Officials in California want prime-time TV shows to help promote President Obama's healthcare law.
Outreach to television producers is part of the marketing plan adopted by California's insurance exchange — a new marketplace, created by the Affordable Care Act, where individuals and small businesses will be able to buy private insurance.
The exchange's public-relations plan says "individuals from California’s robust entertainment industry will be approached at the most senior levels" to promote the new marketplace and get people enrolled.
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The Obamacare 'Exchanges' Are Not "Marketplaces", The Daily Caller
Friday, March 01, 2013
Memo To The States' Governors and Attorney Generals: Go Churchill Or Go Home, TownHall.org
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
The left scored a knock-down with the president's re-election, but the fight isn't over if the conservatives opposed to the law get up off the canvas and fight on. Oklahoma has, and some states have joined them, though not yet in the courts. They should, and soon. Obamacare was nightmare before the election, and it is a nightmare still. The president's re-election was manifestly not about Obamacare, and the decision is not final and won't be until every good argument is made and every opportunity given the Supreme Court to review the law in full.
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CCHF Discusses Impact Of Election On Implementation of the ACA, CCHF.org
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
15 Reasons To Oppose Obama's Insurance Exchanges, Twila Brase, RN in CCHFreedom.org
Thursday, October 11, 2012
California Exchange Wants TV Shows To Tout Obama Healthcare Law, The Hill
Monday, September 24, 2012
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IRS Rewrites Obamacare To Increase Taxes, Center For Individual Freedom
Monday, September 17, 2012
First the Supreme Court rewrote President Barack Obama’s signature health reform law to save it from the Constitution. Now the Internal Revenue Service claims its new rule can interpret the law in a way that violates its text and history.
The latest outrage against common sense is an IRS rule finalized on May 23. The rule makes tax credits available to participants in federally run health insurance exchanges created under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare). But while Section 1311 of ObamaCare allows tax credits to certain people in state-run exchanges, Section 1321 – the section regulating federally run exchanges – does not.
Nevertheless, the new IRS rule specifies that tax credits will be available through exchanges “established under section 1311 or 1321” of ObamaCare.
By rewriting ObamaCare without statutory authorization, the IRS is engaging in an illegal power grab that will cost taxpayers billions.
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Obamacare: The Road to Repeal Starts in the States
Tuesday, August 07, 2012
States that have refused to implement the Obama health law have already blocked $80 billion of its new deficit spending. If more states follow suit, they can block the other $1.6 trillion and force Congress to repeal the law.
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D4PC "Morning Rounds", Monday, July 23, 2012
Monday, July 23, 2012
Welcome to D4PC "Morning Rounds", your daily review of healthcare news and information from Washington, DC and around the nation. These briefings will keep you up to date on recent developments and our effort to replace the PPACA with patient-centered reforms that protect the doctor-patient relationship and preserve individual freedom of choice.
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Texas Will Not Implement Exchanges or Expand Medicare
Monday, July 16, 2012
Texas Govenror Rick Perry announced last week that Texas would not be implementing the Medicaid expansions of ObamaCare or create an ObamaCare exchange. As D4PC has previously explained, all of the people who will gain health insurnace under ObamaCare will do so either through a government program (Medicaid) or government subsidies (the exchanges) and not through market-based, patient-centered reforms that will lower costs and make insurance more afforable.
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Romney's Healthcare Land Mines, Hal Scherz, MD in TownHall.com
Thursday, July 12, 2012
The ACA fails to fix the basic problems that were promised if passed- high costs and access to care. It actually exacerbates these problems. There is little disagreement that America’s health care “system” was in need of reform, however, many of the “solutions” embedded in the ACA are concepts that are untested or have failed historically and in recent CMS demonstration projects.
Governor Romney can distance himself from President Obama on healthcare by developing a health system reform platform that relies on trust of the American consumers and their physicians, instead of erecting artificial barriers and obstacles that further erode the physician-patient relationship. A leader like Governor Romney with a lifetime of business experience is poised to collaborate with the working physicians of America to set a more hopeful and constructive healthcare course for the future.
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D4PC "Morning Rounds" Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Welcome to D4PC "Morning Rounds" your daily review of healthcare news and information from Washington, DC and around the nation. These briefings will keep you up to date on recent developments and our effort to replace the PPACA with patient-centered reforms that protect the doctor-patient relationship and preserve individual freedom of choice.
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Video: Michael Cannon Explains Why States States Should Forego Creation of an Exchange
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Michael Cannon of The CATO Institute explains the negative consequences of ObamaCare exchanges and why states should forego creating an exchange altogether. The exchanges are the avenue by which the federal government will be able to exercise absolute control over health care. The exchange will allow the federal government to regulate insurance, delivery (and potentially denial) of health care services, insurance policies as well as doctors. All of this will have a tremendously negative impact on patients.
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States Aren't Rushing to Set Up Exchanges
Thursday, June 07, 2012
According to a May article from Politico, the vast majority of states will not have ObamaCare exchanges in place by 2014. The article states: "Many insurance experts and health policy consultants predict only a dozen or so states will be ready to run exchanges on their own — and a few say that projection may be too sunny."
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WWCCD: What Will Chris Christie Do?
Thursday, May 10, 2012
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is facing a dilemma. He has until Thursday, May 10 to either veto or sign a bill into law that would create New Jersey's ObamaCare health insurance exchanges. Of course, if he does nothing the bill goes into effect automatically.
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No Obamacare Exchanges, Town Hall
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Though the oral arguments over the individual mandate and severability were encouraging, we cannot count on the Supremes to kill Obamacare. Opponents must keep fighting it on all fronts.
The most important front right now is to ensure that states do not create the health-insurance exchanges Obamacare needs in order to operate. Refusing to create exchanges is the most powerful thing states can do to take Obamacare down. Think of it as an insurance policy in case the Supreme Court whiffs.
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States Should Reject ObamaCare Exchanges
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Nicole Kaeding suggests in an article penned for The Daily Caller that states should reject establishing ObamaCare health insurance exchanges. She writes:
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D4PC "Morning Rounds", Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Welcome to D4PC "Morning Rounds", your daily review of healthcare news and information from Washington, DC and around the nation. These briefings will keep you up to date on recent developments and our effort to replace the PPACA with patient-centered reforms that protect the doctor-patient relationship and preserve individual freedom of choice.
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Dr. Jill Vecchio's Video Series: Part IV - State Exchanges and Employers
Thursday, March 08, 2012
D4PC's Dr. Jill Vecchio has produced a seven-part video series covering various aspects of ObamaCare and how the law will affect our patients and the practice of medicine. The covered topics include: (Part I) who will be covered; (Parts II and III) what are the costs; (Parts IV) state-based insurance exchanges and affects on employer sponsored coverage; (Part V) impact on doctors and patients and the doctor-patient relationship; (Part VI) the Constitutional issues; and (Part VII) ideas for real healthcare reform.
We encourage you to watch today's video - Part IV in the series - and to share the video with your friends, family and colleagues.
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Why is Governor Corbett (Pennsylvania) Promoting ObamaCare?
Monday, January 30, 2012
Dr. Nick Pandelidis, the Vice-President of D4PC's Pennsylvania chapter and health care policy director for the Pennsylvania Coalition for Responsible Government, has posed an important question about why Pennsylvania's new Governor, Tom Corbett, is seeking to implement ObamaCare through the creation of ObamaCare insurance exchanges. While many states have rejected the creation of the exchanges, Corbett has decided to push the exchange in his state.
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D4PC "Morning Rounds" Monday, January 16, 2012
Monday, January 16, 2012
Welcome to D4PC "Morning Rounds", your daily review of healthcare news and information from Washington, DC and around the nation. These briefings will keep you up to date on recent developments and our effort to replace the PPACA with patient-centered reforms that protect the doctor-patient relationship and preserve individual freedom of choice.
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IRS Taking Steps to Ignore Congress and Re-Write ObamaCare
Monday, January 09, 2012
Dr. Hal Scherz, President of D4PC, and Sally Pipes, of the Pacific Research Institute, have teamed together to writing a very informative article about how the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is trying to impermissibly ignore the obvious language of ObamaCare, and therefore the Constitutional prerogatives of Congress, and "rewrite" the law as it sees fit.
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ObamaCare Amounts to Several Constitutional Violations
Monday, December 05, 2011
The Daily Caller has a new article written by the CATO Institute's Ilya Shapiro that details the top ten constitutional violations of the Obama Administration. Four of those named involved ObamaCare, including: (1) the individual mandate: (2) Medicaid coercion; (3) the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB); and (4) ObamaCare waivers issued by HHS.
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D4PC "Morning Rounds" Friday, November 18, 2011
Friday, November 18, 2011
Welcome to D4PC "Morning Rounds", your daily review of healthcare news and information from Washington, DC and around the nation. These briefings will keep you up to date on recent developments and our effort to replace the PPACA with patient-centered reforms that protect the doctor-patient relationship and preserve individual freedom of choice.
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