How come the Department of Health and Human Services didn’t have to shut down its efforts to implement the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act during the recent partial federal government shutdown? The reason comes down to the law itself. Members of the Democratic party, who were in the majority in both the U.S….
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The lies, waste, fraud and incompetence involved in Obamacare have been getting a lot of ink and deservedly so. But while Americans watch the health hokum unfold they should not forget fallout from the federal stimulus. Consider, for example, the fortunes of Abound Solar. In 2010 Barack Obama praised the company as an excellent…
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President Obama would appear to be on the verge of taking actions that will make his signature health insurance reform law much more expensive. As it stands today, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka “Obamacare”) makes health care insurance affordable by providing a tax credit subsidy for Americans who buy health insurance…
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As we recently noted, the Internal Revenue Service has been handing out money to people not entitled to receive any of it. Long Island resident Carol Cooke, for example, received tax refunds for thousands of dollars, all to people who did not live at her residence. This was obvious fraud, but when Cooke contacted…
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Here’s a little blurb we caught a couple days ago over at Instapundit: WAPO: How Political Calculation Won Out Over Technical Considerations with HealthCare.gov. “They were running the biggest start-up in the world, and they didn’t have anyone who had run a start-up, or even run a business.” It caught my attention because it…
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Britain’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has opened a criminal investigation into the contracts of the Serco company, which electronically monitored criminals who were dead or already in prison. The investigation will come of interest to Americans because the U.S. federal government awarded Serco a $1.25 billion contract to set up online health exchanges for…
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Recent testimony by Kathleen Sebelius made it clear that the federal Department of Health and Human Services botched the Obamacare rollout in many ways. HHS failed to provide oversight on incompetent contractors and showed particular disregard for the security of Americans’ information. The Obamacare website was dysfunctional, but the HHS boss could not number…
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There’s a lot of missing space to be filled in the map below, but what it shows is the states where at least 2,330,000 individual health insurance policies have been discontinued or cancelled as a direct result of the implementation of Obamacare: Here’s where you can find an interactive version of the map, which…
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The Urban Dictionary defines busybody as… “the kind of person you just want to punch in the mouth for being so damb [sic] annoying. They have no life and way too much time on their hands. They frequently use their excessive amount of time to annoy and monitor others, taddletale [sic] for small meaningless…
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As we noted last year, the federal National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) wants a “black box” in all new cars and light trucks to track speed, braking, seatbelt use and such before a car makes impact in a crash. The black boxes can’t be disabled and raise alarms that government could easily misuse the…
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