February 6, 2014

Rubio forewarns of taxpayer bailout for Obamacare

Sen. Rubio recently testified before Issa’s Oversight Committee to highlight Section 1342 of Obamacare, which deals with risk corridors. According to Kaiser Health a risk corridor is

“part of this three-pronged approach to help insurers manage the financial risk of taking all comers, taking everyone who applies for insurance no matter what their health status, while at the same time keeping premiums affordable. The corridors allow insurance companies and the government to share higher than expected costs or profits. Actual claims are compared to the claims that insurers anticipated when they set up their premiums.”

Rubio states in his testimony that the problem with Obamacare’s risk corridors is they are “not a normal circumstance.” [Read more…]

October 1, 2013

OBAMACARE: Unions Secure Delay, Corporations Secure Delay – Why Not the American People?

Here’s what I can’t figure out about the showdown in DC – how can anyone, let alone the feds, ask the consumer to sign up for these Obamacare exchanges without knowing what the costs are up front? Are the Dem’s actually expecting the People to just sign up and get the sticker shock later? Not even their base is that stupid. So, what’s with the “my way or the highway” juvenile position from the Senate?

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September 17, 2013

REPORT ~ Benghazi Attacks: Investigative Update Interim Report on the Accountability Review Board

September 17, 2013

by Helen Tansey
The T-Room dot us

On Thursday Chair and Vice Chair, Ambassador Thomas Pickering and Admiral Michael Mullen respectively, of the State Department’s Accountability Review Board (ARB) will be testifying before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. [Read more…]

June 7, 2012

Fast & Furious Docs Show Holder's Deputies Knew More Than They Say

He [Issa] says the wiretap applications — aurthorized by top DoJ officials — demonstrate a complete familiarity with the tactic, thus undermining the DoJ’s current posture that they had no idea what gun-walking was until after Brian Terry had been shot. [Read more…]