The Obama administration announced late Wednesday night that it would delay the individual mandate by six weeks, reports the Washington Post, and red-state Democrats are quickly proposing additional changes, according to Politico. In an update to yesterday’s email, an informed health care blogger estimates 16 million Americans will be losing insurance coverage as a result […]
Since August, more than half a million Americans have received notices from the health insurers that their existing policies are being canceled because they don’t comply with the Affordable Care Act, reports Kaiser. And that’s just for a handful of insurers in a handful of states. Florida Blue has canceled 300k policies in Florida, or […]
The ObamaCare exchange website failed a key test just days before it was set to launch publicly, shutting down after just a few hundred testers tried to use it at the same time, reports the Washington Post, but HHS moved ahead anyway. Then, within minutes of the site’s official launch on October 1, it locked […]
After two weeks of embarrassing failures, the Obama administration announced Sunday it was calling on the “best and brightest” techies from government and Silicon Valley to fix healthcare.gov, the bug-riddled website at the heart of the ObamaCare exchanges, reports Politico. And the NY Post reveals Oprah refused President Obama’s request to help pitch ObamaCare, speculates […]
A Chinese ratings agency downgraded its U.S. sovereign credit ratingThursday despite Washington’s resolution of the debt ceiling deadlock, warning that fundamentals for a potential default remained “unchanged”. Dagong lowered its ratings for U.S. local and foreign currency credit from A to A-, maintaining a negative outlook, according to AFP. Meanwhile, Daily Caller is reporting there’s no actual debt ceiling […]