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  • Fact Check: What the Democrats Won’t Tell You About Pre-Existing Conditions
    Posted in The Prescription Pad on January 18, 2011 | Preview rr
    Tags: Health , Full Committee

    The Obama Administration today released a “report” claiming that anywhere from 50 million to 129 million non-elderly Americans “could be denied affordable coverage” if the Democrats’ health care law is repealed.  With 17 million non-elderly individuals uninsured, the “report” attempts to mislead the public that up to 129 million Americans are at risk of losing their health insurance,… Read more

  • ObamaCare Results in 30,000 New Yorkers Losing their Current Health Benefits
    Posted in The Prescription Pad on November 29, 2010 | Preview rr
    Tags: Health , Full Committee

    A New York Service Employees International Union (SEIU)-affiliate recently announced they are dropping health care coverage for the children of more than 30,000 home health care workers, in part because of the new mandates contained in the Democrats’ health care overhaul.  Mitra Behroozi, Executive Director of benefit and pension funds for the plan, 1199SEIU, stated that, “[N]ew federal… Read more

  • Obama Administration Repeats Discredited Claim that “You Can Keep Your Health Plan If You Like It”
    Posted in The Prescription Pad on November 23, 2010 | Preview rr
    Tags: Health , Full Committee

    MYTH: "No one is going to lose their coverage." - Jay Angoff, Director of the Obama Administration’s HHS Office of Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight FACT:  The Obama Administration has already predicted that as many as 7 out of 10 Americans with employer-provided health coverage could lose their current health plan because of ObamaCare.  FACT:  9 in 10 seniors with retiree… Read more

  • Insurance Regulators Warn: ObamaCare Won’t Let You Keep What You Have
    Posted in The Prescription Pad on October 29, 2010 | Preview rr
    Tags: Health , Full Committee

    The Democrats’ health care overhaul tasked the non-partisan experts at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) with developing important regulations that will influence how every private insurance plan operates.  This week, the NAIC sent a letter to Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) warning that “we continue to have concerns about the potential for unintended… Read more

  • ObamaCare's Inconvenient Truth: First You Lose Your Health Plan, then You Lose Your Hospital
    Posted in The Prescription Pad on October 8, 2010 | Preview rr
    Tags: Health , Full Committee

    It’s not just insurance coverage that families are losing because of ObamaCare.  Now their hospitals are in jeopardy, too.  Three Catholic hospitals in Pennsylvania have been put up for sale, with ObamaCare cited as a main reason for the decision.  One of the hospitals, Mercy Hospital in Scranton, has been treating patients for nearly 100 years.  However, just six months after ObamaCare… Read more

  • ObamaCare – CAN’T Keep What You Have and Like
    Posted in The Prescription Pad on October 1, 2010 | Preview rr
    Tags: Health , Full Committee

    The Principal Financial Group announced yesterday that it will stop selling health insurance because of the Democrats’ health overhaul.  This means that 840,000 Americans will lose their current health plan.  Even more alarming, the New York Times reports that, “More insurers are likely to follow Principal’s lead.”  Health policy consultant, Robert Laszewski, warns that as smaller… Read more

  • Obama’s Oft-Broken Promise
    Posted in The Prescription Pad on September 28, 2010 | Preview rr
    Tags: Health , Full Committee

    Harvard Pilgrim Health Care is ending its Medicare health and prescription drug plan for seniors in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine because of changes to the program made by the Democrats’ health overhaul.  As a result, the Boston Globe reports that 22,000 seniors will lose their Medicare plan at the end of the year.  Seniors in New Hampshire will be particularly hard hit, as… Read more

  • FACT CHECK: 90% of Seniors Will See NO BENEFIT from Administration’s “Important” Prescription Drug Announcement
    Posted in The Prescription Pad on September 23, 2010 | Preview rr
    Tags: Health , Full Committee

    Today, Vice President Joe Biden and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius tried to put the best spin possible on the Administration’s unpopular health care law by touting changes to the Medicare prescription drug “donut hole.” Here’s what the Obama Administration won’t tell you: the vast majority of seniors – nearly 90 percent – will see no benefit from this program and… Read more

  • Six Months Later: Top 6 Reasons to Repeal ObamaCare
    Posted in The Prescription Pad on September 22, 2010 | Preview rr
    Tags: Health , Full Committee

    Tomorrow marks the six-month anniversary of ObamaCare being enacted into law.  During that time, Congressional Democrats and President Obama have been travelling the country attempting to tout the “positive” effects of their new health care overhaul.  Americans, however, are not buying it, with over 50 percent believing the health care law is bad for the country and over 60 percent… Read more

  • And So the Medicare Cuts Begin…
    Posted in The Prescription Pad on September 21, 2010 | Preview rr
    Tags: Health , Full Committee

    Less than six months after ObamaCare became law, President Obama is breaking his promise that, “If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.”  According to an announcement made today by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS):  Next year, 1.2 million seniors will be forced out the Medicare Advantage (MA) or Medicare prescription drug plan… Read more