama administration’s press release. Illinois has only met 40 percent of its enrollment target so...

TAGS: ACA: Affordable Care Act, enrollment, Get Covered Illinois

Doubling down on job loss

By Naomi Lopez Bauman
02/12/2014
The president continues to promote the recent Congressional Budget Office report that predicts that the U.S. labor force will lose the equivalent of 2.5 million more jobs as the result of the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as ObamaCare. While he extols the benefits of having more flexibility in one’s job decisions as a result...

TAGS: ACA: Affordable Care Act, jobs

ObamaCare enrollment approaches 89,000 in Illinois

By Naomi Lopez Bauman
02/12/2014
The president’s public relations machine is at it again. With six weeks remaining until the March 31 deadline to obtain qualified health insurance coverage or face a penalty, the Obama administration is trumpeting the success of the Affordable Care Act, commonly referred to as ObamaCare, despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary. Enrollments have...

TAGS: ACA: Affordable Care Act, enrollment, Get Covered Illinois

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Process for unionizing non-state workers raises red flags

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