Debunking the GOP’s Obamacare Tax Meme Again
An old Republican lie about Obamacare and taxes is making the rounds again, so as a public service, here is a handy antidote
An old Republican lie about Obamacare and taxes is making the rounds again, so as a public service, here is a handy antidote
These are the halcyon days for PoliticusUSA. Staff writers and contributors have an endless smorgasbord of Republican rubbish to expose. You could write on a different issue that Republicans have twisted and misrepresented every day for a year and you still wouldn’t cover the endless destruction wrought through their fealty to the corporate multi-national gods….
The red states are the backbone of the Republican Party, but growing evidence suggests that opposition to ObamaCare expansion is falling apart in the GOP stronghold.
The news that more people signed up for ObamaCare in the first week this year than last year combined with skyrocketing private sector job growth under the ACA has sent the Republican Party into silence.
President Obama isn’t content with what the ACA has achieved. President Obama is urging Americans to sign up for ObamaCare as the wildly successful law has led to a 45% plunge in the uninsured rate.
Democrats and President Obama have cause to celebrate as the CDC has found that the uninsured rate in the United States has fallen to a record low of 9%.
Three years after he ran for president by promising to repeal Obamacare, Republican Mitt Romney finally admitted that his Massachusetts healthcare plan is just like ObamaCare.
Tomorrow, House Republicans are slated to pass “filibuster-proof” legislation founded on religion to defund Planned Parenthood and Obamacare
The recent revelation of a House Freedom Caucus ‘questionnaire for prospective candidates for the Speakers’ position clears up why Republicans are terrified of being Speaker, and why there is no good outcome as long as Cruz’s House Freedom Caucus is allowed to exist.
According to the latest PPP Poll, more Americans support Obamacare than oppose it as Democrats have become unified in their support of the ACA.
President Obama’s signature health care law is surging past 2015 expectations as 17.6 million Americans have signed up under Obamacare.
A new study from the Urban Institute proves that Republicans are wrong about Obamacare killing jobs.
The good news keeps coming for President Obama as his signature legislative achievement, Obamacare, has caused the number of uninsured Americans to fall to a new record low.
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) delivered a new moment of Republican failure when he was asked on CBS’s Face The Nation what Republicans can do realistically to stop Obamacare.
More bad news for Republicans. President Obama announced today that he planned to go on offense and continue working to expand the reach of Obamacare to cover more Americans.
Join PoliticusUSA at 4 PM ET for a live chat/celebration of President Obama’s big win as the Supreme Court ruled in favor of ACA subsidies.
The Presbyterian Office of Public Witness Director put out a statement applauding the Supreme Court decision on Obamacare, hoping the nation can now focus on poverty and inequality.
Hillary Clinton isn’t just running on the Affordable Care Act. She is making Obama a key issue. Sec Hillary Clinton challenged the Republican presidential candidates, “Anyone seeking to lead our country should stand up and support this decision.”
According to a new CBS News/New York Times poll, for the first time ever in the poll’s history, more Americans approve than disapprove of the Affordable Care Act.
As Republicans are working the Supreme Court to take Obamacare away from everyone in states that have not set up their own exchange, a new Commonwealth Fund survey has found that Obamacare is actually really liked.
Paul Ryan got stopped dead in his tracks by Rep. Sander Levin (D-MI) while he was trying to grandstand and trash Obama during an unrelated House hearing.
President Obama delivered a blunt message to Republicans. If they cynically mess with Obamacare, they will be harming he lives of millions of Americans.
The town that signed up the most people for Obamacare is a “solidly Republican working-class town” in Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio’s “stomping grounds”.
New data released today blew the Republican anti-Obamacare argument to smithereens as 137 million Americans are saving money due to the ACA’s free preventative services.
Democrats are seizing the opportunity that is being presented by the combination of the increasing popularity of Obamacare and a Republican party that is paralyzed by years of its own ACA rhetoric.
Republican nightmares have become reality as a new survey revealed that customer satisfaction with Obamacare has skyrocketed to the where it is now more popular than all other insurance options.
President Obama let loose on Republicans today by explaining that the GOP will never be able to come up with their own health care plan because Obamacare was based on their ideas.
A day after announcing his presidential campaign by calling for the repeal of the ACA, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) admitted that he would be signing up for Obamacare.
Since 2009 it has been painfully obvious that Republicans or their supporters do not want Americans to have access to healthcare whatsoever, and it is particularly curious because they claim to be devout followers of Christ.
It took the White House just a few seconds to destroy Ted Cruz for running for president on repealing the Affordable Care Act. All Press Secretary Josh Earnest did was make reference to Mitt Romney, and Cruz was put in his place.
While announcing that the ACA is beating all projections, President Obama reminded Republicans that they were wrong about Obamacare.
A new Kaiser Health Tracking Poll found that Congressional Republicans are living in a difference universe from most Americans. The poll found that 64% of Americans want to Congress to act to restore ACA subsidies if the Supreme Court rules against the health care law.
If there’s one bargaining tactic Congressional Republican lawmakers have perfected since President Obama took the oath of office in January 2009, it’s trying to cut off America’s nose to spite its face.
Ben Carson thinks Obamacare is unconstitutional because it doesn’t help everybody. The only problem with that is that it DOES help everybody
A new study by the White House Council of Economic Advisers has found that thanks to the Affordable Care Act, the percentage of Americans who lack health insurance is heading for a historic low.
Almost half a million people signed up for Obamacare in one week.
Sen. Bernie Sanders explained on MSNBC that Republicans are very nervous about the success of Obamacare because the ACA proves their ideology that the government can’t help people wrong.
It appears nothing short of an outright ban, and criminalization, of all forms of birth control will satisfy the United States Council of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).
The White House was careful not criticize the Supreme Court for deciding to hear the case which could determine the legality of ACA subsidies in 34 states, but it called the lawsuit itself another partisan attempt to undermine the healthcare law.
Mitch McConnell and John Boehner have announced that one of the first things that the new Republican controlled Congress will do it take away health insurance from 1 million Americans.
Today, in a 2-1 split decision, the Republican judges on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals embraced a controversial interpretation of the ACA that believes all subsidies issued through the federal marketplace are illegal. The decision is expected to be overturned.
The worst nightmare of the Republican Party has come true as a new Bloomberg poll found that 66% of Americans want to keep their Obamacare.
As Republicans refuse to fund the VA to its needs and continue to sell themselves out to the highest corporate bidder, going to bat for more tax breaks for big business whilst imposing austerity on Americas workers, they are also coming for your Obamacare tax credits now.
Republicans are openly admitting that they have given up on bashing Obamacare, and are now trying to distract voters with Benghazi.
Republicans are so crushed by the news that total ACA enrollment has reached 17.8 million that they are immediately trying to forget Obamacare, and are changing the subject to Benghazi.
In the key state of Louisiana, Sen. Mary Landrieu isn’t running away from Obamacare. She is using the ACA as weapon to point out how Republicans who have health insurance deny it to others.
Obamacare is a winner for Democrats. It’s the biggest winner any true Democrat campaigning for office in 2014 could possibly hope for.
David Gregory’s endless cheerleading for Republicans was gutted with a dose of reality from DNC Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) on Meet The Press today.
Another Republican Obamacare lie bit the dust today as CBO director Douglas Elmendorf testified before the House Budget Committee today that the ACA will reduce unemployment.
Sandy Levin scathingly destroyed Eric Cantor’s silly claim that Obamacare was on “borrowed time” in his opening remarks during a House hearing.
Mitch McConnell had the nerve today to demand on the Senate floor that President Obama use the State Of The Union to announce that he is ditching Obamacare.
The defeated Republican anti-Obamacare forces are in full retreat after ACA enrollment in healthcare plans surged past 3 million.
The dirty little secret that congressional Republicans are carrying around with them is that while they are campaigning on killing the ACA, they quietly threw up the white flag and voted to fund Obamacare before they left town.
Mitch McConnell pulled a deplorable stunt on the Senate floor today when he offered to extend unemployment benefits, but only if Democrats kill Obamacare.
Sen. Bernie Sanders told the GOP they will lose on healthcare, “Republicans have nothing to say, all they can do is play the anti-Obamacare card and hope it fails. And they’re going to lose on that.”
Little by little the media is finally realizing what many of us have known for weeks, the ACA website is fixed and people are signing up.
In case you hadn’t already heard, it appears that some of the problems with the Obamacare website aren’t exactly due to that incompetence thing that Bob Woodward likes to pin on the Obama administration.
President Obama stood up today and took responsibility for the mistakes that have been made in the ACA, but he took on Republicans by vowing to fight for he healthcare law and the uninsured.
The media is quick to look for anything negative about Obamacare, but they protect the real culprit: insurance company behavior
Rick Perry accused President Obama of fraud today, at the same time that he is refusing to expand Medicaid and denying 1 million Texans healthcare.
The ongoing war against the ACA by Republican messiah Ted Cruz is an attack on women that he enlisted ALEC’s assistance to continue.
What Rand Paul doesn’t realize is that the plot of Gattaca perfectly represents his own governing philosophy. And that isn’t a good thing.
President Obama called out the media today for misleading the American people with inaccurate stories about people having their health insurance canceled due to the ACA.
Gail Roach, a 57-year-old retired Pittsburgh School Board employee, is going to pay just $1.11 a month for health insurance thanks to ObamaCare.
If you were to believe the headlines, it would appear that Blue Cross and their ilk are terrified of ACA. Quite the opposite is true.
The government shutdown caused by the House Republicans has killed 120,000 jobs, but John Boehner spent a press conference today seeing a pink elephant labeled Obamacare killing the economy.
Ted Cruz is little more than a figurehead of a much larger conspiracy whose real leaders are teabaggers Charles and David Koch and Jim DeMint
The Republican “solution” to the non-existent government exemption from the ACA actually creates a government exemption from the ACA.
It can hardly be disputed that throughout Barack Obama’s tenure as President, Republicans have not made one concession or presented one piece of legislation to benefit the people.
The DOJ will have an easy time prosecuting and convicting the Kochs because there are money trails leading directly to PACs whose primary purpose was inciting opposition to the established law.
Republicans exposed themselves as the traitors they are because about 70% of the 86,000 civilians employed at 16 U.S. intelligence agencies have been furloughed.
Charles and David Koch may own the Republican Party, but during his speech on the ACA, President Obama showed today that he owns the Kochs.
Looking like a hostage reading the demands of his captors, Speaker John Boehner promised to win the already lost fight to defund Obamacare at his weekly press conference today.
Most Americans would love a situation where a financial institution paid them handsomely for repaying their debts, but that is precisely what Republicans expect from the American people.
The President told the audience that the Republican plans to shut down the government unless the Affordable Care Act is defunded is not an economic plan.
President Obama broke out the whooping stick today, and ripped Republicans for their intentional campaign to mislead people about Obamcare.
It is the health law’s success stories that have Republicans in a panic and it is the third reason they are going all in to sabotage the ACA; it is successful.
In the strongest language that he has ever used, President Obama called out Republicans today for wanting to deny 30 million Americans healthcare.
Legislation to repeal healthcare reform continues to go nowhere, so the Republican Party is now trying to defeat Obamacare by convincing the uninsured not to buy health insurance.
Conservatism has been described as the belief that no one should be the first person to do anything … and House Republicans are taking that seriously.
Republicans are not only shocked after President Obama took the air out of their balloon, but the president has left John Boehner swinging blindly at the air with his big 2014 issue gone.
This week, the President led an important conference with new initiatives on mental health, but it was overlooked in favor of other news.
Fox News is so desperate for a scandal that they have combined the IRS and Obamacare into a claim that the IRS is going to use Obamacare to deny conservatives health care.
A new Kaiser Family Foundation poll revealed that Republicans are facing a big challenge if they want to repeal Obamacare. Namely, 20% of Americans think the law has already been repealed.
Republicans are threatening to hold the debt limit increase hostage and they can hardly wait to present their ransom demands to President Obama.
By attacking Medicare Fraud instead of benefits, the Obama Administration cut healthcare costs by billions for the second year in a row.
Grover Norquist made a fool out himself by demanding a return to the Reagan era tax rates, which were higher than taxes are under President Obama.
The latest joke from Republicans was offered up by Eric Cantor who called for Obama to put Obamacare on the table for elimination in order for Republicans to compromise on revenue increases.
Jon Stewart hammered the so called job creators for using Obamacare as an excuse for layoffs. Stewart said, ‘Obamacare is just the latest excuse to rig the social contract.’
Deval Patrick issued a fiery call to Democrats to rally around Obama, implying that Romney is more interested in having the job than doing it
President Obama showed Mitt Romney why choosing Paul Ryan was a big mistake, by immediately linking Ryan to the most unpopular House of Representatives in American history.
As the birth control mandate went into effect this week, religious freedom arguments continue to threaten it. Here’s why they’re wrong.
An entire segment of the population is not intelligent enough to realize they were handed the precious gift of access to healthcare by the Supreme Court.
Republicans are exposing themselves as enemies of the people they are elected to represent and provide an environment where all Americans are able to prosper in the pursuit of happiness.
If you listen closely you can hear the panic starting to grow in Republican circles as a new poll reveals that support for the Supreme Court’s ACA decision has reached 50%.
Hidden behind the right’s propaganda about a massive tax hike is the fact that Obamacare is forcing insurance companies issues a refund worth $1.1 billion to the American people.
Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to violate federal law and not implement Obamacare was blown to shreds today, as he was told that the ACA is the law of the land, and he must implement it.
Justice Thomas literally got the last word, and this is interesting in light of comments I heard Justice Thomas make at a reception I attended in February.
After the Supreme Court ruled against them on the ACA, Republicans have retreated from reality and launch an assault of lies on Obamacare.
A new poll found more than three-fourths of Americans do not want their political leaders to leave the health care system alone in the event the court throws out the health care law.