Tag: Affordable Care Act
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Dr. Oz Provides White House Press Briefing
by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 2, 2026) — At approximately 1:15 p.m. EDT, CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz opened the White House press briefing. The Trump administration has been calling on administrators and cabinet members to deliver briefings since White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt went on maternity leave last month. The TrumpRX initiative, Oz said,…
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It is Not Affordable to Vote Democrat
by Jeff Crouere, ©2025 (Dec. 7, 2025) — The political buzzword today is “affordability.” It is supposedly the reason the Democrats did so well in November elections and cut the margin of the GOP victory in a conservative Tennessee congressional district last week. The pundits claim Americans are upset at the “affordability” crisis facing the…
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Health Policy Reform Needs a Joint Congressional Committee
by William L. Kovacs, ©2025 (Nov. 24, 2025) — The recent government shutdown drew a bright line between the permanent health-care subsidies that benefit higher-income workers and union members and the temporary, annually renewed subsidies available to lower-income Americans. More than a century after Teddy Roosevelt’s Bull Moose Party first placed national health insurance on…
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From Sickcare to Wellcare: What Effective Deregulation in Healthcare Really Looks Like
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (May 31, 2025) — The American healthcare system is bloated, over-medicalized, and trapped in a regulatory framework that incentivizes illness instead of health. While the nation spends nearly 20% of its GDP on healthcare, we rank last among peer nations in virtually every major health outcome: chronic disease burden,…
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The Sad Images of a Humiliated Commander-in-Chief
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2022 (Apr. 6, 2022) — There comes a point in time when humiliation of a senior citizen becomes elder abuse. That point came this week, when the Second Usurper in Chief (“SUC”) appeared at a White House event to observe the 12-year marking of the passage of the comically-mislabeled “Affordable Care Act,”…
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What Will Trump’s Replacement for Obamacare Look Like?
“TRUMPCARE” OR SOMETHING ELSE? by Contributor (Mar. 31, 2017) — The Affordable Care Act, or ACA, while full of good intentions, was a contradictory piece of legislation in many ways. Its many mandates on the health insurance plan priced many out of private health insurance, swelling the rolls of Medicaid and Medicare. The health insurance…
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Reports: Obamacare Replacement Bill Pulled from House Floor
PRESS CONFERENCE ANNOUNCED FOR 4:00 P.M. by Sharon Rondeau (Mar. 24, 2017) — Multiple sources are reporting that a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as “Obamacare,” has been pulled from the House floor at President Trump’s request. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan is…
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The Solution to Healthcare Reform
“TOUGH TALK YET WRONG POLICY” by Tom DeWeese, American Policy Center, ©2017 (Mar. 8, 2017) — The Republican leadership in Congress today rolled out their replacement for Obamacare. This legislation goes in the wrong direction from what President Trump promised on the campaign trail. The main reason healthcare costs are skyrocketing as quality of service…
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Is Trump Spilling the Beans on the Obama Regime?
ARPAIO CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANT CLAIMED GOVERNMENT SPYING ON TRUMP YEARS AGO by Sharon Rondeau (Mar. 4, 2017) — On Saturday morning, President Donald J. Trump tweeted that former White House occupant Barack Hussein Obama was involved in wiretapping his activities prior to the November 8, 2016 election. The claims were widely discussed on the Fox News…
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The Clock is Ticking on GOP Congress
“NO MORE EXCUSES” by Jeff Crouere, ©2017 (Mar. 3, 2017) — In early 2009, conservative activists starting meeting across the country to organize the first Tea Party rallies and express their opposition to the liberal agenda of President Barack Obama. Activists were most concerned about the biggest component of the President’s agenda: the socialized healthcare…
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Protesting for Dollars (RR)
“NOTHING BUT A LIE” by OPOVV, ©2017 (Feb. 27, 2017) — “Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to ‘Pulse of the Nation,’ the television show that entertains as well as informs. As you can see, we’re back on our corner, under the umbrella, across from the railroad station, about to waylay this young woman. Excuse…
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The 3 Most Confusing IRS Tax Penalties
“NOW IS THE CRUCIAL TIME” by Chloe Anagnos, Tax Revolution Institute, ©2017 (Jan. 24, 2017) — The federal tax code is 187 times longer than it was a century ago, according to the accounting firm Wolters Kluwer, CCH, which has analyzed it since 1913. Since 1984, when the tax code was 26,300 pages, it has…
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The Solution to Healthcare Reform
“IT’S CALLED ‘FREE ENTERPRISE’” by Tom DeWeese, ©2017, American Policy Center (Jan. 10, 2017) — As the Republicans in Congress struggle to present a workable replacement to Obamacare, the solution is staring them in the face. It’s called free enterprise. The only reason we need massive insurance programs today is because of government meddling in…
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How Politics Have Impacted Healthcare in the Last Decade
WHAT WILL BECOME OF “OBAMACARE?” by Contributor, ©2017 (Jan. 4, 2017) — When it comes to healthcare administration jobs, much of what you do is probably dependent upon who happens to be sitting in the Oval Office at any given time. There is no doubt that healthcare is largely influenced by party affiliations, as is…
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Clinton Spoke of “Influence” on Chief Justice Roberts’ Obamacare Decision
“INFLUENCED” BY AMICUS BRIEFS, OR SOMETHING ELSE? by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 12, 2016) — In an email released by WikiLeaks dated February 14, 2016, one of Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s strategists provided to several others a summary of public statements made by the candidate about the importance of nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court.…
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Pro-Clinton Operative: U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice “Scared Off” Before 2015 Obamacare Ruling Issued
“NEGATIVE POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES” by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 11, 2016) — On Thursday, in an interview with Maricopa County Cold Case Posse lead investigator Mike Zullo, PPSimmons News & Ministry Network (PNN) radio host Carl Gallups stated that emails released over the last five weeks by the open-government organization Wikileaks contain evidence that U.S. Supreme Court…
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Will a Real “Investigation” Take Place at Walter Reed…
OR IS IT ALL A SMOKESCREEN AT TAXPAYER EXPENSE? by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 15, 2016) — The Power of Attorney for a U.S. Army soldier isolated from his family through an unexpected hospitalization at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC) on September 29 has been told that a “Mr. Richard Little and the Inspector…
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The Masses Need a Course in Economics, Capital and Freedom
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2016, President, NARLO (Sep. 4, 2016) — Let’s start out with some simple, undeniable truths: 1. Only the profits from private enterprise create income, which can be taxed by government. 2. Government can only create jobs, or pay for social services, using the money from the…
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When Our Government Became a Completely Criminal Enterprise
“CLEAR BATTLE LINES HAVE BEEN DRAWN” by Michael Gaddy, ©2016, blogging at The Rebel Madman (Jul. 18, 2016) — By legal definition, the government of this country has been a criminal enterprise since April of 1865. When the Confederate States capitulated, “Just” government as defined in our Declaration of Independence ceased to exist in this…
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Convenient Chaos
“STRONG, VIGILANT, ACTIVE AND BRAVE” CITIZENS NEEDED by RoseAnn Salanitri, TPATH Contributor, ©2016 (Jul. 14, 2016) — The current administration has been riddled with suspicion for many clear-thinking people. At this point in history, some of those suspicions have proven to be well-justified and others remain unrealized. While the motives of Mr. Obama are still…