Mitt Romney must feel like “Bizarro Jerry.” I reference an episode when the title character of the Seinfeld television series and his whacky bunch find that things are not as they seem, notably as Elaine discovers a group of men who are the polar opposites of her close friends Jerry, George and Kramer.

The recent judicial trend seems to be that the signature legislation of President Obama and congressional Democrats is that their effort to seize one-fifth of the U.S. economy from the private sector and empower the federal government to dictate that Americans purchase health insurance violates what our nation’s founders deemed, “The Supreme Law of the Land.”

Okay, so now the portion of Obamacare that requires all Americans to purchase health insurance has been struck down by a federal judge in Virginia. But what now?

An article in the Thanksgiving edition of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution shows the myriad inconsistencies and irrationalities of the new health insurance overhaul law — dubbed “health care reform” — and spells out how the federal government is paving the way for the demise of the health insurance broker.

In the hours following key Republican wins in last week’s elections, soon-to-be Speaker of the House John Boehner denounced the new health insurance overhaul law, while Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell called for an immediate vote to repeal the legislation.

Last week I had a quick conversation with my Maryland congressman at the Starbucks near our IFA offices, and came to understand more fully the dilemma that Democrats face in the midterm elections, and why voters are frustrated that candidates still don’t get it.

In the same manner that he encouraged Congressional Democrats to pass health care reform legislation, President Obama is using a loophole to make a recess appointment to head up CMS, …  Read →

Connecticut became the first state to permanently add low-income adults to its Medicaid program under the new federal health reform law.

President Barack Obama, marking the 90th day since passage of federal health reform legislation, met with chief executives from more than a dozen insurance companies, warning them against raising rates in response to new requirements placed on them.

The organization representing state insurance commissioners has scheduled a two-day hearing in July in Washington, D.C., to discuss issues resulting from the passage of federal health care reform legislation earlier this year.