Health Care Compact

12/20/2015

Breaking: the DHHS says that healthcare costs for already-insured Americans has gone up 27% in the past 5 years under

12/18/2015

Via The Wall Street Journal: "The false alarm now is that suspending the excise taxes on the medical device and insurance industries is somehow “fixing” ObamaCare. Better, critics claim, to maximize the pain as pressure for repeal. The better analysis is that Republicans are solving problems for constituents and trying to improve the economy."

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-politics-of-obamacares-taxes-1450398519

The delay in ObamaCare’s Cadillac levy doesn’t hurt chances for repeal, the Wall Street Journal writes in an editorial.

12/11/2015

Obamacare's failures are mounting, at the cost of patients and doctors across America.

http://dailycaller.com/2015/12/11/many-obamacare-co-ops-are-leaving-patients-doctors-in-the-cold/

Half of the failed Obamacare health insurance co-ops are not covered by a 33-year-old guaranty program designed to protect consumers when an insurance company defaults, according to a Daily Caller New

12/04/2015

: Senate Republicans just voted to !

12/03/2015

Senator Lankford delivers a compelling, heartfelt speech to Congress about the real problems Obamacare has caused for the people of Oklahoma.

12/03/2015

Via the Hill: Republicans are closer than they've ever been to sending an Obamacare repeal bill to the president's desk! Contact your representative today to

http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/261906-gop-on-cusp-of-obamacare-win

Republicans are closer than they have ever been to sending an ObamaCare repeal bill to the president’s desk.

11/26/2015

Happy Thanksgiving! Stay safe this holiday season.

11/24/2015

HCC Blog: The Death of Obamacare

http://www.healthcarecompact.org/blog/788

11/24/2015

HCC Blog: United Health Group Threatens to Bail on Obamacare

http://www.healthcarecompact.org/blog/787

Even the most enthusiastic supporter of Obamacare will be worried about reports that United Health Group, “the parent of UnitedHealthcare, the largest single health carrier in the United States”, is reviewing its participation in the ACA’s exchanges. Bruce Japsen at Forbes reports that it may exit…

11/24/2015

HCC Blog: United Healthcare Group could be leaving Obamacare.

http://www.healthcarecompact.org/blog/786

Even the most enthusiastic supporter of Obamacare will be worried about reports that United Health Group, “the parent of UnitedHealthcare, the largest single health carrier in the United States”, is reviewing its participation in the ACA’s exchanges. Bruce Japsen at Forbes reports that it may exit…

11/24/2015

HCC Blog: Healthcare Co-ops were seen as a foreseeable disaster

http://www.healthcarecompact.org/blog/785

Costs are not only killing Obamacare insurance they are also killing its vaunted cooperatives. The story of the collapse of the co-ops is one of the most tragic chapters in the program’s short life. “Half of the newly minted organizations created under the Affordable Care Act have now failed, confi…

11/23/2015

HCC Blog: The VA Debate - Hillary VS Bernie

http://www.healthcarecompact.org/blog/784

The department of Veterans Affairs became ground zero in the Democratic Party’s debate over the future of health care. The rhetorical storm started when presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton told talk show host Rachel Maddow that problems within the Veterans Affairs Department have “not been as wide…