The Wall Street Journal
The front page was almost all ObamaCare-related.
Top story, front page, ObamaCare: As the president pushed for a new federal health law in 2009, he made a
simple pledge: If you like your insurance plan, you can keep your plan.
But behind the scenes, White House officials discussed whether that was a
promise they could keep.
Pakistani officials report that a US drone killed the leader of the Pakistani Taliban. Don't we hear of "the" Taliban leader being killed about every other month. A cat with nine lives.
TSA checkpoints not designed to prevent shootings; LAX TSA agent killed; several injured.
Some House Republicans holding back on push to delay/defund ObamaCare. Finally.
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One more Achilles heel for ObamaCare: outspoken group bears brunt of canceled health plans. Somebody has to pay more to enable America's uninsured to take part in
the health-coverage marketplace. Unfortunately for the Obama
administration, those people tend to be politically savvy and very
vocal.
So which "outspoken group" is bearing the brunt of canceled health plans? People who blog! LOL.
Mr. Hamilton runs MacObserver.com, a website for fans of Apple
equipment based in Durham, N.H. He is one of the 10 million or so who
buy insurance on the individual market, don't qualify for subsidies
under the Affordable Care Act and recently received notice that their current plans don't comply with the law's standards and will be canceled.
Mr.
Hamilton, 42, said he expected to pay more. But his rates are expected
to rise by far more than the 20% he had calculated. And when Mr. Obama
in Boston this past week said most canceled plans were "substandard," he
went online to complain, vociferously.
According to a 2010 study by the Kaiser Family Foundation, a
health-policy think tank, 45% of people who buy their own insurance are
self-employed or small-business owners. A quarter are working but don't
have access or can't afford employer-provided insurance.
Many are young,
or employed part-time. An additional 11% are retired but not yet
eligible for Medicare.
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ObamaCare's mandate for birth control coverage violates First Amendment rights -- federal appeals court.
The Supreme Court's ruling ending federal oversight of elections in
mostly Southern states has opened the door to redistricting and minority
legal challenges in cities such as Pasadena, Texas.
Researchers are at odds over
whether raising the minimum wage will
reduce the extent to which fast-food workers use government benefits to
supplement their pay.
Government shutdown? What government shutdown?
U.S. factories notched their fifth straight month of expansion in October, bucking expectations that the federal government's 16-day shutdown would chill activity. Plastic manufacturers had a particularly good month, producing a record amount of highway construction cones necessary to shut off access to national monuments, like the WWII and Vietnam memorials in Washington, DC.
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Maybe more later; I'm off to soccer, swimming events.
