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After insurer departures, 70,000 Virginians will not be able to purchase health coverage in 2018
Roanoke Times ^ | 9/12/2017

Posted on 09/12/2017 3:01:35 PM PDT by Altura Ct.

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To: Altura Ct.

Why should only a few counties be affected?
If an insurance company wants to sell policies in your state, they should have to cover all counties. However, for some people, I could see how there might not be a hospital or other medical facility nearby where they could use their insurance with a doctor that’s in the plan.


21 posted on 09/12/2017 3:33:36 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o>P ---)
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To: Timocrat
When it was passed the Dems had a majority in the House and Senate. Not one Republican voted for it.

True statement. Just wondering whats happened since now that we have John "I was against the bill before I was for it" McCain and the other liars.

22 posted on 09/12/2017 3:36:14 PM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: Altura Ct.

The plan is working just the way the Demoncrats wanted it to work. Now there is no option but single-payer, government run health care. With any luck, we will soon all be subjected to Veteran’s Administration-type care.


23 posted on 09/12/2017 3:38:20 PM PDT by BruceS
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To: rey
Yes, you can blame them, but it never would have passed without republican help in a republican control house and senate. Here we sit with another republican house and senate and cannot repeal it.

The Dems controlled both the House and Senate when Obamacare was passed. Not a single Republican voted in favor. Also, there may not have been the votes in the House so the Speaker of The House, Pelosi, "deemed" the bill to pass during reconciliation. There was no real vote.

24 posted on 09/12/2017 4:01:10 PM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: smokingfrog

lol

deductible of 3000000000000 dollars and a monthly payment of 30000 dollars :)


25 posted on 09/12/2017 4:25:02 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: rey

No Republicans signed 0bamacare.

But I agree with you that our current Congress IS a waste of our time and dollars. We gave them the House, the Senate and now the Presidency.

And all they did for 8 years was yap about their IMMEDIATE plans to repeal and replace 0bamacare!

I don’t want it replaced. I want it repealed and I want a Free Market solution.

I am so glad I’m retired and no longer have to worry about my employees and their healthcare. We changed carriers 3 times in 3 years due to 0bamacare, and had to cut hours for everyone, and take away our Flex Plan for our employees because 0bamacare made it illegal.

But, I’ve sung this song before, and no one listens, LOL!

I’ll believe it when I SEE it repealed.


26 posted on 09/12/2017 5:11:05 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Yeah, but notice that the article is blaming Trump. Expect the media to keep beating this fake news drum.


27 posted on 09/12/2017 5:38:49 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
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To: Altura Ct.

I’ll leave it to the lawyers to figure the angles, but it seems to me that there is a compelling equal protection constitutional challenge to be made here. Obamacare has collapsed. Congress is incapable of fixing it, not because there aren’t solutions but because there are insufficient votes for any one of them. The upshot is that we now have a law that prohibits a geographically defined group of people from purchasing any health insurance at all, because there is no one willing to issue a policy on the terms dictated by the law. Surely no one would argue that Congress could impose a law that prohibited people from spending their own money to purchase food, clothing, housing, electric power, diet coke or any other basic necessity of life. A law that had this effect on any particular, arbitrarily victimized group of people would be a denial of equal protection. That’s the gist. Clearly the Roberts court erred when it allowed Obamacare to be implemented. Time has revealed the law to be a failure and Congress to be incapable of a remedy. The law should be a nullity. This is an opportunity for the Court to correct its disastrous error.


28 posted on 09/12/2017 5:48:13 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: Altura Ct.

0bamaCare, working as planned!


29 posted on 09/12/2017 7:44:51 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: Bigg Red

“Expect the media to keep beating this fake news drum.”

Oh, that’s a given! However - it’s GOT to wear thin at some point in time. I mean, really:

‘President Trump is responsible for my stubbed toe, my hangnail, a pimple on my chin AND my lost car keys!!’

THAT is how the Enemy Media sounds to me, and IS sounding to tens of millions of others.

President Trump got MORE votes than any OTHER Republican candidate in ANY Presidential Race in America’s history!

We, ‘Deplorables’ are 100% Fed Up.


30 posted on 09/12/2017 8:14:10 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

But there are so many on the left who never tire of hearing all of the lies they tell about the president.


31 posted on 09/12/2017 8:29:04 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
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To: Bigg Red

Well, it DOES sell Advertising Time.

The Capitalist in me totally understands that. ;)

However, LefTards HATE Capitalism, yet use it to their advantage at every turn. Go figure!


32 posted on 09/12/2017 8:32:23 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: sphinx
I’ll leave it to the lawyers to figure the angles, but it seems to me that there is a compelling equal protection constitutional challenge to be made here.

Excellent point. All these challenges to Trump repeal of DACA yet no right of center group can muster a challenge to an obviously defective law.

33 posted on 09/13/2017 6:56:05 AM PDT by Timocrat (Ingnorantia non excusat)
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I agree with you that some center-right group with legal chops should look into this. The left is very effective, on issue after issue, of pressing the matter on every front and going back for repeated bites at the apple. We should do the same. The ongoing disintegration of Obamacare offers constantly changing circumstances that should at least be explored as opportunities for reopening the legal battle.

In this case, actual concrete harm is being done to identifiable people by refusing them any relief from a law that has clearly failed, at least in their jurisdiction. HHS should also take the initiative to extend the broadest possible waiver to people in this situation so that they can seek market remedies.

34 posted on 09/13/2017 9:17:09 AM PDT by sphinx
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Can you not buy an individual policy? I had one and never used their stupid exchange...

According to the article, no. The claim is the uncertainty of federal payments for additional cost sharing on the exchange is destabilizing all insurance in those counties.

35 posted on 09/13/2017 11:48:08 AM PDT by EVO X
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