by Jane Richey | Jan 13, 2014 | Health Care
Only 24 percent of Obama-Care’s enrollees are young people, well below the 40 percent benchmark set by the administration for the critical 18- to 34-year-old age group. Older people, who are typically more expensive to cover, made up the single largest group of...
by Jane Richey | Jan 13, 2014 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment
A story in USA Today about the proposed rules suggests that liberal groups have the same concerns as conservative groups, since the rules would hamper voter registration efforts. A spokesman for the NAACP, and the president of a liberal umbrella group, denounced the...
by Jane Richey | Jan 11, 2014 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment
Saying the jobs report shows the Obama administration has more “work to do,” Thomas Perez said on CNBC that immigration reform, in addition to promise zones, was needed to jumpstart the economy. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the ranking member on the Senate...
by Jane Richey | Jan 11, 2014 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Roughly 347,000 Americans gave up looking for work in December, allowing progressives to claim a sharp drop in the formal unemployment rate during the month. The formal unemployment rate fell from 7.0 percent to 6.7 percent even though only about 74,000 extra people...
by Jane Richey | Jan 11, 2014 | Health Care
The Obama administration is cutting ties with contractor CGI Federal over its handling of the problem-plagued HealthCare.gov, months after the troubled Oct. 1 launch. The decision to move from CGI Federal to Accenture was confirmed Saturday by a statement from the the...