News
Politico | Barack Obama defends health care law, 'glitches' and all
President Barack Obama used insurance companies’ latest consumer refunds as a chance Thursday to again defend his health care law and to insist that despite “glitches,” the measure will be fully implemented.
National Journal | Democrats’ Couch Time is Over on Obamacare
Republicans have had the Affordable Care Act battlefield to themselves for a long time, but the pro-Obamacare forces are coming off the couch. The intense back-and-forth of the past few days is a taste of what’s to come as the most contentious parts of the law start phasing in this fall.
CNN Money | Obamacare delay passes insurance burden onto workers
Employers got a one year reprieve from having to offer health insurance. But workers at these companies still have to get coverage or pay a penalty.
Econ Comments & Analysis
WSJ | ObamaCare's Definition of a Full-Time Job Needs Revising
In Lafayette, Ind., a school district cut the hours of 200 support staff to no more than 29 per week. In Bangor, Maine, the school system is preparing to track and cap the number of hours worked by substitute teachers to ensure that they don't work more than 29 hours a week. Elsewhere, in Portland, Maine, a small business reduced a part-time employee's hours from 35 to 29.
CATO | Obamacare Allies Break Ranks
President Obama touted Obamacare’s supposed benefit Thursday in the hope of distracting attention from Wednesday’s bipartisan House vote that for the first time revealed fissures in congressional Democrats’ lockstep support for his health care law.
Blogs
Heritage Foundation | Obamacare, Simplified
With open enrollment in Obamacare’s exchanges set to start in fewer than three months, the law’s supporters are attempting to change the subject from Obamacare’s many delays and glitches. Instead, they’re mounting a campaign to sell the unpopular measure to the public.
