Just when you think the Obama administration couldn't get anymore stupidly.
In today's press briefing, Jay Carney was asked about the number of Obamacare premium payments that have been made. In other words, the total number of people actually, factually covered, not including window shoppers and unpaid accounts.
"We dispute their numbers. We don't have hard, concrete numbers, but we dispute them," the press secretary reasonably explained.
Carney says this is not data that is traditionally shared with government and emphasizes that the data is coming from "profit-making" companies. Chuck Todd was asking specifically about how many people included in the White House's own reported numbers as successful Obamacare enrollees - the number 8 million that is being touted and bragged about every day - aren't actually covered by insurance at this time, and whether that might change their success line by up to or in excess of one million people.
Carney's answer is that he doesn't know, but also no. They don't have the answer, but they dispute the answer anyone else might have.
I said this before but it needs to be repeated, you just can’t fix stupid.
In today's press briefing, Jay Carney was asked about the number of Obamacare premium payments that have been made. In other words, the total number of people actually, factually covered, not including window shoppers and unpaid accounts.
"We dispute their numbers. We don't have hard, concrete numbers, but we dispute them," the press secretary reasonably explained.
Carney says this is not data that is traditionally shared with government and emphasizes that the data is coming from "profit-making" companies. Chuck Todd was asking specifically about how many people included in the White House's own reported numbers as successful Obamacare enrollees - the number 8 million that is being touted and bragged about every day - aren't actually covered by insurance at this time, and whether that might change their success line by up to or in excess of one million people.
Carney's answer is that he doesn't know, but also no. They don't have the answer, but they dispute the answer anyone else might have.
I said this before but it needs to be repeated, you just can’t fix stupid.
Watch Obamacare Make Health-Care Costs Soar
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-05-01/watch-obamacare-make-health-care-costs-soar
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-05-01/watch-obamacare-make-health-care-costs-soar
By JENNIFER ROBISON
LAS VEGAS ***************
Local business owners might be hoping the Affordable Care Act’s insurance mandates cover sticker shock.
The law’s employer coverage mandate doesn’t take effect until 2015, but early plan renewals are starting to roll in. And for some businesses, the premium jumps are positively painful.
Local insurance brokers are reporting spikes ranging from 35 percent to 120 percent on policies that renew from July to December. The increases are especially acute among employers with workforces made up of younger, healthier men. That’s because Obamacare prohibits offering lower rates to healthier groups. It also narrows the allowed premium gap between older and younger enrollees.
“It’s like if there were no more safe-driver discounts with State Farm,” said local insurance broker Frank Nolimal of Assurance Ltd. “Everybody has the same rate, whether you have three DUIs, or you’re a (nondrinking) churchgoing Mormon.”
The changes put as many as 90,000 policies across Nevada at risk of cancellation or nonrenewal this fall, said Las Vegas insurance broker William Wright, president of Chamber Insurance and Benefits. That’s more than three times the 25,000 enrollees affected in October, when Obamacare-compliant plans first hit the market.
http://www.reviewjournal.com/politics/own-small-business-brace-obamacare-pain.
#working
LAS VEGAS ***************
Local business owners might be hoping the Affordable Care Act’s insurance mandates cover sticker shock.
The law’s employer coverage mandate doesn’t take effect until 2015, but early plan renewals are starting to roll in. And for some businesses, the premium jumps are positively painful.
Local insurance brokers are reporting spikes ranging from 35 percent to 120 percent on policies that renew from July to December. The increases are especially acute among employers with workforces made up of younger, healthier men. That’s because Obamacare prohibits offering lower rates to healthier groups. It also narrows the allowed premium gap between older and younger enrollees.
“It’s like if there were no more safe-driver discounts with State Farm,” said local insurance broker Frank Nolimal of Assurance Ltd. “Everybody has the same rate, whether you have three DUIs, or you’re a (nondrinking) churchgoing Mormon.”
The changes put as many as 90,000 policies across Nevada at risk of cancellation or nonrenewal this fall, said Las Vegas insurance broker William Wright, president of Chamber Insurance and Benefits. That’s more than three times the 25,000 enrollees affected in October, when Obamacare-compliant plans first hit the market.
http://www.reviewjournal.com/politics/own-small-business-brace-obamacare-pain.
#working
[h=1]Mass. scrapping flawed health insurance website[/h] [h=2]Next steps have uncertainties for users, insurers[/h]
http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyl...-broken-fix/oVT1f1X9hE4jaNOfF5XaiP/story.html
#Working
Hey, why can't Democrats oversee the construction of a working Web site anyway?
Losers.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyl...-broken-fix/oVT1f1X9hE4jaNOfF5XaiP/story.html
#Working
Hey, why can't Democrats oversee the construction of a working Web site anyway?
Losers.
Posted May 3, 2014 - 6:53pm Updated May 4, 2014 - 10:49am [h=1]Own a small business? Brace for Obamacare pain[/h]
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By JENNIFER ROBISON
LAS VEGAS ***************
Local business owners might be hoping the Affordable Care Act’s insurance mandates cover sticker shock.
The law’s employer coverage mandate doesn’t take effect until 2015, but early plan renewals are starting to roll in. And for some businesses, the premium jumps are positively painful.
Local insurance brokers are reporting spikes ranging from 35 percent to 120 percent on policies that renew from July to December. The increases are especially acute among employers with workforces made up of younger, healthier men. That’s because Obamacare prohibits offering lower rates to healthier groups. It also narrows the allowed premium gap between older and younger enrollees.
“It’s like if there were no more safe-driver discounts with State Farm,” said local insurance broker Frank Nolimal of Assurance Ltd. “Everybody has the same rate, whether you have three DUIs, or you’re a (nondrinking) churchgoing Mormon.”
The changes put as many as 90,000 policies across Nevada at risk of cancellation or nonrenewal this fall, said Las Vegas insurance broker William Wright, president of Chamber Insurance and Benefits. That’s more than three times the 25,000 enrollees affected in October, when Obamacare-compliant plans first hit the market.
Some workers are at higher risk than others of losing company-sponsored coverage. Professional, white-collar companies such as law or engineering firms will bite the bullet and renew at higher prices because they need to compete for scarce skilled labor, Nolimal said.
But moderately skilled or low-skilled people making $8 to $14 an hour working for landscaping businesses, fire-prevention firms or fencing companies could lose work-based coverage because the plans cost so much relative to salaries.
Employees who keep their coverage might see leaner take-home pay, which could hurt the economy.
Nolimal said one business client whose monthly premiums will rise from $160 to $340 in June plans to shift most of the increase onto his employees.
“Just like when you see gasoline prices going up an extra dime a gallon, it takes money out of the economy for things like buying a new stereo or having dinner out on the town,” Nolimal said.
The premium hikes could have political implications, as well. Nolimal estimated that as many as 85 percent of small-group plans will renew in November and December. Because new premiums go out 60 days before coverage takes effect, those price hikes will hit mailboxes in September and October — just before November’s elections.
That may be why Wright said Nevada lawmakers seemed keenly interested in hearing what he and other brokers had to say during a recent visit to Washington.
He said lawmakers were “very receptive” to the idea that Nevada officials should embrace a federally established transition period that would let businesses keep their existing plans for at least one more year to blunt the effect of today’s higher costs.
Nevada Insurance Commissioner Scott Kipper said March 25 that he doesn’t have the discretion to allow noncompliant plans to stay in place, based on advice from Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto. That decision mirrored a fall conclusion that it would be illegal to reinstate the first wave of canceled plans.
But Wright said he has an opinion from a national law firm that says the small-group situation is different, because it involves policies not yet canceled. He said he and other brokers will work over the next few weeks to sway the commissioner.
■ Nevada Health Link exchange enrollee James Kurien wrote us after reading about locals getting billed by the system for coverage they didn’t have. We urged readers to consider sending in payments to ensure their plan stayed in place, with the idea that billing snafus would get worked out eventually.
Kurien wasn’t so sure about that: “My experience to date is I can’t get an email or call returned. Thus I’m loath to send them $1,000 I don’t owe them on the basis that at some point they’ll acknowledge and refund the overpayment.”
We forwarded Kurien’s email to local broker Tamar Burch, who has more than 20 clients with billing and effective-date issues. Kurien circled back to us to let us know Burch and the exchange still are working on his case, but he had fresh advice for others in his position.
He decided to call his carrier, Nevada Health CO-OP, to ask a few questions. The customer-service rep he spoke to corrected “a lot of misinformation” Kurien said he had received before. And that allowed him to go see a doctor for the first time since he submitted his application in December.
“My experience would suggest calling the carrier more than once with the same question to try to get a correct and consistent answer, rather than feel like the first (potentially misinformed) answer you get is final and that you’re stuck,” Kurien wrote.
Kurien said he also might join a lawsuit filed April 1 on behalf of plaintiffs who paid for coverage they didn’t get.
“I’m interested in some small way for that signal to reach Xerox and the folks who crafted the (Nevada Health Link) system in the hope it doesn’t become business as usual again,” he wrote.
By JENNIFER ROBISON
LAS VEGAS ***************
Local business owners might be hoping the Affordable Care Act’s insurance mandates cover sticker shock.
The law’s employer coverage mandate doesn’t take effect until 2015, but early plan renewals are starting to roll in. And for some businesses, the premium jumps are positively painful.
Local insurance brokers are reporting spikes ranging from 35 percent to 120 percent on policies that renew from July to December. The increases are especially acute among employers with workforces made up of younger, healthier men. That’s because Obamacare prohibits offering lower rates to healthier groups. It also narrows the allowed premium gap between older and younger enrollees.
“It’s like if there were no more safe-driver discounts with State Farm,” said local insurance broker Frank Nolimal of Assurance Ltd. “Everybody has the same rate, whether you have three DUIs, or you’re a (nondrinking) churchgoing Mormon.”
The changes put as many as 90,000 policies across Nevada at risk of cancellation or nonrenewal this fall, said Las Vegas insurance broker William Wright, president of Chamber Insurance and Benefits. That’s more than three times the 25,000 enrollees affected in October, when Obamacare-compliant plans first hit the market.
Some workers are at higher risk than others of losing company-sponsored coverage. Professional, white-collar companies such as law or engineering firms will bite the bullet and renew at higher prices because they need to compete for scarce skilled labor, Nolimal said.
But moderately skilled or low-skilled people making $8 to $14 an hour working for landscaping businesses, fire-prevention firms or fencing companies could lose work-based coverage because the plans cost so much relative to salaries.
Employees who keep their coverage might see leaner take-home pay, which could hurt the economy.
Nolimal said one business client whose monthly premiums will rise from $160 to $340 in June plans to shift most of the increase onto his employees.
“Just like when you see gasoline prices going up an extra dime a gallon, it takes money out of the economy for things like buying a new stereo or having dinner out on the town,” Nolimal said.
The premium hikes could have political implications, as well. Nolimal estimated that as many as 85 percent of small-group plans will renew in November and December. Because new premiums go out 60 days before coverage takes effect, those price hikes will hit mailboxes in September and October — just before November’s elections.
That may be why Wright said Nevada lawmakers seemed keenly interested in hearing what he and other brokers had to say during a recent visit to Washington.
He said lawmakers were “very receptive” to the idea that Nevada officials should embrace a federally established transition period that would let businesses keep their existing plans for at least one more year to blunt the effect of today’s higher costs.
Nevada Insurance Commissioner Scott Kipper said March 25 that he doesn’t have the discretion to allow noncompliant plans to stay in place, based on advice from Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto. That decision mirrored a fall conclusion that it would be illegal to reinstate the first wave of canceled plans.
But Wright said he has an opinion from a national law firm that says the small-group situation is different, because it involves policies not yet canceled. He said he and other brokers will work over the next few weeks to sway the commissioner.
■ Nevada Health Link exchange enrollee James Kurien wrote us after reading about locals getting billed by the system for coverage they didn’t have. We urged readers to consider sending in payments to ensure their plan stayed in place, with the idea that billing snafus would get worked out eventually.
Kurien wasn’t so sure about that: “My experience to date is I can’t get an email or call returned. Thus I’m loath to send them $1,000 I don’t owe them on the basis that at some point they’ll acknowledge and refund the overpayment.”
We forwarded Kurien’s email to local broker Tamar Burch, who has more than 20 clients with billing and effective-date issues. Kurien circled back to us to let us know Burch and the exchange still are working on his case, but he had fresh advice for others in his position.
He decided to call his carrier, Nevada Health CO-OP, to ask a few questions. The customer-service rep he spoke to corrected “a lot of misinformation” Kurien said he had received before. And that allowed him to go see a doctor for the first time since he submitted his application in December.
“My experience would suggest calling the carrier more than once with the same question to try to get a correct and consistent answer, rather than feel like the first (potentially misinformed) answer you get is final and that you’re stuck,” Kurien wrote.
Kurien said he also might join a lawsuit filed April 1 on behalf of plaintiffs who paid for coverage they didn’t get.
“I’m interested in some small way for that signal to reach Xerox and the folks who crafted the (Nevada Health Link) system in the hope it doesn’t become business as usual again,” he wrote.
One Tax To Rule Them All
One Single Obamacare Tax Could Cost Up To 286,000 Jobs
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One Single Obamacare Tax Could Cost Up To 286,000 Jobs
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[h=1]Obamacare has not freed up our ERs: Hospital CEO[/h]
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101645250?__source=yahoonews&par=yahoonews
Totally working
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101645250?__source=yahoonews&par=yahoonews
Totally working
Get ready to have your employer dump you onto the ObamaCare exchanges:
Hold On to Your Health Care
Big companies are flirting with dumping high-cost employees off their private health plans onto Obamacare—legally.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/07/hold-onto-your-health-care.html
Definitely working!
Hold On to Your Health Care
Big companies are flirting with dumping high-cost employees off their private health plans onto Obamacare—legally.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/07/hold-onto-your-health-care.html
Definitely working!
If we dug into the vault archives of this site, you could find me, Dave and a number of others predicting this is exactly what would happen when this monstrosity was first introduced. And it has been the plan all along.
Of course it's 'legal' for them to do so. Health insurance is an employee benefit that isn't required to be offered by any business. Small businesses can't afford the gigantic health insurance expense anymore, so they'll just dump their employees onto the ACA. Why not? It will save them a bunch of money and would probably be the difference between staying in business or closing up shop.
Big companies will follow suit. As time goes on, health insurance companies will lose enough revenue to force every last one of them out of business. What happens then? Why, single-payer, of course! That's what these dick-sucking scumbag dimocraps have intended from the beginning, and it will be the beginning of the end of American living as any of us know it.
NC insurance company says premiums likely to increase because not enough healthy people sign up for Obamacare
Posted on May 9, 2014 at 10:21 AM in Politics
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina says that premiums are likely to increase because not enough of the 34 and under crowd has signed up for Obamacare. The news report sites one couple that is paying $1,000 just for 2 people.
Watch:
Obamacare working
Posted on May 9, 2014 at 10:21 AM in Politics
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina says that premiums are likely to increase because not enough of the 34 and under crowd has signed up for Obamacare. The news report sites one couple that is paying $1,000 just for 2 people.
Watch:
Obamacare working
