Media Updates
ObamaCare: Bad Medicine for a Struggling Economy
Jan 24 2014
Fewer hours, lost wages, dropped coverage:
- Las Cruces Sun-News: Employers cut hours year ahead of Obamacare employer mandate
- El Paso Inc.: Obamacare impact: Cutting hours, going part time
- The Hill: Target announces it will drop part-time employees from its healthcare plan
- Wall Street Journal: Obamacare a top worry for midsized firms in 2014, poll shows
- Washington Examiner: Companies cut coverage for part-timers, shunting employees to Obamacare
- Associated Press: Insurance Through Work? Health Law Affects You Too
- The Roanoke Star: Obamacare Creating More Losers Than Winners
- Forbes: Obamacare’s Middle-Income Trap
Young adults hit hard by the Obama economy:
- National Review: Obama Is Losing the Millennials
- The Hill: Study: Young adults lack incentive to buy ObamaCare coverage
- Wall Street Journal: Editorial: The Young and the ObamaCare-less
So I can’t keep my doctor?
- Weekly Standard: Hundreds in Ohio Lose Their Doctor Due to Obamacare
- Washington Free Beacon: CA Woman Can’t Find A Doctor After Signing Up For Obamacare
- Weekly Standard: After Enrolling in Obamacare, California Woman Can’t Find Doctor
- Right Scoop: Obamacare causes cancer patient to lose doctors and have treatment delayed
ObamaCare makes little headway on uninsured:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Obamacare: Uninsured Americans still staying away so far
- Wall Street Journal: Exchanges See Little Progress on Uninsured
- Roll Call: Obamacare Not Making Progress on Uninsured
- Associated Press: Calif. health exchange criticized for sign-ups
- Los Angeles Times: Covered California faulted for low Latino enrollment
- National Review: So What Was The Point of Obamacare Again?
- National Review: Nothing to Show for Obamacare
Deal turns sour:
- Wichita Business Journal: Aetna considers withdrawal from federal insurance marketplace
- CNBC: Aetna could be forced out of Obamacare: CEO
- USA Today: Co-ops the underdog in health insurance marketplace
- The Hill: Insurers downgraded on Obamacare fears
- Washington Times: Moody’s downgrades health insurers, citing Obamacare
- Iowa Republican: Braley’s Deficit Workshop Groups Tell Him to Repeal Obamacare
- The Hill: Liberal groups: O-Care breaking voting law
- The Hill: Poll: Obama gets low marks on healthcare
Frustrated Americans exhausted by faulty exchanges:
- KVVU: 115 days after payment, NV woman awaits insurance
- Fox News: ‘Parallel universe’: Woman spends 6 weeks trying to disenroll from ObamaCare
- Raleigh News & Observer: Delay in processing health insurance applications leaves NC residents in limbo
- Fox News: Maryland’s ObamaCare website sent customers to Seattle pottery store
- Star Tribune: Optum: MNsure managed by ‘crisis mode,’ IT system in disarray
- The Hill: Document: ObamaCare contractor faces mid-March deadline or disaster
- Boston Herald: Web glitches hurt Obamacare-created health insurer
- Washington Free Beacon: Oregon’s Obamacare Website Still Doesn’t Work
- The Oregonian: Cover Oregon: Health exchange failure predicted, but tech watchdogs’ warnings fell on deaf ears
More security risks revealed:
- Washington Free Beacon: Computer Security Expert: Obamacare Website Security ‘Much Worse Off’ Than Before
- Washington Post: VA software glitch exposed veterans’ personal information
- National Review Online: Confirmed: One Connecticut Obamacare Navigator Has Felony Conviction
- Weekly Standard: Opportunistic Marketers Exploit Opening at Healthcare.gov
For additional information, visit ObamaCare: Three Years of Broken Promises.