by Jane Richey | Jan 20, 2014 | Health Care
Economist John Goodman, who warned last October that Obamacare could plunge into a “death spiral” if not enough young, healthy people signed up for coverage, says that danger is now “significant” following news that the Obama administration failed to hit its young...
by Jane Richey | Jan 20, 2014 | Health Care
If the ObamaCare contractor brought on last week to fix the back-end of the HealthCare.gov portal doesn’t finish the build-out by mid-March the healthcare law will be jeopardized, according to a procurement document posted on a federal website. It says insurers could...
by Jane Richey | Jan 17, 2014 | Health Care
A security expert who tests flaws on private websites testified before the House Science Committee on Thursday that healthcare.gov, the federal exchange website for Obamacare, is “not secured today, and nothing has really changed” since he last testified before...
by Jane Richey | Jan 15, 2014 | Health Care
The administration said it would extend the Pre-Existing Conditions Insurance Plan (PCIP), slated to end Jan. 31, until March 15. “As part of our continuing effort to help smooth consumers’ transition into Marketplace coverage, we are allowing those covered by PCIP...
by Jane Richey | Jan 14, 2014 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Health Care
In their first three months of operation, the federal and state health-insurance marketplaces created under the Affordable Care Act—AKA Obamacare–have signed up 5,572,305 people who qualify to get federal funding for their health care, either through Medicaid or...