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Why the 62nd Time Was the Charm for the GOP to Repeal Obamacare

By Money Morning Staff Reports, Money Morning - December 4, 2015

Yesterday, the Republican-controlled Senate voted to repeal Obamacare.

The overall vote was 52 to 47. It was the 62nd vote to repeal all or part of the 2010 statute.

Here's a look at the creative ways and means the GOP took to get it this far, and what will likely happen next...

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Why the 62nd Time Was the Charm for the GOP to Repeal Obamacare

By Money Morning Staff Reports, Money Morning - December 4, 2015

Yesterday, the Republican-controlled Senate voted to repeal Obamacare.

The overall vote was 52 to 47. It was the 62nd vote to repeal all or part of the 2010 statute.

Here's a look at the creative ways and means the GOP took to get it this far, and what will likely happen next...

Obamacare Facts: "We Have Insurance, but We Can't Afford to Use It"

By David Zeiler, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @DavidGZeiler - November 20, 2015

Obamacare facts: While the Affordable Healthcare Act (ACA) has helped millions of low-income Americans get medical care, middle-class citizens who have signed up for Obamacare plans are getting crushed financially.

Many middle-class people who enrolled in an Obamacare plan have not only seen premium rates rise, but are getting stuck with steep deductibles. Despite having health insurance, these folks often find they can't afford treatment.

Here's what's gone wrong...

The Obamacare Lies That Duped America

By David Zeiler, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @DavidGZeiler - November 18, 2014

The Affordable Care Act was always too good to be true, but speaking the truth is bad medicine for controversial laws.

Now we know that the Obamacare lies of the past six years were calculated, intentional, and crafted to fool what the healthcare law's creators assumed to be an ignorant American public.

We know this because one of the ACA's central architects, Jonathan Gruber, an MIT professor, has said so in at least a half a dozen videos that recently surfaced on the Internet.

Were it not for these Obamacare lies, the ACA would have been strangled in its crib...

Obamacare Facts: Who to Blame and How to Profit as Healthcare Costs Soar

By David Zeiler, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @DavidGZeiler - August 25, 2014

Obamacare facts: As the fall enrollment period for healthcare coverage approaches, it's becoming clear that almost everyone is going to be paying more come January 2015.

Premiums are going up, co-pays are going up, and deductibles are going way up. The health insurance companies and most large employers say that the Affordable Care Act is to blame.

But the truth is far more complicated...

Obamacare Facts: Why the Unions Feel Betrayed

By David Zeiler, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @DavidGZeiler - March 12, 2014

After working tirelessly to get Obamacare passed - and spending millions of dollars in the process - labor unions have become some of the healthcare law's most vocal critics. The unions have a long list of grievances, although some non-union members

may find it hard to sympathize...

How Obamacare Has Failed the Uninsured in One Chart

By David Zeiler, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @DavidGZeiler - February 4, 2014

That the Affordable Care Act has so far fallen well short of its primary goal of providing coverage for most of the nation's 48 million uninsured has become increasingly clear as the sign-up data has trickled out.

So far, 3 million people have signed up for Obamacare, less than half of the target number of 7 million enrollees estimated by the Congressional Budget Office.

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