More States 'Just Say No' To Obamacare Insurance Exchanges.  As I and others have pointed out before, any state that creates an ObamaCare insurance exchange is getting suckered into footing the bill for a federal program.  The latest state to reject this scam is New Jersey, whose governor just vetoed a state-run exchange proposed by his legislature.

States Give ObamaCare A Massive Vote Of No Confidence.  If ObamaCare is such a great idea, why are so many governors — including several Democrats — refusing to play along?  What do they know that the administration isn't telling the rest of us?  So far, not one part of ObamaCare has worked as planned.

If ObamaCare is such a great deal ... why aren't more states going for it?  Maybe they know a bad deal when they see it.  Partisan politics can't explain all of the reluctance, especially not with the Democratic governors who are balking at the plan.  The unfunded liabilities in Medicaid expansion alone in the outer years have to be daunting, especially for states who already can't cover their current obligations.

Most Governors Refuse to Set Up Health Exchanges.  The Obama administration said Friday [12/14/2012] that more than half the states had rejected its pleas to set up their own health insurance exchanges, dealing a setback to President Obama's hopes that Republicans would join a White House campaign to provide health insurance to all Americans.

Only 15 States Establish Obamacare Exchanges.  State officials are very smart not to set up their own exchanges since any costs beyond what the Feds offer to help pay is on their taxpayers' dimes.  Moreover, since the Obama Administration has centralized control of setting minimum coverage standards — see the Free Birth Control Rule — the flexibility of states to regulate in this area is severely compromised.

Governor Says PA. Won't Set Up Health Exchange.  Pennsylvania will not set up its own health care exchange under the federal Affordable Care Act, at least not for now, Gov. Tom Corbett said Wednesday [12/12/2012], putting the state on a course to join others led by Republicans that will let President Barack Obama's administration run its exchange.

Four and Counting: Another State to Consider Obamacare Nullification.  Since the Supreme Court rendered its opinion on the constitutionality of a mandatory federal health care system last summer, many Americans consider the matter settled.  But others recognize that despite the pronouncement of five robed federal employees, the Constitution still does not delegate Congress the power to create and run a health care system for all 300-plus million Americans.

Don't Make an Exchange.  The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was a milestone in many ways, marking previously uncharted territory in federal arrogance and overreach.  As health-insurance policy goes, it promises to prove catastrophic, but its constitutional implications are more worrisome still in that it is among the most insidious attempts yet to reduce the states to mere administrative subdivisions of the federal government.  Led by Oklahoma, many states have pushed back by declining to comply with the law's demand that states create health-insurance exchanges.

A Resistance Movement Rises Against ObamaCare.  With the election over and no chance President Obama will sign legislation repealing the law, implementation is proceeding.  But the ObamaCare Resistance Movement has begun.

The Sebelius Coverup.  Many states are wisely signaling that they aren't interested in doing the Obama administration's bidding on Obamacare.  As a result, many if not most of Obamacare's insurance exchanges — the heart of the beast — will have to be set up and run by the Obama administration at the federal level.

ObamaCare: 21 States Reject Exchanges On Cost, Rules.  ObamaCare's subsidized insurance exchanges are supposed to be up and running in little more than a year, putting a key piece of the federal health care law into action.  But it's unclear that will happen, especially with a growing number of states saying they don't want the cost and regulatory headaches.

Michigan Joins Growing List of States Not Gullible Enough to Implement an ObamaCare Exchange.  A key committee in the Michigan legislature has voted down a proposal to create one of ObamaCare's health insurance "exchanges."  The Speaker of the Michigan House pronounced a state-run Exchange dead.

Hope and Exchange.  Liberals wanted government to re-engineer the entire health-care system and rammed the Affordable Care Act through on a party-line vote, not stopping to wonder whether it would work.  Now that implementation is proving to be harder than advertised, they're blaming the states for not making their jobs easier.

Could Oklahoma unravel Obamacare?  With the judicial and political options for voiding Obamacare now apparently off the table, the final hope to defeat the DMV-ization of the best medical system on the planet may be the vast law's inherent contradictions.  Hastily and sloppily put together, there are loopholes in the law that may be big enough to drive all of Oklahoma through.  But only if Oklahoma's elected officials continue to exercise their options under the law not to implement certain policies.

Will GOP Governors Really Try "Nullifying" Obamacare?  After a majority of Americans reelected President Obama on November 6, ensuring that his signature health care reform remains what even House Speaker John Boehner acknowledged is "the law of the land," several Republican governors — Rick Scott (FL), Bobby Jindal (LA), Sam Brownback (KS), Rick Perry (TX), Nikki Haley (SC), Nathan Deal (GA) and Robert McDonnell (VA) — announced they would nonetheless refuse to implement the state-based health care marketplace "exchanges" that are key to reducing health care costs and expanding access.

Will GOP governors kill ObamaCare?  President Obama's health law survived the Supreme Court, but some Republican governors who have long opposed ObamaCare say they won't implement any of it.

The States Resist Obamacare.  One of the few bright spots in the Supreme Court's ruling on Obamacare was its 7-2 decision striking down the Obama administration's attempt to blackmail states into going along with a massive and costly expansion of Medicaid.

States are Resisting Obamacare.  After the Roberts Court handed down the Obamacare decision, people in the states immediately taking steps to reject the act — and what they see as a supreme court ruling in violation of the Constitution.  As we reported last week, John Lynch, the Democratic Governor of New Hampshire, signed into law HB1297.  The new law declares, "No New Hampshire state agency, department, or political subdivision shall plan, create, participate in or enable a state-based exchange for health insurance under the Act, or contract with any private entity to do so."  A number of governors are lining up to follow New Hampshire's lead.

Georgia Legislature, Governor Deal: Nullify Obamacare!  As Thomas Jefferson and James Madison advised — when the federal government violates the constitution, it's up to US — in our states — to stand up and say NO.  To the Affordable Care Act — we say Nullify It!

Maine's Governor LePage Refuses To Implement Obamacare Exchanges.  Maine Governor Paul LePage issued a letter yesterday [11/15/2012] to Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, declaring that Maine will not implement the healthcare exchanges created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

LePage Issues Letter to Feds: No Obamacare Exchanges for Maine.  Because the guidance issued in the August 13, 2012, request of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is not legally binding, the State of Maine will not be submitting a Declaration Letter.  Instead, Gov. LePage, in a letter to U.S. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, noted that the State of Maine has repeatedly stated that the law has severe legal problems, is bad policy, and overreaches into the lives and pocketbooks of fellow Americans.

Montana Voters Nullify Obamacare Mandates.  The "Montana Health Care Freedom Act" otherwise known as Referendum 122, prohibits the state and federal governments from requiring the purchase of health insurance or imposing any penalty, tax, fee or fine on those who do not purchase health insurance.  The prohibition does have some restrictions, but the good thing about this [is] these rules are being set by the state of Montana, not the the Federal Government.

Carts, Horses, and Secession.  Asking the White House to comment on the secession of one or more states won't move the President, Congress, the courts, or the military. But it is symbolic of the exhaustion many people feel as they watch the crony political class squander their treasure and their liberty.

Perry Tells Feds Texas Will Not Set Up Health Care Exchange.  Texas Gov. Rick Perry officially notified the federal government on Thursday that the state will not set up an exchange to help people buy health insurance.

Republican governors decide against setting up ObamaCare insurance markets.  Several Republican governors, in what could be their last symbolic stand against ObamaCare, announced Friday that they will not set up a state-based marketplace for selling health insurance.  The governors of Wisconsin and Ohio joined Texas Gov. Rick Perry and others in confirming that they will not establish so-called "health insurance exchanges," which are set to launch in January 2014.

York: GOP governors brace for fights over Obamacare, drilling.  As they hold their annual meeting here in Las Vegas, Republican governors are quick to point out that they now preside in 30 states, with a population of about 180 million people.

Will multiple states' non-cooperation be too much for ObamaCare?  The answer, of course, is an emphatic yes, since by its very nature, ObamaCare is too much for ObamaCare, but individual states' freedom to opt out of designing their own state-specific health insurance exchanges is turning out to be yet another flaw in the oh-so-masterful plan.

States Should Absolutely Refuse to Set Up Obamacare Exchanges.  Proponents of Obamacare are making one argument that some conservatives may find appealing — namely that it is much better, from a states' rights point of view, to set up state-based exchanges than to let the feds come in and do it themselves.  This argument is absolutely wrong.  Allowing your states to be deputized as instruments of federal policy is just as bad as bowing to federal commandeering of state agencies, which is unconstitutional.

Surprise! GOP Governors "Stonewall" Key ObamaCare Provision.  Talking Points Memo is shocked, shocked!, that Republican governors would leave the job of setting up the exchanges to the Central Government Planning Office.  ["]Late last week more than a dozen Republican governors declared that they will not build the insurance market exchanges called for by the Affordable Care Act, including prominent names like Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, John Kasich of Ohio, Scott Walker of Wisconsin and Rick Perry of Texas.["]

More Bad Obamacare News.  A recent poll by NBC News and the Wall Street Journal showed that 49 percent of Americans believe the Affordable Care Act is a bad idea.

Think ObamaCare Is Unpopular Now? Wait Until Next Year.  Months before ObamaCare takes full effect, its popularity has hit an all-time low.  And that's before the public experiences firsthand the many ill effects it will impose on the nation's health care system.

If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is all this marketing necessary?
Selling of Obamacare underway.  The Obama administration is reaching out to Democrats and Republicans in Congress as it gears up to try to sell Obamacare to the public this summer.  For the Democrats, the meetings are part of a substantial messaging effort that will get under way to encourage people to sign up for health coverage through the new Obamacare exchanges starting on Oct. 1.  They've involved high-level officials and lawmakers.  The message?  Rely on the facts, not the politics, of the health law.  Now is the time to give Obamacare a constituent outreach touch, à la other government programs such as Medicare and Social Security:  Help people sign up, participants say.

Rubio proposes constitutional amendment to invalidate ObamaCare mandate.  The proposed amendment, named the "Right to Refuse" amendment, would make it unconstitutional for Congress to enact a law that imposes a tax on citizens who fail to purchase goods or services Congress has deemed mandatory.  The idea is that it would apply to the so-called individual mandate, which was interpreted in 2012 as a tax.

By 22-Point Margin, Voters Favor Obamacare's Repeal.  It would be a major understatement to say that Obamacare has had a bad spring.  Around the time of Lincoln's birthday, registered voters told Fox News that, by a margin of 6 percentage points (48 to 42 percent), it would "be better to go back to the health care system that was in place in 2009" than it would be "to leave the new health care law in place."  Three months later, as we head into Memorial Day, nostalgia for the good ol' days of 2009 now beats Obamacare by a whopping 22 points (56 to 34 percent).

If success means fulfilling Obama's mission of substantially transforming America...
Obama on the verge of becoming one of America's most successful presidents ever.  Obamacare is an enormous deal.  It directly affects about one-sixth of the U.S. economy.  It directly affects not just our well-being, but also life and death.  Arguably, it provides the most significant entitlement in American history, and certainly one of the top three.  No entitlement enacted since 1964 comes close to matching it.

Potential Donors to Enroll America Grow Skittish.  The Obama administration's efforts to raise private money to carry out the president's health care law have provoked such a strong partisan uproar that potential donors have become skittish about contributing, according to several people involved in the fund-raising program.

Labor unions break ranks with White House on ObamaCare.  Labor unions are breaking with President Obama on ObamaCare.  Months after the president's reelection, a variety of unions are publicly balking at how the administration plans to implement the landmark law.  They warn that unless there are changes, the results could be catastrophic.  The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) — a 1.3 million-member labor group that twice endorsed Obama for president — is very worried about how the reform law will affect its members' healthcare plans.

Senate Dems prepare to throw Obama under the Obamacare bus.  We've been saying for some time that Obamacare will be a central issue in the 2014 election, and that it offers Republicans the hope, if they nominate solid candidates, of taking control of the Senate.  Now, Senate Democrats have figured this out, as well.

Shock poll: Wealthy, not middle class, support Obama.  The poll found that fewer than half of those with incomes less than $100,000 per year approve of Obama's performance, while he enjoys a 54 percent approval rating among those with incomes higher than that.  Those earning less than $40,000 a year disapprove of the president's performance, 51 percent to 45 percent.  Those earning $40,000 to $100,000 disapprove by a rate of 50 percent to 48 percent.

Even Big Labor Unions Drop Support For Obamacare.  As ObamaCare rolls out, some of its biggest backers from labor to D.C. lawmakers are having second thoughts.  It's a sign that the idea of ending this national nightmare isn't about to go away.

McConnell: Entire Country Should Be Exempt from ObamaCare.  The ObamaCare law is set to take effect in January, 2014.  In November of that year, voters will go to the polls to elect a new Congress.  That vote could set the stage for the repeal of ObamaCare.  Voters will have the chance to exempt themselves from ObamaCare.

Obama's most fervent follower is himself.  Sure, it passed.  But the Affordable Care Act didn't become law because Mr. Obama ignited a populist prairie fire in favor of it.  He dedicated vast, vast swaths of his time and energy trying to sell the American people on Obamacare.  He never made the sale (and still hasn't).  The misbegotten law's passage is attributable entirely to the fact that Democrats rammed it through Congress with a 60-vote majority in the Senate using the sorts of backroom deals and corporate giveaways the American people despise.

Boom: First union officially calls for the repeal of ObamaCare.  Labor unions largely came out swinging in favor of ObamaCare's passage in 2010, but many have been growing increasingly wary of ObamaCare's incoming provisions, fearing that the law's requirements will raise the costs of health plans for unions members and make them less competitive compared to non-unionized workers.  On Tuesday [4/16/2013], one such labor union that initially backed the health care overhaul became the first union to officially revoke their support for the law.

A totalitarian says she is surprised by the resistance.
Sebelius: Implementing Obamacare More 'Difficult' Than Anticipated.  The Hill noted that Sebelius, speaking at the Harvard School of Public Health, said Republican governors who have rejected the health exchanges and Medicaid expansion have frustrated the administration's efforts to smoothly roll out the law.  As a result, she said the administration faces "state-by-state political battles" they had not anticipated.

Sebelius Tries To Blame GOP For Coming ObamaCare Failures.  As Democrats grow increasingly worried that ObamaCare will explode on the launch pad just as midterm elections get going, the Obama administration seeks to pin blame on Republicans.

Here's Why Obamacare Has Become Irresistible.  It has been federal law for three years.  It has brought chaos to the labor markets.  It has cost people their livelihoods and it is more unpopular than ever.  So why does "Obamacare" (officially known as the "Affordable Care Act") remain so irresistible for so many of our fellow Americans?  Because at its core Obamacare is not about health care, so much as it is about the redistribution of wealth, and for those who are on the receiving end of the redistribution the agenda is completely irresistible.

Great News: Republicans May Be Tempted to Embrace ObamaCare to Win Over Latino Voters.  ObamaCare was and is among the most destructive policies ever devised.  It is killing jobs as Republicans predicted, and is also an intrusion on religious freedom.  It threatens to put government between citizen and doctor, and creates unaffordable entitlements.  Over time, it stands a good likelihood of bankrupting the private insurance industry, paving the way for a full government healthcare takeover.

Repeal Obamacare.  Liberals had hoped, and some conservatives had feared, that the legislative Frankenstein's monster known as Obamacare would become more popular as its sundry measures were implemented.  But the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is no more popular now than when it was passed, as Americans have come to realize that it will neither protect patients nor provide for affordable care.

After 3 Years, ObamaCare Repeal [is] Still A Viable Option.  Despite endless promises from liberals that Obama-Care would grow more popular once it was enacted, the public has instead grown more concerned.  The latest Kaiser Family Foundation tracking poll, released Wednesday [3/20/2013], found just 37% have a favorable view of the law today, down from 43% a few months ago.  Even Democrats are less supportive, with only 58% expressing a favorable view of ObamaCare.  No wonder, since every day brings more bad news.

Hoyer warns GOP to abandon efforts to repeal healthcare law.  House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) warned his Republican counterpart on Friday [3/15/2013] that the GOP will have no hope of finding bipartisan agreement on any issue if it continues to insist on repealing the 2010 healthcare law.  "If we want to do something in a bipartisan fashion, if we want to get to an end here, we ought to stop pretending that we're going to repeal the Affordable Care Act," Hoyer told Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.).  "We had an election about that.  We won.  The president won."

The Unions vs. Obamacare.  "I heard [Obama] say, 'If you like your health plan, you can keep it,'" John Wilhelm, chairman of Unite Here Health, representing 260,000 union workers, recently told the Wall Street Journal.  "If I'm wrong, and the president does not intend to keep his word, I would have severe second thoughts about the law."  Besides Wilhelm, some of the nation's largest union bosses have taken to publicly criticizing the Affordable Care Act.

Affordable Care Act Is Unaffordable And Onerous.  Does anyone remember hearing that one of the blessings of health reform would be doing your taxes a second time?  Filling out fifteen pages and paying $1 trillion in taxes are just the latest ObamaCare surprises.

All Senate Republicans Vote to Defund Obamacare.  On Wednesday [3/13/2013], every GOP senator voted to defund Obamacare on an amendment to the Continuing Resolution that funds government for the rest of the fiscal year.  The amendment from Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz failed to pass, as all 52 Democrats voted against it.

Obama's Dystopia.  [Scroll down]  Against the wishes of 60-70 percent of Americans, and without the vetting of Congressional legislators who rammed through the legislation, the United States Federal Government took control of a full one-seventh of the American economy, which had the net effect of driving up the cost of health care for all involved, taking away freedom of choice, relegating freedom of conscience incompatible with the party line to irrelevancy, while at the same time having the no-doubt intended effect of casting a chilling pall on America's ability to sustain economic growth and prosperity.

Obamacare: Democrats Starting to Run But There's No Place to Hide.  It was inevitable that once the blanks contained in Obamacare began to be filled in, that even Democratic supporters of the law would start running away from it, so toxic it is going to be to any politician who supported it.  The unintended — and intended — consequences are proving to be a nightmare for the health insurance consumer and the government seems powerless to do anything about it.

Marco Rubio's Impressive Response to Obama's 2013 State of the Union Address.  In [...] one paragraph, Sen. Rubio captured the fundamental flaw in the so-called Affordable Care Act:  it makes health insurance more expensive, in turn making hiring more expensive, and our health-care entitlements more expensive.

Some Unions Grow Wary Of Health Law They Backed.  Labor unions enthusiastically backed the Obama administration's health-care overhaul when it was up for debate.  Now that the law is rolling out, some are turning sour.

Delay, Repeal, Replace.  Watching Congress take the final steps to pass Obamacare in March 2010 was a bitterly disappointing moment for the law's opponents.  They didn't have to be told that what was being rammed through the House and Senate was the largest power grab by the federal government in at least a generation, with immense consequences for the nation's economic vitality and political health.  Opponents understandably redoubled their efforts to see the law repealed and replaced, and Republicans rode the popular revolt against the excesses of Obamacare all the way to a landslide midterm victory.

Anxiety rises as Americans face start of Obamacare.  This March will mark three years since Obamacare became law, and it still has not had any serious effect on most Americans' lives.  That's the way President Obama and the law's Democratic authors planned it; they conveniently pushed the dislocations and unhappy consequences of national health care well past their re-election campaigns.

Senate Democrats Urge Undoing of ObamaCare.  Many powerful Democrats, even some of the most liberal among them, are supporting what amounts to a dismantling of President Obama's signature health care law.  Using "Republican" language to make their case, these Democrats are attempting to repeal some of the funding mechanisms as well as the cost-containment measures that were purportedly inherent in the law.

Confirmed: Obamacare is an Unpopular, Shoddy Trainwreck.  A new poll reveals that the same people who re-elected this president by a three-point margin still oppose his signature "accomplishment" by double-digits.  Independents remain particularly sour on the law, the worst bits of which are slated for implementation over the next two years.

ObamaCare Faces the Implementation Iceberg.  Because the law put off implementation of most key provisions until after the 2012 election, voters cast their ballots on November 6 without knowing what Obamacare's true effect will be on their tax bills, insurance costs, or access to care.  Delaying implementation until 2014 helped the president win re-election, but now the bill is coming due.

Obamacare implementation could spell trouble for Democrats in 2014.  The good news for Democrats is that Obamacare will now be implemented.  But the bad news for Democrats is also that Obamacare will now be implemented.  President Obama's re-election ensures that his signature health care law will not be repealed before its major provisions go into effect.  But that also means, to borrow a phrase from House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Americans will begin to find out what's in the law.

Beware: ObamaCare's now reality.  If you are uninsured because you can't afford it, help may be on the way.  But if you are one of the 250 million Americans with coverage, there are big problems ahead.

The New Face of Health Care — the IRS.  When President Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA, aka "Obamacare") goes fully into effect in 2014, the American people will only then begin to see the implications of its thorough government takeover of health care, in all its glory.  But what they are not expecting is the massively expanded role of the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") in our lives, as the IRS is the chief agency responsible for enforcing the Act.

House committees investigate whether the IRS illegally expanded tax subsides to strengthen Obamacare.
Exceeding its Mandate.  Two House committees are investigating whether the IRS illegally implemented an important provision of Obamacare.  House Ways and Means Committee chairman Dave Camp (R., Mich.) and Oversight Committee chairman Darrell Issa (R., Calif.) sent a letter on Tuesday [1/29/2013] to the acting secretary of the Treasury Department and the acting commissioner of the IRS requesting documents and interviews with specific officials.

President Obama gets an 'F' for management.  Early in his presidency, Barack Obama flaunted U.S. constitutional tradition by pushing through major social legislation, Obamacare, without a bipartisan compromise and consensus.  And he relied on a legislative sleight of hand to pass the U.S. Senate.  Simply, Obama's hard left agenda requires him to treat the constitution and Congress as mere inconveniences — expediency is his ethical standard.

Can ObamaCare Be Stopped?.  The courts have not yet produced any ObamaCare-killing rulings.  John Roberts's stupefying decision to uphold the individual mandate by calling it a tax ensured that ObamaCare would go forward.  Dozens of lawsuits are pending, and once the states and the regulated community understand how overreaching the ACA actually is, a flood of additional lawsuits will follow.

A totalitarian says she is surprised by the resistance.
Sebelius: Implementing Obamacare More 'Difficult' Than Anticipated.  The Hill noted that Sebelius, speaking at the Harvard School of Public Health, said Republican governors who have rejected the health exchanges and Medicaid expansion have frustrated the administration's efforts to smoothly roll out the law.  As a result, she said the administration faces "state-by-state political battles" they had not anticipated.

Sebelius Tries To Blame GOP For Coming ObamaCare Failures.  As Democrats grow increasingly worried that ObamaCare will explode on the launch pad just as midterm elections get going, the Obama administration seeks to pin blame on Republicans.

AARP lobbies against Medicare changes that could hurt its bottom line.  As Washington debates whether to cut federal retirement programs as part of a deal to tackle the nation's debt, one of the most powerful advocates for preserving them could have millions of dollars riding on the outcome.  AARP, the highly influential lobby for older Americans, is fiercely opposing any Medicare or Social Security cuts and emphasizes that it is fighting for the good of its members.  But the proposals for changing Medicare also could affect AARP's bottom line.

This is an original compilation, Copyright © 2013 by Andrew K. Dart

Rand Paul claims Obamacare will include diagnostic codes for [...].  In a little-noticed speech to the Iowa Republican Party this month, Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul mocked President Obama's signature health care overhaul, noting the 122,000 new medical diagnostic codes doctors will have to use in order to inform the government about injuries sustained by Americans.  Those codes, said Sen. Paul, a medical doctor himself, include line-items for 'injuries sustained from a turtle,' 'walking into a lamppost' and 'injuries sustained from burning water skis.'

Obamacare's empress strikes again.  In 2010, shortly after President Obama's health care legislation was signed into law, I dubbed Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius the "Empress of Obamacare" for the vast new powers she inherited.  Reading through the text of the law, I counted more than 2,500 references to the secretary of HHS, of which more than 700 referred to instances in which she "shall" do something and more than 200 cases in which she "may" take regulatory action.

5 Ways the Immigration Bill Is Like Obamacare.  Nancy Pelosi wasn't kidding when she said Congress would have to pass Obamacare "to see what's in it."  That's because the bill gave federal agencies free rein to write regulations that would become the real-world version of the law — and even though it passed in 2010, the regulations are still being written today.

New components are being added every week.
Tens of thousands Obamacare 'navigators' to be hired.  Tens of thousands of health care professionals, union workers and community activists hired as "navigators" to help Americans choose Obamacare options starting Oct. 1 could earn $20 an hour or more, according to new regulations issued Wednesday [4/3/2013].  The 63-page rule covering navigators, drawn up by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, also said the government will provide free translators for those not fluent in English — no matter what their native language is.

Obamavote: Healthcare application registers voters, too.  The 61-page online Obamacare draft application for health care includes asking if the applicant wants to register to vote, raising the specter that pro-Obama groups being tapped to help Americans sign up for the program will also steer them to register with the Democratic Party.  On page 59, after numerous questions about the applicant's identity and qualification for Obamacare, comes the question:  "Would you like to register to vote?"  The placement of the question could lead some to believe they have to register to vote to get health care.

Their Own Devices.  The Affordable Care Act has been a running series of nasty non-surprises, with many more on the way — gird yourself for 116% insurance premium increases — but sometimes the surprises are real.  Take the amazing bipartisan turn against the 2.3% tax on medical device makers, even among liberals who still evince no remorse for voting for the overall bill three years ago.  Not that the media noticed, but on Thursday night [3/21/2013] ObamaCare's $29 billion excise tax on device sales (not profits) lost on the Senate floor in a rout.

CBO: ObamaCare Kills Jobs.  Remember when Nancy Pelosi said that we had to pass ObamaCare to find out what was in it?  [Video clip]  Two points about that statement:  One, we now know why she didn't want this stuff out before it passed.  Two, given all the bad things that have already come out about this monstrosity of a program, I don't really want to know more, I want it to be repealed at the earliest possible opportunity.

ObamaCare Turns Three: 10 Disturbing Facts Americans Have Learned.  ObamaCare backers typically tout popular features that went into effect almost immediately.  The law expanded Medicare's drug coverage, for example, and let children stay on their parents' plans until they turned 26.  But the bulk of ObamaCare doesn't take effect until next year.  That's when the so-called insurance exchanges are supposed to be up and running, when the mandate on individuals and businesses kicks in, and when the avalanche of regulations on the insurance industry hits.

Employers, Unions Outraged by $63-Per-Worker Obamacare Fee.  A provision buried inside Obamacare will force many employers to pay an extra $63 per employee next year.  Analysts say most of the cost will likely be passed on to workers.  "It's caught most employers, if not all employers, by surprise," said National Business Group on Health Vice President of Public Policy Steve Wojcik.  "They're very upset about it."

The Editor says...
Since they call it a fee, does that mean it's not a tax?

Another Hidden Obamacare Nugget About To Whack Big Employers.  This was one of those "have to pass the law to find out what's in it" surprises that was buried so deep in this monstrosity that most of the companies that will be affected by it didn't notice it at first.  It's not too hard to figure out where large companies that are going to be forced to spend tens of millions extra next year are going to get that money.

Obamacare May Bite You At The Vet's Office.  You may want to start saving more money for veterinarian care this year.  The reason goes all the way back to Washington and an unintended consequence from medical reform.

Obamacare: Seven Feet of Job-Killing Regulations.  Senate Republican minority leader Mitch McConnell sent out a shocking photo showing what it looks like if you stack every page of Obamacare regulations one on top of the other.  The stack reaches to more than seven feet in height [...]

20,000 Pages of Federal Regulations Create Obamacare Tower.  What a nightmare.  Thank you, Democrats.

More than 700 pages of healthcare rules released.  The Obama administration on Friday released more than 700 pages of new regulations to implement portions of the Affordable Care Act.  The four rules, which are scheduled for publication in mid-March, finalize both major and minor parts of the healthcare reform law that Congress passed in 2010.  Three of the regulations are final and roll out the multistate healthcare exchanges and reforms to the insurance market, including provisions to encourage cost-sharing, stabilize health insurance premiums and prevent providers from denying coverage.

Guess what! It's time for 700 pages more of fun Obamacare regulations.  Nancy Pelosi was wrong:  Even after passing the bill, no one could have possibly known what was in it!  That's because America's finest bureaucrats are creating a galaxy of amazing new rules to implement provisions of the "Affordable Care Act".  In the traditional Friday-night document dump that is the hallmark of how the Obama Administration operates, The Hill writer Megan Wilson reports that over 700 pages of new rules were released [...]

Supermarkets cry foul as FDA proposes new food labeling rule under ObamaCare.  Supermarket owners argue a pending federal food-labeling rule that stems from the new health care law would overburden thousands of grocers and convenience store owners — to the tune of $1 billion in the first year alone.

Secret gun-rights provision in ObamaCare?.  Nancy Pelosi was right — they didn't know what was in ObamaCare until it passed!  Of course, in this case all she needed to do was ask her buddy Harry Reid, who apparently sandbagged his party's gun-control wing by inserting an interesting clause in the 2800-page bill that no one in Congress bothered to read before voting on it.

How a Secret Gun Provision Made its Way Into Obamacare Legislation.  The Washington Post first reported on Dec. 30 about the presence of this controversial wording.  Under a section with the headline "Protection of Second Amendment Gun Rights," the NRA-advocated wording is nestled deep within the law.  The Post called the inclusion, "a largely overlooked but significant challenge to a movement in American medicine to treat firearms as a matter of public health."  As the outlet also noted, it was in the final stretch of the debate over Obama's health care legislation that the NRA successfully pushed to insert this language.

Get ready for the costs and chaos of Obamacare.  Nancy Pelosi was widely mocked when she said of Obamacare, "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it."  At the time, March 2010, Pelosi's words accurately described the Democrats' just-get-it-done approach to passing a national health care bill.  But now it turns out Pelosi was wrong.  In fact, we have to implement Obamacare so that you can find out what is in it.

IRS Issues 159 Pages of Obamacare Rules.  It took the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) 159 pages to explain one new Obamacare tax on investments that will be used to pay for Obamacare.  Only individuals and families making more than $200,000 and $250,000, respectively, will be impacted by the tax, which "applies to a broad range of investment securities ranging from stocks and bonds to commodity securities and specialized derivatives."

Anyone For More Obamacare Tax Rules?  This stack explains the tax on people making more than $200,000 (individuals) and $250,000 (families), and suggests that Obama's plan to lower unemployment is to expand the ranks of the IRS until it employs as many people as the military.

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad ObamaCare.  Now post-election, new regulations are pouring out from HHS -- more than 13,000 pages so far and yet nuts-and-bolts questions are still unanswered.  Most of what we know so far comes from a 17-page question-and-answer document that HHS divulged this week, though none of the answers have the force of law and HHS says they're subject to change at any moment.  HHS is generally issuing rules with only 30 days for public comment when the standard is 60 days and for complex regulations 90 days and more.

Surprise New Insurance Fee in Health Overhaul Law.  Your medical plan is facing an unexpected expense, so you probably are, too.  It's a new, $63-per-head annual fee to cushion the cost of covering people with pre-existing conditions under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.  The charge, buried in a recent regulation, works out to tens of millions of dollars for the largest companies, employers say.  Most of that is likely to be passed on to workers.

Health care law surprise: $63 per-person fee for three years.  The $63-per-head fee — buried in a recent regulation — will hit health plans serving an estimated 190 million Americans, mostly workers and their families.

Surprise: New insurance fee in health overhaul law.  Your medical plan is facing an unexpected expense, so you probably are, too.  It's a new, $63-per-head fee to cushion the cost of covering people with pre-existing conditions under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.

Obamacare fee of $63 per person to begin in 2014.  Your medical plan is facing an unexpected expense, so you probably are, too.  It's a new, $63-per-head fee to cushion the cost of covering people with pre-existing conditions under President Obama's health care overhaul.  The charge, buried in a recent regulation, works out to tens of millions of dollars for the largest companies, employers say.  Most of that is likely to be passed on to workers.

Obamacare May Hike Your Pet's Health Care Bills.  American health care consumers aren't the only ones who will be hit by slated Obamacare tax hikes.  Medical bills for their pets may go up as well.  According to a rule published Friday [12/7/2012] by the Internal Revenue Service, some medical devices used in veterinary practices will be hit by Obamacare's 2.3 percent device tax.

IRS aims to clarify investment income tax under healthcare law.  The Internal Revenue Service has released new rules for investment income taxes on capital gains and dividends earned by high-income individuals that passed Congress as part of the 2010 healthcare reform law.

Obamacare regulations 620 times the length of the U.S. Constitution.  Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson commented on the release of the following info-graphic highlighting the length of Obamacare's regulations.  "Our Counsel John Vinci has noted that Obamacare's regulations are now 2,864,094 pages long.  That's about 700,000 pages more than when last reported at the end of February.  This is 620 times the length of the U.S. Constitution.
[Emphasis added.]

Just 32 months later, Obama administration tells us what ObamaCare plans must have in them.  [T]he federal government was demanding governors finish their detailed plans for implementing state-based health care exchanges four days before it even told them exactly what plans in those exchanges had to look like.

"It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood."

— James Madison    

Hospitals scramble to limit readmissions, avoid new penalties.  Under federal penalties that kicked in Oct. 1 as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, hospitals lose Medicare reimbursements if their patients are readmitted at an excessive rate.

Nanny State: Obamacare Now Regulating Pizza.  Section 4205 of PPACA (ObamaCare) requires any pizzeria, grocery, or convenience store with more than 20 locations to post calorie information in their store on menu boards.  The way the bill is written, Dominos, for example, will have to write out the caloric information for 34 million different pizza combinations (yes, they've done the math on that).

D.C. restaurant mulls cutting meal portions, staff hours to save money ahead of Obamacare.  Rising costs associated with President Obama's Affordable Care Act has a D.C. restaurant mulling the possibility of making their meals less affordable, less filling, or even cutting costs at the expense of staff.  "For one to two years [Obamacare has] been the No. 1 issue on our radar," Clyde's Chief Financial Officer Jeff Owens told NPR.  "We're not trying to run away from it, but it's a frightening proposition."  Obamacare is forcing the restaurant chain to "rethink its business plan," according to NPR.

More Bad Obamacare News.  Schools in Indiana are being forced to cut back on part-time employee hours to avoid Obamacare's mandates and penalties.

The Only Jobs Obama is Creating Are Low Paying McJobs.  It's a recovery.  A recovery consisting of low end minimum jobs that the Gang of 8 Amnesty would swallow in less than 5 minutes.

ObamaCare's $96 an hour cost spike may end 30-hour workweek.  For a worker making $16 an hour for 29 hours per week, the 30th hour of work each week could cost an employer $112.15.  In other words, ObamaCare could cost an employer as much as $96.15 extra an hour — or six times the going hourly wage in this example.  Here's how:  Employers who offer health coverage that is deemed either too pricey or too skimpy will owe $3,000 for each full-time, 30-hour-per-week, worker who taps ObamaCare subsidies.

ObamaCare's 30-Hour Work Week: Fulfilling a Longtime Leftist Dream?  It turns out that the idea of a 30-hour work week in the U.S. is at least nearly a century old.  Its lineage ultimately goes back to Karl Marx's long-discredited idea of "surplus labor."  In 1919, the 30-hour week was a central but ultimately abandoned demand in nationwide negotiations between unionized coal companies and their United Mine Workers members.

Obamacare Scares Head Start Staffers More than Budget Cuts.  You'd think that at a national Head Start conference, sequestration, across-the-board federal spending cuts, would be the top issue.  No.  Instead, Head Start teachers and administrators told The Daily Caller that the health care law is their biggest headache.

ObamaCare Is Blocking Job Creation, Economic Growth.  On Friday the government will release its unemployment report for April.  The jobs numbers last month were a huge disappointment.  Americans can't afford more bad news.  Washington needs to break the cycle of weak job growth month after month.  To do that, we need to honestly deal with one of the main roadblocks to job creation:  President Obama's health care law.  At a press conference this week, the president proved once again that he doesn't understand how his law threatens Americans' jobs, their care and their paycheck.

The ObamaCare Train Wreck Is Already Here.  Democrats fret about a "train wreck" when ObamaCare goes into effect next year.  But the law is already a disaster for workers who've seen their hours and benefits cut as employers try to avoid its costs.

Train Wreck: ObamaCare Blocking Job Creation, Economic Growth.  On Friday [5/3/2013] the government will release its unemployment report for April.  The jobs numbers last month were a huge disappointment.  Americans can't afford more bad news.  Washington needs to break the cycle of weak job growth month after month.  To do that, we need to honestly deal with one of the main roadblocks to job creation:  President Obama's health care law.  At a press conference this week, the president proved once again that he doesn't understand how his law threatens Americans' jobs, their care and their paycheck.

Employee Benefits Fall As Firms Brace For ObamaCare.  Employer spending on benefits rose at the slowest pace on record in the first quarter, as companies began bracing for higher health costs with next year's launch of ObamaCare.  Total benefits, such as insurance and pension contributions, rose just 0.1% vs. the end of last year, the smallest gain in Labor Department data going back to 2001.  By comparison, payroll employment grew by a half-million, or 0.4%, in Q1.  So benefits-per-worker declined.  Total employee benefits provided outside of government jobs declined outright.

Part-timers to lose pay amid health act's new math.  Some workers are having their hours cut so employers won't have to cover them under Obamacare.

Employee Benefits Fall As Firms Brace For ObamaCare.  Employer spending on benefits rose at the slowest pace on record in the first quarter, as companies began bracing for higher health costs with next year's launch of ObamaCare.  Total benefits, such as insurance and pension contributions, rose just 0.1% vs. the end of last year, the smallest gain in Labor Department data going back to 2001.  By comparison, payroll employment grew by a half-million, or 0.4%, in Q1.  So benefits-per-worker declined.

McDonald's Franchisee: 'Obamacare will negatively hit us like nothing else'.  You know it's bad when such a successful company like McDonald's says "the future looks BLEAK!" because of Obamacare.

ObamaCare Bites Unionized Educators.  Union representatives are now sending their members letters stating that "the Affordable Care Act [aka ObamaCare] has defined full time as anyone working over 30 hours a week or 130 hours a month."  Many of these hardworking and well-meaning local labor representatives, who were duped — I mean, told by the American Federation of Teachers Union (AFT) that Obama was the one who would bring all good things to pass — now find themselves in an untenable position.

The culture war is all Obama has left.  Obama's signature domestic accomplishment, Obamacare, remains highly unpopular.  Health care premiums are rising, as its opponents predicted, and numerous newspaper stories are now highlighting how the law is either discouraging new hiring altogether or forcing more Americans into part-time work involuntarily.

Study: Obamacare threatens 3.2 million small business jobs.  Over one-third of the 9.1 million full-time jobs among America's diverse business franchises could be cut back or eliminated by Obamacare as small businesses struggle to maintain profitability while coughing up money to pay for Washington-mandated health care coverage, according to the International Franchise Association.  The threat of hitting 3.2 million full-time workers as the Affordable Care Act takes effect next year is prompting the owners of fast food restaurants, service companies and other franchises to urge Congress to make significant changes in Obamacare.

ObamaCare Turns Three: 10 Disturbing Facts Americans Have Learned.  [Scroll down]  The Federal Reserve's March beige book on economic activity noted that businesses "cited the unknown effects of the Affordable Care Act as reasons for planned layoffs and reluctance to hire more staff."  Around the same time, Gallup reported a surge in part-time work in advance of ObamaCare's employer mandate.  It found that part-timers accounted for almost 21% of the labor force, up from 19% three years ago.  Meanwhile, human resources consulting firm Adecco found that half of the small businesses it surveyed in January either plan to cut their workforce, not hire new workers, or shift to part-time or temporary help because of ObamaCare.

Pelosi: Obamacare Means 'You Could Be A Photographer or Writer'.  Marking the third anniversary of Obamacare's passage, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said the health care law fulfills the promises of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness because it allows people to leave jobs that include health insurance as a benefit:  You can become a "photographer or writer."  "I've always said that the Affordable Care Act is something that was transformative," Pelosi said Wednesday during a press conference on Capitol Hill marking the upcoming anniversary of the law on March 23.

And so it begins: ObamaCare kills jobs.  When Democrats passed ObamaCare, they told us it wouldn't affect the private insurance coverage any of us already had.  "If you like your coverage, you can keep your coverage," is what Obama said.  Just one problem.  You can't keep your coverage if, thanks to ObamaCare, it no longer exists.

Future costs and regulations are unpredictable.  A recent study found that 33 percent of business owners cited new requirements in Obamacare as either the biggest or second-biggest obstacle to hiring.  In addition, Dennis Lockhart, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, said, "We have frequently heard strong comments to the effect of 'My company won't hire a single additional worker until we know what health insurance costs are going to be.'"

Obamacare Kills Jobs.  President Obama may think that the private sector is "doing fine", but in all reality the last thing our economy can handle is even more hurdles to job creation, which is precisely what Obamacare represents.  Obamacare's employer mandate will not only slow growth, but will penalize businesses that want to hire workers.

Obamacare is a Job Killer.  Automation Systems Inc. has expanded to include 37 employees today, and [Carl] Schanstra says he wants to hire more — maybe as many as 200 or 300 in the next 10 to 15 years.  But once the business crosses the 50-employee threshold, it will have to pay $40,000 in penalties, plus $2,000 for each additional employee.  That's because of the so-called employer mandate, a fee imposed on businesses that get too big without providing health care the federal government deems acceptable.

Recovery Stalled After Obamacare Passed.  The law discourages employers from hiring in several ways:  Businesses with fewer than 50 workers have a strong incentive to maintain this size, which allows them to avoid the mandate to provide government-approved health coverage or face a penalty;  Businesses with more than 50 workers will see their costs for health coverage rise — they must purchase more expensive government-approved insurance or pay a penalty;  and Employers face considerable uncertainty about what constitutes qualifying health coverage and what it will cost.

End the Madness at the EEOC.  Over 89 million Americans are presently out of the labor force.  The New York Times seems to offer a muddled explanation for the fact that employers have money to hire but aren't doing so even when they need extra help.  The Federal Reserve's vision is less cloudy.  In its latest beige book the Fed indicates that uncertainty about the impact and requirements of Obamacare is playing a significant role in the national job freeze cutting into sales and hiring.

ObamaCare and the '29ers'.  Here's a trend you'll be reading more about:  part-time "job sharing," not only within firms but across different businesses.  It's already happening across the country at fast-food restaurants, as employers try to avoid being punished by the Affordable Care Act.

The Real State of the Union.  [Scroll down]  Many employers are also clearly doing all they can to keep all but a few key employees from toiling more than 30 hours per week, because ObamaCare will compel them to treat employees who work 30 or more hours as "full-time," forcing them to either provide mandatory health insurance coverage or pay a fine if they don't.

In Health Care, One Law Is Working Like a Charm.  "We have to pass the bill so you can find out what's in it," said Nancy Pelosi during the debate over Obamacare.  The Affordable Care Act passed, and Americans are now finding out.  It's not a pretty picture.  Take employment.  "Medical device makers in Massachusetts and elsewhere are warning of potential job losses," reports The Boston Globe, because of a 2.3-percent tax on medical devices imposed by law.

Retail Workweek Hits 3-Year Low In ObamaCare Shift.  The fly in the ointment of January's jobs report was the apparent shift to part-time work ahead of a key ObamaCare deadline.  Although retail payrolls grew by 32,600, total hours worked in the industry dipped, Labor Department data out Friday [2/1/2013] showed.  The explanation?  Rank-and-file retail workers logged the shortest workweek since early 2010:  just 30.1 hours, on average, vs. 30.4 in December.

Universities Slash Teachers' Hours to Evade ObamaCare.  When the Affordable Care Act passed in early 2010, many in academia — faculty and students alike — cheered on.  But now that its provisions are going into effect, some of these same people are learning firsthand that Obamacare has some nasty side effects.

Confused professors shocked schools are cutting their hours to avoid Obamacare penalties.  Robert Balla, an adjunct professor of English at Stark State College, in North Canton, Ohio received a letter in which he was told that "in order to avoid penalties under the Affordable Care Act ... employees with part-time or adjunct status will not be assigned more than an average of 29 hours per week."  He told the Journal that the move cut his $40,000 salary by about $2,000 and that he cannot afford health insurance.

Universities Slash Teachers' Hours to Evade ObamaCare.  If you want someone to lie to you and tell you how troubling it is when anyone's income is cut in Obama's economy, you'll want to stop reading right about now.  I'm only willing to go as far as to say that I wish ObamaCare wasn't the cause of all this.  But it simply is a beautiful thing to see the very institutions that carry Obama's water and attempt to brainwash more of his minions, deal first-hand with the consequences of their thoughtless advocacy.

Wendy's and Taco Bell Franchisees Talking About Cutting Hours To Avoid ObamaCare Fines.  One of the least-wise provisions of the Affordable Care Act is a plan to fine firms with over 50 employees that don't provide health insurance to their workers to the tune of $2,000 per full-time worker.  The natural response for many firms is to do exactly what Ned Resnikoff reports some Wendy's and Taco Bell franchisees are doing and cut workers' hours to below the 30 hours per week threshold, thus avoiding the fine.

IRS Warns Employers: Do Not Try to Avoid ObamaCare Insurance Mandate.  The Internal Revenue Service warned employers in a new regulatory proposal not to come up with clever schemes to avoid Obamacare's employer health insurance mandate.  The IRS said it would soon issue "anti-abuse rules" to discourage employers from taking advantage of any regulatory loopholes.

Obamacare Layoffs, Hiring Freezes Begin.  Obamacare opponents warned that forcing companies employing 50 or more full-time workers to buy healthcare would prompt employers to slash jobs and worker hours.  And that's exactly what's happening, says one of President Barack Obama's favorite economists, Mark Zandi of Moody's Analytics.

Dems Finally Spot Blindingly Obvious Problem With Ocare's Medical Device Tax.  Opponents of ObamaCare have long known that one of its most idiotic provisions calls for a 2.3 percent tax on medical device manufacturers.  This provision is not only a sure job killer, it is essentially a tax on innovation, as Paul Hsieh explained nearly two years ago.

Nevada Restaurant Owners on Obamacare: 'We Can't Pay For This'.  Nevada restaurant owners — increasingly anxious about the future of their businesses under the Affordable Care Act — are echoing statements by national restaurant chains about the excessive costs President Obama's health care law will impose on them. [...] The biggest concern restaurant owners express about the law is Section 1513, the Employer Mandate.  Going into full effect in January 2014, it requires businesses with 50 or more full-time employees to provide federally approved health insurance plans or pay penalties of up to $2,000 per employee.

The Mass Firings Begin.  Had Romney won, many of these companies would now be hiring.

On CBS, Cheesecake Factory CEO Warns ObamaCare Will Be 'Very Costly'.  On Monday's [12/3/2012] CBS This Morning, Cheesecake Factory CEO David Overton spotlighted the looming economic impact of Obamacare's implementation, especially on small enterprises:  "For those businesses that don't cover their employees, they'll be in for a very expensive situation."  Overton also warned that the cost of the law would be passed on to customers.

College Professors Get What They Asked For, Don't Like It Much.  [The Community College of Allegheny County (CCAC)] has just announced that because of ObamaCare, it will have to slash the hours of 400 of its employees, about half of whom are adjunct instructors.  This is because under the new law, companies and other organizations employing 50 or more employees are required to provide full health care insurance (at high cost, because of a host of new mandates the law includes) for all employees working 30 or more hours a week.  This means that employers have a tremendous incentive — indeed, virtually a gun at their heads — to either cut hours for employees to under 30 hours per week or eliminate workers outright (by outsourcing, offshoring, contracting out, and automating), or to keep the employees under 50 by simply not expanding.

Health Care Law Pushes Employers to Cut Hours.  As the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is implemented, the American workforce slowly becomes a nation of part-timers.  The law is discouraging public and private sector employers from hiring full-time workers and pushing them to slash hours for part-time workers to keep them under the magical 30-hours-per-week limit.

College cuts work hours to duck Obamacare.  To avoid paying for health insurance, a Pittsburgh community college will cut the work hours of 400 adjunct instructors and support staff.  Under Obamacare, employers don't have to provide insurance for employees working less than 30 hours a week.  Community College of Allegheny County will save $6 million.

Menu Labeling: Another Job-Killing Regulation in ObamaCare.  The government is addressing the nation's growing obesity epidemic with a regulation:  Section 4205, the menu labeling provision attached to ObamaCare meant to "aid consumers in selecting more healthful diets."  As currently written, however, the regulation will likely have job-killing effects and result in little, if any, significant reductions in obesity rates and/or improved health.

Obamacare will make us a part time nation.  There are already 8 million Americans working part time who want to work full time.  It seems likely that number will skyrocket once Obamacare is implemented.

Surprise: PA College Slashes Instructors' Hours to Avoid Obamacare.  Pennsylvania's Community College of Allegheny County (CCAC) is slashing the hours of 400 adjunct instructors, support staff, and part-time instructors to dodge paying for Obamacare.

Kaiser Permanente confirms 530 layoffs in Southern California.  The Kaiser Permente [sic] layoffs come as the health care industry implements provisions of the federal Affordable Health Care Act, commonly called "Obamacare."

Medical giant Stryker cuts 1,170 jobs, citing ObamaCare.  Medical supply giant Stryker is the latest company to announce job cuts in anticipation of coming costs associated with ObamaCare, even though the man who inherited a fortune from the company's founder is a fan.  The company will cut 1,170 jobs, or five percent of its worldwide workforce, despite the fact that the founder's grandson was one of the largest contributors to President Obama's re-election campaign.

Denny's to charge 5% 'Obamacare surcharge' and cut employee hours to deal with cost of legislation.  President Obama's election victory ensured his Affordable Care Act would remain the centerpiece of his first term in power — but that has left some business owners baulking at the extra cost Obamcare [sic] will bring.

Restaurant Chain CEO to Impose Obamacare Surcharge on Customers.  It seems with each passing day since the President was re-elected another business owner is coming out to address how he or she is going to make up for the additional costs that will occur once health care reform is fully implemented.  On Wednesday [11/14/2012], John Metz, the CEO of Hurricane Grill & Wings restaurants said that he's going to impose an Obamacare surcharge on customers.

Papa John's prepares for food fight over Obamacare.  Down-heartened pizza tycoon John Schnatter received some pre-holiday cheer on Friday when a conservative group declared it to be national Papa John's Appreciation Day. [...] Devastated by Mitt Romney's failure to secure the presidency and with it a repeal of the health care legislation, Schnatter has been threatening to raise the price of a pizza by 14 cents and to lower worker's hours.

Obama keeps his job; others lose theirs.  After an election campaign that featured jobs as a central issue, some of the nation's businesses have responded to President Obama's victory with a series of layoff announcements related to a variety of factors including the New Year's "fiscal cliff."  A number of companies had hoped the election of Republican Mitt Romney would raise the chances of avoiding the cliff's $1 trillion in federal spending cuts, half of them defense-related, plus higher taxes from the expiration of the George W. Bush-era tax cuts.  Other factors in the spate of layoff notices included costs related to Mr. Obama's health care plan and environmental regulations.

Calls to boycott Applebee's after CEO threatens hiring freeze and layoffs over Obamacare.  Papa John's came under fire this week when CEO John Schnatter floated a plan to cut worker hours to reduce spiking employee health care costs under the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare.  Now, Applebee's is being boycotted after a major New York area Applebee's franchise owner Zane Tankel threatened a hiring freeze and possible layoffs as a result of the president's healthcare plan.

Death spiral: Hours cut, workers pushed to part-time due to Obamacare.  As Twitchy has been reporting, the layoff bomb has detonated.  Many companies, both large and small, have been forced to lay off workers due to President Obama's re-election.  With no hope of Obamacare being repealed, they are now forced to lay off employees in order to stay in business.

Progressives Launch Revenge on Applebee's as Company Downsizes in Response to ObamaCare.  The business community's had the writing on the wall for some time.  The election simply cleared up the uncertainty in the decision-making environment.

Kathleen Sebelius Advocates for GaybamaCare.  Along with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Barack must feel it's time that fairness be extended to the gay community.  That's why, for those who tend toward melancholy and depression, if ever there were a time to be gay, this would be it.  Why?  Because in addition to reassuring college grads that free birth control should give them peace of mind and sharing the roster at Girl Scout conferences with late-term abortionists, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius wants to commemorate LGBTQ month by making it one of her priorities to actively advocate on behalf of the sexually confused, conflicted, and/or questioning.

Sebelius tells pediatricians to promote 'Obamacare'.  President Obama's top health official asked the nation's pediatric groups on Monday [5/6/2013] to spread the word about benefits within the federal health care law, a plea that coincides with mounting pressure to implement the ambitious overhaul before its main provisions kick in next year.

Obama's Electronic Medical Records Scam.  In theory, modernizing record-collection is a good idea, and many private health care providers have already made the change.  But as with many government "incentive" programs, the EMR bribe is a tax-subsidized, one-size-fits-all mandate.  This one pressures health care professionals and hospitals across the country into radically federalizing their patient data and opening up medical information to untold abuse.