The Department of Homeland Security has confirmed that there have been seventeen unsuccessful Distributed Denial of Service (cyber) attacks,?launched against the HealthCare.gov website.? No details as to who is behind the attacks have been released. This...
Bruce Bartlett is an economic historian who has helped many Republican notables over the years; McCain, Kemp, and Reagan to name a few. Bartlett's recent column in the Fiscal Times should be a wakeup call....
Dems getting nervous as GOP gins up ACA negativity Former President Bill Clinton wasn't the first Democrat pushing for a legislative fix in response to fake GOP/Teabully outrage about cancelled non-ACA-compliant insurance policies, which would be...
President Obama did a fair job of addressing the complexities of the health care implementation today. Yeah, the President failed to understand how dependent people are on what he says, and how carefully they listen...
The Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, had its roll-out amidst the debacle that I've come to call the Tea-fault. (I don't know who first coined that term, but it fits, and I'm going to keep...
Difficult at best, to some a disaster that was long in the making, the rollout of the new Healthcare.gov website has been exactly what the GOP/Teabully lie and obstruction machine?intended. President Obama's approval numbers are at...
There is little doubt that the Affordable Care Act has flaws, but on Wednesday more signs of unrest within the Democratic Party became apparent. House Democrats demanded the President?and his administration find a reasonable solution...
You can do most things right in your life and still end up in need of a social safety net. You can go to school, work hard, marry the right person (or for some this also...
Here is the deal, right to the point. If your current health insurance plan does not meet the "minimum standards" of the Affordable Health Care Act, chances are it will be canceled. This sheds light...
The ACA (Affordable Care Act), in case you have been living under a rock, or perhaps in a red state where it's better known as "ObamaCare," has been at the top of the "Things the...
Strewn across the media, lately, are opponents and supporters of the new Healthcare bill we fondly call, Obamacare. Despite the technological difficulties the site is having, celebs all over the country are stepping forward in...
David Frum,?the former speech writer for President George W. Bush, and sometimes critic of GOP and Conservative positions, has the facts on the design of the Affordable Healthcare Act backwards. Yesterday, writing for The Daily Beast,...
In 2011 Mississippi Governor?Haley Barbour said,?"there's nobody in Mississippi who does not have access to health care." Since in his view: One of the great problems in the conversation is the misimpression that if you don't...
Healthy mom-healthy baby. That's a common public health slogan, so when states like Ohio have a chance to expand Medicaid to an additional 300,000 people, many of them women who make up the working poor,...
Happy Mom with Obamacare
The Republicans, in their flailing attempts to discredit the Affordable Care Act, are tangling themselves in their web of deceit. (Surprise, surprise.) Exhibit A in this process is the willful misrepresentation about the changes that...
Obamacare jokes
There has been much said about the new health care exchange website healthcare.gov. It has had some glitches. When people rushed to sign up when enrollment for the Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare) started, the...
John Hayward?is a Conservative writer and regular contributor to Breitbart.com and Redstate.com.? Earlier this week, Mr. Hayward claimed that Consumer Reports was advising people to: stay away from Barack Obama's billion-dollar disaster for month or longer. Of...
There is an adage common among software developers, "Writing software is like sausage making: it's ugly to watch but the end result is usually pretty good". There's another one: "Garbage in, garbage out". These twin principles...
Last Friday night Sean Hannity paraded three families onto his set to tell their Obamacare horror stories. Eric Stein of Salon.com, spoke with the families and found that all of the claims presented on Hannity's...
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Would you ever consider handing the keys of a shiny new car over to your 16 year old without first giving them some extensive lessons on safety and basic operation of a vehicle? Of course...