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Another Huge Obama Win: 12 Million Have Chosen Private Policies Through Obamacare Exchanges
Republicans were wrong again. 12 million people have chosen private policies through Obamacare exchanges.
Tagged Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Louie Gohmert: It’s Obama’s Fault We’re all Idiots
I paraphrase, but not by much. Gohmert uses nuns, the Posse Comitatus Act, and Waco 1993 to prove Obama is to blame
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Public Support For Obamacare Grows As Less Than 30 Percent Of Americans Support Repeal
A Kaiser Health Tracking Survey finds that more Americans now have a favorable opinion of Obamacare than an unfavorable one.
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Hobby Lobby II Case Could Impose Right Wing Evangelical Tyranny On Health Insurers
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito opened a Pandora’s box that has the potential to give some corporations the right to impose their “deeply held” religious objections to birth control on other corporations.
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Republicans Admit Defeat and Silently Surrender In Their War On Obamacare
While Republicans aren’t waving the white flag publicly, the GOP is becoming quietly aware that they have lost their war against Obamacare.
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Obamacare Is Working As Uninsured Rate Drops Below 12 Percent
Despite persistent Republican efforts to undermine the ACA, Obamacare is, in fact, working, as uninsured rates continue to plummet.
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Another Obamacare Win: Red State Montana House Passes Medicaid Expansion
Montana’s House voted 54-46 to approve federal subsidies for Medicaid expansion, with 13 Republicans joining 41 Democrats to pass the bill.
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Florida Governor Rick Scott Flip-Flops On Medicaid Expansion Again, Now Opposes It
Governor Scott has reversed his position and he now opposes Medicaid expansion after briefly supporting it. Ironically, he blames Obama.
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Republican Secret Love For Obamacare Exposed As Lawmakers Choose ACA Over Private Market
Hypocritical Republican lawmakers like Ted Cruz could have gone for a “private market” solution, but instead they chose to let you subsidize their healthcare via Obamacare.
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GOP Solicits Obamacare “Horror Stories” But Gets Bombarded With Positive ACA Testimonials
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers solicited Obamacare “horror stories” on Facebook, but instead got bombarded with positive ACA testimonials.
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GOP Sociopaths, Not God, Don’t Want Americans To Have Medical Care
Since 2009 it has been painfully obvious that Republicans or their supporters do not want Americans to have access to healthcare whatsoever, and it is particularly curious because they claim to be devout followers of Christ.
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Obama’s Biggest Victory: 16.4 Million Uninsured Americans Have Gained Health Coverage Via ACA
Millions of Americans have gained health insurance coverage, since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed into law on March 23, 2010.
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Less Than 30 Percent Of Americans Support Supreme Court Nixing Obamacare Subsidies
A Hart Research Associates Poll released on March 2, finds that by a solid 63-29 majority, American voters want to keep Obamacare intact.
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Obamacare Is A Smashing Success As Uninsured Rates Continue To Plummet
A Gallup poll finds the percentage of Americans lacking health care coverage has dropped from 17.3 percent in 2013 to 13.8 percent in 2014.
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GOP Stooge Tries To Take Healthcare From 13 Million Because He Wishes Obama Wasn’t Born
Next month, the Supreme Court of the United States will consider King v. Burwell, in which millions of people will be affected.
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The Lame Duck President’s Not So Lame State Of The Union Speech
I was privileged to watch a chamber full of sullen, petulant, mostly far-right and white, wealthy Koch puppets, largely sitting on their hands as second term President Barack Obama, gave them a not so subtle dressing down.
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Ben Carson’s Embarrassingly Stupid Attack on Obamacare
Ben Carson thinks Obamacare is unconstitutional because it doesn’t help everybody. The only problem with that is that it DOES help everybody
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Obamacare Is Working: Millions More Are Insured Than A Year Ago
The Urban Institute’s latest survey shows that Obamacare is working to lower the number of Americans who are uninsured.
GOP Fail: Almost Half a Million People Sign Up for Obamacare in First Week
Almost half a million people signed up for Obamacare in one week.
The GOP Poutfest Ignited: House Republicans Sue President Obama Over ACA
Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) announced that House GOP will be using taxpayer money to sue President Obama over the implementation of the ACA (aka, Obamacare)- a suit that nearly every reasonable person has told them has no merit and a suit that two law firms dumped the GOP over.
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Get Covered Illinois Uses Humor To Upend Republican Obamacare Lies
The timing seems like it couldn’t be better for this clever ad from Get Covered Illinois, the Land of Lincoln’s health insurance marketplace. It targets the under 30-somethings using a healthy dose of realistic fear, mitigated with humor.
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Latest Obamacare Scandal is Just More Republican Hypocrisy and Lies
Media Matters went to the trouble of exposing the GOP’s latest Obamacare scandal on Thursday, three days before CNN made a big deal bout it
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Ted Cruz’s “Net Neutrality Is Obamacare For The Internet” Tweet Shows He Understands Neither
On Monday morning, President Obama made a public statement urging the FCC to take strong measures to protect net neutrality.To the surprise of nobody, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) had an opinion on net neutrality once the President made his statement.
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A Week Before Midterms, GOP Devastated By The Fact That The Affordable Care Act’s Working
This week The New York Times published an assortment of answers to the question, “Is the Affordable Care Act Working?” If readers are able to get past the meaningless non-reporting of the piece’s opening summary, there is plenty of good news to be found.
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Republican Gov. John Kasich Frantically Backtracks After Being Caught Praising Obamacare
Ohio Governor John Kasich spent his Monday night calling up different media outlets after the Associated Press ran an article where he was quoted as heaping praise on the Affordable Care Act and stating that the law will not be repealed.
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Obama Goes Off Script and Drops A Truth Bomb On Selfish Republican Governors
President Obama went off script while speaking at the Congressional Black Caucus Awards Dinner Saturday evening and deployed a truth bomb on selfish Republicans.
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Myth Busted: Republicans Wrong Again as Obamacare Premiums Set to Decrease in 2015
For five years, Republicans claimed the Affordable Care Act would produce significant rate hikes that would kill the law. For five years, they’ve been dead wrong.
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2012’s Biggest Loser Karl Rove Confidently States GOP Will Overtake Senate In Midterms
In an article for the Wall Street Journal, Republican strategist and campaign funder Karl Rove wrote that the Republicans are all but assured of taking over the Senate following November’s midterm elections
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Real Death Panels: Virginia Republicans and Their Monomaniacal Quest to Deny Medicaid
In ongoing efforts to deny affordable health care to their citizens, Virginia Republicans may have very well broken the law in an attempt to play petty politics.
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Same Old: Kevin McCarthy Replaced Eric Cantor as House Majority Leader
If you expected change, tailor your expectations to expect more of the same because this is another House defined by its hatred of all things Obama
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Introducing the Current Era of New and Largely Unknown Republican House Leaders
Word has it that a California Republican Representative named McCarthy is in line to take over Eric Cantor’s post as House Majority Leader next Thursday, the 19th. However, he is being challenged by Idaho Republican Raul Labrador.
While Clamoring For War, Republicans Ignore Positive Obamacare News
As Republicans once again try to besmirch Obama’s foreign policy, they willfully ignored a week full of positive Obamacare news. Is anyone surprised?
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Virginia GOP Bribes Democratic State Senator To Resign So They Can Stop Medicaid Expansion
The Washington Post reported on Sunday evening that State Senator Phillip Puckett, a Democrat, will resign from office Monday. Puckett is resigning so he can take on a new job as deputy director of the state’s tobacco commission, a position with significant benefits.
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Desperate Liar Mitch McConnell Gets Caught In His Own Obamacare Trap
The man who would be Majority Leader of the Senate and who promised to repeal Obamacare if he makes it claimed that the Kentucky state exchange is not connected to Obamacare.
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Doctors, An Endangered Species Thanks To The Republicans
After your next checkup, if you know your doc pretty well, take a little time and ask him/her how the insurance companies are treating him/her under the new government health care plan.
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A Plurality of Kentuckians Like Obamacare, As Long as It’s Called Something Else
A plurality of registered voters in Kentucky have a favorable impression of Kynect. Kynect is Obamacare, by a different name.
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Koch Brothers Latest Obamacare Ad Is Their Most Dishonest And Deceptive One Yet
The Koch Brothers SuperPAC, Americans for Prosperity, is currently running an ad in Michigan targeting Democratic Senate candidate Gary Peters, who is up for election in November. It is a lie.
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Obamacare Is A Massive Success As 1.1 Million People Signed Up In The Month Of January
On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released the January enrollment numbers for the ACA and it can only be seen as good news.
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Work Ethic Challenged Republicans Now Claim the ACA Threatens America’s Work Ethic
Now that their Obamacare kills jobs lie was discredited by the CBO’s report and again in testimony to Congress, Republicans in the House of Representatives are seeking another way to call “you people” lazy freeloaders.
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GOP May Refuse To Believe It But CBO Shows That Budget Deficits Continue to Shrink
On Tuesday, the Congressional Budget Office released a report discussing the economy and budget. The report showed that the deficit continues to shrink.
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‘New’ Republican Healthcare Plan Sticks It To Everyone Except Insurance Companies
The Republicans “new” plan to replace the ACA brings back everything that was wrong with the old system and they found away to make things even worse.
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Obamacare Delivers Knockout Blow To GOP As Majority Of States Have Expanded Medicaid
The further we go along into the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and more people see what it offers them, the less likely the GOP is going to be able to do anything about the law and will have to accept it.
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Rob Portman and Kelly Ayotte Cowardly Back Away From Unemployment Benefits Extension
On Wednesday afternoon, both Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) and Rob Portman (R-OH) backtracked and said that they would only vote for passing the extension if Democrats would agree to offset the new spending with cuts elsewhere.
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House Republican Bill Requires That the IRS Investigate Sexual Assault Survivors
Rep. Chris Smith’s bill amends the Internal Revenue Service code to require IRS auditors to investigate and interrogate sexual-assault survivors who access abortion care.
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While Democrats Focus on Real Issues, Republicans Plan Another Attack on Obamacare
What are Congressional Republicans looking to focus on when they enter the chamber on Monday? Obamacare, of course!
Rep. Waxman Catches Republicans in Another ACA Lie and Delivers Truth Bomb With Report
On New Year’s Eve, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), the top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, published a report showing that the Republican claim that 5 million people have had their health insurance policies canceled due to the ACA is flat out false.
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Liberty Stealing Republicans Try to Control Women’s Body By Attacking Private Healthcare
It is the right to choose their reproductive health that women are most likely under attack from Republicans whose latest assault is restricting abortion coverage in private health care plans.
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DSCC Sees Huge Fundraising Gains in November Due to President Obama’s Help
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee released their fundraising numbers in November and they were nothing short of sensational. For the month, the DSCC raised a total of $5.1 million.
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NBC/WSJ Poll Shows Majority of People Reject the Republican Party and Their Views
While the media will focus on the President’s disapproval ratings showing as an all-time high in this poll (54%), the real story here is that, for the most part, this poll shows that the American people are still rejecting the Republican Party and its ideals.
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Another Conservative Journalist Offensively Compares the ACA to Iraq War
It seems that the National Review’s Ramesh Ponnuru felt that it had been too long since a conservative had made the idiotic comparison between the Affordable Care Act and the Iraq War.
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A Nasty Anti-Obama Column Draws a Contributor’s Angry Response
A Newsday columnist, Lane Filler, recently wrote some truly untrue things about our President and his health care plan. I emailed an answer
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Fox Hypes ‘New’ Republican Alternative to Obamacare That is Over Four Years Old
A Fox Nation article hyped a press release from Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) where he states than an ‘independent’ study of his health care plan will save $2.34 trillion.
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Republicans Vote Against Their Own Survival as the Top 14 Child Poverty States Are Red
Red state Obama haters think they are punishing the president by voting Republican, but their only accomplishment is creating hunger for their own children, grandchildren, mothers, and fathers.
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Boehner Gets Caught Hyping Another Completely False Obamacare ‘Horror’ Story
On Monday, as Healthcare.gov was being visited by nearly a million people, Speaker of the House John Bohner (R-OH) felt it was necessary to try to save face.
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Republicans Freak Out as Healthcare.gov Gets Nearly a Million Hits on Monday
At his press conference on Monday afternoon, White House Press Secretary confirmed that over 375,000 people visited the federal health care exchange between midnight and noon ET.
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Taking Notes: How Black Friday Marketing Techniques Can Sell the ACA
How do we convince a generation of millennials that they need health insurance rather than TVs? Simple: By engaging in marketing 101.
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The White House Storms Fox News To Refute Idiotic Republican Talking Point on Iran Deal
The White House sent Deputy National Security Advisor Tony Blinken on Fox News this morning to destroy the moronic GOP talking point that the Iran nuclear deal is distraction from the ACA website.
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Boehner Whines About Receiving Excellent Health Insurance the Same Day He Applies
Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) decided to blog about his Healthcare.gov experience on Thursday. According to the Speaker’s tweet, he thought the experience was a #trainwreck.
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Obamacare Website Woes Amplified By Active Republican Hatred
In case you hadn’t already heard, it appears that some of the problems with the Obamacare website aren’t exactly due to that incompetence thing that Bob Woodward likes to pin on the Obama administration.
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39 House DINOs Helped Crush ACA Requirements in a Critical Vote
Unless Democrats want more of the same in DC until January of 2021, they’ll have to move their frozen rumps and make their way to the polls.
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Mitch McConnell Is Less Popular Than the Affordable Care Act in Kentucky
Things are so bad for Mitch McConnell in Kentucky that a new DFM Research poll found that the Senate Minority Leader has a higher unfavorable rating than the Affordable Care Act.
Numbers Game: What the ACA’s Initial Enrollment Really Means
Having affordable health care will mean a world of difference for the 106,815 people who now have it for the first time in their lives.
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Taking Back the House, Vol. 17: Kevin McCarthy and California’s 23rd District
This is the seventeenth edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. The purpose of this project is to analyze each Republican Congressional district in the United States and see how likely the district can go ‘Blue.’
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The Great Hypocrisy Is That Republicans Are Anything But Pro-Life
In their blood lust to withhold healthcare, coupled with their sheer hatred for the Affordable Care Act, Republicans revealed that they hate the unborn at the same level they hate women and children.
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The Real Villains Behind the Criticisms of Obamacare
The media is quick to look for anything negative about Obamacare, but they protect the real culprit: insurance company behavior
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A Senate Committee is the Latest to Attack Kathleen Sebelius Over ACA
Today, we take a close look at the Senate Finance Committee and their relentless and unfair attempts to discredit the Affordable Care Act
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The Affordable Care Act Ain’t Broke: So Let’s Fix Healthcare.gov (Quickly, Please)
The healthcare.gov website has been online for 2 weeks. It works, but must be improved. There has been an overload of political and media focus and furor about the problems of the Healthcare.Gov website.
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The Insurance Industry Hates the ACA? The Insurance Industry Loves the ACA.
If you were to believe the headlines, it would appear that Blue Cross and their ilk are terrified of ACA. Quite the opposite is true.
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Fiscal Scolds Demand ‘Reforms’ to Social Security and Medicare Based on a Myth
The fiscal scolds at Fix The Debt are again demanding ‘reforms’ to Social Security and Medicare. Their entire argument is based on a myth.
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IT’S TEOTWAWKI REDUX, NOT! Obamacare And The Exploitation of Technology Fear.
The right-wing uses the people’s fear of new technology to try to stop “Obamacare”. Many experts said that Y2K would lead to TEOFTWAWKI (the end of the world as we know it).
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How The Tea Party and Republicans Continue to Blow Golden Opportunities
The Tea Party and the Republicans could have led a much-needed national debate about the role and size of the federal government during this shutdown, but they haven’t.
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The Big Lie Behind Rand Paul’s Pack of GOP Shutdown Lies
The shutdown Republicans initiated claiming Obamacare is costing Americans too much money, costs more money than Obamacare.
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It’s Amazing What the American People Will Believe About Obamacare
The fact that there are people who still believe in death panels is pathetic enough, but now they think there will be forced home visits.
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Rafael, the Wacko Birds and Their Celebrated Shutdown
Rafael and the wacko birds celebrated the government shutdown as if they actually accomplished something.
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Tea Party Heroine Determined to Save Americans from Obamacare Crack Cocaine of Dependency
Michele Bachmann took time off from election fraud efforts to have an Obamacare hissy-fit for the ages
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Tea Party – Pee on America and Call this Experiment in Democracy Over
Who, precisely, we must ask ourselves, are Cruz and Paul and others fighting for if it is not the American people?
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The Crazies Rally Around their Own, Ted Cruz
Matt Barber of Liberty Counsel insists “Mr. Cruz emasculated, delightfully, Obama’s political yes-bots on both sides of the aisle.”
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Obamacare Lies Dealt a Death Blow By Study that Finds Full Time Job Growth Expected
Instead of killing jobs, employers expect to increase the number of full-time employees by nearly 2% over the next year as key parts of the ACA go into effect.
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Republicans Have Lost Their Grip on Reality and Are Disregarding the Constitution
Republicans have lost their grip on reality and it manifest itself their blatant disregard for the Constitution save the 2nd and 10th Amendments.
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Obamacare Turns Republicans Against Insurance
Republicans have not proposed a replacement for the Affordable Care Act, and won’t, because Obamacare has turned the GOP base against insurance itself.
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The Republican Plot to Thwart The ACA With American Horror Stories Has Completely Failed
Republicans have spent every day of their vacation following their plan to the letter seeking horror stories about the not-yet-implemented ACA, but they have not had the success they planned.
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Republicans Are In a Full Blown Panic as the Affordable Care Act Grows More Successful
It is the health law’s success stories that have Republicans in a panic and it is the third reason they are going all in to sabotage the ACA; it is successful.
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Jim DeMint Says GOP Will Destroy America To Stop Obamacare
DeMint’s remedy for Obamacare is like burning down your house to stop a leaky pipe from flooding your bathroom.
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Speaker Boehner and House Republicans Deploy Desperate Stall Tactics
Conservatism has been described as the belief that no one should be the first person to do anything … and House Republicans are taking that seriously.
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President Obama’s Leadership on Mental Health Goes Largely Unnoticed
This week, the President led an important conference with new initiatives on mental health, but it was overlooked in favor of other news.
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Reeking of Desperation, John Boehner Claims Obama Witch Hunt is All About Jobs
Referencing 1998, when the GOP lost five seats after trying to kill the Clinton presidency with never-ending investigations, a reporter asked Boehner if he was worried about backlash. He claimed it’s all about the jobs.
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House Republicans Look to Divide and Conquer by Using Progressive Attacks Against Obama
House Republicans are trying to divide and conquer the left by adopting the progressive attacks against President Obama’s budget as their own talking points.
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A Misleading and Highly Incomplete ‘Study’ Continues the GOP Attack on Obamacare
The Society of Actuaries conducted a study on the costs of medical claims and draws some scary conclusions. Exactly what the client paid for.
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Paul Ryan’s Budget Helps Drag His Approval Rating Down to 35%
As Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) budget advances toward the finishing line in the Republican-led House, a new Rasmussen poll shows Ryan flailing with a 15 point drop.
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House Republicans Threaten to Shut Down Government Unless Women are Denied Contraception
House Republicans proposed they will shut down the government unless they are allowed to restrict women’s access to contraception.
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The Koch Brothers Are Spending Millions to Deny Poor Americans Healthcare
Charles and David Koch are spending money to deny poor Americans healthcare for no readily apparent reason except the Kochs are genuinely evil, immoral men
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Starbucks Shows that Healthcare isn’t a Job Killer by Adding 1,500 Cafes
Starbucks, which offers healthcare benefits to its eligible part time employees, is expanding with 1500 more cafes in America in the middle of ObamaCare.
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You Lost Republicans, so Stop Pretending Like Obamacare is On the Table
The latest joke from Republicans was offered up by Eric Cantor who called for Obama to put Obamacare on the table for elimination in order for Republicans to compromise on revenue increases.
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Paul Ryan Gets Booed at AARP for Attacking Obama and Obamacare
Paul Ryan tried selling the AARP on his Medicare privatization plan and attacks on ObamaCare and was met with groans and boos by the crowd in attendance.
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Lyin’ Paul Ryan Applied For Obamacare Funds To Help A Family Planning Facility
Paul Ryan has been hypocritically denouncing ObamaCare while trying to extract the benefits of it for his constituency, while also funding a family planning facility.