Tag: Affordable Care Act

VIDEO: President’s plan to shift Obamacare debate away from healthcare.gov

Washington Examiner · December 3, 2013 5:00 am

Judicial Watch is demandingÃÂ the Department of Health and Human ServicesÃÂ execute a Freedom of Information Act request it filed seeking "any and all records" relating to the number of people who purchased health insurance through healthcare.gov in its first days.ÃÂ

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Judicial Watch sues HHS to get Obamacare enrollment numbers

Sean Higgins · December 3, 2013 5:00 am

President Obama speaks about the rollout of the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington on Tuesday. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

White House: Obama hopes to ‘focus his energies’ on economy

Meghashyam Mali · December 3, 2013 5:00 am

President Barack Obama gestures while speaking at a world AIDS Day event, Monday, Dec. 2, 2013, in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

White House launches new Obamacare sales pitch

Susan Crabtree · December 3, 2013 5:00 am

While some of that 41 million will be covered â under Medicaid or in the exchanges â many will choose to pay the individual mandate tax rather than purchase insurance.

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Yes, Obama, Republicans have offered Obamacare alternatives

Ashe Schow · December 3, 2013 5:00 am

The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration concluded that the system for calculating subsidies for individuals to purchase insurance through President Obama's health care law didn't have adequate measures in place to minimize security risks and prevent fraud.

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IRS watchdog says Obamacare security, anti-fraud measures aren’t adequate

Philip Klein · December 3, 2013 5:00 am

The "very rocky start" for Obamacare's health care exchanges has hurt many federally financed health care co-ops, a co-op trade association leader plans to tell Congress on Wednesday.

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Despite improvements, Obamacare website would still be a private sector failure

Philip Klein · December 3, 2013 5:00 am

PresidentÃÂ ObamaÃÂ awards former President BillÃÂ ClintonÃÂ with the Presidential Medal of Freedom during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Nov. 20. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Bill Clinton says he went ‘out of his way’ to explain Obamacare to public

Meghashyam Mali · December 3, 2013 5:00 am

House GOP intensifies probe of Obamacare, sets four oversight hearings for this week

David M. Drucker · December 3, 2013 5:00 am

Speaker of the House JohnÃÂ Boehner, R-Ohio:ÃÂ "The president's health care law continues to wreak havoc on American families, small businesses and our economy. And it's not just a broken website. This bill is fundamentally flawed." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP links Obamacare to pocketbook woes already troubling Americans

David M. Drucker · December 3, 2013 5:00 am

A combination of IRS rules and Obamacare mandates could result in the elimination of volunteer fire departments across the country, according to Rep. Lou Barletta, R-Pa. (AP Image)

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House Republican warns Obamacare mandates could close volunteer fire departments

Joel Gehrke · December 3, 2013 5:00 am

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White House pushes Obamacare ‘benefits’ for young people

Kelsey Osterman · December 3, 2013 2:40 am