Double Down: Obamacare Will Increase Avg. Individual-Market Insurance Premiums By 99% For Men, 62% For Women

Forbes  via the Galen Institute   ....HHS releases a trickle of data and a load of spin
"Earlier this month, I and two colleagues from the Manhattan Institute—Yevgeniy Feyman and Paul Howard—published an interactive map that detailed Obamacare’s impact on individually-purchased health insurance premiums in 13 states plus D.C. As the accompanying article described, Obamacare increased premiums in those states by an average of 24 percent.

"But those states were largely blue states that had set up their own, state-based insurance exchanges. The big data dump that we’ve been waiting for, since then, is from the majority of states that didn’t set up their own state-based exchange. That data is the responsibility of the Obama administration, namely HHS. Finally, with less than a week to go before the exchanges are supposed to go on-line, HHS has released a slim, 15-page report and a press release that summarize some of the premium data."

Interactive map to help you estimate What Will Obamacare Cost You?

ABOUT THE MAP from the Manhattan Institute:

 

Vindictive Shutdown Theater

Vindictive Shutdown Theater

"This may simply be an extreme version of the Democrats’ usual strategy of closing the Washington Monument, but it is notable extremism: throwing people out of their homes and forcing the shutdown of non-federal facilities. It is, if anything, an excellent illustration of why conservatives believe that the tentacles of the federal government are too long and too many."

Chris Wallace Does a Job on Jack Lew

Jeannie DeAngelis  "Kudos to Chris Wallace of Fox News Sunday  for doing his patriotic - and journalistic - duty during a verbal wrestling match with Treasury Secretary Jack Lew.  The bout resulted in Jackie boy being pinned to the mat.
"Much to his chagrin, Jack came up against a logical, fair and smart journalist who, on behalf of America, outlined the incongruous series of statements coming from the Obama administration, which were accompanied by simple questions to the befuddled Lew."
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"Let's face it; much like his boss, Mr. Lew isn't used to being forced by a responsible journalist to give honest answers to questions he'd rather not answer, but Chris Wallace, who's unafraid, soldiered on:"...  

This vindictive president

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National Mall To Magically Re-Open For Left Wing Immigration Rally  

"The petty, vindictive Obama administration shut down open air war memorials to American veterans and closed part of a road so people couldn’t pull over to look at Mount Rushmore."   But.....

Rand Paul lays the responsibility for shutdown on Obama   [Savannah] "Guthrie attempted to force Paul to admit the GOP wanted to shut down the government or should be blamed for it. Paul quickly reminded Guthrie it is President Obama's fault for the shutdown because he will not negotiate."

Veterans at the Memorial: Showing Us What It Means to Be American  "A question Americans should answer for themselves is the one I am thinking through while standing at the National World War II Memorial on the Washington Mall this week. What kind of president doesn't do everything he can to ensure that the elderly American men in wheelchairs I see before me have access to "their" memorial--even during a government shutdown?"

Obama reportedly opens National Mall for amnesty rally Tuesday
"If this report is true, this sort of outrage ought to be sparking revulsion across the political spectrum, and probably would if low information voters were not shielded from knowledge of it by the media weasels."