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‘Forget About The Price Tag’ wins HHS grand prize for promoting Obamacare

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“The Department of Health and Human Services has crowned a YouTube video entitled ‘Forget About The Price Tag’ as the grand prize winner in a contest meant to encourage young people to sign up for Obamacare.  The video contest, announced in August — in partnership with a group called Young Invincibles — encouraged participants to produce clips filled with pro-Obamacare messaging.  HHS’s grand prize-winning video, announced Monday by the White House, features a young woman named Erin McDonald singing an Obamacare-loving version of Jessie J’s hit single, ‘Price Tag.’  McDonald won $2,000 for her efforts, according to the contest’s website.”

http://dailycaller.com/2013/12/04/not-a-joke-video-called-forget-about-the-price-tag-wins-hhs-grand-prize-for-promoting-obamacare/

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ObamaCare’s Latest Numbers Don’t Add Up. You Will Pay the Difference.

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“For ObamaCare to work, 40% of those buying healthcare insurance must be in the ‘rarely get sick’ age group of 18-34. Their money must fund the healthcare of the older buyers.  It turns out that only 28% are buying.  Forget www.healthcare.gov. The entire program is sinking statistically.  How many times does an unmarried male age 21-34 go to a physician? Six times. That means six times in the entire 13-year period.  Why will he buy health insurance? He won’t. ‘Most of them have zero health costs. In fact, the median health care spending for this group is exactly zero,’ said economist Douglas Holtz-Eakin, former head of the Congressional Budget Office.”

http://teapartyeconomist.com/2013/12/04/obamacares-latest-numbers-dont-add-will-pay-difference/

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Short-term fix eyed for another problem with U.S. healthcare website

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“The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has not yet finished building the part of the website that would transfer billions of dollars in subsidies for plan premiums and cost-sharing payments to insurance companies.  The administration is planning a ‘workaround’ for payments, said Daniel Durham, vice president for policy and regulatory affairs at America’s Health Insurance Plans.  Health plans will estimate how much they are owed, and submit that estimate to the government. Once the system is built, the government and insurers can reconcile the payments made with the plan data to ‘true up’ payments, he said.”

http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/12/04/usa-healthcare-payments-idINL2N0JJ00S20131204

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EU seeks ‘ban on all currently available e-cigarettes’

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“The EU wants all electronic cigarettes removed from shop shelves because they ‘normalise the action of smoking’.   The bid to ban e-cigarettes drew anger from suppliers in Britain, where some 1.3 million of the current 10 million smokers have switched to the electronic devices.  François Digard, mayor of Saint-Lo in La Manche region of Normandy passed a decree this month outlawing electronic cigarettes, after receiving several complaints from residents.  ‘The e-cigarette is not neutral in the immediate environment. With it emitting odour and a bit of smoke it can really bother some people,’ Mr Digard told local radio station France Bleu Cotentin.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/10481328/EU-seeks-ban-on-all-currently-available-e-cigarettes.html

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12 Medical marijuana miracles you should know about

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“2. This recent documentary follows a family trying to care for their daughter Charlotte who has Dravet Syndrome (a severe untreatable form of epilepsy). She also has attention deficit disorder. At 2 years old, her parents had tried all recommended meds and some of them nearly killed her. She was having 50 seizures a night. Sometimes, 300 a week! She was catatonic. Doctors wanted to put her into a medically induced coma. At 5 she managed to get a medical marijuana card in Colorado.  Upon starting her first dose of high CBD oil, her seizures stopped immediately, and there were no more seizures at all that day or night. She came out of her state and her parents got to meet her for the first time.”

http://www.weed-geek.com/12-medical-marijuana-miracles-you-should-know-about/

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ObamaCare Deadline Kicked Back for the First Time, But Not Tax Deadline

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“It’s official. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the government agency in charge of www.Healthcare.gov, has moved the deadline for signing up from December 15 to December 23.  This was not announced on the web page of the organization. It was made by a conference call to White House reporters.  The newly appointed head of the project, Jeffrey Zients, who has been on the job for a month, assures the public that ‘soon’ 50,000 people will be able to enroll at the same time. Soon. Any time now.  The agency says that it has no plans to move the deadline for imposing a tax for not having health care insurance beyond March 31, 2014. No plans at all.”

http://teapartyeconomist.com/2013/11/25/obamacare-deadline-kicked-back-first-time/

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Filibuster change clears way for White House to stack ObamaCare panel

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“President Obama will have an easier time filling the 15 slots on a controversial Medicare-cutting board, thanks to Harry Reid’s successful bid last week to overhaul the Senate’s filibuster rules.  The Senate Democratic leader, in a pre-holiday surprise, last week corralled Democrats to drastically change how the Senate deals with presidential nominees. Instead of taking 60 votes to confirm most appointees, it will now take just 51.  That means, as long as Democrats are in power, it smoothes the way for Obama to appoint people to the panel established under ObamaCare to hold down Medicare costs.”

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/11/26/reid-filibuster-overhaul-clears-way-for-white-house-to-stack-obamacare-panel/

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80 million with employer health plans could have coverage canceled

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“Almost 80 million people with employer health plans could find their coverage canceled because they are not compliant with ObamaCare, several experts predicted.  Their losses would be in addition to the millions who found their individual coverage cancelled for the same reason.   According to projections the administration itself issued back in July 2010, officials knew the impact of ObamaCare three years ago.  In fact, according to the Federal Register, its mid-range estimate was that by the end of 2014, 76 percent of small group plans would be cancelled, along with 55 percent of large employer plans. The reason behind the losses is that current plans don’t meet the requirements of ObamaCare.”

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/11/26/evidence-shows-obama-administration-predicted-tens-millions-would-lose-plans/

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ObamaCare slams smokers with sky-high premium costs that could backfire

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“ObamaCare may have backfired in its goal of making smoking so expensive that users quit, public health experts say, as sky-high insurance premiums force smokers to drop coverage altogether and lose smoking cessation programs along with it.  Unlike drug addicts, alcoholics, or the obese — all of whom represent higher-than-average medical costs — smokers are the only such group with a pre-existing condition that ObamaCare penalizes. It allows insurance companies to charge smokers up to 50 percent more than non-smokers for an identical policy.  Eleven states stepped in to prevent the surcharge, but a majority have not. In those, insurance providers will decide the surcharge.”

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/11/25/obamacare-policies-slam-smokers-could-backfire/

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Small business Obamacare online enrollment delayed a year

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“The Obama administration today announced a one year delay of online enrollment for small businesses looking to purchase health coverage through federal Obamacare exchanges, another high-profile setback for HealthCare.gov.  It’s the second delay for online small business enrollment, which the administration had said would begin this month.  The announcement just before Thanksgiving is the latest in a series of delays and miscalculations for the president’s signature domestic legislation. On July 2 — also just before a holiday —it delayed the employer mandate for a year. Small businesses with fewer than 50 workers are exempt from the requirement to cover them.”

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/online-shop-enrollment-delayed-by-one-year-100438.html

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