RATS won’t be wiped out ever if establishment ‘pubs keep treating Constitutional Conservatives and Trump as the enemy.
What about the GOPe that supports OdumboCare? lets face it the GOPe has done very little to end OdumboCare. The money is allocated through the House of Rep, each and every time I hear that OdumboCare will not be funded, in the end it gets funded with Republican Support. So is this just another in a series of so called wins that when it gets to the nex level, he Odumbo administration will utilize delay tacics so in the end the OdumboCare is fully fnded as a travesty that destroys the American Economy. Look what has been done the Odumbo Adminisraion has taken money for Medicare illegally and transferred into OdumboCare. This year Medicare premiums are to go up anywhere from 50.00 to 100.00 for elderly and disabled individuals.
Flat Enrollment Estimates For 2016--Has The Obama Administration Given Up On Obamacare?
Why isn’t Obamacare growing?
Because, other than for the lowest income people who enjoy the biggest subsidies and lowest deductibles, the insurance products health plans are required by Obamacare to sell people are just plain unattractive with their still after subsidy premiums and high deductibles and co-pays. The value simply isn’t there for the working and middle class–unless of course you are sick.
But the Risk Pool is Going to Get better Over Time
If Obamacare fails to grow past its now anemic enrollment levels, each open enrollment will be just another bad dream lived over and over. If we once again, as the administration is now projecting, get a 40% take-up rate the healthy people will disproportionately cycle out of the pool and the sick people will disproportionately cycle into it. And, this can go on year after year. In health insurance industry terms, we will just keep churning the block with no underwriting improvement.
To break this cycle we need to see the risk pool grow to closer to that 75% industry standard so we are assured of getting lots of healthy people.
But the Average Lowest Cost Silver Plan is Only Going up 4.4%
The Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) also points out that while rates are going up for many health plans, the baseline second lowest cost Silver Plan will only cost 4.4% more than it did last year in the 13 states it surveyed. Which only proves that after one full year of claims data there is at least one insurance plan in most of these 13 states that still doesn’t understand its risk pool and hardly represents the actions of the plans with the most data and sophistication.
Nor does the KFF report accurately portray the sustainability of a national market where, as the Obama administration’s report on risk corridor payments showed, carriers losing money are doing so at a rate eight times greater than those making money. Add to that these 2016 rates were filed before the health plans knew the feds were stiffing them out of $2.5 billion in reinsurance payments they had earlier promised to pay and I will suggest that it will be a while yet before we see the full set of true costs accurately displayed across the full market.
a legal challenge can go forward for months and months, but absent Medicaid funds, PP will wither on the vine and be dead by the time a judgement is finally rendered.