More Bad News For Obamacare

By Gary L. Bauer  PreferredOne Health Insurance the largest insurer with the cheapest rates in Minnesotas state-run exchange announced this week that it was pulling out. The bad news about Obamacare just keeps coming. Here is the latest batch of headlines: Doctors dont like Obamacare. If you have health insurance through Obamacare youd better consider identity theft protection too.

• PreferredOne Health Insurance the largest insurer with the cheapest rates in Minnesotas state-run exchange announced this week that it was pulling out. Company executives said it was purely a business decision because continued participation in the exchange was not sustainable.
• If you have health insurance through Obamacare youd better consider identity theft protection too. The Government Accountability Office warned this week that Healthcare.gov is exposing ¦ data and its supporting systems to significant risks of unauthorized access use disclosure modification and disruption.

Security experts warned last year <http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/11/security-experts-warn-healthcare-gov-is-vulnerable-to-hacking/>  that the site was so bad it should be taken down. But the administration ignored its own security procedures then <http://www.cbsnews.com/news/healthcaregov-ducked-final-security-requirements-before-launch/>  and it is still ignoring them now. 

• Doctors dont like Obamacare. According to a survey of 20000 doctors 46 gave Obamacare a D or an F while just 25 gave it an A or B. In fact 39 of doctors dislike it so much that they are going to accelerate their retirement plans due to changes in the healthcare system.
• Taxpayers are getting ripped off. The billion-dollar website <http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/feds-healthcaregov-could-cost-17-billion_803866.html>  was bad enough. But adding insult to injury it was reported this week that a company awarded a $1.2 billion contract by the Obama Administration to process paper applications has in fact processed less than 5 of the expected number of applications. At that rate the company is billing taxpayers more than $4400 per application.

A Victory For Religious Liberty  Monday we reported on the cross controversy at Arkansas State University. Members of the football team wanted to wear cross stickers on the backs of their helmets as a tribute to a former teammate and former equipment manager who died this year. But hyper-sensitive bureaucrats caved in to the anti-religious bigotry from the folks at the left-wing Freedom From Religion Foundation and banned the crosses. Thankfully our friends at the Liberty Institute stepped up to defend the First Amendment freedoms of free expression and religious liberty of the players. The university has reversed course. It will no longer prevent team members from wearing the cross stickers so long as it is totally voluntary and completely independent of university involvement.