The increasing unaffordability of Affordable Health Care New evidence that forcing people to buy health insurance doesn't mean they will get health care. In fact, sometimes, the result is the opposite. Millions of Americans gained health insurance under Obamacare. But for millions more, their insurance costs much more and covers less. Preventive services may not […]
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Obamacare's rising costs out of reach for many
President Obama says that most Americans can find a health insurance option for $75 or less per month. Independent analyses for 2016 are painting a much more difficult picture for the average consumer. The average "Silver" plan premium (that most people have) costs about $300 a month. That's not the biggest problem, according to analysts. […]
Breaking Bad at a Federal Agency (and other reasons to watch Full Measure)
3 reasons to watch this week's Full Measure Breaking Bad at a federal agency: we'll dig into the discovery of a meth lab at the National Institute of Standards and Technology--and wait until you hear who was running it! The Obamacare Cadillac Tax on many health insurance plans offered through work is coming--and almost nobody […]
5 Reasons to Watch "Full Measure"
This Sunday: 1. Billions of your tax dollars fund the G.I. bill to pay for college military vets. So why are billions more potentially going to help students allegedly defrauded by for-profit colleges? 2. Scott Thuman tracks the failing Obamacare non-profit co-ops to Nevada as more than a half million are bumped off their insurance plans […]
For-Profit College Scams? Full Measure This Week
Reasons to watch Full Measure this Sunday: We investigate for-profit colleges that allegedly prey on military troops. Your tax dollars may end up paying for the fraud. The report will feature a soldier left feeling cheated and in debt; and interviews with Sen. Dick Durbin, a whistleblower who worked at one for profit college, and an advocate for the […]
Illegal Immigration: 3 reasons to watch Full Measure Sunday
The news media is full of stories about deserving illegal immigrants who come to the U.S. and are law-abiding contributors to society. But there's a flip side to illegal immigration and it's not well covered in the news media: tens of thousands of illegal immigrants committing serious crimes - including murdering American citizens - on […]
Obamacare: Republicans Can't Win For Losing?
If the plaintiffs win the current Affordable Care Act (ACA) case before the U.S. Supreme Court, King v. Burwell, millions of Americans who bought health insurance through the federal marketplace or “exchange” will lose the federal tax dollars they’re getting to help buy their policies. That’s because the Court would have ruled the ACA only allowed […]
The Not-So-Public Business of HealthCare.gov
In 2009, when President Obama ordered federal agencies to be more open and err on the side of releasing material to the public, this can't be what anyone had in mind: thousands of pages of HealthCare.gov public business conducted via email by public officials yet somehow deemed so sensitive, so secret in nature, that we […]
