Study: ‘Cash for Clunkers’ created few jobs
The nearly $3 billion “Cash for Clunkers” program approved by Congress in 2009 did little to boost the environment and created few jobs, a new study released Wednesday found. A…
Politically connected banks got bigger bailouts
It should come as no surprise that politically connected banks received larger bailout loans from the federal government during the 2007 financial crisis than banks that spent less on lobbying…
Top Democrat: “We knew”
House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer conceded to reporters today that Democrats knew people would not be able to keep their current health care plans under Obamacare and expressed qualified contrition…
A black box in your car? A source of tax revenue?
The devices would track every mile you drive —possibly including your location — and the government would use the data to draw up a tax bill. As America’s road planners…
Obamacare’s problems go much deeper than the Web site
by Ezra Klein • Washington Post There’s been a rash of commentary from some on the left who’ve decided that the real problem with Obamacare isn’t the crippling technological issues…
Just a three weeks ago, ObamaCare was “settled law.” What happened?
Democratic senators up for reelection in 13 months are now embracing, in their calls to delay Obamacare, the same themes as did the House Republicans and a few senators a…
10 Senate Democrats sign letter pushing for open enrollment extension
Editor’s Note: As the Republican’s final offer to avoid a government shutdown, they passed a bill that simply gave the same one year extension to every American that Obama had…
Michelle Obama’s Princeton classmate is executive at company that built expensive but awful ObamaCare website
First Lady Michelle Obama’s Princeton classmate is a top executive at the company that earned the contract to build the failed Obamacare website. Toni Townes-Whitley, Princeton class of ’85, is…
Census Bureau: Means-Tested Gov’t Benefit Recipients Outnumber Full-Time Year-Round Workers
Americans who were recipients of means-tested government benefits in 2011 outnumbered year-round full-time workers, according to data released this month by the Census Bureau. There were 108,592,000 people in the…
Health insurance premiums will almost double in Wisconsin
Health-care premiums in Wisconsin will almost double under Obamacare, compared with their current rates, according to a report from the MacIver Institute. The state’s free-market think tank figured the average…
CBSNEWS: Government Website Underestimates Cost of Insurance
CBS News has uncovered a serious pricing problem with HealthCare.gov. It stems from the Obama administration’s efforts to improve its health care website. A new online feature can dramatically underestimate…
Feds instruct Blue Cross Blue Shield not to release exchange numbers
The Obama administration asked North Dakota’s largest health insurer not to publicize how many people have signed up for health insurance through a new online exchange, a company official says.…
Consumer Reports Says Stay Away from HealthCare.gov
Consumer Reports, which publishes reviews of consumer products and services, advised its readers to avoid the federal health-care exchange “for at least another month if you can.” “Hopefully that will…
ObamaCare is Failing Ahead of Schedule
by Ross Douthat • New York Times THIS is not the column about the Obamacare rollout I expected to write. If you had told me, months ago, that weeks…
Debt and Deficit are still the Problem
by Rand Paul During the shutdown, 85 percent of government stayed open despite the hoopla reported in the media. Government is now 100 percent open. Debt-ceiling deadlines have been averted,…