How Obama would fix the ACA's 'Cadillac Tax' - CSMonitor.com

The Affordable Care Act's Cadillac Tax on high-cost employer-sponsored health plans has few friends on Capitol Hill, but a top administration adviser argues that it is a 'crucial tool' for making the US healthcare system more efficient...
http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Tax-VOX/2016/0210/How-Obama-would-fix-the-ACA-s-Cadillac-Tax

Here's a Huge and Undercovered Obamacare Success Story

Bottom line: Obamacare may have missed CBO's target for exchange enrollment by 7 million or so, but much of this is because it beat CBO's target for private insurance by 24 million...
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/02/heres-huge-and-undercovered-obamacare-success-story

Obamacare Enrollment Up About 15 Percent This Year

Add to that about 15 million people enrolled in Medicaid thanks to the Obamacare expansion, and the total number of people covered this year comes to 28 million or so. This means Obamacare has reduced the ranks of the uninsured from 19 percent to about 10 percent. Not bad...
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/02/obamacare-enrollment-about-15-percent-year

Few States Use Health Law Option For Low-Cost Plans

In January, more than 350,000 New Yorkers began paying $20 a month or less for comprehensive health insurance with no deductibles and low copayments, for a type of coverage made possible by the federal health law. Minnesota has similar coverage in place through the same option, with more than 125,000 enrollees...
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/02/02/465184081/few-states-use-health-law-option-for-low-cost-plans

What's The Real Reason Ted Cruz Doesn't Have Health Insurance?

Was his own negligence to blame?
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ted-cruz-health-insurance-questions

Ignore The Naysayers – Single Payer Healthcare Is A Great Idea

The media is telling us that Bernie Sanders’ plan for a single payer healthcare option is unattainable, but the facts of the case say otherwise. These naysayers clearly have something to gain by downplaying a plan that most Americans support.
https://youtu.be/xnrCyD5Qlqw

HealthCare.Gov Enrollment Up 30 Percent Over Last Year

"These figures should allay concerns that enrollment is at risk of stagnating," he wrote.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/obamacare-enrollment-increase

Paul Ryan's shaky claim that Obamacare is 'making families pay double-digit premium increases'

The Affordable Care Act is "making families pay double-digit premium increases."
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/dec/20/paul-ryan/paul-ryans-shaky-claim-obamacare-making-families-p/

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Red States Begin To See The Light On Medicaid Expansion | ThinkProgress

“I am concerned about the plight of the working poor … If doctors are not paid for seeing those patients, doctors will not go to rural Alabama because you can’t expect a doctor to go to rural Alabama and lose money,” Gov. Robert Bentley told the Associated Press a week after Bevin’s Kentucky victory.
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2015/11/23/3725056/red-state-medicaid-expansion/

The Impact Of Obamacare On Cancer Outcomes Is Becoming Clearer | ThinkProgress

About 4 million young adults have gained insurance benefits through Obamacare, according to the latest federal data. There have been several other pieces of evidence that the law is linked to improved health outcomes among this group.
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2015/11/25/3725716/cervical-cancer-obamacare/

ObamaCare's Health At The Start Of Year Three (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

The Affordable Care Act – ObamaCare if you prefer – is headed into its active year three. Sign-up for the next year started Sunday. Two days after Republicans in the House voted for the 61st time to take it apart. On the campaign trail, GOP contenders are still talking about the repeal of ObamaCare. In communities across the country, millions of people are using it. In this hour we want to hear what that is like. The sign-up now. The service. The cost. And we’ll look at problems that remain, and how to fix them. This hour On Point, getting health insurance through Obamacare. — Tom Ashbrook
Interview:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2015/11/03/obamacare-affordable-care-act-enrollment

Carly Fiorina: 'Obamacare Isn't Helping Anyone'

Carly Fiorina delivered a lecture on the Affordable Care Act during the Republican Fox Business debate tonight. I'm going to quote driftglass' live bl... Read more

John Oliver Rips GOP's Torpedoing of Obamacare (VIDEO)

Last Week Tonight puts a human face on the right's anti-Medicaid demagoguery.
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Forget What I Said In 2012! Mitt Romney Gives Giant Bear Hug To 'Obamneycare'

Mitt Romney is finally ready to take credit for Obamacare. Speaking to the Boston Globe for their obituary of Staples founder Thomas G. Stemberg, who... Read more

House Passes 'Filibuster-Proof' O-care Repeal That Still Might Die In The Senate

The House of Representatives passed Friday what was supposed to be their best shot at an Obamacare repeal measure to get through the Senate and onto t... Read more

Jeb Bush’s Obamacare Replacement Scraps Protections For People With Pre-Existing Conditions

Jeb Bush claims that "innovation" would help lower costs as he scraps protections for women and those with pre-existing ... Read more

Real Time with Bill Maher: New Rule – The Sunk Cost Fallacy (HBO)

In his editorial New Rule, Bill Maher discusses the Sunk Cost Fallacy – the idea that the more money, time or effort one invests in a cause, the less likely they are to give up on it.
https://youtu.be/2JnJP2KmPvs

Lawmakers Sue To Take Away People’s Health Care, Send $450,000 Legal Bill To Taxpayers

Someone's about to get health care? Quick, somebody sue!  ... Read more

Federal Appeals Courts Unanimous in Support of Obamacare’s Birth Control Accommodation

The decision came from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in a challenge brought by six Catholic groups in Tennessee and Michigan, which argued the process of completing the paperwork to receive the accommodation unduly burdened their religious rights.
http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2015/08/24/federal-appeals-courts-unanimous-support-obamacares-birth-control-accommodation/