By Mindy Fischer on March 2, 2018
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Republican Senator Orrin Hatch says that Obamacare is “the stupidest, dumbass bill” he has ever seen. And he says fans of Obamacare are “the stupidest, dumbass people” he has ever met. On Thursday, the senior Senator from Utah, Republican Orrin Hatch, gave a keynote speech at a conservative think-tank in D.C., the American Enterprise Institute. Hatch […]
By Mindy Fischer on November 7, 2017
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Finally some good news! Despite the best efforts of Trump and the Republicans to kill Obamacare, more Americans are signing up than ever before. The Hill reported on Monday that, in the first few days of open enrollment this year, a record number of people signed up for the ACA compared to the same period […]
By Mindy Fischer on August 24, 2017
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Trump and the Republicans are lying about Obamacare being dead. As of Thursday, there will be at least one Obamacare insurer in every county in the U.S. Obamacare never was a perfect law. It needs fixes, no question. But it is far from the disaster the Republicans have been describing. And it is far from […]
By Mindy Fischer on March 7, 2017
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“It’s not Obamacare 2.0. It’s Obamacare 0.5. A half-assed attempt to preserve ACA successes without spending nearly enough money.” Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning Economist and New York Times Columnist, just shredded the Republicans’ new bill to replace Obamacare. Krugman says the Republican plan should not be called Obamacare 2.0. He says instead it’s more […]
By Mindy Fischer on August 17, 2016
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The insurance company Aetna announced on Monday that it will be pulling out of 11 of the 15 states where it offers Obamacare policies. They say they’re pulling out because they’ve lost $430 Million. But I’m not so sure that is the whole story. As the Huffington Post reported, Aetna’s CEO, Mark Bertolini, sent a letter […]