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Posted on 10/20/2014 9:47:51 PM PDT by Nachum
The Obama administration has funded a new study by top consulting firm RAND Health that startlingly finds that if taxpayer subsidies are eliminated, Obamacare exchanges will fall into a “death spiral.”
The study comes in the wake of a number of lawsuits which are challenging the Obama administration’s implementation of Obamacare subsidies. Three lawsuits have made it to U.S. Circuit Courts, just one step from the Supreme Court, arguing that the text of the Affordable Care Act allows premium subsidies for state-run exchanges only. (RELATED: Second Court Strikes Down Obamacare Subsidies In Federal Exchanges)
The report was sponsored by HHS’s Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, which, among other duties, compiles the enrollment statistics each month during open enrollment for Obamacare exchanges. Given the ongoing controversy over Obamacare subsidies, HHS sponsoring the study could be a sign that the administration is beginning to worry about its prospects.
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"Startlingly," the new "unexpectedly."
If it is that dependent on yet more taxpayer cash from taxpayers that are already coughing up for their own coverage, then it needs to just fail or be totally repealed.
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Obamacare is already a death spiral. Yours.
Startling? It’s exactly as intended.
Obamacare married the worst of private insurance and single payer without the redeeming features of either approach.
No wonder it sucks. Its the Ponzi Scam of the our national health care.
Obama won’t have to clean up the mess - nor will the Democrats who took a health care system that worked for 90% of Americans and managed to single-handedly turn it into a slough no one wants.
It was all about politics, not a consideration of even turning out a good product. And the politics just make people gag. No wonder Democrats are looking at pink slips this fall.
Obamacare is the worst social initiative ever foisted upon the country with more losers than winners. It stands as an object lesson in how not to legislate.
Obama is the worst president ever foisted upon the country.
That “Death Spiral” couldn’t happen anytime too soon as this health care scheme has absolutely nothing to do with any governmental compassion and everything and than some with screwing and controlling the public, along with the purpose of keeping the socialists in perpetual power. Unfortunately a good portion of the public is too dumb and ignorant to see the real reason behind this contrived scheme.
Judge Roberts to the rescue!!!!
Fixed it.
If you take a frog, put it into a pot and slowly turn up the heat... and then dump boiling lye on it when the pot isn't heating fast enough, the frog won't jump out.
Better that Obamacare suffer a death spiral than the American people.
They needed a study for this? Of course, Obamacare will self-destruct without the subsidies and I believe the SCOTUS will eventually rule that the subsidies are illegal. The question is what happens then?
Why does it need subsidies? I thought Costs were to fall, and blah blah.
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The more important question should be, will Obama follow the rule of law?
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