Millionaires Are Qualifying for Medicaid Under Obamacare

Feb. 10, 2016
Good morning from Washington, where President Obama's final budget landed with a thud. Incredulous Republican lawmakers are making fun of the package, which increases spending by 4.9 percent, Philip Wegmann reports. Want a quick rundown? Kelsey Harkness has a 30-second video. Wait, millionaires get Medicaid? Melissa Quinn has the story. Heritage Foundation veteran Kim Holmes explores two hot topics: the feminist kerfuffle and Beyoncé's flirtation with the Black Panthers. Plus: A blue state embraces right to work.
News Millionaires Are Qualifying for Medicaid Under Obamacare Jesse Patton, an insurance broker living in Iowa, has had clients with net worths ranging from $2 million to $5 million, which often stem from farmland or assets from divorce settlements. And those clients, he said, are enrolled in Medicaid in expansion states like Iowa. Read More
News Obama's Budget, Explained in 30 Seconds The Daily Signal recaps the $4.1 trillion budget proposal President Barack Obama sent Congress Tuesday for fiscal year 2017. Watch the Video
News How a Blue State Came to Love the Right to Work The Obama administration's regulatory "war on coal" created casualties in the fossil fuel-dependent state and an opportunity Republicans seized in 2014. Read More
Commentary Identity Politics Is Causing a War Among Feminists Old-school feminists are not happy with young women these days. Seemingly commenting on why some young women favor Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton, feminist icon Gloria Steinem explained it is because they were thinking, "Where are the boys?" Read More
News Here's Why Republicans Are Mocking Obama's Final Budget Proposal Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., quipped that "the only positive thing about this budget request is that it's the last one we will receive from President Obama." Read More
Commentary Why Beyoncé Shouldn't Have Honored Black Panthers in Super Bowl Show The Black Panthers movement was known to have shootouts with the police—and even occasionally torture and murder snitches in its ranks. To make that a symbolic carrier of the Black Lives Matter movement was meant to convey that it is now "cool" to embrace violence, mayhem, and frankly even racial separatism in the cause of civil rights. Read More
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