Posted on 08/30/2016 9:11:24 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
Including: Making insurers help pay the costs of other insurers' high-cost policyholders
ObamaCare is a huge and glorious success, and it’s the shining jewel in Barack Obama’s legacy. That’s what the Democrats have been telling us for several years, and for the most part the media have dutifully parrotted this talking point. But in recent months, it’s gotten harder for Obama’s media protectors to keep pretending everything is OK. Exchanges are in dire fiscal straits. Insurers are dropping out. Premiums are soaring. Provider networks are narrowing.
The left keep reaching back for what it thinks is the one saving grace of ObamaCare - that more people are “covered” than before. And that’s true, but the vast majority of these are just sopping off Medicaid, which is exploding both state and federal budgets, while just about everyone is spending more for the glorious privilege of being “covered,” not to mention paying higher taxes to pay for all the subsidies ObamaCare promises.
Communism or capitalism. What’s it gonna be, 0?
Sorry but with a 8 to 10 thousand dollar deductible you are not “covered” for anything but a catastrophic situation.
Just more smoke and mirrors to buy time until it is politically saleable to call for what they wanted all along: single payer.
Last week USA Today ran an editorial proposing increasing the penalty to force more people to buy O’care.
That’s the ticket — more gov’t coercion.
Yep, higher premiums and no coverage except for preventative, minor visits.
You have to ask?
Once upon a time in America, even the smallest of changes to a law or program “duly” passed by congress would require the approval of congress.
If cankles gets elected she will probably throw people into jail for paying cash to a doctor for medical services. In my case, if I needed care, I would pay cash to a doctor or nurse (possibly outside of the U.S.) until the next enrollment period opens up. Of course, if I can think of doing that millions of other people are thinking the same thing. That is why Hitlery will throw us in jail.
Amending the law again ?
Where is the Congress ?
ObumaCrap is just a kidney stone stuck in your eureter, that mkes you want to dance.
Just have your block captain borrow the thumb screws from the Gestapo and watch participation go up.
Dittos.
One thing the USA Today editorial failed to mention, was that Justice Roberts okayed the O’care penalty as a “tax” on the grounds that it was low enough to be reasonable as a tax.
So increasing it could run into a problem there, but if Hillary is elected, it’ll be her court anyway.
Insurance companies deserve to lose money, they threw their lot in with Obama and the Dims
Well said!
You beat me to that one. As a fellow about to retire before Medicare kicks in - that would be "mandatory" Medicare, even if you don't take any money - I found myself actually checking the marketplace for an acceptable health plan. And what you state is precisely what I found.
Premiums are up - for a plan comparable to the one I had at the beginning of the 0bama administration's insufferable meddling, whose premium was on the order of $200 per month, I now may enjoy a premium of between $730 and $1000 dollars, with higher deductibles and co-pays, and less actual medicine covered. If "more" people are now covered, it's because everyone's blanket is threadbare. It didn't have to be this way.
The solutions proposed by the 0bama administration are principally, and typically, to double down - the patient pays more and gets less. It's really very simple: people who can afford nothing better than a plan with a $5000 co-pay don't have the $5000 in the bank to cover care. To represent them as having coverage now where they didn't before is simply a lie.
It’s nothing more than another welfare program.
Let us NOT FORGET that it was Hillary-care before Obamacare...
It is simple. If you have nothing you have free healthcare. If you have something, they keep whittling away at it away until you have nothing.
People can't afford it and with the exchanges drying up, there won't be a vehicle for people to get federal subsidies. Pretty soon states who took federal funds to expand Medicaid will be entirely on their own for the Medicaid enrollees.
Many of those states are already underwater big time with unfunded state worker pension obligations - and courts have ruled that they can't alter the pension contracts.
They're running out of road to kick the can down.
The predicted death spiral is unfolding very quickly.
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