Health insurance company profits may be in the headlines again over the next few weeks. With the SCOTUS deciding the fate of Obamacare this week and the heating up of the election, you can be sure to hear all about the obscene health insurance company profits. However, the truth is often much different than...
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Obscene Health Insurance Company Profits for 2011
Democrats Pave The Way To Repeal Obamacare
President Obama would be surprised to learn that Senate Democrats have paved the way to repeal Obamacare. Republicans and conservatives have been planning ways to repeal Obamacare and were facing an up hill battle. However, Senator Reid (D-Nevada) unwittingly gave a gift to those wishing to repeal Obamacare earlier this week. Senator Reid invoked...
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Obscene Health Insurance Company Profits for 2010
With Obamacare passed, the liberal media is mum this year regarding health insurance company profits. In the years leading up to the passage of Obamacare, the top health insurance companies profits were front page news. We have highlighted before that the health insurance company profit headlines about health insurance profits are often misguided. For...
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Obamacare Is Pushing Up Premiums At AARP
File it under irony or justice, but Obamacare is pushing up premiums at AARP. AARP recently announced that AARP employees would see health insurance premiums go up partially due to the impact of Obamacare. AARP sent an email to its employees stating that premiums would increase between 8 and 13 percent. AARP also added...
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Obamacare Determines What Insurance Companies Will Pay For
Most Americans did not support the passage of the Obamacare style healthcare reform bill. As time goes by, Americans, including members of Congress who voted for the healthcare reform bill without knowing what was in the bill, are becoming increasing alarmed by the impacts to health insurance. As the government begins to implement the...
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Health Care Reform a Done Deal?
With the issuing of an executive order, President Obama may have tipped the scales in favor of the Democrat Health Care Reform plan. Representative Bart Stupak has indicated that with the assurance that an executive order barring the use of federal funds for abortions issued by President Obama, he and several other pro-life Democrats...
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Health Care Reform Through Reconciliation Wrong According to Many Senators
With President Obama and the Democrat leadership in the House and Senate urging health care reform through reconciliation, several Senators are speaking out against using reconciliation. Reconciliation was set up to allow for budget items to get through Congress after both the House and Senate passed slightly different bills. However, both parties have used...
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Reid:Health Care Reform Through Reconciliation
Senate majority leader Harry Reid has indicated that Congressional Democrats will use reconciliation to pass health care reform. With the Democrat’s version of health care reform supported by less than 40% of Americans, it is no wonder that barely 20% of Americans approve of the job that congress is doing. Reconciliation is a process that...
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Obscene Health Insurance Company Profits for 2009
Once again the media is pushing stories about obscene health insurance company profits. According to a recent report from Health Care For America Now, health insurance company profits for 2009 were over 56% higher than 2008. The report also called out CIGNA for a whopping 346% increase in profits. The liberal-leaning, union-bankrolled Health Care...
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Four Smart Health Care Reform Steps Democrats Won’t Consider
In the recent SOTU address, the President told opponents to the Democrat health care reform plans to come up with better ideas and he will consider them. The problem is that congressional Democrats have been crafting the health care reform bills in secret and behind closed doors. They have forgotten that bipartisanship means working...
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