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New Mexico residents resisting Obamacare ‘central control’
A member of the Board of Directors of the New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange just reported only 291 people have signed up for Obamacare in her state. The New Mexico state motto is, “Crescit eundo,” which means, “It grows as it goes.”
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Sally Pipes: No ‘Progress’ under Obamacare
Sally Pipes is the president and CEO of CalWatchDog.com’s parent think tank, the Pacific Research Institute. She already has written three books about Obamacare, the latest being “The Cure for Obamacare,” only a couple of months old. So she knows
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USA Today: Obamacare a fiasco in at least 34 states
The national media were asleep for a long, long time on Obamacare. But no more. This is from USA Today: “More than half of the counties in 34 states using the federal health insurance exchange lack even a bronze plan
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Insurance agent: Covered CA CEO ‘should immediately resign’
Merry Christmas, everyone! The California media’s coverage continue to be on the benign side when it comes to our version of Obamacare. The recent revelations of Covered California’s deceit on insurance sign-ups were barely reported, with just a handful of
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Early warning on big 2014 story: CA trial lawyers’ power play
In an unusually tart warts-and-all Sac Bee profile of Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones, reporter Chris Cadelago gives early notice on what will be a huge story in state politics next year: “A 2014 initiative advanced by Jones, a Sacramento Democrat,
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Obamacare drop-dead date, quietly extended
With today as the final deadline to sign up for an Obamacare health plan, the White House announced yet another extension. According to the Washington Post, the White House did this without any public announcement of the change: But, without any public announcement,
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Don’t trust Covered California’s latest round of happy talk
While the national media increasingly seem to have figured out that Obamacare is a farce, its California version continues to get better press than it should. Stories about the extreme sticker shock faced by CA residents turn up in AP
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Court thwarts CA officials’ cynical race-racket coverup
Chief Justice John Roberts’ 2009 opinion calling government racial quotas a “sordid business” hits the spot. Sordid also pretty much describes all government racial maneuvering and gamesmanship. Consider the case now playing out in California courts: “SAN FRANCISCO (AP) —
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Covered California admits ‘mistake’ that made it seem a success
So Covered California has admitted a mistake in its initial description of signups for California’s version of Obamacare, and it was that fake description that led to stories across the nation about Obamacare getting off to a great start in
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Merry Covered CA Christmas: No payment, no health coverage
If you are signing up for Obamacare, I hope you’ve already put your check in the mail. If you haven’t paid by Dec. 23, don’t count on having Obamacare insurance in January. As with all insurance coverage, the plan must
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