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Is your state setting up an ObamaCare health insurance exchange? If it is, your local Obamacrats should have a cost estimate for how much their services will cost each year starting in 2015. This presents a great opportunity for those of us in at least some of the states trying to throw their people in the deep end of the pool. Think about it: no | Read More »
Sen. Mitch McConnell has asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to consider pulling cheaper generic versions of some pain medicines off the market before they become available to consumers in 2013. The controversy involves release of prescription opiates in generic form lacking a tamper-resistant feature intended to prevent some abuse of brand name drugs like Oxycontin. The very best possible outcome of this action | Read More »
Late Tuesday afternoon, Michigan’s state Senate Insurance Committee will approve House Bill 5805, the “Health Care Sharing Ministries Freedom to Share Act.” The bill doesn’t need any Democrats’ votes to become law in Michigan, but it does need a closer look. The concept is simple: religious health sharing is medical coverage designed to serve people of a similar faith while also avoiding government regulation. Health | Read More »
Five state House Republican candidates yesterday urged Kentucky Senate President David Williams to unilaterally dismantle a legislative pension grab costing taxpayers millions of dollars. Chris Hightower, Lynn Bechler, Jason Crockett, Bryan Lutz and Matt Lockett agreed to the following statement: “Should Senate President David Williams accept appointment to the circuit judgeship in his home district, we encourage him to set a strong example for future | Read More »
ObamaCare advocates in the Kentucky Department of Insurance are plotting to require all health insurance policies in Kentucky to cover abortions among the “essential health benefits” required by the federal law. Whether you oppose abortions or not, this is a bad idea. It is wrong to force Kentuckians to pay for abortions, particularly those who are pro-life. It’s also wrong for the government to force Kentuckians to buy insurance policies | Read More »
The Louisville Tea Party is sponsoring an anti-ObamaCare rally at the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort on Tuesday, August 21 at 11:30 am. Featured speakers include U.S. Senators Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell. Winning the battle for health freedom has to be the top tea party issue until candidates in any party are terrified to run on any platform that does not include health freedom as one of its | Read More »
Two national news articles in the last three days about Christian health sharing have mentioned Kentucky’s battle against Christian Care Medi-Share. In one, Medi-Share CEO Tony Meggs suggests his company’s legal problems will be wiped away when Judge Thomas Wingate sees Medi-Share has changed the way it handles it’s members money. That’s not likely. Medi-Share was found to be an unregistered health insurance company in | Read More »
After repeatedly refusing to meet with Christian Care Medi-Share to discuss their legal status, the Kentucky Department of Insurance now seems to be coming around. A Department spokesperson said a meeting may take place in August. The state’s newly found interest in openness on the issue of religious health sharing organizations and their superiority to government-regulated health insurance doesn’t immediately address the organizations’ real legal | Read More »
Kentucky’s quiet war on Christians has taken another odd twist. Official Kentucky inaction on a consumer protection specifically guaranteed in the ObamaCare Affordable Care Act unconstitutionally harms citizens by limiting consumer healthcare choices. Repeated delays in a Department of Insurance investigation leaves unclear the legal status of religious based health sharing organizations and their members, who were granted an exemption from the ObamaCare insurance coverage | Read More »