A physician explains why Obama's focus on insurance coverage is a political smokescreen: "Doctors like me look at health insurance very differently than Obama does. To us, insurance often presents a cumbersome roadblock to actual health care."

Dr. Marc Siegel: Why this doctor hates Obamacare

When President Obama gave an impassioned defense of Obamacare last week in advance of this November

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NC Blue Cross announces rate increase of 24.3 percent for ACA...

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina has announced it will increase premiums for Affordable Care Act plans on the individual market by an...

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Surgery Center of Oklahoma

Recently, a U.S. Congressman attempted to delegitimize the free market healthcare movement because he described a situation in which healthcare could not be priced ahead of time. Here's my response.

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"How bad is the problem? Nobody really knows." Of course, some people will say, just ratchet up the subsidies even more ... more free stuff! The problem is, at some point, you run out of other people's money....

The Obamacare problem that Democrats don't want to talk about

A looming affordability challenge that the White House rarely discusses.

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"Smug propagandists for Obamacare, such as liberal magazine Mother Jones, continue to dismiss the plight of millions of families like mine and accuse us of concocting a 'phony' crisis. But it's the architects of Obamacare who prevaricated all along. Remember: Obamacare godfather and MIT professor Jonathan Gruber bragged that 'lack of transparency' was a 'huge political advantage,' along with what he derided as 'the stupidity of the American voter.'"

Obama Lied. My Third Health Plan Just Died. | RealClearPolitics

Once was a shock. Twice was an outrage. Thrice is a nightmare that won't end. Over the past three years, my family's private, individual health insurance plan -- a high-deductible Preferred Provider...

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So here's where Obamacare is today... Millions of Americans are losing their health plans. When they look for a new plan, there are fewer choices. The plans that remain cost more--far, far more when we consider the subsidies taxpayers are forced to pay. And, as this article points out at the end, even people who are paying more are getting less and worried about losing access to doctors and treatments they need.

More Than 1 Million in Obamacare Are Set to Lose Plans as Insurers Quit

A growing number of people in Obamacare are finding out their health insurance plans will disappear from the program next year, forcing them to...

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Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs

Oklahomans on Obamacare may see their insurance rates skyrocket. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Oklahoma, the only health insurer offering plans on the federal exchange in 2017, has submitted increases for individual market plans ranging from 58 to 96 percent.

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