Posted on 11/01/2015 11:22:31 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell announced recently that she expects 10 million people to be enrolled in health-care coverage through ObamaCare’s exchanges by the end of next year. What she didn’t mention was that in March of last year the Congressional Budget Office predicted that 21 million people would be enrolled in 2016—more than double the new estimate.
The administration says the difference can be explained away: For instance, fewer companies dropped coverage than expected, thus fewer employees are migrating from employer-sponsored plans to the exchanges. “We haven’t seen much of a shift at all,†Richard Frank, a health and human services assistant secretary, told USA Today.
But the question isn’t where Americans are getting health insurance. It is whether ObamaCare will provide more Americans with affordable insurance for decades to come.
Supporters credit ObamaCare with helping nine million uninsured Americans find coverage in 2014. But a new paper from the Heritage Foundation, however, suggests that nearly all of the increase came from adding nearly nine million people to the Medicaid rolls.
In other words, ObamaCare expanded coverage in 2014 to the extent that it gave people free or nearly free insurance. That goal could have been accomplished without the Affordable Care Act. . .
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Wow. It worked.
As people in this venue have often predicted about Obamacare.
Irrelevant.. they’ll just up taxes and keep dumping money into it. Typical government program.
It's always been about bank fraud.
Forced by law to provide access to your bank account? What did you expect from an ID THIEF anyways?
Most , if not all of the people I know on Obamacare have told me that they have not met their high deductibles or received any real benefits from having the coverage. I think one mentioned it helped on the prescriptions some but that’s only been one person. Definitely heard a lot more complaints than anything good about the coverage at all.
The cheapest of the Bronze plans have no benefit until one reaches the +$6000 deductible. Bronze plans with crappy copay options cost more money.
With that said I must confess that I have benefitted tremendously for ok Obamacare. My premiums and deductibles pale in comparison to the benefits I have received this year, and I could not ask for higher quality care (although. I attribute that to the fine physicians rather than the politics).
In my case I had both hips replaced - which eliminated tremendous, constant pain, helped me avoid the need to use a wheel chair the rest of my life and restored my earning potential.
My experience with O-care was so good, in fact, that when I recently went to work for a great employer I didn't even consider the insurance they offered.
In 2016 I plan to make other good use of O-care until it crashes and burns (along with the rest of the world, it seems).
(THANKS autocorrectum!). /s
Me too...I have serious heart problems that I couldn’t get coverage for, until Obamacare.
Take that as you will...but I’m covered now, and my life will be saved, whereas before I was always told “Tough luck, buddy, you have pre-existing conditions. Get lost.”
Ed
That is the elephant in the room...and why I no longer have health insurance ( since Jan 1 2014).
If everyone has a right to healthcare and their employers must provide it, when does my employer have to provide me with a gun? Keeping and bearing arms is my right.
Bump
Pre-existing conditions and all the other issues Obamacare was purportedly enacted to solve could have been remedied without destroying our health insurance and delivery system.
All Obamacare has accomplished is making sure that the middle class cannot afford health insurance any longer.
Anymore, Obamacare (and even the cheapest private insurance-which is a far cry from cheap) is catastrophic coverage, period. Some would argue that's what health insurance should really be. Your car insurance doesn't cover oil changes or tire rotations. Your homeowner's insurance doesn't cover lawn cutting or painting.
How we got this concept that health insurance was supposed to cover every visit to the doctor for even minor issues, every RX, routine dental, and eyewear is something that intrigues me.
If all that were covered, then paying the exorbitant premiums would make a little sense. But they're not.
I know several people paying $1000 a month plus for themselves and their spouse for their coverage and they haven't gotten much benefit at all because of the high deductibles. With the penalties in effect its more than a tax; its like paying extortion "fees" (pay up or else)...
The pre-existing condition piece is probably here to stay. I would like to see a major medical option come back though.
““Tough luck, buddy, you have pre-existing conditions. Get lost.â€
Doesn’t it seem reasonable to you that an insurance company isn’t going to start covering someone who, say, got cancer a month before?
It will not. This law has been an abortion from the start and really doesn't have anything to do with health care. REPEAL!
Supporters credit ObamaCare with helping nine million uninsured Americans find coverage in 2014. But a new paper from the Heritage Foundation, however, suggests that nearly all of the increase came from adding nearly nine million people to the Medicaid rolls.
Nine million insured at a cost of a trillion dollars?! What a deal!
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