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How Obamacare Is Fueling America’s Opioid Epidemic


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Bubba wrote:How Obamacare Is Fueling America’s Opioid Epidemic


http://time.com/4292290/how-obamacare-i ... tter-brief" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
funny how these "unintended" consequences all lead to the destruction of society and norms... wonder how he could be so inept? :roll: I mean who would want to do something like that on purpose?
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ObamaCare premiums expected to rise sharply amid insurer losses

http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/27 ... rer-losses" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


if only there would have been some way to predict this beforehand....
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Another nail...

Republicans win Obamacare legal challenge, add to insurer concerns
May 12, 2016

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Bubba wrote:Another nail...

Republicans win Obamacare legal challenge, add to insurer concerns
May 12, 2016

https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-judge-hand ... 36939.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
so awesome that the "workings" of the federal bureaucracy virtually guarantee that even the most obvious slam dunk cases will be dragged out endlessly...well at least long enough to ensure that so much sand is kicked into the vaseline that there's really no way to ever get it all out...


"lets just call it the stupidity of the american people..."

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Government price controls didn't work for gasoline, and it won't work for healthcare. Unless you like waiting in long lines for limited availability.
At issue in the case, brought by the Republican-led House of Representatives, are reimbursements to insurance companies to compensate them for reductions that the law requires them to make to customers’ out-of-pocket medical payments
The case focuses on a cost-sharing provision of Obamacare that requires insurers to reduce deductibles and co-pays. Insurers are supposed to be reimbursed for these costs by the federal government. Cost-sharing is determined by the income of the policyholder and is a mechanism for reducing healthcare costs for lower-income households.
The government needs to lower the cost of health care by

1) Encourage the increase of the supply of medical professionals and facilities. Greater supply will bring more competition. Open several more medical schools.
2) Allow insurers to compete across state lines.
3) Perform a review of malpractice law, and have a minimum number of lawyers on the panel.
4) Encourage a base level of medical care that is UNINSURED. Basic care is paid for in cash, and has no insurance paperwork to fill out and no insurance industry to pay for.
5) Require doctors to post their fees on line and in their office, just like tow trucks, grocery stores and gas stations. No more "negotiated rates" to select insurance companies. No more "We can't tell you what it will cost" when you go to the doctor. The public square determines who to go to and what they are willing to pay.
6) In the same way zone pricing should be illegal for gasoline wholesaling, make it illegal to sell prescription drugs for higher prices in than in different countries. Prices are not set, but capped at a composite of the UK, Canada, and a few other countries prices. Make it legal, fast and efficient to buy drugs in Canada through the mail.
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trump's position on healthcare:

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/ ... are-reform" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

liberals heads will explode with pseudo-rage, just cuz...otherwise, again, it sounds pretty moderate and practical to me...
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The Legislature’s Joint Fiscal Office has estimated that as many as one-third of the state’s Medicaid enrollees are not eligible for the program, but the Shumlin administration says that number is significantly higher than what they are finding as they review cases one-by-one.

http://www.vermontpressbureau.com/2016/ ... neligible/
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It’s Time to Blame Obamacare for Losing So Many Full-Time Jobs

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One data point in particular might give at least some indication why. The number of part-time workers in jobs for economic reasons shot up by 468,000, apart from the 458,000 that left the workforce altogether. Slack work or business conditions accounted for 181,000 of these jobs, while another 77,000 could only find part-time work.

Analysts at Goldman Sachs have noticed this trend for some time, and put the blame on Obamacare.

“The evidence suggests that the [Affordable Care Act] has at least modestly elevated involuntary part-time employment,” Goldman Sachs economist Alec Philips wrote in a research note published on Wednesday. Obamacare had the greatest impact on industries that traditionally do not offer strong health insurance coverage, such as retail stores and the hospitality industry. Phillips noted that these have the highest levels of involuntary part-time workers, and believes that the ACA has forced “a few hundred thousand” to take cuts in hours or accept part-time work as a result.

That may not seem like a high number, given the amount of people in the US workforce. However, as we approach the seventh anniversary of the Obama recovery, the continued rise in involuntary part-time workers demonstrates a fundamental weakness in the economy, Phillips argues. As Joseph Lawler noted for The Washington Examiner, the number of people forced into part-time work has grown by over 600,000 people in the last seven months. It’s not getting better – it’s getting worse.
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gee no way? who could have possibly seen that coming? oh yeah EVERYONE but the ( barely) useful idiot grubers...the same dumbf@cks who buy the media spin on trump...
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Bubba wrote:It’s Time to Blame Obamacare for Losing So Many Full-Time Jobs
Obamacare had the greatest impact on industries that traditionally do not offer strong health insurance coverage, such as retail stores and the hospitality industry.
I bet it's higher than that.

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Yep, Obamacare continues to just merrily roll along...

Aetna pulls back on Obamacare health insurance plans in 2017
Mon Aug 15, 2016 9:58pm EDT

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-aetna ... SKCN10R01N" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Aetna Inc, the No. 3 U.S. health insurer, on Monday said that due to persistent financial losses on Obamacare plans, it will sell individual insurance on the government-run online marketplaces in only four states next year, down from the current 15 states.

Aetna's decision follows similar moves from UnitedHealth Group Inc. and Humana Inc., which have cited similar concerns about financial losses on these exchanges created under President Barack Obama's national healthcare reform law.
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Bubba wrote:Yep, Obamacare continues to just merrily roll along...

Aetna pulls back on Obamacare health insurance plans in 2017
Mon Aug 15, 2016 9:58pm EDT

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-aetna ... SKCN10R01N" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Aetna Inc, the No. 3 U.S. health insurer, on Monday said that due to persistent financial losses on Obamacare plans, it will sell individual insurance on the government-run online marketplaces in only four states next year, down from the current 15 states.

Aetna's decision follows similar moves from UnitedHealth Group Inc. and Humana Inc., which have cited similar concerns about financial losses on these exchanges created under President Barack Obama's national healthcare reform law.
funny how the same people that said this was a great bill and the most wonderful thing ever are the same people who are promoting hillary and doing anything and everything they can to destroy trump, and again the same people , the grubers, the "stupidity of the american people" he cited as crucial to getting this catastrophic failure of a program instituted, are buying the propaganda hook line and sinker...do you people ever learn??? if the stupidity only affected them I'd hardly care but they are the ( barely) useful idiots that the dems are using to fleece the populace, both the unwilling participants such as myself upon whom you foist this sh!t and of course the oblivous to reality ( barely) useful idiots themselves...
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Sen. John McCain: ObamaCare nightmare may leave 10,000 Arizonans with no insurance options


Last week, Aetna became the latest major health insurer to announce that it will exit most of the states where it offers health insurance on the ObamaCare exchanges. The move could make Pinal County, in my home state of Arizona, the first in the nation to have no options when it comes to ObamaCare’s marketplace.

For a law that President Obama said would bring more “choice, more competition, [and] real health care security,” ObamaCare has delivered nothing more than empty promises.

Aetna’s exit could leave nearly 10,000 citizens of Pinal County without any health care options in the ObamaCare marketplace.

As a rural area of our state in which 18 percent of the population lives below the poverty line, the impact will be felt particularly hard.

Aetna’s exit could leave nearly 10,000 citizens of Pinal County without any health care options in the ObamaCare marketplace.

Today, 88 percent of ObamaCare enrollees in Pinal County receive a federal subsidy averaging $230 per month. Of that 88 percent, over 50 percent of the population receives additional financial assistance to help pay for copays, prescription medications and other health care needs. Unless another insurer agrees to enter the marketplace, the only options these individuals will have would be to pay potentially thousands of dollars for health insurance in the private marketplace or go without health coverage altogether.

Unfortunately, it’s likely that Pinal County will not be the last community left out to dry by the president’s failed health care law.

The crumbling of ObamaCare has become commonplace all across the country. Major insurers like UnitedHealth, Blue Cross Blue Shield and Humana have reported stunning financial losses from Obamacare – to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. To cope with these losses, insurers have been forced to sharply increase premiums or exit the marketplace altogether. In fact, before it announced it would leave Arizona, Aetna had proposed an 18 percent premium rate hike over last year to cover its losses. The average proposed premium rate increase among all insurers for 2017 plans in Arizona tops 65 percent.

I’ve heard from my constituents across the state who are concerned about what the collapse of ObamaCare will mean for them and their families.

Take Karen from Tucson, Arizona, for example, who recently wrote to my office about her concern that Aetna’s exit will mean even higher costs for health care, for which she is already paying $485 month with a $6,300 deductible. Or take Sandra from Chandler, Arizona, who was forced to make the difficult decision of taking $15,000 out of a retirement account to pay for her family’s skyrocketing deductible. That decision in turn made her family’s income too high to get additional tax breaks for health care.

My office has received countless other letters and phone calls from concerned Arizonans who have been left with fewer options, less access and decreased quality of care under Obamacare. But this frustration is not unique to Arizona. -- A recent Gallup poll found that Americans cite health care costs as the most important financial burden facing their family.

The best thing government could do to expand access to health insurance is to institute reforms that rein in costs and make health care more affordable.

I’ve introduced legislation to replace ObamaCare with real reform that would expand quality access to health care without compromising individual liberty, competition or innovation.

Unfortunately, every Republican effort to meaningfully bring down the cost of health care has been met with rigid opposition by Democrats who are more concerned with protecting President Obama’s legacy than making health care accessible and affordable.

Just take my Democratic opponent in the Arizona Senate election, for example. Despite the overwhelming outcry by her constituents to address the rising costs of health insurance under Obamacare, Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick continues to tout the president’s failed law as her proudest vote.

The fact is, ObamaCare has always been the wrong solution to reforming America’s health care system. It shouldn’t have to take the complete collapse of the system for Democrats to finally wake up to this reality.

In the meantime, Republicans will continue fighting to repeal and replace this failed law with health care that empowers Americans to choose the health care that works for them and their families – not the federal government.



Republican John McCain represents Arizona in the United States Senate.
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/09 ... ining.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The New Jersey co-op is the 17th Obamacare co-op to collapse, joining other co-ops that have failed including two in Oregon, one each in Illinois, Connecticut, Arizona, Colorado, Kentucky, Michigan, Nevada, New York, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Louisiana and Utah, as well as a co-op that served both Iowa and Nebraska.

This leaves only six co-ops in existence of the 23 that were originally created under Obamacare.
can't gruber results the way you can gruber votes now can ya? yet there's still that 47 or so percent...
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