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Another problem was that Iowa and Nebraska, with the Obama administration’s permission, allowed people to keep old insurance policies that did not meet Affordable Care Act standards through 2016. These people tended to be relatively healthy because before the law took effect, insurers could reject customers who were sick.

That left the two insurers selling plans through Iowa’s online exchange, CoOportunity and Coventry Health, to take on a disproportionate number of customers with expensive health problems.

In other words, Obamacare doesn't work if you are allowed to keep your insurance.

If you like lying politicians, you can keep them.

1 posted on 02/17/2015 9:37:03 AM PST by edwinland
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To: edwinland

Are they feeling fundamentally transformed yet?


2 posted on 02/17/2015 9:41:28 AM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: edwinland

More people like free stuff than stuff they have to pay for... Wow, some people (with doctorate degrees) are just finding that out!


3 posted on 02/17/2015 9:51:03 AM PST by jimmygrace
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To: edwinland

Here is my proposal: we will make the health-insurance companies a subsidiary of The Fed, and they can just print money instead of charging premiums.

For my next trick, I will demonstrate how we can generate carbon-free electricity using simple unicorns....


4 posted on 02/17/2015 9:54:04 AM PST by proxy_user
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Another gem from the article:

Dr. Martin Hickey, chairman of the National Alliance of State Health Co-ops, said that based on the third-quarter results posted by the remaining co-ops, “I honestly, honestly don’t expect another co-op to be taken over by a state regulator in 2015.”

These days, if the government wants us to believe anything they say on healthcare, they have to say "honestly" at least twice.

5 posted on 02/17/2015 9:55:05 AM PST by edwinland
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Liberals define ‘success’ by the number of people who ‘sign up’, not the number who actually get health care............


6 posted on 02/17/2015 10:16:02 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: edwinland
Health Care Success for Midwest Co-op Proves Its Undoing

What is rather amazing is that the NY Times couches this story in the guise that FAILURE is a sign of Obamacares success.. Huh???

As someone else already stated, "In other words, Obamacare doesn't work if you are allowed to keep your insurance."

It becomes clearer and clearer that NONE of this was thought through.
We have to "PASS the BILL to see what's IN the BILL" - dipshit Pelosi

10 posted on 02/17/2015 11:13:42 AM PST by VideoDoctor
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