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Big Government, Election 2017, Health, ObamaCare, Phil Murphy July 19, 2017

VIDEO: Phil Murphy says it’s time to consider single-payer health care

With Obamacare failing but Republicans deadlocked over possible alternatives, is single-payer healthcare inevitable? Heads up, Save Jerseyans: During a press availability on Wednesday, N.J. Democrat nominee for governor Phil Murphy (D-Goldman Sachs) said “it has to be on the list… I’d like to see Medicare for all.” Watch: – His opponent pounced. “Today, Phil Murphy doubled […]

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Health, Health Benefits July 14, 2017

Conservatives Look for Lower Premiums in Senate’s Revised Health Care Bill

The Senate’s Republican leadership released a revised health care bill Thursday afternoon, a move welcomed by House conservatives even as they were reluctant to comment before digesting it. “We are going to withhold judgment,” Mark Meadows, chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, said earlier in the day during the monthly Conversations With Conservatives event on […]

Columbus Day, Health, state budget July 3, 2017

Op-Ed: New Jersey’s legislators should do their jobs or retire

The last time Trenton took excess funds from a fund that wasn’t theirs was when we took from the pension system. It led us to the current pension crisis and is a major cause of our deficit. Now a plan to direct some of the state’s lottery revenue to fund those pensions is being held hostage […]

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Health, state budget, Uncategorized July 2, 2017

What you should know about the one big thing that shut down your state government

TRENTON — Late June is usually the time the state Senate, the Assembly and the governor are negotiating the terms of the state budget for the fiscal year that begins on July 1. Not this year. About two weeks ago, Gov. Chris Christie injected his dispute with the state’s largest insurance provider, Horizon Blue Cross […]

Big Government, Cultural Issues, Health July 1, 2017

When government says your baby has to die

Meet Charlie Gard. He’s a 10-month-old baby from London who was born with infantile onset encephalomyopathy mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome (MDDS). Thanks to the British state, it’s possible he’ll be dead by the time you finish reading this. That isn’t me adopting the scare tactics of those 1990s-era cigarette commercials: Charlie really is scheduled to […]

Health, Jennifer Beck, state budget June 30, 2017

Beck blasts Horizon bill as small business killer

Jennifer Beck (R-11) doesn’t regret her Thursday vote in the Senate, Save Jerseyans, and she doubled down as a state shutdown inched closer on Friday afternoon. “Any Horizon policy holder that has overpaid in premiums should get that money back,” Beck declared.” It is unconscionable for the State to swoop in and take their hard-earned […]

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Health, state budget June 30, 2017

As N.J. shutdown looms, national watchdog group vows to probe motives behind #HorizonHeist

Why is this year’s pitched budget battle tied to the #HorizonHeist bill? A national watchdog group weighed in this week, alleging a possible connection between Governor Chris Christie deeply unpopular move to seize Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield’s limited reserves and the head of New Jersey’s most powerful Democrat political machine: Sources with firsthand knowledge of the situation […]

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Health, state budget, Vincent Prieto June 30, 2017

Prieto Digs in, Controversial Horizon Reform Remains Budget Stumbling Block

Credit: NJTV News Online Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto The controversial proposal to reform Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield continues to bedevil a deal on New Jersey’s 2018 budget, even as some Democratic leaders framed the measure as a temporary fix they could undo after it is used to secure the governor’s support for the annual […]

Big Government, Health June 29, 2017

Spadea, Rooney opine on Chris Christie, #HorizonHeist, and N.J. turning into… Venezuela?

The Horizon heist hangs in the balance, Save Jerseyans, as legislators debate a state budget (and Chris Christie’s much-panned opioid funding scheme) ahead of a Friday deadline. On Wednesday, Save Jersey Blogger-in-Chief Matt Rooney spoke with Bill Spadea and the Fox29/My9 Chasing News Team to help break down the latest developments…. Watch: ___

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Health, ObamaCare June 28, 2017

OPINION: Senate Vote Next Logical Step in Obamacare Repeal

Obamacare has been, to put it mildly, burdensome for small businesses in New Jersey. Soon, the Senate will have a chance to do something about it. Year after year, when the National Federation of Independent Business surveys its members, they say their number one priority is healthcare, but the Affordable Care Act, better known as […]

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Health, National June 28, 2017

Tom Price, HHS secretary, says health vote will take place after July 4

Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price said Wednesday that he expects a health care vote the week after the July 4th recess. “The vote will occur the week after the Fourth of July when the Senate comes back in,” Mr. Price said on “The Hugh Hewitt Show.” But Mr. Price said in the meantime, […]

Big Government, Health, state budget June 28, 2017

Forbes continues hammering Christie over Horizon shakedown

Steve Forbes, the famed Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Media and a former Republican Presidential candidate, intends to make Chris Christie own his reckless plan to raid Horizon’s insurance reserves. He made the case in recent days on regional conservative radio outlets, comparing the Governor’s scheme to Venezuelan socialist economics. “He says he wants to use the […]

Big Government, Chris Christie, Health, Heroin and Opioid Epidemic June 22, 2017

Christie Keeps Pushing to Siphon Cash from Horizon to Fund Drug Treatments

Credit: Governor’s Office/Tim Larsen Gov. Chris Christie Gov. Chris Christie has not abandoned his controversial quest to secure hundreds of millions of dollars from Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield, New Jersey’s largest health insurer, to fund drug addiction programs and other healthcare needs. And negotiations with Democratic lawmakers – who have failed to embrace his […]

Health June 16, 2017

After trying to raid its surplus, Christie nominates long-time friend Brown for Horizon’s board

Governor Chris Christie is proposing his long-time friend Michele Brown to sit on the board of Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, Save Jerseyans. The Friday morning announcement comes shortly after Christie sought legislative support to seize the insurer’s emergency surplus to fund low-income residents’ drug addiction services. The move was almost universally panned […]

Health, ObamaCare June 13, 2017

Obamacare’s Collapse Shows Why Americans Wanted Trump

Some 35,000 people purchasing insurance on the Obamacare exchanges in 45 counties across the U.S. could have no insurance providers to choose from in 2018. If the scenario plays out, it would be the first time that consumers are left without an insurance provider on the Obamacare exchanges since they first opened in 2014. Some […]

Big Government, Health, ObamaCare, Tom MacArthur June 1, 2017

NOT SO FAST: MacArthur Demands Answers After Release of CBO’s Fishy AHCA Analysis

In case you missed it, Save Jerseyans, Republicans led by Mick Mulvaney are at war with the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) after the latter alleged that the American Health Care Act would eliminate health care coverage for 23 million Americans over the next 10 years. They’re not wrong to question the CBO’s historically shoddy analysis. Don’t […]