Did the stupid people know that up front? Doubt it.
Obamacare could have been a “gift” in 2012, except the republican candidate was the author of it.
The "Affordable Care Act reordered the legal framework to let a president impose price restrictions unilaterally," writes Scott Gottlieb . ObamaCare's Independent Payment Advisory Board "was designed to take decisions about how to reduce Medicare's spending out of any public debate. The board's appointed academicians have no statutory obligation to engage in the public notice and comment that is customary in regulation." Also, board decisions are "exempt from judicial review and appeal, and they take effect without Congress." And the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation "is similarly able to create new payment rules" to "target medical technology and procedures."
Speaking of ObamaCare, a Journal editorial on last week's sell-off in health insurance stocks explains that UnitedHealth Group's downgrade to its earnings forecast was "almost entirely driven by losses on the Affordable Care Act exchanges. UnitedHealth is the largest U.S. insurer by enrollment, and the company is warning it may withdraw from ObamaCare in 2017."
If can only be a “gift” in the right hands. No Republican except Trump will do a thing about it. Who is kidding whom here?
“Obamacare’ is sh#@ and anyone associated with it gets sh*& on himself/herself.
PERIOD
There is not a single iota of that ‘law’ which is good for the American people and NOT even good for the people for whom the pretense was made, that it would serve.
It has absolutely NOTHING to do with health care or health care delivery in the US and it’s time for Conservatives to articulate this at EVERY opportunity! NOW, CONSISTENTLY AND REPEATEDLY!!!
Jonathan Gruber even admitted that they were RELYING on the stupidity of people in order to get it passed.
Did the stupid people know that up front? Doubt it.
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No - most are allowing automatic re-enrollment to happen. From my (faulty) memory banks, the subsidies are based on a certain plan (next to lowest silver? or something like that) & the plan will change year to year as insurance companies rotate in/out, prices change, etc. IF you do not go in and shop every year, your share of the bill will most like go up & in some cases, significantly. Most people do not know this & most do not want to have to deal with the Ocare website, either.
O’care was never intended to work and was the setup to bring in “Single Payer” Government run and funded healthcare. The republicans will either have no stomach to stop this or they want it to happen Many of them want the Government takeover of healthcare along with everything else in this country.
Actually, Obamacare is working exactly and precisely the way it was intended to work. It is successfully ending private health coverage in this country and getting everyone signed up on government run programs. Which was its intention all along.