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

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

Health care costs too much in this country. Spending $1 trillion more on health care, as the Democrats' new law does, didn't reduce health care costs. In fact, it will only make matters worse. According to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the law will actually increase the cost of insurance for millions of families by an additional $2,000 per year by 2016. Employers… Read more

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

WASHINGTON (AP) - The new health care law wasn't supposed to undercut employer plans that have provided most people in the U.S. with coverage for generations. But last week a leading manufacturer told workers their costs will jump partly because of the law. Also, a Democratic governor laid out a scheme for employers to get out of health care by shifting workers into taxpayer-subsidized… Read more

 Well, well. In the clearest evidence so far that ObamaCare is harmful in practice and an election-year liability, the Obama Administration has decided not to enforce some of the law's "consumer protections." At least when the results are politically embarrassing. Over the last several weeks the Health and Human Services Department has granted dozens of temporary waivers to certain… Read more

Washington, DC – Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) and Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Wally Herger (R-CA) today questioned if politics is driving a new round of Medicare television advertisements featuring Andy Griffith by the Obama Administration and sought details of the ad campaign from Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.  Camp and Herger noted… Read more

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

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

McDonald's Corp. has warned federal regulators that it could drop its health insurance plan for nearly 30,000 hourly restaurant workers unless regulators waive a new requirement of the U.S. health overhaul. The move is one of the clearest indications that new rules may disrupt workers' health plans as the law ripples through the real world. Trade groups representing restaurants and… Read more