ObamaCare Headlines Week in Review

Back to School: HHS Employees Learn ObamaCare “Basics”

 Confusion and chaos:

• National Review: HHS to Host Brown-Bag Lunches to Explain Obamacare to Employees

• Gallup: Americans Still Wary of, Not Too Familiar With, Health Law

• Talking Points Memo: Only One in Four Young Adults Know About Obamacare Exchanges

• National Review: HHS Introduces Video Competition to Promote Obamacare

• Washington Free Beacon: Obama Administration Announces Youth Obamacare Video Contest

• Kaiser Health News: HHS Offering Prizes For Videos Promoting Obamacare

• Forbes: No, Obamacare Is Not A Good Deal For Young People In The Long Run, Not Even Close

• Washington Post: Obamacare’s many definitions of small business breed confusion, challenges

• Forbes: Unpublished CRS Memo: Obama Administration Has Missed Half Of Obamacare’s Legally Imposed Implementation Deadlines

• Washington Examiner: Obamacare’s Louisiana co-op riddled with self-dealing, conflicts of interest

• Washington Free Beacon: Report: Millions Have Incentive to Avoid Obamacare Exchanges, Pay Penalty

• National Review: WV AG: Obamacare Navigators Make Consumers ‘Vulnerable to Massive Instances of Identity Theft’

• USA Today: ObamaCare poses security threat: Column

• Fox News: ObamaCare launch creates opening for scammers

• Chicago Tribune: Editorial: How President Obama is flouting Obamacare

• Politico: Obamacare tougher to launch than Medicare

• Wall Street Journal: The ObamaCare Slush Fund

Still crushing workers and small businesses:

• Chicago Tribune: Analysis: Obamacare, tepid U.S. growth fuel part-time hiring

• Washington Post: Local governments cutting hours over Obamacare costs

• The Tennessean: Paying for Obamacare: Some feel singled out

• Associated Press: Unemployment Rates Rise In Most U.S. States In July

• Gallup: Economy Easily Most Important Driver of Obama Approval

From “If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan” to …

• The Star-Ledger: Obamacare to end health plan used by 100,000 New Jerseyans

• National Review: Over 100K New Jersey Residents to Lose Their Affordable Health Plans Under Obamacare

• National Review Online: Obamacare, Ending Health Insurance for Families as We Know It

• Atlanta Business Chronicle: UPS to drop 15,000 spouses from insurance, cites Obamacare

• Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Health plans drop working spouses

• NPR: Obamacare To Force Millions To Upgrade Insurance

Costs were supposed to go DOWN, not up, right?

• CNBC: Obamacare penalty: Your family could pay more for insurance

• Los Angeles Times: Health insurance costs rise for employers and workers, survey finds

• Associated Press: Health insurance costs outpace wage gains, survey says

• The Hill: Premiums to rise for cheapest health plans in Colo.

• CNN Money: Health insurance premiums rise faster than wages

• New York Times: Tacking Health Care Costs Onto California Farm Produce

For additional information, visit ObamaCare: Three Years of Broken Promises.