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Quotes-start.png Henry Chao, a senior federal official working on the information technology that will run the exchanges, said in March that he was “pretty nervous” about meeting the October 1 deadline and was reduced to hoping that the exchanges don’t end up being “a Third World experience.” And it’s not as if the feds and the states have been short on money. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will have spent $4.4 billion on state exchange grants by the end of this year. That’s more than double what the Department said would be necessary just last year, despite the fact that fewer states than the feds anticipated agreed to establish their own exchanges. Quotes-end.png
From The Obamacare Insurance Exchange Train Is Already Coming Off The Rails, by Sally Pipes (Forbes, May 27, 2013) (view)
Quotes-start.png "One of these new taxes is a so-called health insurance fee. It's a massive $8 billion tax (that escalates to $14.3 billion by 2018) on insurance companies based on their market share. This tax will be paid almost exclusively by small businesses and individuals because the law specifically excludes self-insured plans, the plans that most big businesses and labor unions offer, from having to pay the tax." Quotes-end.png
From ObamaCare vs. Small Business, by Dan Danner (The Wall Street Journal, May 27, 2010) (view)
Quotes-start.png Close to one out of every 13 jobs is now in "food services and drinking places" — restaurants and bars. These are the exact businesses saying they'll have to cut back shifts to less than 30 hours because of the health care law. Otherwise, paying for expensive Washington-mandated insurance for all of their workers could bankrupt them. Employers forced into this position by the law have picked up a nickname. They're called "the 29ers." Quotes-end.png
From ObamaCare Is Blocking Job Creation, Economic Growth, by John Barrasso (Investor's Business Daily, May 2, 2013) (view)
Quotes-start.png Roughly 12 million seniors have chosen to carry Medicare Advantage. Most like it and want to keep it. They surely don’t want the funding for their plan cut by an average of $17,000 per senior over the rest of this decade, as would happen under Obamacare. They similarly don’t want to see the Medicare chief actuary’s prediction come true: that by 2017, enrollment in Medicare Advantage will decrease by half from what it would have been without Obamacare. Quotes-end.png
From Obama's Senior Swindle, by Jeffrey Anderson (The Weekly Standard, May 2, 2012) (view)
Quotes-start.png ObamaCare refugees first began beating down the exit doors last October. Waiver-mania started with McDonald's and Jack in the Box; spread to Dish Networks, hair-salon chain Regis Corp and resort giant Universal Orlando; took hold among major Big Labor outfits from the AFL-CIO to the CWA to the SEIU; roped in the nationalized health-care promoters at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; and is now gripping entire states. Quotes-end.png
From Look who's getting out of ObamaCare, by Michelle Malkin (New York Post, May 18, 2011) (view)
Quotes-start.png There is suspicion that HHS has shown favoritism — labor unions have received some 26 percent of waivers while comprising only 12 percent of workers. As Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., said, “What does it say about the feasibility of the health-care law when the administration needs to exempt over 1,000 health plans from its own law?” Quotes-end.png
From Health-care law lets bureaucrats rule, by Mona Charen (The Tennessean, May 18, 2011) (view)
Quotes-start.png That approaching train wreck keeps speeding at us. The Internal Revenue Service is preparing to exact $95 penalties to everyone who fails to sign up for health insurance, beginning in 2014. With premiums rising because of government interference in the marketplace, many consumers, especially the young and healthy, will pay the $95 “tax” to avoid paying thousands in unnecessary higher premiums. The sick and elderly will flood the system, while the young stand aside to watch. Quotes-end.png
From Panic over Obamacare, by The Washington Times editorial board (The Washington Times, May 15, 2013) (view)
Quotes-start.png In his newly released plan to "reform" Medicare as part of overall deficit reduction, Obama has punted actual cost-cutting and instead proposed a panel - the Independent Payment Advisory Board - to recommend savings for the financially doomed program. Translation: Welcome to the world of rationing. The board, which was an original part of Obamacare (remember the death panel debate?), consists of 15 unelected bureaucrats who will have unchecked, binding power in the interest of supposedly greater efficiency and lower costs. Quotes-end.png
From Obama's death panels return, by Andrea Tantaros (New York Daily News, May 12, 2011) (view)
Quotes-start.png The Affordable Care Act was pitched as a way to save money and lower premiums. Yet Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), recently admitted that premiums have increased "in part because of ObamaCare," but in part because premiums were steadily increasing anyway. The first part is a stunning admission, but the second part is actually the doozy: Did Congress raid Medicare and jeopardize America's financial solvency just to keep the status quo? Quotes-end.png
From The ObamaCare train wreck, by Mike Pompeo (USA Today, May 10, 2013) (view)
Quotes-start.png "Under the Constitution the states are not wards of the federal government. Clever federal tax and spending statutes must not be allowed to reduce states to a servile status that allows the federal government to force massive wealth shifts among them. The federal government should be told either to refund to the states their citizens' Medicaid tax dollars when they pull out of the program or to drop the new mandates to expand Medicaid coverage as the price the states must pay to escape ObamaCare-created duties." Quotes-end.png
From ObamaCare's Phony Medicaid 'Deal', by Richard Epstein (The Wall Street Journal, May 10, 2010) (view)
Quotes-start.png Health-care reform forbids insurers to turn anyone down because of a pre-existing condition, and — if it survives Supreme Court review — will add millions to the rolls. It also imposes a series of expensive mandates that will drive up costs. At the same time, it seeks to keep insurers from adjusting to the new realities by raising prices too much. Where will all that lead? The historical evidence is not encouraging. In addition to Venezuela, one could cite New York City, where rent control has created a permanent housing shortage; or Zimbabwe ("Zimbabwe is facing serious food shortages due to price controls imposed earlier this month by the government," BBC) or Russia ("Price Controls on Gasoline in Russia Causing Shortages," Economic Policy Journal), or dozens of other examples. Quotes-end.png
From Hugonomics Comes to America, by A. Barton Hinkle (Richmond Times-Dispatch, May 1, 2012) (view)
Quotes-start.png Here in New York, the law has put in jeopardy the entire way I practice as a primary-care physician. The law is so heavy with restrictions and penalties, and so light with actual improvements to care, that it isn’t working well even with the subsidies. I spend more than half of my time on any given day on computer documentation, pre-approvals, contesting billing errors by labs or hospitals and choosing unknown specialists from ObamaCare lists to refer patients to. Quotes-end.png
From ObamaCare stinks even with subsidies, by Marc Siegel (New York Post, March 9, 2015) (view)
Quotes-start.png Meanwhile, not just Taco Bell and Wendy's are demoting many full-time workers to part-time work. Some of Obama's core constituencies — universities and state governments — are cutting hours. For instance, Stark State College in Ohio sent a letter to faculty saying that "to avoid penalties under the Affordable Care Act ... employees with part-time or adjunct status will not be assigned more than an average of 29 hours per week." Quotes-end.png
From It's 'I told you so' on Obamacare, by Jonah Goldberg (Los Angeles Times, March 5, 2013) (view)
Quotes-start.png Each year, millions of uninsured Americans find coverage through a new employer, Medicaid, or other means. In fact, the number of uninsured has fallen every year since peaking after the 2008 recession. Many of the 1.2 million newly insured through the exchanges likely would have found coverage regardless. Moreover, we know that at least 5 million families have received cancellation notices. Some polices have been temporarily extended, and some have not, but all will lose their insurance once the law goes into full effect. Quotes-end.png
From Obamacare misses the target, by John Sununu (The Boston Globe, March 31, 2014) (view)
Quotes-start.png Goldman Sachs is projecting that only 1 million Obamacare sign-ups will come from previously uninsured Americans. Indeed, it estimates that the number of total signups will be just 4 million — not 6 million, as the administration claims — because “HHS figures ... count all persons who selected an ACA exchange plan regardless of whether or not they have actually completed the enrollment process by paying their premium.” Goldman Sachs also anticipates that fully 75 percent of all the Obamacare sign-ups will be from people who already had insurance. Quotes-end.png
From Making up good news about Obamacare, by Marc Thiessen (The Washington Post, March 31, 2014) (view)
Quotes-start.png The latest changes to Obamacare, stacked on so many earlier changes, create more headaches and uncertainty for insurers and for enrollees who pay premiums to them. Insurers need tightly restricted enrollment periods to discourage healthy people from waiting until they have an accident or illness to buy coverage. But with the administration's changes creating so much slosh in their pools of customers, insurers already are warning that health insurance premiums are likely to rocket higher, possibly by double digits, next year. Quotes-end.png
From Monday is the Obamacare deadline. Sort of., by Chicago Tribune editorial board (Chicago Tribune, March 31, 2014) (view)
Quotes-start.png A 2,700-page law is not a "law" by any civilized understanding of the term. Law rests on the principle of equality before it. When a bill is 2,700 pages, there's no equality: Instead, there's a hierarchy of privilege microregulated by an unelected, unaccountable, unconstrained, unknown and unnumbered bureaucracy. It's not just that the legislators who legislate it don't know what's in it, nor that the citizens on the receiving end can ever hope to understand it, but that even the nation's most eminent judges acknowledge that it is beyond individual human comprehension. Quotes-end.png
From Just reading Obamacare cruel and unusual punishment, by Mark Steyn (The Orange County Register, March 30, 2012) (view)
Quotes-start.png "I am working on legislation that would allow states to opt out of this federal health care bill because states need flexibility, not a federal government takeover of health care. Instead, individual states should have the flexibility to solve the health care problems in a way that is best for their specific state, similar to the approach we took in Massachusetts that has resulted in a state-specific plan that covers 98 percent of our citizens without raising taxes." Quotes-end.png
From The health care fight is not over, by Scott Brown (The Boston Globe, March 30, 2010) (view)
Quotes-start.png "The Employee Benefit Research Institute calculates that companies could now save $1,000 per beneficiary by handing them off to the government. As many as 2 million more retirees could end up on the government program, according to James Klein of the American Benefits Council. These retirees might wonder about the truthfulness of Obama's constant promise that everyone can keep his current insurance." Quotes-end.png
From Shut up, he argues, by Rich Lowry (New York Post, March 30, 2010) (view)
Quotes-start.png We instead hope that lawmakers — Democrats chastened by the court's skepticism, Republicans who now have to deliver an alternative to Obamacare — will work together toward a bipartisan health care reform law. A law that carefully and affordably expands care. Quotes-end.png
From If the law falls ..., by Chicago Tribune editorial board (Chicago Tribune, March 29, 2012) (view)
Quotes-start.png "For the first time, Social Security will pay out more in benefits than it receives in tax revenue, to the tune of $29 billion. [...] So is this really the time for the US to be setting out on a trillion-dollar entitlement adventure filled with so many unknowns and untested elements? And, more important, whose ultimate financial impact on the sky-high -- and still soaring -- national debt is open to so much question? You'd think not." Quotes-end.png
From A grim sign for ObamaCare, by New York Post editorial board (New York Post, March 29, 2010) (view)
Quotes-start.png Obamacare’s costs are exploding in the land where budgets already have burst. The $900 billion bargain-basement 10-year cost estimate that Mr. Obama promised for his overhaul recently ballooned to $1.8 trillion. Of course, these are still just estimates, and considering that the government underestimated Medicare’s cost by a factor of 10, who really knows how massive the final price tag will be? Quotes-end.png
From Obamacare’s inescapable death march, by Milton Wolf (The Washington Times, March 28, 2012) (view)
Quotes-start.png Health insurance is more costly and child-only policies have largely vanished because of ObamaCare's insurance mandates. And President Obama's promise that Americans would be able to keep their existing coverage? ObamaCare regulations make that impossible to fulfill. Quotes-end.png
From ObamaCare's 1-year toll, by Pittsburgh Tribune-Review editorial board (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, March 27, 2011) (view)
Quotes-start.png "In one of a bazillion little clauses in a 2,000-page bill your legislators didn't bother reading (because, as Rep. John Conyers explained, he wouldn't understand it even if he did), Congress voted to subject the 28 percent tax benefit to the regular good ol' American-as-apple-pie corporate tax rate of 35 percent. For the purposes of comparison, Sweden's corporate tax rate is 26.3 percent, and Ireland's is 12.5 percent. But just because America already has the highest corporate tax in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development is no reason why we can't keep going until it's double Sweden's and quadruple Ireland's." Quotes-end.png
From A healthy dose of catastrophe, by Mark Steyn (The Washington Times, March 27, 2010) (view)
Quotes-start.png "Indeed, many conservatives, for all their justified opposition to a government takeover of health care, have not yet quite seen the full extent to which this bill will exacerbate the cost problem. It is designed to push people into a system that will not exist—a health care bridge to nowhere—and so will cause premiums to rise and encourage significant dislocation and then will initiate a program of subsidies whose only real answer to the mounting costs of coverage will be to pay them with public dollars and so increase them further." Quotes-end.png
From REPEAL, by Yuval Levin (The Weekly Standard, March 27, 2010) (view)
Quotes-start.png "On top of AT&T's $1 billion, the writedown wave so far includes Deere & Co., $150 million; Caterpillar, $100 million; AK Steel, $31 million; 3M, $90 million; and Valero Energy, up to $20 million. Verizon has also warned its employees about its new higher health-care costs, and there will be many more in the coming days and weeks. As Joe Biden might put it, this is a big, er, deal for shareholders and the economy. The consulting firm Towers Watson estimates that the total hit this year will reach nearly $14 billion, unless corporations cut retiree drug benefits when their labor contracts let them." Quotes-end.png
From The ObamaCare Writedowns, by The Wall Street Journal editorial board (The Wall Street Journal, March 27, 2010) (view)
Quotes-start.png "Sure, Social Security can be trimmed by raising the retirement age, introducing means testing and changing the indexing formula from wage growth to price inflation. But this won't be nearly enough. As Obama has repeatedly insisted, the real money is in health-care costs -- which are locked in place by the new Obamacare mandates. That's where the value-added tax comes in." Quotes-end.png
From Obamacare's next trick: the VAT, by Charles Krauthammer (The Washington Post, March 26, 2010) (view)
Quotes-start.png "...the old Clinton health-care bill was a plan to control costs through health-care purchasing cooperatives, standards of medical practice, and penalties for providers who violated those standards. When Americans came to understand the loss of freedom resulting from the Clinton plan, they rejected it. The Democrats learned from that experience. This time around they simply left their cost control component to be added later." Quotes-end.png
From Resistance Is Not Futile, by Phil Gramm (The Wall Street Journal, March 26, 2010) (view)
Quotes-start.png "...since this program was adopted in 2006, our health-care costs have in total exceeded $4 billion. The cost of Massachusetts' plan has blown a hole in the Commonwealth's budget. Just last Thursday, Gov. Deval Patrick's office announced a $294 million shortfall related to health-care costs. If not for federal Medicaid reimbursements and commitments from Washington to prop up this plan, Massachusetts would be broke." Quotes-end.png
From Massachusetts Is Our Future, by Timothy Cahill (The Wall Street Journal, March 26, 2010) (view)
Quotes-start.png "Paying the new tax penalty might actually be cheaper for [Indiana&393;, as it will be for many private firms. I'm not certain the same rule applies to government as to business, but since no member of Congress read this entire bill before the vote, I don't feel embarrassed about not knowing." Quotes-end.png
From We Good Europeans, by Mitch Daniels (The Wall Street Journal, March 26, 2010) (view)
Quotes-start.png "If we repeal ObamaCare, we can start over with common-sense market solutions to lower the cost of health insurance. We can end the era of defensive medicine with real malpractice reforms, and use the savings to fund state programs that provide insurance for Americans with pre-existing conditions. We can renew our commitment to seniors in Medicare and pursue the kind of reform required to achieve its long-term solvency." Quotes-end.png
From This Law Will Not Stand, by Mike Pence (The Wall Street Journal, March 26, 2010) (view)
Quotes-start.png Despite this declaration, backers of the Massachusetts system now maintain that Romneycare was never about controlling costs but simply expanding access to insurance. Five years in, Bay State residents are being told that global budgets, price controls and rationed care are not only necessary but good for their health. [...] Don’t believe it. But do believe this — single payer is the logical and, indeed, likely extension of Romney-Obamacare. Quotes-end.png
From A glimpse of a future with Obamacare, by Sally Pipes (The Washington Post, March 25, 2011) (view)
Quotes-start.png Weiner argues that the waiver process dispels "this notion that the government is shoving the bill down people's throats." But only the politically connected, deep-pocketed, lawyered-up and Beltway-savvy can apply. And the White House refuses to shed more light on its decision-making process. Obama's selective favor waivers simply underscore the notion that unaccountable regulatory bureaucrats are presiding over government by the cronies, for the cronies and of the cronies. Quotes-end.png
From 'Weiner's waiver': worse than ObamaCare, by Michelle Malkin (New York Post, March 25, 2011) (view)
Quotes-start.png "Republican candidates must focus on ObamaCare's weaknesses. It will cost $2.6 trillion in its first decade of operation and is built on Madoff-style financing. For example, it double counts Social Security payroll taxes, long-term care premiums, and Medicare savings in order to make it appear more fiscally responsible. In reality, ObamaCare isn't $143 billion in the black, as Democrats have claimed, but $618 billion in the red." Quotes-end.png
From What Republicans Should Do Now, by Karl Rove (The Wall Street Journal, March 25, 2010) (view)
Quotes-start.png "In Europe, government spending is equal to 40-50 percent of gross domestic product, compared to 28 percent in the United States, and top tax rates reach 60 percent. That's why Europeans don't knock themselves out earning money. Productivity gains in Western Europe are half the U.S. average, while unemployment averages twice our rate." Quotes-end.png
From Nanny state will turn U.S. into Europe, by Nolan Finley (The Detroit News, March 25, 2010) (view)
Quotes-start.png "Even before President Obama signed the bill on Tuesday, Caterpillar said it would cost the company at least $100 million more in the first year alone. Medical device maker Medtronic warned that new taxes on its products could force it to lay off a thousand workers. Now Verizon joins the roll of businesses staring at adverse consequences." Quotes-end.png
From ObamaCare Day One, by The Wall Street Journal editorial board (The Wall Street Journal, March 25, 2010) (view)
Quotes-start.png "Washington already has no idea on how to pay for its current entitlement programs, as we find ourselves $76 trillion in the hole. Our country cannot afford to avoid a serious conversation on entitlement reform. By taking action now, we can make certain that our entitlement programs are kept whole for those in and near retirement, while devising sustainable health and retirement security for future generations." Quotes-end.png
From Fix Health Reform, Then Repeal It, by Paul Ryan (The New York Times, March 25, 2010) (view)
Quotes-start.png "The party-in-a-hot house is what the Dems have become under Obama. Their disconnect from the people who pay for their imperial courts is now complete. They acted like children at a birthday party, oblivious to the pain in a nation where perhaps 15 million are out of work." Quotes-end.png
From O's ego booster shot, by Michael Goodwin (New York Post, March 24, 2010) (view)
Quotes-start.png "The hard sell will be urgent. Obamacare's final shape came from panicky congressional vote-buying, and its 2,700 pages hold lots of undisclosed parts. So no one's quite sure what side effects will kick in or when. One big employer, Caterpillar, reported last week that one odd tax increase in the bill would cost it $100 million in the first year. You can bet its future laid-off employees didn't see that coming." Quotes-end.png
From Obamacare: The time for selling has just begun, by Patrick McIlheran (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 24, 2010) (view)
Quotes-start.png Dramatic rate increases will come in 2015. They will be on top of increases already underway due to Obamacare. According to eHealthInsurance, individual premiums have increased 39 percent since February 2013. The average individual premium is now $274 a month. Family policies have increased by 56 percent. Average premiums are now $663 per family each month. Quotes-end.png
From Federal health care law proving to be affordable in name only, by The Oklahoman editorial board (The Oklahoman, March 23, 2014) (view)
Quotes-start.png Millions of workers saw their insurance premiums and out-of-pocket costs increase this year as employers moved to comply with the law's new mandates, including coverage of children regardless of pre-existing conditions, of adult children through age 26, of some counseling and mental health treatments and the elimination of lifetime coverage maximums. Those same expensive mandates have made it difficult for scores of self-employed Americans and small businesses to afford coverage in a sour economy. Quotes-end.png
From One year later, ObamaCare still in ICU, by Las Vegas Review-Journal editorial board (Las Vegas Review-Journal, March 23, 2011) (view)
Quotes-start.png "The bill taxes insurance plans the government deems too generous, discouraging them. And a study reported on the New England Journal of Medicine Web site showed that 46 percent of physicians surveyed said they would be more likely to quit medicine or retire early if the bill passed. The American people are about to discover that they were sold a fiscally responsible reform but got instead yet another underfunded entitlement program that speeds the nation's slide into insolvency." Quotes-end.png
From Obamacare: Another Washington scam, by New Hampshire Union Leader editorial board (New Hampshire Union Leader, March 23, 2010) (view)
Quotes-start.png "On Sunday, as will happen every day for two decades, another 10,000 baby boomers became eligible for Social Security and Medicare. And Congress moved closer to piling a huge new middle-class entitlement onto the rickety structure of America's Ponzi welfare state. Congress has a one-word response to the demographic deluge and the scores of trillions of dollars of unfunded liabilities: "More."" Quotes-end.png
From A battle won, but a victory?, by George F. Will (The Washington Post, March 23, 2010) (view)
Quotes-start.png "The yearlong partisan crusade - right through its ugly conclusion - revealed that this debate was never about policy but rather a paternalistic ideology at odds with our historic commitment to individual liberty, limited government and entrepreneurial dynamism. The proponents of this legislation reject an opportunity society and instead assume you are stuck in your station in life and the role of government is to help you cope with it. Rather than promote equal opportunities for individuals to make the most of their lives, the cradle-to-grave welfare state seeks to equalize the results of people's lives." Quotes-end.png
From Costs of this debacle will be high, by Paul Ryan (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 23, 2010) (view)
Quotes-start.png "The new health care law exempts the president from having to participate in it. Leadership and committee staffers in the House and Senate who wrote the bill are exempted as well. A weasel-worded definition of "staff" includes only the members' personal staff in the new system; the committee staff that drafted the legislation opted themselves out. Because they were more familiar with the contents of the law than anyone in the country, it says a lot that they carved out their own special loophole." Quotes-end.png
From No Obamacare for Obama, by The Washington Times editorial board (The Washington Times, March 23, 2010) (view)
Quotes-start.png "Insurance companies are now heavily regulated government contractors. Way to get big business out of Washington! They will clear a small, government-approved profit on top of their government-approved fees. Then, when healthcare costs rise -- and they will -- Democrats will insist, yet again, that the profit motive is to blame and out from this Obamacare Trojan horse will pour another army of liberals demanding a more honest version of single-payer." Quotes-end.png
From The reality of Obamacare, by Jonah Goldberg (Los Angeles Times, March 23, 2010) (view)
Quotes-start.png Today, it’s the Catholic Church whose free-exercise powers are under assault from this cascade of diktats sanctioned by — indeed required by — Obamacare. Tomorrow it will be the turn of other institutions of civil society that dare stand between unfettered state and atomized citizen. Rarely has one law so exemplified the worst of the Leviathan state — grotesque cost, questionable constitutionality and arbitrary bureaucratic coerciveness. Quotes-end.png
From Obamacare: The reckoning, by Charles Krauthammer (The Washington Post, March 22, 2012) (view)
Quotes-start.png When I was governor of Massachusetts, we instituted a plan that got our citizens insured without raising taxes and without a government takeover. Other states will choose to go in different directions. It is the genius of federalism that it encourages experimentation, with each state pursuing what works best for them. ObamaCare's disregard for this core aspect of U.S. tradition is one of its most egregious failings. Quotes-end.png
From Why I'd repeal ObamaCare, by Mitt Romney (USA Today, March 22, 2012) (view)
Quotes-start.png The national debt threatens a Greek-style financial crisis. It makes no sense to fuel the spending fire with a new entitlement program, expand a sub-par Medicaid system, and rob $500 billion from Medicare without any fundamental reforms that will make it sustainable for future seniors. (Don't get your hopes up about the Independent Payment Advisory Board's ability to restrain Medicare costs. In practice, it can't do anything but cut reimbursements to doctors and hospitals and reduce access for seniors.) Quotes-end.png
From Scrap the Affordable Care Act, by Douglas Holtz-Eakin (USA Today, March 22, 2012) (view)
Quotes-start.png "In 2008, the president campaigned both against forcing people to buy insurance and against taxing their benefits. The legislation runs counter to the campaign on both points. The president promised to change Washington. He has made its stench more noisome, winning this vote by using every kind of deceit and (legal) corruption, and over the objection of a bipartisan coalition representing most Americans." Quotes-end.png
From Obamacare Isn’t Inevitable, by National Review editorial board (National Review, March 22, 2010) (view)
Quotes-start.png "If the enactment of a program for universal coverage fulfills a long-standing goal of the Democrats, this wasn't how it was supposed to happen -- with public opinion firmly opposed, with protesters chanting just steps away from the Capitol, with procedural contortions and brazen deals, with blatantly dishonest accounting, with a wave of popular revulsion threatening to undo their work." Quotes-end.png
From Dem win is built on sand, by Rich Lowry (New York Post, March 22, 2010) (view)
Quotes-start.png "This plan raids $52 billion from Social Security. It cuts nearly $500 billion from Medicare and doesn’t count the hundreds of billions needed to compensate doctors who treat elderly patients. A portion of this trillion dollar bill is paid for with a government takeover of the student loan industry. The government will shut down private lenders, sell expensive loans to 19 million college students and use the profits to finance “ObamaCare.”" Quotes-end.png
From ‘It must be repealed’, by Jim DeMint (USA Today, March 22, 2010) (view)
Quotes-start.png "Someone please show me where the Constitution gives Congress the authority to even address health care issues, much less embark on socialist adventures of this scope. Don’t even try to trot out the old, failed “commerce clause” argument, which says only that Congress may “regulate” already existing commerce of certain types, a far cry from mandating commerce that the public does not wish to engage in." Quotes-end.png
From Be careful what you wish for, by Mark Davis (The Dallas Morning News, March 22, 2010) (view)
Quotes-start.png "This country is in the position of a free-spending family careening toward bankruptcy that at the last moment announced that it was giving a gigantic new gift to charity. You admire the act of generosity, but you wish they had sold a few of the Mercedes to pay for it." Quotes-end.png
From The Democrats Rejoice, by David Brooks (The Wall Street Journal, March 22, 2010) (view)
Quotes-start.png Top-down control is not the way to fix healthcare. Americans should be given more choices in choosing plans and shopping for services. More options and more competition mean lower prices, which in turn means greater access. Quotes-end.png
From Obamacare still stinks, by Reince Priebus (USA Today, March 21, 2014) (view)
Quotes-start.png when health-care reform was passed, we were promised that it would do three things: 1) provide health-insurance coverage for all Americans; 2) reduce insurance costs for individuals, businesses, and government; and 3) increase the quality of health care and the value received for each dollar of health-care spending. At the same time, the president and the law’s supporters in Congress promised that the legislation would not increase the federal-budget deficit or unduly burden the economy. And it would do all these things while letting those of us who were happy with our current health insurance keep it unchanged. Two years in, we can see that none of these things is true. Quotes-end.png
From Obamacare, Two Years Later, by Michael Tanner (National Review, March 21, 2012) (view)
Quotes-start.png the decision employers face under ObamaCare is straightforward: Do they pay $20,000 per year for family coverage, or do they pay the $2,000 penalty to the government? It is not as if dropping health coverage will expose their employees to financial risk. They will thereby make employees eligible for huge subsidies in the health-care exchanges—$10,000 if their household income is $64,000 per year. In a competitive environment, ObamaCare provides the incentive for employers to drop coverage. Quotes-end.png
From ObamaCare's Costs Are Soaring, by Ron Johnson (The Wall Street Journal, March 21, 2012) (view)
Quotes-start.png "As for those who needed more persuasion: California Rep. Jim Costa bragged publicly that during his meeting in the Oval Office, he'd demanded the administration increase water to his Central Valley district. On Tuesday, Interior pushed up its announcement, giving the Central Valley farmers 25% of water supplies, rather than the expected 5% allocation. Mr. Costa, who denies there was a quid pro quo, on Saturday said he'd flip to a yes." Quotes-end.png
From Inside the Pelosi Sausage Factory, by Kimberley Strassel (The Wall Street Journal, March 21, 2010) (view)
Quotes-start.png Contrary to what the Obama team is arguing, a loss for the president here will be a win for average Americans. Republican lawmakers are getting set to drive a stake into the law’s worst features, the job-killing employer mandate and the expensive “Washington knows best” coverage mandate. In ObamaCare’s place, we’d have a system that lets people buy the health plans they want and work the hours they want. Quotes-end.png
From We all win if Supremes gut ObamaCare, by Betsy McCaughey (New York Post, March 2, 2015) (view)
Quotes-start.png Any state that uses our off-ramp would be able to opt out of ObamaCare’s insurance mandates. These coverage requirements are driving up costs, so eliminating them would empower individuals and families to choose from a wider range of plans that fit their personal needs and budgets. Our proposal will also allow participating states to opt out of ObamaCare’s burdensome individual and employer mandates, allowing Americans to purchase the coverage they want. Quotes-end.png
From An Off-Ramp From ObamaCare, by John Kline, Paul Ryan, Fred Upton (The Wall Street Journal, March 2, 2015) (view)
Quotes-start.png What [Medicare chief actuary Richard] Foster is telling us is that deducting the legislatively presumed productivity savings from Medicare reimbursements would gradually turn more than 700 of our hospitals into chronic money losers. And — while he doesn't spell out what would happen when those hospitals eventually had to shut down — there's no doubt that the impact would be devastating. Quotes-end.png
From Obama's health care reform is unhealthy for hospitals, by John D. Hartigan (The Baltimore Sun, March 19, 2011) (view)
Quotes-start.png A Brooking Institution study indicated that families with incomes between $20,000 and $38,000 will suffer the largest proportionate income declines. “Only in Washington could asking the bottom of the middle class to finance health care for the poorest families be seen as reducing inequality,” the Unite Here report said. Quotes-end.png
From The high costs of Obamacare, by Jack Kelly (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 16, 2014) (view)
Quotes-start.png Judge Kessler disdains the distinction between activity and inactivity as "of little significance." Her Orwellian theory is that government can regulate the activity - the mental activity - of choosing not to participate in a commercial activity. Quotes-end.png
From The Supreme Court and the health-care mandate muddle, by George F. Will (The Washington Post, March 13, 2011) (view)
Quotes-start.png The screw-ups, incompetence and bureaucratic blame avoidance over the health-insurance-exchange tax forms make the website fiasco look like a flawless product launch. How do I know? My family got ensnared in the 1095-A paperwork pit. Quotes-end.png
From ObamaCare’s new tax-time nightmare, by Michelle Malkin (New York Post, March 10, 2015) (view)
Quotes-start.png The public seems to understand that government intervention does not generally make things less expensive. And there are good reasons for the public's skepticism. For example, the Congressional Budget Office reported in December that at least six programs that were supposed to save money under Obamacare not only don't, but some actually are increasing costs. Quotes-end.png
From Americans resisting Obamacare, by Michael Tanner (The Orange County Register, March 1, 2012) (view)
Quotes-start.png The McKinsey study, "How US health care reform will affect employee benefits," predicts that employers will either drop coverage altogether, offer defined contributions for insurance, or offer coverage only to certain employees. The study concludes that 30% of employers overall will definitely or probably stop offering health insurance to their workers. Quotes-end.png
From No, You Can't Keep Your Health Insurance, by Grace-Marie Turner (The Wall Street Journal, June 8, 2011) (view)
Quotes-start.png The Medicaid provision of ObamaCare spells the death knell to competition among the states. States cannot function as "laboratories of democracy"—as the 10th Amendment intended—if the federal government can use its power to tax and spend to bludgeon all states into conformity. Quotes-end.png
From ObamaCare's Next Constitutional Challenge, by Richard Epstein, Mario Loyola (The Wall Street Journal, June 7, 2011) (view)
Quotes-start.png Liberals also argue that some of the new costs will be offset by subsidies, which is great news unless you happen to be a taxpayer or aren't eligible for ObamaCare dollars and wake up to find your current coverage is illegal. Quotes-end.png
From ObamaCare Bait and Switch, by The Wall Street Journal editorial board (The Wall Street Journal, June 3, 2013) (view)
Quotes-start.png "Consider the April 22 analysis by Medicare's chief actuary, Richard Foster, which blasted to smithereens many of Mr. Obama's claims for the bill. For starters, Mr. Foster estimated Americans would pay $120 billion in fines for not having adequate insurance coverage and that 14 million people would lose their coverage as rising costs led companies to dump it. Those effects are not in keeping with Mr. Obama's promises that if people liked the health insurance they had they could keep it, and that the reforms would provide universal coverage." Quotes-end.png
From ObamaCare's Ever-Rising Price Tag, by Karl Rove (The Wall Street Journal, June 3, 2010) (view)
Quotes-start.png It is now undeniable that Mr. Obama has imposed the largest tax increase in history on the middle class. Individuals who don't buy insurance will have to pay several hundred dollars, depending on income. The Congressional Budget Office says that 76% of those who pay the mandate tax will make less than 500% of the federal poverty level, estimated to be $24,000 for a family of four in 2016. That means 76% of the payers will earn less than $120,000 a year. Quotes-end.png
From It's Up to the Voters Now, by The Wall Street Journal editorial board (The Wall Street Journal, June 29, 2012) (view)
Quotes-start.png It is more than a little worrisome that the IRS is charged with the enforcement of Obamacare. The IRS union gave more than $1 million to Democrats over the past two election cycles. Conservatives are justified in worrying about the IRS being in charge of their health care. Quotes-end.png
From Obamacare ‘is still unconstitutional’ one year after Supreme Court approval, by Rand Paul (The Washington Times, June 28, 2013) (view)
Quotes-start.png Small businesses will bear the brunt of a health insurance tax totaling $90 billion from 2014 to 2020, and $200 billion to $300 billion from 2021 to 2030. Big businesses, labor unions and governments are exempt. Because companies with more than 50 workers will be required to provide coverage, the law's employer mandate effectively tells small businesses, "Do not hire more than 49 employees." Quotes-end.png
From Mandate ends vital freedoms, by Dan Danner (USA Today, June 28, 2012) (view)
Quotes-start.png The Association of American Medical Colleges projects that two years from now — 18 months into the ObamaCare era — there will be a shortage of 30,000 primary care doctors, ballooning to nearly 70,000 within a decade. The likelihood of ever catching up seems slim. Mr. Packham’s research found that primary care visits in Nevada could surge by as many as 280,000 appointments per year under ObamaCare. Quotes-end.png
From ObamaCare looms, by Las Vegas Review-Journal editorial board (Las Vegas Review-Journal, June 26, 2013) (view)
Quotes-start.png Whether it's the 2011 repeal of the health law's tax-reporting requirement, or the bipartisan push to repeal its medical-device tax, or this Bay State fix, the political template has looked the same. Vulnerable Democrats, under pressure from home-state constituencies, want to look willing to "fix" or "improve" parts of a wildly unpopular health law that they supported. This has provided Republicans with the opportunity to recruit them for bipartisan votes to repeal parts of the act. Quotes-end.png
From John Kerry's ObamaCare Boondoggle, by Kimberley Strassel (The Wall Street Journal, June 21, 2013) (view)
Quotes-start.png Beginning in 2014, the "Employer Responsibility" provision would require employers with 50 or more workers to provide health coverage or pay a penalty. Not just any coverage, but a package of expensive benefits that the president deems "essential." In most states, that requirement would add $1.79 per hour to the cost of a full-time employee. That would amount to the biggest hike in labor costs in American history. Employers in New York and New Jersey, where health plans are the most expensive, would be hit even harder. There, according to economist James Sherk of the Heritage Foundation, the employer requirement would add more than $2 an hour to the cost of employing someone. Quotes-end.png
From The Economy Will Get A Boost If The Court Overturns ObamaCare, by Betsy McCaughey (Investor's Business Daily, June 21, 2012) (view)
Quotes-start.png The White House claims that the burden placed on the health care system by the uninsured justifies coercing them into action. The “class of activity” that undermines the regulation of the “interstate market” in health care is inactivity. Since there is no interstate commerce to regulate, the government mandates it. That’s why Obamacare isn’t just a threat to the private health care system. It strikes at the very foundation of our nation. Quotes-end.png
From Obamacare’s unlimited power, by The Washington Times editorial board (The Washington Times, June 2, 2011) (view)
Quotes-start.png "As costs and regulations rise, fewer of those "grandfathered" plans will survive. They'll cover fewer workers -- and government-designed plans will cover more. Apparently, bureaucrats will do what the ObamaCare law didn't to ensure that government takes over health care. If the administration holds to the regulatory course it's setting, ObamaCare in practice will be an even bigger disaster than it appeared to be on paper." Quotes-end.png
From ObamaCare: The ruse exposed..., by Pittsburgh Tribune-Review editorial board (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, June 19, 2010) (view)
Quotes-start.png "Tucked stealthily into the 2,400-page health-reform law is a punishing tax-filing mandate that has nothing to do with medical care but is sure to make business owners sick to their stomachs. The law vastly expands the requirements for businesses to report virtually all payments for goods and services. What's this doing in health-care legislation? Why, to raise revenues to offset its gargantuan cost, of course." Quotes-end.png
From ...True to forms, by Pittsburgh Tribune-Review editorial board (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, June 19, 2010) (view)
Quotes-start.png Requiring employers to buy health insurance for some workers makes them more expensive, at least in the short run. Particularly vulnerable are low-skilled workers, notes economist Diana Furchtgott-Roth of the Manhattan Institute. Because the employer mandate exempts firms with fewer than 50 workers, there’s a huge incentive for firms to stop at 49, she says. Quotes-end.png
From The folly of Obamacare, by Robert J. Samuelson (The Washington Post, June 17, 2012) (view)
Quotes-start.png "This reality is settling in at businesses across America. A Midwestern contractor told me he pays $588,000 for health insurance for 70 employees, contributing up to $8,400 a year for a family's coverage. If he stops providing health insurance, he'll pay $2,000 per employee in fines, and the first 40 employees are exempt from fines altogether." Quotes-end.png
From The Bad News About ObamaCare Keeps Piling Up, by Karl Rove (The Wall Street Journal, June 17, 2010) (view)
Quotes-start.png The history of entitlement programs is certainly not encouraging. Congress tends to overpromise and underfund. Medicare, for example, cost nine times more in 1990 than was expected in 1965 ($109 billion, instead of the $12 billion originally estimated). We don’t believe that the federal government has gotten any better at cost estimates or resisting the temptation to expand programs. Quotes-end.png
From Coming soon: A bigger, costlier Obamacare, by Ron Johnson, Douglas Holtz-Eakin (The Washington Post, June 16, 2011) (view)
Quotes-start.png Even if one were disinclined to care much about other people’s moral beliefs, there’s something disconcerting about the conga linecrowd determining what constitutes religious enough. Those deemed not truly religious will be denied conscience protections, as has already occurred. Among other consequences, many charitable organizations that have served society’s least fortunate will have to shutter their doors, inviting new legions to rely on taxpayer-funded social services. Quotes-end.png
From IRS taxing of tanning beds and other Obamacare absurdities, by Kathleen Parker (The Washington Post, June 11, 2013) (view)
Quotes-start.png One McKinsey analyst reported to business leaders earlier that some 80 million to 100 million Americans who currently have some form of health care coverage will have to change plans after 2014. So much for Barack Obama’s promise of being able to keep the plan you like. Quotes-end.png
From Opting out of Obamacare, by Boston Herald editorial board (Boston Herald, June 10, 2011) (view)
Quotes-start.png If the McKinsey survey is any guide, the more Americans learn about ObamaCare, the less they like it. This wasn’t the first indication of trouble with the health-care overhaul. Its backers claimed 400,000 people with pre-existing conditions — usually uninsurable under the current system — would flock to ObamaCare’s high-risk pools. Only 18,000 had signed up by March. Quotes-end.png
From More bad news for ObamaCare, by Steve Huntley (Chicago Sun-Times, June 10, 2011) (view)
Quotes-start.png Diane Cohen, the institute’s senior attorney, demonstrates that the IPAB is doubly anti-constitutional. It derogates the powers of Congress. And it ignores the principle of separation of powers: It is an executive agency, its members appointed by the president, exercising legislative powers over which neither Congress nor the judiciary can exercise proper control. Quotes-end.png
From Government by the ‘experts’, by George F. Will (The Washington Post, June 10, 2011) (view)
Quotes-start.png HHS promises to develop "a more robust verification process," some day, but the result starting in October may be millions of people getting subsidies who don't legally qualify. This would mean huge increases in ObamaCare spending. Some of these folks could be fraudsters, much as 21% to 25% of Earned Income Tax Credits flow to people who aren't eligible, according to the Treasury inspector general. The same error rate for ObamaCare would amount to as much as $250 billion in improper payments in its first decade. Quotes-end.png
From ObamaCare's 'Liar' Subsidies, by The Wall Street Journal editorial board (The Wall Street Journal, July 8, 2013) (view)
Quotes-start.png "President Obama said earlier this year that the health-care bill that Congress passed three months ago is "essentially identical" to the Massachusetts universal coverage plan that then-Gov. Mitt Romney signed into law in 2006. No one but Mr. Romney disagrees. As events are now unfolding, the Massachusetts plan couldn't be a more damning indictment of ObamaCare. The state's universal health-care prototype is growing more dysfunctional by the day, which is the inevitable result of a health system dominated by politics." Quotes-end.png
From The Massachusetts Health-Care 'Train Wreck', by Joseph Rago (The Wall Street Journal, July 7, 2010) (view)
Quotes-start.png The delay of the employer mandate may create political pressure to delay the more important individual mandate as well, on grounds that ordinary people shouldn’t face the fines for not buying government-mandated coverage that businesses have been spared. Certainly, the maneuver on the employer mandate is a painful concession and a signal of weakness. Now everyone can now agree: Implementation of the president’s proudest achievement is troubled, at best. Quotes-end.png
From The rapid collapse of ObamaCare, by Rich Lowry (New York Post, July 6, 2013) (view)
Quotes-start.png And it's revealing that the average hours worked in retail have fallen to 31.4 from 31.6 hours a week over the past year, and the average hospitality job now is still 26.1 hours a week. One explanation is almost surely ObamaCare. The law requires employers with more than 50 workers to provide health insurance to all employees or pay a $2,000 penalty per worker. The law also defines a full-time job as 30 hours a week. All of this gives businesses that operate on thin margins—and that's most businesses—an incentive to hire more part-time workers. Quotes-end.png
From Part-Time America, by The Wall Street Journal editorial board (The Wall Street Journal, July 6, 2013) (view)
Quotes-start.png As the employer insurance marketplace starts to crumble, President Obama continues to say of ObamaCare, “this thing is working.” Tens of millions of employees will soon find out what “working” really means when they are kicked off the health plans they were promised they could keep. Quotes-end.png
From How ObamaCare will kill job-based plans, by Sally Pipes (New York Post, July 3, 2014) (view)
Quotes-start.png This is probably an admission that Treasury's information technology isn't ready to process and cross-check paperwork across the 5.7 million businesses in America, especially the pass-through S-corps and partnerships that file under the individual tax code. This is more than a typical government snafu. It relates directly to the design of the law, which was thoughtlessly written and rammed through Congress with instructions for the bureaucracy to figure it all out. Quotes-end.png
From Employer Mandate? Never Mind, by The Wall Street Journal editorial board (The Wall Street Journal, July 3, 2013) (view)
Quotes-start.png Add sticker shock to the Democrats' concerns, with recent news of large ObamaCare-driven premium increases in the individual market (for policyholders who do not get coverage through an employer). We were promised that if we liked our current insurance plan, we could keep it. States like Indiana (projected premium increase of 76%), Ohio (88%) and others confirm what many already knew—we cannot keep our current plan if it does not meet what the administration considers "acceptable," and moving to one that meets the ObamaCare requirements can be quite expensive. Quotes-end.png
From Second-Term Nightmare, by Pete du Pont (The Wall Street Journal, July 27, 2013) (view)
Quotes-start.png "Effectively addressing health care deficiencies in our country should start with repealing Obamacare, then stopping discrimination against people who can't buy insurance through their employer and, finally, by allowing competition in insurance across state lines." Quotes-end.png
From Health care reform, after Obamacare, by The Orange County Register editorial board (The Orange County Register, July 27, 2010) (view)
Quotes-start.png Nor is the ObamaCare data hub, which will connect seven other huge federal databases, anywhere near ready. More than a dozen GOP lawmakers complained in a letter to HHS that the hub "has not been tested" and that it's unclear whether it will be "able to protect sensitive health and taxpayer information." Rep. Patrick Meehan, R-Pa., said that without such protections, the Hub would be a "honey pot" for hackers and identity thieves. Quotes-end.png
From The Case for Stopping ObamaCare Has Never Been Stronger, by Investor's Business Daily editorial board (Investor's Business Daily, July 26, 2013) (view)
Quotes-start.png Obamacare thwarts potential hiring in three ways, as the Heritage study points out. The law excludes firms with fewer than 50 employees from its mandates, so companies aren’t going to expand and hire if it means exceeding that cap. Companies that employ more than 50 workers already will see their costs rise as they must provide insurance that meets the government-defined minimum requirements or pay a penalty. The biggest problem of all, of course, is the uncertainty Obamacare creates. Quotes-end.png
From Obamacare, a death panel for jobs, by Nita Ghei (The Washington Times, July 26, 2011) (view)
Quotes-start.png Health-care premiums are going up. Many businesses have stopped hiring, to avoid reaching the limit of 50 full-time employees where they are required to offer health benefits. Those businesses that are hiring often take on part-time workers to stay under the full-time cap. Older individuals seeking work are finding that companies are reluctant to take a chance on their potential health-care costs. These are just a few of the problems resulting from a program that wasn't thought through before it was rushed into law Quotes-end.png
From Unworkable ObamaCare, by Bobby Jindal, Scott Walker (The Wall Street Journal, July 25, 2013) (view)
Quotes-start.png "Either the mandate is a tax, as the Obama Justice Department now asserts in court, and President Barack Obama lied to the American people -- loudly, firmly, repeatedly, as he worked to get this massive federal power grab enacted -- or else Barack Obama was telling the truth last year, the penalty is not a tax, and the Justice Department (directly answerable to the president) is lying in court today when it asserts no one can challenge the mandate because it falls under the wide-ranging "taxing authority" ... that it's a tax. Someone's lying: either Barack Obama or Barack Obama." Quotes-end.png
From Health care lies, by Las Vegas Review-Journal editorial board (Las Vegas Review-Journal, July 23, 2010) (view)
Quotes-start.png That swings the door wide open for defrauding taxpayers. Think government programs are safe from such concerns? Think again. The Government Accountability Office estimates that, in 2011, Medicare and Medicaid made a whopping $50.7 billion in fraudulent payments. That same year, the combined annual profits of the nation’s 10 largest insurance companies were $13.7 billion. In other words, the government lost almost four times as much as private insurers made. Quotes-end.png
From Mandate Madness, by Jeffrey Anderson (The Weekly Standard, July 22, 2013) (view)
Quotes-start.png Although the Obama administration never tires of repeating this falsehood, the science does not support the claim that increased spending on preventive care reduces overall costs. The journal Health Affairs has studied the literature and concluded, “Over the four decades since cost-effectiveness analysis was first applied to health and medicine, hundreds of studies have shown that prevention usually adds to medical costs instead of reducing them. Medications for hypertension and elevated cholesterol, diet and exercise to prevent diabetes, and screening and early treatment for cancer all add more to medical costs than they save.” Quotes-end.png
From It Should All Be Free, by Mona Charen (National Review, July 22, 2011) (view)
Quotes-start.png In the individual market, the SCC asked for the rate for the most popular insurance plan for a 29-year-old male; a 45-year-old couple with two children; and a 60-year-old couple. For the small-group market, the SCC sought quotes for a business with eight 29-year-old male employees; a business with four male and four female employees, all 45; and eight 60-year-old female employees. Ready for the results? Brace yourself. Quotes-end.png
From Affordable Care Act - where’s the ‘affordable’ part?, by A. Barton Hinkle (Richmond Times-Dispatch, July 21, 2013) (view)

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