Health Care

Budget Battles

  • Obamacare Poll Shows Devastating Consumer Response

    By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

    The Gallup Organization has released a devastating new poll about Obamacare, upending the argument from Democrats that the health insurance program is generating a lot of interest. A shocking 71...

  • Under the plan, "if a rate increase is unreasonable and unjustified, health insurers must lower premiums," the proposal said.

    Insurers Cancel Plans for Thousands of Individual Buyers

    By Anna Gorman and Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News

    Health plans are sending hundreds of thousands of cancellation letters to people who buy their won coverage, frustrating some consumers who want to keep what they have and forcing others to buy more...

  • Obamacare Tech Fail May Do What the GOP Couldn’t

    By Eric Pianin

    Republicans failed spectacularly in their plan to use the budget and debt ceiling crisis to derail the implementation of Obamacare . Their grand strategy led to a 16-day government shutdown—which was...

  • Can An Army of Private Programmers Fix Obamacare?

    By Josh Boak and Brianna Ehley, The Fiscal Times

    Over the past three weeks, Obamacare seems to have combined the annoyances of government bureaucracy and the health insurance industry to create a huge snafu that federal officials have only weeks to...

  • Cost of Obamacare Website to Date: $292 Million

    By Sharon Begley, Reuters

    As U.S. officials warned that the technology behind Obamacare might not be ready to launch on October 1, the administration was pouring tens of millions of dollars more than it had planned into the...