In June, SHIFT reported that a labor dispute was brewing between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA), the group representing port … [Read more...]
Cheapest Obamacare plan to jump 64% in Seattle
The rates for Obamacare’s cheapest bronze plans are set to increase when the 2015 exchange enrollment opens in November. According to Investor’s Business Daily, the average cost of bronze plans will … [Read more...]
Top Obamacare official: don’t expect perfection
The launch of President Obama’s trademark healthcare legislation did not go well. With the new window of open enrollment approaching on November 15, it doesn’t appear likely to improve much the second … [Read more...]
Move along, nothing to see here
Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell says that Obamacare is "clearly working" despite looming premium increases and high public dissatisfaction, says the Washington … [Read more...]
How Obamacare is killing jobs, raising taxes
Two surveys of regional employees—“one focused on manufacturing businesses, one on service companies”—conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York reveals just how much Obamacare promises to … [Read more...]
WA’s Obamacare exchange chastised for lack of transparency, accountability
Yesterday, the Washington Health Benefit Exchange Board held a meeting to discuss the progress of our state’s version of Obamacare. According to the Seattle Times, “a lack of transparency in … [Read more...]
Centralia School District’s fraud, waste and abuse
Last month, SHIFT reported that top officials from the Centralia School District (CSD) committed fraud in management of the Medicaid Administrative Claiming (MAC) program—a program that “reimburses … [Read more...]
State can’t figure out its own Obamacare website, so tells people to ignore it
Washingtonians brave enough to buy Obamacare on the state-run website have met with a plethora of what officials decide as “software issues” and “human errors.” According to The Columbian, “at least … [Read more...]
Is Inslee celebrating the disastrous effects of Obamacare?
Jay Inslee is proclaiming that—based what appears to be a flawed Gallup poll—Washington State’s rate of uninsured residents is down to 10.7% from 16.8% due to the supposed success of Obamacare. … [Read more...]
$15 min. wage activists’ new attempt to combat voters’ choice
Union-backed Working Washington—a group comprised of activists willing to go to extreme lengths to protect Seattle’s new $15 minimum wage ordinance—is now working to contact people who signed … [Read more...]
Inslee secretly working to take care of SEIU healthcare – as usual
The Inslee administration has certainly shown its preference for negotiating in secret, from union contracts, to gas tax schemes, to a death penalty moratorium. So it shouldn’t come as any surprise … [Read more...]
California Dems push back on Inslee-style energy tax scheme
A few Democrats in California’s State Assembly have expressed concern over the state’s cap-and-trade program impacting the poor. Due to existing low carbon fuel standards (LCFS), California’s gas … [Read more...]