It sure looks like it...
Depends, is it working as a legitimate solution for existing ah.............no, or is it working as another scam
Wow! It is working so well that for the first time in my adult life, I cannot afford to pay for health insurance.
“Early reports are that the trend of small business to dump their health plans and move employees onto the exchanges is occurring faster than was expected.”
Could very well happen within my company. I have no illusions.
One step closer to single payer government run healthcare. Oh, Joy! Oh, Happiness!
Americans now pay more for medical insurance
than their mortgage.
BUT THEY CANNOT ACTUALLY SEE DOCTORS or get
QUALITY CARE.
This cannot possibly end well.
As much as it’s not working now imagine how much it’s not going to work when the Supreme Court rules that the federal government does not have power under the law to provide premium subsidies to people in states which have not created their own exchanges.
I want to pass a statute that there is a requirement to eat peanut butter sandwiches and that all have to buy them from my peanut butter sandwich store.
Is Obamacare working?
Is anything in Amerika working?
> Is ObamaCare Working?
Yes, it is destroying America as Obama intended.
That's an important question to ask, because it may be working for some but not for others. Is it working for people who were previously insured? Is it working for those who were uninsured? Is it working for employers? Is it working for insurance companies?
It's also important to define what "working" means for each of these groups.
Ironically, it's probably "working" for the overall concept of health insurance in the U.S. because more and more people are coming to realize that they can't afford their health care no matter how it is financed.
It sure looks like it...
“... health reform has enabled about 5 million people to become newly insured...”
Uhmmm, Boo Chit!
60% of those people previously had private insurance and only signed up for Obamacare after their carrier ended coverage after the nefarious law mandated certain changes in coverage they could no longer package and sell.
It has been enormously successful at ending a WWII benefit.
At a given urban hospital medicine ward there are, in this case forty patients. In forty rooms. The hospital is new, and it was built with all private rooms, as people are not expected to live among each other. In previous times it was four to a room and greater
Each of these patients has some manifestation of self abuse. Diet and exercise to start then alcohol, drug, and tobacco
None have insurance
They are in this medical unit for days and weeks. Private room, pharmaceuticals, surgical procedures (amputations) tests MD attention, three squares, all the morphine Obama can buy them with our money,
No families, no visitors no friends, no jobs, no money no societal contribution. Our country has no history of this ridiculous situation It is not a tenet of conservatism nor in our constitution that supporting this will benefit society for the investment
It is an investment
Our government has opted to invest taxpayer money on this. Ted Cruz and mike lee alone tried to defund this
Each of those hospital rooms are filled every day. The room, the doctors, nurses, tests, drugs, and medical supplies cost daily more than any one of these people have ever made in a year
They are treated like golden princes.
Across the pedestrian bridge is the va hospital It is an entirely different world/system. And it is not obamacare.
Multiply that by say a hundred people per day times forty cities
All year long, every year
Obamacare money will not only run out, the investment will prove to have been as sound as enabling one’s drunken, unemployed, hopeless brother in law’s behavior by giving him one’s hard earned cash and taking it away from one’s children’s’ future to do it
Once you take the bait the pain of the hook will ensue.
All of us had been self-insured... my kids and their father on one policy... which was cancelled because Aetna pulled out of the individual market in Maryland... apparently the fed regs don’t allow companies to offer individual policies if they don’t also offer obamacare -_-
My policy I thought was safe... as they raised their rates and told me the policy was obamacare compliant. Just got a notice that they’re pulling out at the end of the year. So I’ve got to shop for a new policy during open enrollment in November. I had a very reasonable and cheap policy for years... suited my needs as I have no health issues. I’m waiting to see how steep the new ACA premiums will end up being.