By Robert Romano On May 16, the Arizona Senate — supposedly controlled by Republicans — passed legislation that would expand Medicaid under the new health care law. The bill would cost taxpayers across the country $2.1 billion through 2019 and add more than 100,000 to government health care rolls in Arizona. Although she never campaigned on the idea when she [...]

In an unusual move, on April 24, Republican leadership pulled legislation from the floor of the House of Representatives that would have taken $3.6 billion from the Prevention and Public Health Fund in Obamacare, and used it to bail out the preexisting conditions insurance plan. In spite of having lower than expected enrollment, the preexisting conditions program has been overrun [...]

From our friends at the Club for Growth: KEY VOTE ALERT “NO” on PCIP Extension Bill (HR 1549)The Club for Growth urges all House members to vote “NO” on HR 1549, a bill designed to extend an ObamaCare program that has run out of money. Consideration of the bill is expected sometime next week. The vote on this plan will [...]

By Rick Manning — Is Obamacare at least partially behind last month’s disastrous job creation numbers? At least one prominent traditionally pro-Obama economic analyst, Mark Zandi, chief economist for Moody’s Analytics, thinks so saying on CNBC, “The retail trade number would be consistent not only with the payroll tax but, again, I think the health care reform may be having [...]

In this case, a picture speaks millions of words and over 20,000 pages of words! This is a comparison of the original ObamaCare bill against all of the government regulations that have been written because of it. (H/T Sen. McConnell’s press office)

By Robert Romano — In 2009, when Whole Foods CEO John Mackey in a Wall Street Journal oped compared the health care “public option” then under consideration by Congress to socialism — a nationalized economic system wherein the government owns the means of production — hardly anyone batted an eyelash. Sure, at the time, the left-wing site Daily Kos called [...]

By Adam Bitely — We are a little less than a year away from Obamacare’s individual mandate becoming the latest tax you will be forced to deal with and already there is trouble in the air with whether or not the law will work. The mandate says that you must purchase health insurance or else face a fee. That fee, [...]

By David Bozeman — We could make this a regular feature.  Just recently we profiled Papa John’s Pizza, whose founder and CEO remarked that Obamacare might force franchises to cut employee hours.  They, of course, have been enduring threats of boycotts and verbal spitballs from various precincts of the left.  Papa John, lest you didn’t know, is the modern-day version [...]

NRD Editor’s Note: This is the most current information as of 8:49 AM Eastern on January 4. By John Vinci — (Updated 1/4/2012 8:49am) Governors and other state officials, across the states, are deciding whether their state will establish a Health Insurance Exchange. The Department of Health and Human Services has given States until Friday, December 14, 2012 to decide. [...]

By John Vinci — Despite the states’ multiple requests for answers on Obamacare implementation, from September 2012 through most of November 2012, the Obama Administration published only one Obamacare regulation. It quickly became clear that Obama was holding back on regulations to avoid any potential pre-election controversy.  Many began predicting a deluge of regulations after the election. And they were [...]