Obamacare Not Doing Well in the Media These Days

Do a quick search for "Obamacare" and you'll see that 99% of the news articles are negative. The following stories are the most recent I found upon Searching. Is it any wonder they have launched a propaganda campaign to tell people how good Obamacare really is for them?

• President Barack Obama can expect mounting pressure to make new concessions on healthcare reform, especially the requirement that all Americans obtain insurance, after delaying penalties for businesses for the first year of his plan. The U.S. Treasury said late on Tuesday it would grant businesses with 50 or more workers a one-year reprieve from having to . http://news.yahoo.com/could-u-delay-obamacares-mandate-individuals-too-185438018.html;_ylt=A2KJ2UZ_ytpRUFYArlKPIsF_
• Obamacare costs 58,000 Californians their Health Insurance: http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/health-care/item/15895-obamacare-costs-58-000-californians-their-health-insurance
•  "Mr. Alito pointed out that young, healthy adults today spend an average of $854 a year on health care. ObamaCare would require them to buy insurance policies expected to cost roughly $5,800. The law, then, isn't just asking them to pay for 'the services that they are going to consume,' he continued. 'The mandate is forcing these people to provide a huge subsidy to the insurance companies . . . to subsidize services that will be received by somebody else.'" http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324634304578539453974685238.html
• Obamacare implementation delay no boon for hiring -DUH http://news.yahoo.com/u-delay-key-health-reform-provision-2015-002644763.html;_ylt=A2KJ2UZrxNpREzAA4WePIsF_
•  "Obamacare is imposing a minimum benefit for insurance that is in excess of what many consumers purchase on their own today. And the law is imposing many new rules on what insurance companies may and may not take into account when setting premiums. There is no experience anywhere indicating that these kinds of changes will lower premiums. And there’s an abundance of evidence from state experiments indicating that these changes will increase premiums, and probably quite substantially." http://www.nationalreview.com/article/351423/great-rate-non-debate-james-c-capretta
• 12 Ways Which Obamacare has Failed Thus Far  http://www.opposingviews.com/i/politics/morning-bell-obamacare-s-dirty-dozen-implementation-failures
•  Signs of ObamaCare's failings mount daily, including soaring insurance costs, looming provider shortages and inadequate insurance exchanges. Yet the law's most disturbing feature may be the Independent Payment Advisory Board. The IPAB, sometimes called a "death panel," threatens both the Medicare program and the Constitution's separation of powers. At a time when many Americans have been unsettled by abuses at the Internal Revenue Service and Justice Department, the introduction of a powerful and largely unaccountable board into health care merits special scrutiny. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324634304578539823614996636.html
• "More than 40 percent of small businesses have frozen hiring because of Obamacare, according to a new poll from Gallup. A fifth have actually cut their workforces as a direct result of the healthcare reform law. That’s not exactly the future President Obama forecast in 2009, when he told an audience of small-business owners that his healthcare reform = package was “being written with the interests of Americans like you and your employees in mind.” He boasted that he had “no doubt [the law] would benefit millions of small businesses.” http://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2013/07/08/for-small-business-owners-the-obamacare-reality-bites/ 
•  BOOM! ""Obamacare continues to fall short of the lofty predictions about it — and here are two new charts to prove it. The charts, included as part of a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) presentation over the weekend, summarize the CBO’s cost estimates of the law in the three years since its passage. The charts show that in every instance, the CBO’s estimate of the number of uninsured has risen, as has the number of workers who will lose coverage under their existing employer plans:" http://blog.heritage.org/2013/06/25/cbo-graphs-obamacare-shortcomings-in-two-charts/
•  Well, DUH!!!!!!!!! "Delaying the Obamacare employer mandate has simply put off rules business had already started adjusting to.Under the Affordable Care Act, companies with 50-plus full-time employees must start offering them health insurance or face stiff penalties. The employer mandate had been set to kick in January 2014, but was pushed back a year. "http://money.cnn.com/2013/07/08/smallbusiness/obamacare-fatburger/index.html
•  "The change has allowed Massachusetts to raise its Medicare payout by $257 million, forcing cuts to hospitals in 40 other states. The National Rural Health Association and 20 state hospital associations in January sent a panicked letter to President Obama, noting that the Massachusetts manipulation of the program would hand that state $3.5 billion over the next 10 years at the expense of Medicare beneficiaries everywhere. They quoted Mr. Obama's former head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Donald Berwick, admitting that 'What Massachusetts gets comes from everybody else.'" http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323393804578557802237872788.html
• 10 Obamacare fumbles: 
  http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/309261-10-obamacare-fumbles
•  That's the trifecta of obfuscation, and the reason is easily explained. Montana Democratic U.S. Sen. Max Baucus, who voted for Obamacare, has described the bill and its implementation as a "train wreck." Now Obama's announcement has confirmed that the White House not only is having a terrible time implementing the massive changes mandated by Obamacare but fears the political consequences that could come into play in November 2014. In other words, it's the worst of all possible situations — bad policy and bad politics. In an effort to avoid double-trouble, President Obama, through his minion, temporarily pulled the plug on the employer mandate — the requirement that companies with 50 or more employees must pay a $2,000 per employee penalty if they do not provide health insurance that meets Obama's specifications.In Obamaworld, the mandate makes perfect sense — just order it and thy will be done.In the real world, it poses problems — one of the biggest being that employers who can't afford either employee health insurance or the $2,000 per employee penalty pursue legal efforts to avoid it.
  http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/editorials/2013-07-07/health-care-plan-posing-problem.html
•  If you thought the delay in the employer mandate was bad news for Obamacare, just wait. On Friday, Sarah Kliff and Sandhya Somashekhar of the Washington Post discovered that the Obama administration had buried in the Federal Register the announcement that the government won’t be able to verify whether or not applicants for Obamacare’s insurance exchange subsidies are actually qualified for the aid, in the 16 states that are setting up their own exchanges. Instead, until at least 2015, these states will be able to “accept the applicant’s attestation [regarding eligibility] without further verification.” http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2013/07/06/not-qualified-for-obamacares-subsidies-just-lie-govt-to-use-honor-system-without-verifying-your-eligibility/
•  "For years I have been writing about the failures of the United Kingdom’s National Health Service as a warning for what the Affordable Care Act will do to health care here in the U.S. London’s Daily Mail has chronicled the problems with the NHS, which include declining quality of care and availability of services coupled with increased costs. This is what is in store for us, if Congress does not repeal Obamacare." http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/editorials/2013/06/07/obamacare-will-bring-britains-health-care-problems-to-u-s-.html
•  "Ohio Department of Insurance officials announced last week that average premiums in the Buckeye state would soar 88 percent once President Obama's health care law kicks in. The news added fuel to an already raging debate over Obamacare's effect on insurance costs. Ohio's insurance department disclosed that a total of 14 insurance companies had proposed rates on 214 plans to be offered through the federally run insurance exchange set to open on Oct. 1 and begin providing benefits in January." http://washingtonexaminer.com/philip-klein-obamacares-rate-shock-hits-the-buckeye-state/article/2531747
•  "The main focus of our analysis is assessing access to primary-care physicians under the health-care law. The reason for this focus is twofold: first, we already know that we will be facing a primary-care shortage in the coming years, so understanding the role that Obamacare plays in affecting the shortage is important; second, much of the law was motivated by the argument that expanding access to inexpensive (or free) preventive care and primary care physicians would ultimately bend the curve of health-care spending." http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/mpr_15.htm#.Udny4KzNmGt
•  "The High Cost Plan Excise Tax, which is often referred to as the 'Cadillac Tax' is one of the revenue raising provisions in the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The excise tax is calculated by comparing the cost of an employer-sponsored plan (which includes premiums paid by the employer and/or employee as well as any contributions into health accounts such as health savings accounts of flex savings accounts) to a benchmark, which will be adjusted every year based on the Consumer Product Index (CPI). Any amount above the benchmark is taxed at 40 percent; this tax is levied on the health insurance company but is generally understood to be passed onto the consumer, or firm purchasing that plan." See this PDF for more info: http://americanactionforum.org/sites/default/files/Cadillac%20Tax%20Primer%20Final.pdf
•  "Whatever the reason for the reluctance of the state created exchanges to include private business participants, the end result is that taxpayers will spend millions of dollars unnecessarily while fewer people are likely to be enrolled in qualified health insurance programs—and that is just wrong." http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2013/06/06/obamacare-insurance-exchanges-creating-roadblocks-to-enrollment-while-wasting-millions-in-taxpayer-money/
• Doctors will have to take pay cuts to make Obamacare work. Let's just pay them minimum wage. They come out of medical school with huge loans to pay off, but screw them....and who cares if we place our lives in their hands. How dare they make lots of money! Let's have poor, unhappy doctors doing our/our kids' neurosurgeries and life saving operations. Let's have poor, unhappy people determining how to make us healthier..... "For Obamacare to succeed, American doctors need to earn less money.Last week, Washington took a step in that direction. One of Medicare’s influential advisory boards recommended that payment rates to providers be sanded down." http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottgottlieb/2013/06/28/doctors-will-have-to-take-a-pay-cut-under-obamacare/
•  Hollywood loopholes? ""The entertainment industry is already having difficulty determining whether employees can be considered full-time or part-time and is fearful of the fines it will face if it chooses incorrectly. Another issue the health law creates is the outsourcing of productions to foreign countries, since Obamacare's regulations and fines don't apply to US citizens abroad. Studios may find it much cheaper to film in another country and avoid the burden of Obamacare."http://washingtonexaminer.com/hollywood-braces-for-obamacare/article/2532457
•  all of Obama's lies about Obamacare in a 3 minute montage: http://debphillips.com/liberty/obamacare-broken-promises-07-02-2013.mp3 Obama is a lying sack of donkey dung.