7 ObamaCare Failures This Week: September 16th – 23rd
We have just about one more week until ObamaCare’s exchanges come online. Yet the amount of bad news around this disastrous law has not subsided.
We’ve seen commercials featuring flying carrots, a major pharmacy altering their employees’ insurance, and a widely respected hospital cutting workers. ObamaCare: it’s just not what we were promised and now we can see the consequences firsthand.
Here now, is This Week In ObamaCare Failures: September 16th – 23rd:
1. Remember How Healthcare Was Supposed To Be Cheaper?
Graphic via Forbes
This headline from Forbes says it all. When running for president in 2008, then-Sen. Barack Obama promised that families would see their premiums decline by about $2,500 per year. Well, a new report from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services show the country will spend $621 billion more on healthcare than it would have without the law.
2. Once Praised By Obama, Cleveland Clinic Cutting Jobs
Four years ago, President Obama praised the Cleveland Clinic as a model for hospitals across the country. Now, with ObamaCare’s regulations looming, the famed hospital is cutting an unspecified number of employees. The layoffs were attributed to the need to cut $330 million in the next year.
3. Walgreens To Change Employees’ Health Plans
4. Welcome to ObamaCare University
The Department of Health and Human Services asked for videos that touting all the “great” things ObamaCare was doing for young people. We here at the NRCC decided to enter the contest and put together this video exploring how higher premiums and less access to your doctor is all the rage on college campuses.
5. Pennsylvania Business Limiting Employee Hours
Via Republican National Committee
6. Failure To Launch?
With a little more than a week to go until the ObamaCare exchanges are implemented, a Washington Post story this morning details how the marketplace for small businesses is already falling behind. Maryland has delayed their small business exchange until next year. In Washington, only one insurance company signed up to provide coverage—and it will only do so in certain areas. While officials across the country are warning of software glitches as the exchanges begin.
7. Taxpayers Funding ObamaCare Commercial That Features Flying Carrots
That’s an ad for Cover Oregon, the Oregon state agency charged with implementing ObamaCare. According to Northwest Watchdog, the commercial is part of a $3.2 million ad buy to try and convince Oregonians to sign up for the law’s exchanges. The only problem is that it says nothing about the exchanges, how to sign up, or even how they believe it would benefit them. That’s pretty telling. Instead of talking about the law, they’re strangely using a scene reminiscent of Cheech and Chong.