Posted on 03/18/2015 4:44:16 AM PDT by lowbridge
This week brought the good news that 16.4 million Americans have gained coverage under the Affordable Care Act — taking a 35% bite out of the ranks of the uninsured.
Last week, the Congressional Budget Office calculated that the law’s tax subsidies are costing 20% less than projected five years ago, when it was passed.
And in December, the feds reported that the once-ruinous spiral of spending on medical care slowed to just 3.6% for 2013 — “the lowest increase on record in the national health expenditures going back to 1960,” according one of the report’s authors.
It’s increasingly obvious, in other words, that the ACA, aka Obamacare, is beating expectations — not just of its critics, but also its supporters — and moving the country toward the sanity and security of universal health coverage.
So who will be the first major Republican to admit that Obamacare is working?
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Also predictably in the anti-Obamacare camp is early front-runner Scott Walker of Wisconsin, one of the many Republican governors who turned down the chance to expand his state’s Medicaid plan for the poor at federal expense.
In fact, Walker rolled back eligibility to push thousands of Wisconsinites off the Medicaid rolls — arguing they could now afford to buy their own coverage through Obamacare. How’s that for having it both ways?
At least this isn’t 2009, when Sarah Palin spouted off about “death panels” — which was her purely demagogic spin on an ACA provision that sensibly encouraged doctors to talk to their patients about end-of-life issues, such as living wills and advance directives.
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Well, given that it was designed to destroy the previously functional system, yes, it’s working.
Delusional.
its tough to fit so much stupid into one article but he clearly put a lot of effort into it.
It is costing 20% less? oh - so its only an 80% disaster
And the reason it is costing less is because of all the states that refused to set up exchanges, and all the people who HAVE NOT signed up for it
Have they forgotten the 8 million who LOST THEIR INSURANCE last year?
And the 80 million who are projected to lose it next? (if Obama had not unilaterally delayed implementation of the employer mandate...)
The 20% less was the most misleading statistic of the article. One would think that we are actually saving 20% when in reality our spending has increased but just by as much as they thought. It's the same logic that gets the Obama lackies to claim the deficit is being cut when in reality they are only "cutting" their projected increases in spending.
We haven't even begun to see the true long term costs yet and we won't for at least another 10 years.
Obamacare works = wealth redistribution is occurring.
I like what I heard someone say a few weeks ago.....”More people may have insurance, they just don’t have coverage”
It has also, according to the report, only reduced the uninsured by 35%. So 65% of the uninsured remain without coverage.
10-15M pre-O’Care ‘w/out insurance’ == 10-15M post-O’Care ‘w/out insurance’ + $BILLIONS == success ??
Other than the D.C./NY corridor bubble, where would the above be touted as a success? What company would not be sued into extinction for fraud/embezzlement/etc.?
And in spite of the fact that parents are now mandated to provide coverage for their 25 year old children.
If this is true, why are our doctors and dentists calling the wife and I all the time wanting us to come in early because they’ve had so many cancellations? Somebody be boosh*ttin!
Or, as I would put it, "More people have insurance, it's just now too damn expensive for them to get healthcare."
You can't have your cake and eat it, too.
I like what I heard someone say a few weeks ago.....”More people may have insurance, they just don’t have coverage”
I can vouch for that, up until recently I was working a part time job that involved talking by phone with people all over the country about proposed legislation, much of it to do with medical care. I heard from a lot of people and it was extremely unusual for anyone to speak positively about Obamacare. I heard story after story from people who said they were incredibly worse off and many said that they would be better off to just drop their “coverage” and pay everything out of pocket. I think that is the real reson for the individual mandate. If they did not have that to force people to enroll the system would quickly revert to fee for service with no insurance involved, that is the way a lot of doctors are going anyway. I expect soon to see legislation proposed to force doctors to accept medicaid, medicare and all the rest. We are very likely to wind up with medical care on a par with Cuba, officially everyone will be covered but in reality no one will be.
“This week brought the good news that 16.4 million Americans have gained coverage under the Affordable Care Act”
Thats ASSUMING these figures are real because we all know how this administration loves to cook the books.
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