Obamacare to cut work hours by equivalent of 2 million jobs: CBO
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's healthcare law will reduce the American workforce by the equivalent of 2 million full-time workers in 2017, the Congressional Budget Office said on...
View ArticleObamacare leaves 5 million poor Americans uninsured (Video)
Lost among reports of the difficulties of the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance exchanges is the news that President Obama’s health insurance reform law is actually making it harder for the very...
View ArticleCarl P. Leubsdorf commentary: Affordable Care Act is a healthy 5-year-old —...
After a rough incubation, birth and infancy, the Affordable Care Act is a sturdy 5-year-old, showing increasing signs of achievement and acceptance. But growth could come to a sudden halt if the...
View ArticleNew data show Obamacare gaining traction
Here's a rundown of the latest metrics on the Affordable Care Act. --The percentage of uninsured Americans is falling sharply, reaching 15.9% as of the end of February, according to Gallup. That's the...
View ArticleU.S. sees lower-than-expected Obamacare insurance costs
WASHINGTON - Hoping to gain the high ground in an escalating war of words over Obamacare, the U.S. administration on Thursday forecast sharply lower than expected insurance costs for consumers and...
View ArticleUPDATE 1-U.S. sees lower-than-expected Obamacare insurance costs
* Report forecasts insurance costs 18 pct lower for consumers, businesses * Officials credit increased competition, transparency from Obamacare * Not clear whether gains will be reflected nationwide By...
View ArticleThe moral conundrum facing left-wing extremists if Obamacare starts working
The title is borrowed from a post by Salon’s Brian Beutler that addresses what he calls the moral conundrum facing right-wing extremists when the Obamacare website starts working. Buetler, who in a...
View ArticleObamaCare's future after law's disastrous debut, low enrollment
By Yevgeniy FeymanPublished March 12, 2014FoxNews.com ObamaCare working the way it was supposed to? ObamaCare disaster by the numbers President Obama’s signature legislative achievement, the Affordable...
View ArticleAnti-Bera ad misleads on Obamacare
Crossroads GPS, the outside group affiliated with GOP strategist Karl Rove, is out with a television ad in Sacramento County, yoking freshman Democratic Rep. Ami Bera to the federal Affordable Care...
View ArticleCBO Downgrades Obamacare's Enrollment Projections, Subsidy Costs
On March 9, the Congressional Budget Office unveiled its updated budget projections for the years 2015 to 2025, including significant changes to its outlook for Obamacare’s spending and coverage...
View ArticleStudy: Repeal of Obamacare would increase deficit, up uninsured 20 million
A nonpartisan government study says repealing President Barack Obama's signature health care law would modestly increase the budget deficit and the number of uninsured Americans would rise by more than...
View Article16 Million Fewer Uninsured Thanks To Obamacare
WASHINGTON -- More than 16 million Americans gained health coverage because of the Affordable Care Act, mainly via the law's health insurance exchange and Medicaid expansion, according to an analysis...
View ArticleSally Pipes: Obamacare a success? Numbers don't show that
The hits just keep on coming for Obamacare. Just after the administration announced that it had exceeded its enrollment goal for the new insurance exchanges — signing up more than eight million people...
View ArticleRobert J. Samuelson commentary: Don't buy into the Obamacare myths, on either...
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View ArticleObamacare's insurance subsidies may cost less
WASHINGTON • Obamacare will cost 7 percent less than expected over the next decade for federal subsidies to help lower-income people pay for private health insurance, congressional researchers said on...
View ArticleReport projects health care costs to dip slightly
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Affordable Care Act's health insurance subsidies will cost a little less than previously thought, according to a new report released Monday. The Congressional Budget Office...
View ArticleDon't Expect Obamacare Enrollment To Increase As Much Next Year, Officials Say
Just days ahead of the next Obamacare sign-up period, the Department of Health and Human Services is scaling back projections of how many people will be enrolled by the end of next year. An on Monday...
View ArticleCBO lowers cost forecast for Obamacare's insurance subsidies
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Obamacare will cost 7 percent less than expected over the next decade for federal subsidies to help lower-income people pay for private health insurance, congressional...
View ArticleRight-Wing Media Won't Tell You That The CBO's New Obamacare Cost Estimates...
class="item-body"> Conservative media hyped the findings of a new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report as a "bombshell" that shows the costs of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will be much higher...
View ArticleMore Americans have health insurance: why Obamacare doesn't get full credit
Two new polls are finding that the portion of Americans without health insurance has fallen amid the drive to sign people up under Obamacare. But precisely how many people are newly insured because of...
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