By Josh Withrow Today marked what was to be the final deadline for states to submit their plans for a state-federal partnership to set up a health insurance exchange in order to comply with ObamaCare. However, with 27 states currently refusing to set up their own exchange, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) [...]
by Jackie Bodnar Washington, DC – FreedomWorks applauds North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory’s announcement yesterday to resist a state health insurance exchange, leaving that task to the federal government. Governor McCrory’s decision to reject the state exchanges overturns the actions of the previous Governor, Bev Perdue, who had started the process of setting up a [...]
By Jackie Bodnar Utah is the 28th state to refuse to adopt a federal health care exchange Washington, DC- Following news that Utah Governor Gary Herbert walked away from negotiations with the Obama Administration to create a federally approved health care exchange in the state, FreedomWorks Vice President of Health Care Policy Dean Clancy issued [...]
By Josh Withrow Idaho is among the reddest of red states, and would seem to be an obvious frontrunner among the states resisting ObamaCare’s health care exchanges. Indeed, Idaho Governor C.L. “Butch” Otter has long been a vocal opponent of ObamaCare, and even signed an executive order banning his state’s employees from enforcing ObamaCare. And [...]
By Ryan Riebe In his second inaugural address on January 21, 2013, President Barack Obama stated that “we must make the hard choices to reduce the cost of health care and the size of our deficit.” With regard to health care, all indications are that the price of health insurance will increase as a result [...]
By Dan Anderson The more forgiving among us may feel some genuine pity for Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. On one hand, President Barack Obama loaded her department with the mammoth task of writing up the thousands of rules and regulations that will constitute the real weight of ObamaCare. On the other, he [...]
By Jackie Bodnar WASHINGTON, DC- Following news that the White House extended the February 15th deadline for states to adopt health care exchanges for a second time, this time indefinitely, FreedomWorks’ Vice President of Health Care Policy Dean Clancy commented: “The decision to postpone the Governors’ exchange deadlines is a silent defeat for the White [...]
By Loren Heal States should not implement health insurance exchanges as defined by Obamacare. There is no fiscal advantage to doing so. An exchange will not improve life for a state’s citizens, and there is great risk of political liability for officials responsible for an exchange. The House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Health held [...]
By Josh Withrow With 23 states (so far) refusing to set up health care exchanges to implement ObamaCare, the federal government is being forced to implement its own exchanges in these states instead. Since the ObamaCare law did not provide any funding to do this, observers have been wondering – “how are they going to [...]
By Dean Clancy USA Today, to “ObamaCare resisters”: ”Get with the program.” America’s grassroots, to USA Today (and the rest of the Establishment): ”NUTS!” Help us stop ObamaCare! Preserve your family’s health care freedom! Tell your state to say ”NUTS!” to the ObamaCare Exchange!