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Buzz Cut:
• Millions face ObamaCare price hikes
• Boehner: No commitment to defund exec amnesty next year
• Hillary says it’s hard to be president
• Last lap for Landrieu and Deep South Dems
• Wrong turn on the way to the market
MILLIONS FACE OBAMACARE PRICE HIKES
Amid a recent spread of buyer’s remorse among Democratic lawmakers who pushed President Obama’s complicated and unpopular health law through, the Obama administration is warning Americans that they face big price hikes if they don’t find their version of the ObamaCare blue light special aisle during open enrollment. In many cases that means changing coverage plans, even though you may be happy with it, again. Federal health officials say people could face rate hikes of nearly 10 percent. The warning comes on top of this year’s more costly premiums, which, depending on the state you live in, could mean a double-digit price jump. In other words, Americans, who were sold on claims of reduced rates, can add “You’d better shop around” to the ObamaCare hit parade of “If you like it you can keep it.”
Obamacare calorie labeling regs hard to swallow at $1.7 billion – Wash Free Beacon: “The federal government formally completed regulations that will force vending machines and restaurants to display calorie information, which can lead to businesses being fined thousands of dollars for not including the number of calories in a mayonnaise packet. The regulations, which originated in Obamacare, total 319 pages and will cost industry $1.7 billion to comply. The Food and Drug administration (FDA) published the final rules last week just before the Thanksgiving holiday, arguing the rules are ‘an important step for public health.’”
BOEHNER: NO COMMITMENT TO DEFUND EXEC AMNESTY NEXT YEAR
Weekly Standard: “John Boehner [R-Ohio] said he would not commit to bringing up a bill to strip critical funding from the Department of Homeland Security in the next Congress. Instead, the speaker of the House says there are ‘lots of options’ for blocking President Obama’s executive order on immigration. At a Thursday press conference in the Capitol, Boehner did not guarantee the House would vote to block or cut off funding from DHS once Republicans had control of both houses of Congress in 2015…‘I’m not going to get into hypotheticals of what we could or couldn’t do. But I do know this. Come January, we’ll have a Republican House and a Republican Senate, and we’ll be in a stronger position to take actions.’…The Ohio Republican emphasized the current plan to address the immigration executive order in the next Congress gives the GOP the best chance for ‘keeping our leverage.’ But, Boehner said, ‘we have limited options in how we can deal with this.’”
[Flash-bang: The Yoho bill to ‘block’ President Obama’s executive order passed the House, 219 to 197.]
