Posted on 08/31/2017 2:55:36 PM PDT by Ennis85
Underscoring the adage that you don't know what you've got until it's (almost) gone, the popularity of Obamacare is surging.
Only weeks after Republicans in Congress failed to repeal the landmark health reform law, 52 percent of respondents hold a favorable view of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), according to a recent Kaiser Family Foundation August poll. That's up 10 percentage points since June of last year and nearly 20 points since November 2013, when public support for the ACA was at its nadir.
A July poll by CBS News after the repeal effort collapsed found that a plurality of Americans favor a bipartisan push in Congress to improve Obamacare.
The shift in sentiment coincides with other positive developments for Obamacare following its close call in Washington. With several large, and some smaller, insurers pulling out of the program over the past year or so, until recently it looked as if more than 92,000 participants spread out over 82 counties would have no insurer in their local health care exchanges, Cynthia Cox, associate director of Kaiser Family Foundation, said. But state insurance commissioners and other officials in states in jeopardy of losing Obamacare coverage have worked closely with insurers to negotiate continued coverage.
In Ohio, for instance, there were 20 counties without insurers, but officials ultimately convinced five health plans to cover all but one. Then, on August 24, the Ohio Department of Insurance announced that Paulding County, the last "bare county" in the country, would be covered by insurer CareSource.
In addition, the exchange marketplace overall has shown signs of stabilizing. After big financial losses in 2014 and 2015, individual market insurers saw improved performance in 2016, a trend that has continued this year, according to a different Kaiser Family Foundation study.
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If she is a friend of yours, you should politely ask her how she gets free Healthcare since you and your Wife are paying through the nose for it.
Maybe she can give you some pointers.
BTW - The Wife and I pay almost $2,000 a Month for our HMO Coverage. $1,987 to be exact.
In December 2013 we were paying $900 a Month.
Too bad they didn’t Poll me.
How in the world does she pay the deductible?
Doctors used to be considered tradesmen who made decent wages, but nothing out of the ordinary. But the liberal elites decided that doctors should be considered “professionals.” So, now, 99% of patients are dealing with a doc who makes much, much more money than they do. The doctor also is absolutely convinced of his (or her, nowadays) intellectual superiority.
Fixing health care starts with knocking those elitists down about five pegs and slashing their incomes.
GOOD!... Let them keep it and stay on it and see where it takes them.
$2000? Damn! Ours would be a lot higher but my employer pays for mine. They do offer family coverage but it is at full price and it is cheaper to buy through the exchange.
I don’t know.
Another friend, a big advocate for Obamacare, gave me a pointer — intentionally skip paying your utilities bill for a month. You can then show a hardship and then you can get your Obamacare free and subsidized.
Sorry, cheating the system is not right and totally dishonest. BTW, he thinks that Obamacare is wonderful.
He is no longer a good friend.
“intentionally skip paying your utilities bill for a month. You can then show a hardship and then you can get your Obamacare free and subsidized.”
You have to have received a shut-off notice,which usually doesn’t go out after one month of not paying the utility——and the hardship exemption just cover the charge for NOT HAVING insurance.
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But apparently, he figured it out and gets his insurance subsidized. I haven’t talked with him about it since so maybe it didn’t work for him after all.
He also was working with a broker. Sounds like the broker was a con artist, too. Maybe the broker gave him the pointer.
We tried using a broker — a waste of time. We already knew as much as he did.
“But apparently, he figured it out and gets his insurance subsidized. “
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There have always been people who figure out ways to rig the system.
Good luck to you. (I’m on Medicare so not involved in this.)
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Thanks.
A few more years for us and Medicare... if it isn’t bankrupt when we retire.
The $2,000 I just for the Wife and I, we are in our early 60’s.
Our Insurance is through my Retirement Plan, but my old Company doesn’t contribute to it. It’s basically the COBRA Price. I checked on the CA Care (Obamacare Exchange) and the pricing would be the same if we bought a top tier plan through them.
We could have saved about $300 a Month if we joined Kaiser, but they have killed off a couple of people we knew.
I have Leukemia, and I like the Oncologist I have. He has kept me alive for 12 Years. I’m not switching Horses in the middle of the Stream.
The good news is I am eleven Months away from Medicare. The bad news is, my Wife is three Years away from Medicare.
Wow. I wouldn’t change either. Cobra is very expensive.
Good luck.
I’ll wager the sample for the CBS poll contained only those who were receiving subsidies.
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