Today’s release of the Kaiser Family Foundation’s annual employer health benefits study confirms that President Obama’s most often mentioned health care promises continue to go unfulfilled. More than two years after passage, health care premiums continue to increase and more than half of all workers have already lost the plan they had and liked. Losing the Plan You Have and Like Then: “Here are the details that every American needs to know about this plan…nothing in this plan will require you o... Read more

Despite its expected bankruptcy in 2024, top Democrats continue to make false claims that the Medicare program seniors and those with disabilities rely on is doing fine and that inaction is the best course. Additional claims that the “savings” and taxes contained in ObamaCare will only strengthen Medicare are completely misleading and ignore the fact that rather than use Medicare spending reductions to shore up the Medicare program, Democrats chose to use Medicare as its slush fund to fund a ma... Read more

AARP is being held up again today as a credible source committed to protecting seniors – this time in a new round of attacks on bipartisan policies that would extend the solvency of the Medicare program. This is the same AARP that hailed the law as benefitting seniors, despite a recent estimate by the Congressional Budget Office that the law cuts Medicare by more than $700 billion to fund a new entitlement program. The Obama Administration’s own actuaries warned the Democrats’ law could jeopard... Read more

On Tuesday, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released the first updated estimate of the Democrats’ health care law since the U.S. Supreme Court ruling, which indicates that ObamaCare’s Medicare cuts will be 50 percent higher than initially predicted. Just two years ago, when ObamaCare was signed into law, CBO predicted that ObamaCare would slash Medicare by more than $500 billion from 2010 through 2019. Now, CBO’s updated analysis predicts that the Democrats’ health care law will gut the M... Read more

Despite former-Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s claim that the Democrats’ health care law would create “400,000 jobs almost immediately,” a new study revealed that over 70 percent of small businesses cite the health care law as a major obstacle to job creation. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Q2 Small Business Study of over 1,200 small business executives also found that America’s job creators continue to report that the health care law may force them to reduce the size of their business and will likely res... Read more

The Congressional Budget Office predicts that approximately 20 million Americans will either pay the tax or be forced to buy insurance that they otherwise wouldn't purchase. Only two states in the U.S. have more than 20 million people – California and Texas. So despite the Obama Administration’s claim that few Americans will be impacted by this new tax, 20 million Americans, most of whom are middle-income, will soon beg to differ. ### Read more

The Obama Administration seems to have amnesia. Less than a week ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the individual mandate is constitutional and noted that the basis for the ruling was an argument put forth by the Obama Administration: that the individual mandate is a tax. However, at least twice over the last week, the Obama Administration has seemed to deny the “it’s a tax” argument they made before the Court. Perhaps that is because the individual mandate tax is one of 21 new taxes includ... Read more

Health Care Costs and Impact on Americans $1,200: Increase in health care premiums for an average American family in the year following enactment of the Democrats’ health care law. 13 percent: Premium increase, in 2016, for individuals and families who buy coverage on their own – compared to if the law hadn’t been enacted at all. $118 billion: Additional financial burden saddled onto state budgets from ObamaCare’s Medicaid expansion. 200 percent: National debt as a percentage of GDP in 2037 des... Read more

Below is a list of statements from key Democrats arguing time and again that, without the unconstitutional individual mandate, the Democrats’ health care law doesn’t work. President Barack Obama "Unless everybody does their part, many of the insurance reforms we seek — especially requiring insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions — just can’t be achieved.” Remarks made to a Joint Session of Congress on Health Care “Well, it turns out that if you don’t — if you don’t make sure that e... Read more

Today, the Obama Administration is arguing that ObamaCare is a “win” for consumers because insurers will be rebating $1.1 billion dollars to 12.8 million Americans. This amounts to an average rebate of less than $86 per person who receives the rebate. What the Administration is not saying is that employer-based health insurance premiums increased, on average, by $1,303 the year after ObamaCare became law, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. Those who buy coverage on their own saw an even ... Read more