Does Ted Cruz’s new top candidate in New Hampshire actually have Obamacare even though she bashes it? Or does she have a non-Obamacare compliant Freedom Fighter plan? Does she even have health insurance at all? Normally these questions would be private matters. But basing her campaign in large part around bashing Obamacare they become relevant. And everyone got curious after she initially refused to answer the question. We tried to get to the bottom of the story yesterday after her campaign had managed to snow other news outlets that didn’t seem to catch the contradictions in the earlier statements from the campaign. We talked to them and got a series of statements that didn’t seem to add up or didn’t show any clear understanding of how health care insurance or Obamacare works, requests to go off the record and more. Finally we were told the campaign would send a definitive statement by the end of yesterday. That statement never came and now they’ve gone silent entirely. Here’s the latest on what we’ve learned.
Eyewitness fired for speaking out about Palin white rage incident raising funds to support family while looking for new job.
Maureen Dowd now emerging as poster child for responsible weed consumption in ads from pot industry and moderate doob movement.
Nate Silver says fellow forecaster’s model is “wrong”.
Well, this is turning out well. Member of polygamous Mormon splinter-group successfully cites Hobby Lobby to avoid testifying in federal court about child labor case.
A Doctor for Toronto Mayor Rob Ford today announced that the Mayor has a rare and aggressive form of cancer that affects the fat cells. The tumor itself is in Ford’s abdomen but it is not a tumor of one of the abdominal organs. The technical term is pleomorphic liposarcoma.
Important read from ProPublica on how health insurance companies are getting around Obamacare’s ban on discrimination against pre-existing conditions.
Remember how one of the biggest GOP attack memes on Obamacare was enrollees not actually paying their premiums? Sure, they might be “signing up,” but were they actually writing that check when it counts?
Well, today the government announced that more than 7 million people have enrolled and paid their premiums. To put that number in perspective, 7 million was the target for signups during the open enrollment period, without regard to whether they had paid yet.
Did people pay in significant numbers? Yes. Is a death spiral looming? For this and myriad other reasons, no.
Texas took a major step today toward rejecting the new “anti-American” Advanced Placement American History curriculum.