Media Updates
The Doctor Isn't In
May 16 2014
“If you like your doctor, you can …?”
- Associated Press: Consumers frustrated by new health plans as they find their doctors are not included
- Daily Caller: Insurer: Obamacare Customers Must Break ‘Choice Habit’
- New York Times: More Insured, but the Choices Are Narrowing
- Savannah Morning News: Savannah health care experts forecast more demands on patients and providers
The Unaffordable Care Act:
- Fiscal Times: Big Increases in Obamacare Premiums and Deductibles Coming in November
- Forbes: First Obamacare Premium Notices For 2015 Show Double Digit Increases
- Investor’s Business Daily: ObamaCare Deductibles To Rise To $6,600 In 2015
- Los Angeles Times: Employer health costs to rise nearly 9% this year, survey finds
- Seattle Times: Most state health insurers seek rate boost: Proposals compared
- Wall Street Journal: Virginia Filings Give First Look at 2015 Health Rate Increases
- Wall Street Journal: Premium Increases and the Health-Care Law’s Subsidies
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Hard part of Affordable Care Act is making health system affordable
- Wall Street Journal: Rural Hospitals Feel Pinch
- Associated Press: Cost-control plan for health care could cost you
- New Orleans Times-Picayune: New problem for patients with chronic diseases - insurers can reject payments from charities for Affordable Care Act plans
White House running “victory” lap around frustrated public:
- Washington Examiner: Dems mistake 8 million sign-ups as happiness with Obamacare
- Forbes: New McKinsey Survey: 74% Of Obamacare Sign-Ups Were Previously Insured
- Business Insider: Only 8% of Independent Voters Call Obamacare A ‘Success’
- CNBC: Obamacare ‘won’t have a happy ending’: Ken Langone
- Weekly Standard: Obamacare Contractor Pays Employees to Spend Their Days Doing Nothing
- Washington Free Beacon: Obamacare Contractor Pays People to Do Nothing
- Hot Air: Billion-dollar ObamaCare contract pays people to do … nothing?
- Washington Free Beacon: Workers at Obamacare Contractor Falling Asleep At Desks, Playing Pictionary
- Washington Times: Outrage over raise for Colorado health exchange CEO
- Politico: $474M for 4 failed Obamacare exchanges
- Fox News: Senate bill would require states to pay back feds for failed ObamaCare exchanges
- Associated Press: Contractor for Obama health reform law scrutinized
- WPRI: Health coverage snags plague some RI residents