Survey says ObamaCare rate shocks accelerating

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o Survey says ObamaCare rate shocks accelerating
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o White Home mansplains misleading gender spend stats
o Koch-backed team flips script about Dems
o Is Actually he the coolest dad or perhaps what?
SURVEY SAYS OBAMACARE RATE SHOCKS ACCELERATING
Senate Democrats were starting to really feel a bit far better concerning midterms. The idea has
been partly since with the White house publicity push claiming to have fulfilled enrollment standards
for ObamaCare final week. However it absolutely was mostly since of a twofold strategy now on
display: appeal to centrist voters by embracing a amount of modest mitigations of the law while
leaving President Obama in order to petrify Democratic base voters along with specific threats
regarding what a Republican Senate may well do. let Obama, already unpopular along with
independents, play the heel while Senate Democrats acquire to always be able to adopt poses of
interest along with independence. Just Take in which Nate Silver! Yet that will happy believed
bubble just got popped. Health-insurance premiums tend to be accelerating in the fastest pace at
just about any time measured in the survey conducted by marketplace analysts at Morgan Stanley.
The Actual forecast rise, largely attributable to become able to ObamaCare, comes from any survey
regarding insurance brokers round the country. Since American Enterprise Institute scholar Scott
Gottlieb explains regarding Forbes, the figures are generally crushingly substantial (this chart
highlights the actual spike).
[Among the actual states seeing the sharpest increases are usually numerous along with competitive
Senate races including: New Hampshire (forecast in order to suffer the 90-percent charge increase
with regard to individual plans), Colorado, Michigan, Georgia as well as Kentucky.]
Dems pay pertaining to premiums - Whatever virtually any ads declare or even nonetheless many
talking factors seep out with the White House, probably your most successful communications with
the midterm cycle will be inside the kind of price notices along with cancellations through insurers.
Simply as flickering Republican hopes inside 2008 had been snuffed through the arrival in mailboxes
of retirement account statements which revealed the magnitude in the damage brought about by
which year's financial panic, medical insurance price cards will do the greatest harm to Democratic
hopes regarding retaining the Senate. while Obama Democrats declare that achievement or even
failure of the law can be reflected within how many people enrolled regarding free as well as
subsidized insurance, the real measure is likely to be in how a law affects the insurance policies of
the 85 % involving Americans who had coverage prior in order to the ObamaCare experiment began.
If this forecast holds true along with voters observe insurance premium increases with the kind
discussed in the survey, there can be no spin or strategy that will can aid for you to save a Senate
majority.
BOEHNER OPENS DOOR TO MORE CRIMINAL CHARGES FOR IRS
House Speaker John Boehner left the doorway available to prospective contempt fees against other
IRS officials even because he confirmed to always be able to Fox News' Megyn Kelly that will
lawmakers plan to be able to press the actual Justice Department to think about a criminal case
against ex-IRS official Lois Lerner with regard to 'misleading the particular Congress.' Boehner also
said if Lerner will not cooperate quickly through providing info about the IRS targeting scandal, the
actual Home would hold your ex in contempt. "Somebody in the IRS violated the particular law,"
Boehner mentioned on "The Kelly File." "Whether it was Lois Lerner or perhaps not, we'll discover
out." Pressed by simply Kelly about whether IRS chief John Koskinen could in addition confront
contempt fees because he suggested documents demanded by Congress couldn't survive available
for years, Boehner stated "I consider it's a little premature in order to go in which far." Watch
Boehner's interview in "the Kelly File."
IRS officials stated zero liberal teams had been specific - Day-to-day Caller: "IRS agents testified just
before Congress the agency's political targeting didn't connect with [liberal] groups as Democrats
and the media possess claimed, according to a bombshell new staff document prepared by the house
Oversight Committee chairman, Rep. Darrell Issa."
WHITE HOUSE MANSPLAINS MISLEADING GENDER PAY STATS
The Obama administration's effort to trim midterm losses with regard to Democrats simply by
attacking Republican potential to always be able to offer with gender pay equity legislation went
awry Monday. Also as President Obama is constantly about the push the actual agenda (he'll sign 2
executive orders today) a top administration economist was made to walk back again your White
House's talking points. Washington Examiner: "Betsey Stevenson, a part of the White Home Council
involving Economic Advisers, said very defiantly that despite women contributing 44 percent
associated with their own family incomes, they continue to make lower than men... [A]s quickly as
Stevenson had been really questioned in regards to end up being able to the statistic simply by
McClatchy reporter Lindsay Wise, your White house adviser crumbled, admitting the girl earlier
comments had been inaccurate. 'If I said 77 cents was equal pay pertaining to equal work, then I
completely misspoke,' Stevenson said... 'Seventy-seven cents captures the actual annual earnings
involving full-time, full-year ladies divided through the annual earnings of full-time, full-year men,'
Stevenson clarified. 'There really are usually a large quantity of things that go into which 77-cents
figure, you will find any large amount of items that contribute no one's wanting to say that it's all
regulated about discrimination.'''
[Watch Fox: Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., appears inside the 1 p.m. ET hour]
Carney: It's complex - NYT: "Even as [President Obama] seeks to make an issue with the gender gap
inside compensation over the country, however, his or even your ex own hiring is facing some
scrutiny... [A] recent study, from the conservative American Enterprise Institute, demonstrated that
the median annual salary for women in the White house a year ago ended up being $65,000, as the
median annual salary for men was $73,729. the research had been depending on White house salary
data...Jay Carney, your president's press secretary...said the 88-cent statistic had been misleading
since it aggregates the particular salaries involving White Residence personnel at all levels, such as
the best levels, where females outnumber men."
[Emily Miller notes which as Senate Democratic leaders celebrate "Equal Spend Day" using a
symbolic vote and also flooring speeches attacking Republicans pertaining to sexism, exactly the
particular same leaders all have male chiefs involving staff as well as communications directors.]
FUGGEDABOUTIT: SHARPTON SAYS MOB MOLE ROLE NOT NEWS
MSNBC host Al Sharpton says the revelation through The Particular Smoking Gun that federal
agents "flipped" him throughout a mid-1980s drug probe to obtain his cooperation in an undercover
operation against organized crime figures just isn't news. Sharpton informed Fox News' Joe Weber:
"I don't discover this as news, This specific has been brought up three or even 4x now. I don't
understand. It's crazy." Sharpton can be even now quite cool having a cozy relationship using the
federal government. He will host President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder at a
neighborhood organizing event this week.
WITH YOUR SECOND CUP OF COFFEE...
Melissa Healy examines the effect of chronic poverty in kids regarding LAT: "By time they've
reached the fourth grade, Dark boys who have run a childhood gantlet regarding poverty, shifting
family structure, harsh parenting along with a mother's low mood and also educational attainment
may have indications of premature genetic aging that will deepen their vulnerability in order to
mental along with physical illness, says a manufacturer new study... the newest study underscores
which poverty exacts its wages on a person's wellness early and furthermore at the most profound
levels... The Actual study, published Monday in the journal PNAS, additionally provides insight into
the selection of environmental factors associated with poverty which corrode a child's health."
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POLL CHECK
Real Obvious Politics Averages
Obama job Approval: Approve - 43 percent//Disapprove - 52.8 percent
Direction regarding Country: right Direction - 30.0 percent//Wrong Monitor - 61.8 percent
Generic Congressional Ballot: Democrats - 41.3 percent// Republicans 39.7 percent
KOCH-BACKED GROUP FLIPS SCRIPT ON DEMS
Conservative team Freedom Partners offers a manufacturer new range associated with attack in
which could change the discussion throughout a minimum of a pair of Senate races, painting
Democrats' votes pertaining to ObamaCare as special-interest handouts towards the insurance
industry. the ads arrive right after Democrats have got chose a midterm strategy of depicting
Republican hopefuls since the handmaidens regarding market simply because with the activities
regarding teams similar to Freedom Partners. Your organization will be out these days together with
two ads, backed through a lot a lot more than $1 million, against Iowa Senate frontrunner Rep.
Bruce Braley as well as against Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo. Here's the script from the Braley spot: "The
government expended millions of taxpayer bucks to advertise it. Now, medical insurance companies
stand to create billions, and Bruce Braley, he takes tens of 1000's coming from his buddies inside the
health insurance industries. Regarding Iowans, it's cancelled policies and also higher costs. That's
certainly not right."
SCHUMER TOOK KOCH MONEY
Here's what Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., told MSNBC upon Monday inside defense regarding his
party's 2014 strategy regarding attacking conservative patrons Charles along with David Koch: "The
Koch brothers aren't just present innocently around the side. They're spending $40, $50 million
inside ads in which usually are not dedicated to his or her real agenda, which can be just eliminating
just about all regulation in corporations, cutting taxes to be able to virtually nothing. and so that
demands the response. And Therefore I don't feel sorry for them."
But this is actually what Schumer said in regards in order to the Kochs' political actions throughout
2010: "Again, I can't thank you enough. Just About All regarding my best to you and also also your
own as well as I look forward to always be able to working along using you throughout this election."
The difference, according to the letter posted simply by PowerLine's John Hinderaker, is that
throughout 2010 Schumer has been your beneficiary, receiving any "generous" contribution coming
from KOCHPAC, your political motion committee for Koch Industries.
[Washington free Beacon: "According to campaign finance records, former Koch Industries lobbyist
Robert P. Hall III donated $500 to be able to Senate Vast Majority Leader Harry Reid's] marketing
campaign within 2003."]
UGLY AIR WAR IN MISSISSIPPI PRIMARY
Two outside conservative groups have got expanded their air campaigns throughout support
associated with Mississippi State Sen. Chris McDaniel's effort for you to oust fellow Republican six-
term incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran The Particular political motion committee connected with the
Senate Conservatives fund can be out having a positive McDaniel advert that features the candidate
denouncing compromise in constitutional ideas while the Club regarding Growth moves negative
stating regarding Cochran, "five decades in Washington can be enough. However as Washington
Examiner reports, Cochran's marketing campaign is actually ramping up its attacks by getting an
advertisement hitting McDaniel regarding waffling about whether as well as not however have got
supported Hurricane Katrina relief funds. the race represents what might be your greatest hope for
that outside groups for you to unseat an incumbent moderate this cycle.
[WaPo details the approach the Obama administration is applying its executive powers to help
embattled Senate Democrats.]
PICK SIX: HE'S GOOD ENOUGH, HE'S SMART ENOUGH...
Which six Democrat-held Senate seats current probably the most likely path for the GOP for you to
acquire charge of your upper chamber? The Actual existing consensus amongst Fox Information
First readers: Arkansas, Montana, Louisiana, South Dakota, North Carolina and West Virginia.
Reader Jonny Angel says, "Add Minnesota! Comedian [Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn.,] upon way out !!"
Share your own best 6 picks. email all of them - just your own best six, please - for you to
FOXNEWSFIRST@FOXNEWS.COM or tweet @cstirewalt.
[Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., sent a dire e-mail warning for you to supporters which former Gov. Sarah
Palin's current endorsement of state senator Julianne Ortman and also current polling showing his
vulnerability could spell problems ahead. Breitbart provides more.]
CASH CALL
Colorado: Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., raised $2 million and has a lot much more than $5.9 money on
hand. Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., had $800,000 within his campaign account from the start of your
season he may use for his Senate run.
Georgia - Every Week Standard: "Karen Handel, the actual former secretary associated with state
regarding Georgia, offers raised $200,000 in the past a couple weeks for her campaign with regard
to Senate, according to a spokesman. ...Helping boost Handel in the girl own five-way GOP main is
actually former vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, whom not too long ago endorsed Handel and
also traveled to Georgia about Friday to get a public appearance. Regarding 50 % of the particular
campaign's two-week haul originates right after Palin's appearance."
Louisiana - Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., can be boasting she raised $1.8 million in the initial quarter
associated with 2014, nearly $600,000 greater than Republican frontrunner Rep. Bill Cassidy, R-La.,
that announced his total Monday. Landrieu claimed $7.5 million cash hand, in contrast for you to
Cassidy's $5 million.
Oklahoma - Rep. James Lankford, R-Okla., brought in $1.2 million and has $1 million money on hand
within his bid to succeed retiring Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla.
Oregon - Republican Senate contender Monica Wehby posted $590,000 in the final quarter. the
Oregonian reports.
North Carolina - WSJ: "Thom Tillis, certainly 1 of your Republicans running against Democratic Sen.
Kay Hagan throughout North Carolina, raised $1.3 million inside the initial 3 months with the year,
in accordance with the individual familiar with his totals."
THAT'S ONE WAY TO RAISE YOUR QUARTERLY HAUL
Billings Gazette : "HELENA -- Long-shot Republican U.S. Senate candidate Champ Edmunds hasn't
raised a lot marketing campaign money so far, but on Sunday, he found $12,000 cash in an
abandoned backpack, outside his Missoula church. 'That's what I thought it was: Somebody left a
few funds regarding my campaign,' Edmunds stated having a laugh in Monday. 'And the other
deacon (at the actual church) said, 'Hey, what are you talking about? In Which funds remained for
that church!'' Whatever it absolutely was left for, the cash as well as other contents involving the
little backpack are actually within the hands of the Missoula Police Department, that is searching for
that owner."
IT SEEMED LIKE Any GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME
South Dakota Democratic candidate Rick Weiland believed he had staged something of a media coup
when he got Republican candidate Stace Nelson to join him for a press conference attacking GOP
frontrunner former Gov. Mike Rounds with regard to taking out-of-state contributions. But... from
your Sioux Falls Argus Leader: "...things went off the particular rails virtually immediately. the a pair
of candidates talked past the some other person within their opening statements, and issues got
wilder when the 2 took concerns from your entire audience involving a lot much more than three
dozen citizens as well as reporters. Alternatively with the evils of large money, Weiland along with
Nelson invested a lot of the 25-minute press conference being requested concerning medical
marijuana and furthermore the 'Red Chinese,' arguing together with questioners, becoming
interrupted simply by candidates regarding other offices sitting within the audience..."
DOC CASSIDY PROVIDES MID-AIR AID
New Orleans Times-Picayune: "For a passenger upon Southwest Flight 2157 Monday among New
Orleans and also Baltimore, it may certainly not happen in order to be a huge offer which a new
congressman ended up being about board. Nevertheless the particular passenger, who lost
consciousness as the plane flew in the particular direction of its destination, has been undoubtedly
happy the congressman also happened to become any physician. Rep. Bill Cassidy, [R-La.] a new
physician by profession, together with another doctor upon board, assisted treat the passenger."
WILL KISSING CONGRESSMAN HANG ON?
No word yet upon virtually any action to be taken by simply or even against Rep. Vance McAllister,
R-La., inside the wake regarding his admission to have "fallen short" and also "asking regarding
forgiveness" after a video surfaced associated with him generating out using a female staffer.
However the New Orleans Times-Picayune has some background about the relationship:
"...McAllister offers lengthy had ties to always be able to [the staffer] as well as your ex family. Each
[the staffer] along with the woman's husband contributed in order to McAllister's campaign, and
additionally the congressman labored as well as attended the identical secondary school as [her]
husband."
NEW ANTI-CRIST AD DEBUTS AS SCOTT PULLS INTO TIE
Let's get for you to Work, the team backed through Gov. Rick Scott, R-Fla., has introduced a new ad
hitting Republican-turned-independent-turned-Democrat Charlie Crist over President Obama's "lie
with the year." The Particular advertisement shows Obama making his infamous "you are able to be
able to keep it" promise concerning his signature health law with clips associated with Crist saying,
"I won't shy away from it, I think it's been great." The new poll via Sunshine State news shows Scott
offers erased the actual lead when held simply by Crist. Scott as well as Crist are now statically tied,
along with Scott leading 45 percent for you to 44 percent.
Sink still shy with regards to rematch - Democrat Alex Sink, who lost a special election final month
to change your late Rep. Bill Young, R-Fla., informed your Tampa Bay Occasions Monday she is
contemplating operating against Rep. David Jolly, R-Fla., once again in November, nevertheless only
when the political climate is better: "[T]he question for a person personally is really concerning
November along with exactly what the electorate can look like."
CLOSE RACE IN ARKANSAS
Talk Enterprise Arkansas: "A new Speak Business-Hendrix University Poll shows the actual race
between party front-runners Mike Ross (D) and Asa Hutchinson (R) to be a new virtual dead heat,
using the Democrat up by simply 1 point - 44-43% - over his potential GOP rival."
IS HE THE COOLEST DAD OR WHAT?
At 61, inventor and also technologist Bran Ferren's life continues for you to be filled with adventure,
from vacationing via Afghan war zones in order to scouting remote film locations and also working
with Disney's Imagineering shop. Ferren, the particular Cofounder and chief creative officer
involving Applied Minds, any world-renowned tech and also style firm having a client record that
features General Motors, Intel as well as the Force, now faces his biggest challenge: as an aging
parent or guardian and sharing his lust for life along with understanding regarding the world
together with 4-year-old daughter Kira. While part of his legacy for his daughter, Ferren will be
creating "a vehicle that will could take Kira almost anywhere on earth without having limitation - a
mix regarding high-powered machinery, bomb-shelter self-sufficiency, and also luxe-life
accoutrements... any six-wheeled terrestrial spaceship able to traversing almost any kind of terrain,
via mud-swamped roads for you to rock-covered pathways to tiny bodies regarding water. This will
possibly be able traveling as significantly as 2,000 miles without having resupply and navigate
slopes as steep as 45 degrees--an incline which is challenging to walk up." Ferren calls it the actual
Kiravan. Wired has the fascinating details.
AND NOW, A New WORD FROM CHARLES...
"I mean, that statement [former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush] made regarding illegal immigrants as an act
involving enjoy is actually kind of bizarre. I grant him the particular total sincerity and integrity
involving his view - he's often had that will type of approach - yet that's leading together together
with your chin." - Charles Krauthammer in " special report along with Bret Baier" Click on here to
watch.
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