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of those six million that may or may not have signed up (you can't trust anything they say, it's a genetic flaw), 4 million are pissed because they could not keep their existing plan
and everyone except the pay for nothing crowd is paying significantly more than they ever had before
Obamacare, creating more Republicans every day
and everyone except the pay for nothing crowd is paying significantly more than they ever had before
Obamacare, creating more Republicans every day
Trump wants 'special session' to repeal Obamacare
By NOLAN D. MCCASKILL
11/01/16 01:05 PM EDT
Updated 11/01/16 12:34 PM EDT
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Donald Trump on Tuesday vowed to immediately repeal and replace President Barack Obama’s signature health care law if he’s elected president next week.
“When we win on Nov. 8 and elect a Republican Congress, we will be able to immediately repeal and replace Obamacare. We have to do it,” Trump said Tuesday afternoon in an address on the Affordable Care Act in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.
“I will ask Congress to convene a special session so we can repeal and replace,” he continued. “And it will be such an honor for me, for you and for everybody in this country because Obamacare has to be replaced. And we will do it, and we will do it very, very quickly. It is a catastrophe.”
But Congress won’t be able to repeal and replace the health law quickly or easily. Even if Republicans keep control of the Senate, Democrats will likely have enough votes to filibuster a quick repeal bill.
While Republicans are working on a repeal using a complicated budget procedure that doesn’t allow a filibuster, it would likely take months to enact. And a replacement bill may be even harder.
House Speaker Paul Ryan has released a blueprint of a replacement plan, but Republicans are divided on the details of how to reform the massive health care system.
The health law had not played prominently in the campaign this year — a marked contrast to each election since its passage in 2010. But with premiums rising for the enrollment season, which began Tuesday, Trump has pounced on the law’s flaws and renewed his promise to tear it up.
The GOP nominee characterized the law as a massive, nearly 3,000-page bill that to this day “nobody understands.” He also seized on the administration’s announcement of premium hikes.
“Here in Pennsylvania, premiums are going to increase more than 60 percent,” he said. “And that’s nothing compared [to] what will happen in the future. Of course, in the future, if I’m president, there won’t be Obamacare so you won’t have to worry about that.”
He attacked Obamacare for stalling the economy and killing jobs, noting that there are fewer insurers and doctors now but higher premiums and deductibles as he cast a Hillary Clinton election as a detrimental expansion that Americans can’t afford.
“Obamacare means higher prices, fewer choices and lower quality, yet Hillary Clinton wants to expand Obamacare and make it even more expensive,” he added. “She wants to put the government totally in charge of health care in America. If we don’t repeal and replace Obamacare, we will destroy American healthcare forever. It’s one of the single most important reasons why we must win on Nov. 8. We must win.”
For her part, Clinton has pledged to build on the successes of the Affordable Care Act, which she often touted on the trail as “Hillarycare” before it was Obamacare.
Trump called for replacing Obamacare with health savings accounts that would allow Americans to purchase insurance across state lines and empowering states to manage Medicaid funding.
“We will create quality, reliable, affordable health care in a free market where parents can make the health care decisions that they really wanna make for their families,” Trump said. “It will be a much better health care at a much less expensive cost.”
Despite billing his address as a joint speech with his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, on Obamacare — which included some members of Congress in attendance — Trump veered into his stump speech, speaking on issues like restoring manufacturing jobs, repealing Common Core, lowering taxes and rebuilding the nation’s military.
“We’ve also outlined detailed solutions on so many other issues to make life better for every American family. While this is really a meeting — and that’s what it is, it’s a meeting of very, very special people, and I appreciate you all being here — but it’s a meeting talking about health care and Obamacare. Our plan for other things also include the bringing back of manufacturing jobs,” he said, seguing into his stump speech. “We have to do it.”
Pence, who introduced Trump, boasted about Republicans’ opposition to Obama’s health care legislation, which he was part of as chair of the House GOP conference.
“I stand before you today because today, open enrollment begins on the Obamacare exchanges. And once again, millions of Americans are gonna be disappointed by their lack of options, and, frankly, they’re gonna be shocked by the high premiums and the cost of health insurance,” Pence said. “This government takeover of health care that we call Obamacare is failing in states across Obamacare as it is here in Pennsylvania, and the case has never been stronger for repeal.”
Like Trump, Pence tied the Democratic nominee to the president as a proponent of the health care law that even her husband criticized. And he also took a shot at the former secretary of state as she’s embroiled in yet another email controversy, this time stemming from the FBI’s announcement Friday that it is reviewing additional emails related to its investigation of her use of a private email server while she headed the State Department.
“The choice in this election couldn’t be more clear. With Hillary Clinton we’ll get more of the same from the last seven-and-a-half years,” he said. “More taxes, more spending, more regulation and more Obamacare. I mean, we can’t trust Hillary Clinton with our health care any more than we can trust her with classified information.”
k:
Jennifer Haberkorn and Joanne Kenen contributed to this report.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/trump-obamacare-special-session-230588#ixzz4Omh8wxD1
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(wherever you are hiding)
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By NOLAN D. MCCASKILL
11/01/16 01:05 PM EDT
Updated 11/01/16 12:34 PM EDT
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Donald Trump on Tuesday vowed to immediately repeal and replace President Barack Obama’s signature health care law if he’s elected president next week.
“When we win on Nov. 8 and elect a Republican Congress, we will be able to immediately repeal and replace Obamacare. We have to do it,” Trump said Tuesday afternoon in an address on the Affordable Care Act in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.
But Congress won’t be able to repeal and replace the health law quickly or easily. Even if Republicans keep control of the Senate, Democrats will likely have enough votes to filibuster a quick repeal bill.
While Republicans are working on a repeal using a complicated budget procedure that doesn’t allow a filibuster, it would likely take months to enact. And a replacement bill may be even harder.
House Speaker Paul Ryan has released a blueprint of a replacement plan, but Republicans are divided on the details of how to reform the massive health care system.
The health law had not played prominently in the campaign this year — a marked contrast to each election since its passage in 2010. But with premiums rising for the enrollment season, which began Tuesday, Trump has pounced on the law’s flaws and renewed his promise to tear it up.
The GOP nominee characterized the law as a massive, nearly 3,000-page bill that to this day “nobody understands.” He also seized on the administration’s announcement of premium hikes.
“Here in Pennsylvania, premiums are going to increase more than 60 percent,” he said. “And that’s nothing compared [to] what will happen in the future. Of course, in the future, if I’m president, there won’t be Obamacare so you won’t have to worry about that.”
He attacked Obamacare for stalling the economy and killing jobs, noting that there are fewer insurers and doctors now but higher premiums and deductibles as he cast a Hillary Clinton election as a detrimental expansion that Americans can’t afford.
“Obamacare means higher prices, fewer choices and lower quality, yet Hillary Clinton wants to expand Obamacare and make it even more expensive,” he added. “She wants to put the government totally in charge of health care in America. If we don’t repeal and replace Obamacare, we will destroy American healthcare forever. It’s one of the single most important reasons why we must win on Nov. 8. We must win.”
For her part, Clinton has pledged to build on the successes of the Affordable Care Act, which she often touted on the trail as “Hillarycare” before it was Obamacare.
Trump called for replacing Obamacare with health savings accounts that would allow Americans to purchase insurance across state lines and empowering states to manage Medicaid funding.
“We will create quality, reliable, affordable health care in a free market where parents can make the health care decisions that they really wanna make for their families,” Trump said. “It will be a much better health care at a much less expensive cost.”
Despite billing his address as a joint speech with his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, on Obamacare — which included some members of Congress in attendance — Trump veered into his stump speech, speaking on issues like restoring manufacturing jobs, repealing Common Core, lowering taxes and rebuilding the nation’s military.
“We’ve also outlined detailed solutions on so many other issues to make life better for every American family. While this is really a meeting — and that’s what it is, it’s a meeting of very, very special people, and I appreciate you all being here — but it’s a meeting talking about health care and Obamacare. Our plan for other things also include the bringing back of manufacturing jobs,” he said, seguing into his stump speech. “We have to do it.”
Pence, who introduced Trump, boasted about Republicans’ opposition to Obama’s health care legislation, which he was part of as chair of the House GOP conference.
“I stand before you today because today, open enrollment begins on the Obamacare exchanges. And once again, millions of Americans are gonna be disappointed by their lack of options, and, frankly, they’re gonna be shocked by the high premiums and the cost of health insurance,” Pence said. “This government takeover of health care that we call Obamacare is failing in states across Obamacare as it is here in Pennsylvania, and the case has never been stronger for repeal.”
Like Trump, Pence tied the Democratic nominee to the president as a proponent of the health care law that even her husband criticized. And he also took a shot at the former secretary of state as she’s embroiled in yet another email controversy, this time stemming from the FBI’s announcement Friday that it is reviewing additional emails related to its investigation of her use of a private email server while she headed the State Department.
“The choice in this election couldn’t be more clear. With Hillary Clinton we’ll get more of the same from the last seven-and-a-half years,” he said. “More taxes, more spending, more regulation and more Obamacare. I mean, we can’t trust Hillary Clinton with our health care any more than we can trust her with classified information.”
k:Jennifer Haberkorn and Joanne Kenen contributed to this report.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/trump-obamacare-special-session-230588#ixzz4Omh8wxD1
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[h=1]Single Provider: 5 States Will Have Only 1 Obamacare Insurance Provider[/h](CNSNews.com) Five states—Alabama, Alaska, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Wyoming—will have only one insurance company offering plans through the Obamacare health insurance exchange in 2017, according to an analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
“In states that use Healthcare.gov, the average number of insurers participating in the marketplace will be 3.9 in 2017 (down from 5.4 companies per state in 2016, 5.9 in 2015 and 4.5 in 2014),” said KFF.
“In states that use Healthcare.gov, the average number of insurers participating in the marketplace will be 3.9 in 2017 (down from 5.4 companies per state in 2016, 5.9 in 2015 and 4.5 in 2014),” said KFF.
Just another epic, epic beclowning by this community college educated moron
[h=1]These Patients Are Covered by Obamacare But Can’t Afford Treatment[/h]
Michelle Harris, a 61-year-old retired waitress in northwest Montana, has arthritis in both shoulders. She gets a tax subsidy to help buy coverage under Obamacare, though she still pays $338 a month for the BlueCross BlueShield plan. Yet with its $4,500 deductible, she says she’s doing everything she can to avoid seeing a doctor. Instead, she uses ibuprofen and cold-packs.
“It hurts, but we don’t have that kind of money,” Harris said in an interview. “So I deal with it.”
Just another epic, epic beclowning by this community college educated moron
These Patients Are Covered by Obamacare But Can’t Afford Treatment
Michelle Harris, a 61-year-old retired waitress in northwest Montana, has arthritis in both shoulders. She gets a tax subsidy to help buy coverage under Obamacare, though she still pays $338 a month for the BlueCross BlueShield plan. Yet with its $4,500 deductible, she says she’s doing everything she can to avoid seeing a doctor. Instead, she uses ibuprofen and cold-packs.
“It hurts, but we don’t have that kind of money,” Harris said in an interview. “So I deal with it.”
You would think the fucking clown has more important things to do than campaign for a criminal.
[h=3]DONALD TRUMP'S VISION[/h]To view Mr. Trump's position, visit https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/healthcare-reform
[h=3]KEY ISSUES[/h]
[h=3]CONTRAST WITH HILLARY CLINTON[/h]
- Repeal and replace Obamacare with Health Savings Accounts (HSAs).
- Work with Congress to create a patient-centered health care system that promotes choice, quality, and affordability.
- Work with states to establish high-risk pools to ensure access to coverage for individuals who have not maintained continuous coverage.
- Allow people to purchase insurance across state lines, in all 50 states, creating a dynamic market.
- Maximize flexibility for states via block grants so that local leaders can design innovative Medicaid programs that will better serve their low-income citizens.
[h=3]KEY ISSUES[/h]
- President Obama said his health plan would cut the cost of family premiums by up to $2,500 a year. Instead, premiums have gone up by almost $5,000 since Obamacare passed. [Kaiser Family Foundation]
- Nearly two-thirds of Obamacare Exchange plans lost over $2.2 billion just in 2014. [Mercatus Center, April 22, 2016]
- Health insurance companies are fleeing the Obamacare Exchanges. Five states, one-third of all counties, and 19% of Americans eligible for Obamacare will have only one Exchange insurer this year. [New York Times, Aug. 19, 2016], [Kaiser Family Foundation, Aug. 28, 2016], [McKinsey on Healthcare, Aug. 18, 2016]
- Premiums have skyrocketed across the nation, with a national average of almost 25%, with some states experiencing rate increases up to 70%. In Iowa, one plan got a 43% increase approved. In Florida, the individual market will see an average rate increase of 19%. In Pennsylvania, at least three plans requested rate increases over 40%. And the average rate requested in Minnesota is 54%. [ACA Signups], [Health Insurance], [Miami Herald], [Health Insurance]
- More than half the Exchange plans have deductibles of $3,000 or more. [The New York Times, Nov. 14, 2015]
- Deductibles are going up in 2017, some as high as $7,000 per person on the “cheapest” Obamacare plans. [Investors Business Daily, May 13, 2016]
- People are going without needed medical care because they can’t afford these amounts. [The Boston Globe, Nov. 16, 2015]
- Most of the people getting covered under Obamacare are getting it through the government run Medicaid program. [Heritage Foundation]
- Almost 12 million more Americans were enrolled in Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Plan since October 2013. [Obamacarefacts.com]
- By 2026 one-fourth of our population will be on Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program. [Congressional Budget Office, March 2016]
- Numerous studies show that Medicaid enrollees can’t find doctors. [Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General, Dec. 2014]
- Medicaid beneficiaries have worse health compared to everyone else. Add to that higher death rates, misuse of the emergency room and higher overall costs. [“How to Fix Medicaid,” National Affairs, 2014]
- Obamacare has reduced pay for workers in small businesses and reduced employment by more than 350,000 jobs nationwide. [American Action Forum, Sept. 9, 2016]
- The employer mandate raised the minimum cost of hiring a full-time worker to $10.30/hour for larger employers, without increasing take-home pay for workers. [Heritage Foundation]
- State and local officials have conceded that Obamacare forced municipal governments to cut hours of part-time employees. [The New York Times, Feb. 20, 2014]
- University of Wisconsin cut back student workers' hours as a result of Obamacare. [Madison, Sept. 27, 2016]
[h=3]CONTRAST WITH HILLARY CLINTON[/h]
- Hillary Clinton will protect and expand disastrous Obamacare. She called Obamacare "one of the great accomplishments not only of this president, but of the Democratic Party going back to Harry Truman." [CNN Money, Aug. 19, 2016]
- Hillary Clinton will provide Obamacare to illegal aliens. [Hillary Clinton - Issues - Healthcare]
- Thirty-five percent of the uninsured are illegal aliens who are already getting free care in our emergency rooms, that is being paid for by American taxpayers. [Congressional Budget Office, March 2016]
- Hillary Clinton will offer a public option on the Exchanges, driving out private health plans and leaving Americans with fewer options and eventually no choices but a government run plan.
Anthem Threatens Obamacare Retreat If Results Don’t Improve
"If"
Highmark pulls out of ACA marketplace in 27 Pennsylvania counties for 2017
^ Note the part about having to find a new doctor.
"If"
Highmark pulls out of ACA marketplace in 27 Pennsylvania counties for 2017
^ Note the part about having to find a new doctor.
welcome to Loser Nation, where the fucking idiots vote to ruin lives
Blowing off Obamacare — Idaho shows how
by Washington Examiner | Feb 17, 2018, 12:01 AM
Congressional Republicans failed to repeal or replace Obamacare. But one state has come up with a way to get around it. Idaho is dealing with Obamacare by just blowing it off. If it works, other states seem likely to follow.
Idaho’s Republican governor, Butch Otter, signed an executive order last year paving the way for non-Obamacare-compliant health insurance plans to be sold in his state, and Lt. Gov. Brad Little has since cobbled together what is sure to be the nation’s most controversial healthcare initiative. Their principal intention is to give the people of their state a way of avoiding Obamacare’s monstrous increases in insurance premiums. They want to put affordable insurance plans on the market again.
Obamacare’s spiraling premium increases have especially hurt middle-income consumers, who have had to pay the whole cost without getting the government subsidies that apply to poorer people. Those people have either gritted their teeth and bought expensive policies or, in many cases, chosen instead to break the law, pay the fine, and do without insurance. In Idaho, at least, they will be able to select from among plans that don’t fulfill all of Obamacare’s expensive criteria.
The scheme appears to flout federal law, so there was some doubt that insurers would be interested in participating at all. But this week, Blue Cross of Idaho stepped up and made it clear it would do so.
On Wednesday, the company provided information about one of the five such plans it intends to offer, called “Freedom Blue Standard.” This is designed to be comparable in most respects to Obamacare Exchange bronze plans. The two have similar deductibles, rates of coinsurance, and out-of-pocket maximums.
But there are also a few critical differences. Because it allows some health underwriting, which is pricing based on health, and because it caps lifetime benefits at $1 million, the Freedom Blue Standard plan is available to the healthiest buyers for as little as 40 percent of what the bronze plan costs, depending on age. Setting aside the rate for the healthiest, the average buyer of Freedom Blue Standard saves 26-66 percent of the price he or she would pay for an Obamacare bronze policy, depending on age.
So, just as the children of Lake Wobegon are all above average, Idaho insurance customers who stay in Obamacare’s bronze plan would all pay above the average price for consumers in a scheme that involves health underwriting.
Obamacare’s tradeoff for the higher prices is supposed to be that the sickest patients, with the most expensive pre-existing ailments, get insurance for the same price as everyone else. Yet, the Freedom Blue offering already indicates that this benefit is modest at best. The sickest and most expensive patients, it turns out, would be charged only 25-35 percent more than the rate that everyone currently enrolled in Obamacare must pay.
Idaho’s experiment is a bold one, and it is sure to be challenged in court if anyone can figure out how to do it. But already it has helped quantify the punishing and unnecessary expense that Obamacare has imposed upon the 9 percent of people who buy insurance on the individual market.
The Idaho experiment prompts us to ask why the public should keep paying so much for health insurance when there is a simple alternative. And why should taxpayers subsidize insurers that demand such high premiums, when an affordable system is there for the taking the very moment we clear aside Obamacare’s wreckage?
by Washington Examiner | Feb 17, 2018, 12:01 AM
Congressional Republicans failed to repeal or replace Obamacare. But one state has come up with a way to get around it. Idaho is dealing with Obamacare by just blowing it off. If it works, other states seem likely to follow.
Idaho’s Republican governor, Butch Otter, signed an executive order last year paving the way for non-Obamacare-compliant health insurance plans to be sold in his state, and Lt. Gov. Brad Little has since cobbled together what is sure to be the nation’s most controversial healthcare initiative. Their principal intention is to give the people of their state a way of avoiding Obamacare’s monstrous increases in insurance premiums. They want to put affordable insurance plans on the market again.
Obamacare’s spiraling premium increases have especially hurt middle-income consumers, who have had to pay the whole cost without getting the government subsidies that apply to poorer people. Those people have either gritted their teeth and bought expensive policies or, in many cases, chosen instead to break the law, pay the fine, and do without insurance. In Idaho, at least, they will be able to select from among plans that don’t fulfill all of Obamacare’s expensive criteria.
The scheme appears to flout federal law, so there was some doubt that insurers would be interested in participating at all. But this week, Blue Cross of Idaho stepped up and made it clear it would do so.
On Wednesday, the company provided information about one of the five such plans it intends to offer, called “Freedom Blue Standard.” This is designed to be comparable in most respects to Obamacare Exchange bronze plans. The two have similar deductibles, rates of coinsurance, and out-of-pocket maximums.
But there are also a few critical differences. Because it allows some health underwriting, which is pricing based on health, and because it caps lifetime benefits at $1 million, the Freedom Blue Standard plan is available to the healthiest buyers for as little as 40 percent of what the bronze plan costs, depending on age. Setting aside the rate for the healthiest, the average buyer of Freedom Blue Standard saves 26-66 percent of the price he or she would pay for an Obamacare bronze policy, depending on age.
So, just as the children of Lake Wobegon are all above average, Idaho insurance customers who stay in Obamacare’s bronze plan would all pay above the average price for consumers in a scheme that involves health underwriting.
Obamacare’s tradeoff for the higher prices is supposed to be that the sickest patients, with the most expensive pre-existing ailments, get insurance for the same price as everyone else. Yet, the Freedom Blue offering already indicates that this benefit is modest at best. The sickest and most expensive patients, it turns out, would be charged only 25-35 percent more than the rate that everyone currently enrolled in Obamacare must pay.
Idaho’s experiment is a bold one, and it is sure to be challenged in court if anyone can figure out how to do it. But already it has helped quantify the punishing and unnecessary expense that Obamacare has imposed upon the 9 percent of people who buy insurance on the individual market.
The Idaho experiment prompts us to ask why the public should keep paying so much for health insurance when there is a simple alternative. And why should taxpayers subsidize insurers that demand such high premiums, when an affordable system is there for the taking the very moment we clear aside Obamacare’s wreckage?
