Blue Cross, Aetna, United, Humana Flee Obamacare Exchanges

Cybercast News Service ^ | August 7, 2013 - 5:16 PM | Elizabeth Harrington

[Olog-hai]

Major health insurance companies—Blue Cross, Aetna, United, Humana—have fled the Obamacare health care exchanges in various states, which are scheduled to start on Oct. 1.

Insurance companies like Aetna and United have said, “thanks, but no thanks” to the public health insurance marketplace set up under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare, which will facilitate government subsidies to individuals and small businesses to buy approved health plans to comply with the law.

The ACA requires every American to have health insurance, or pay a penalty. Individuals who are not covered by their employer can enroll in the state or federal government-run health care “marketplace,” which will provide subsidies to individuals between 100 and 400 percent of the poverty line. …

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

Under 0bamacare THERE IS NO SUCH G-DAMN THING AS ‘INSURANCE’!!!!!!!!!!! 0BAMACARE DESTROYS THE ENTIRE PRINCIPLE OF ‘INSURANCE’!!!!!

[Old Sarge]

Probably that Blue Cross, Aetna, United, and Humana wanted nothing to do with the liability from the death panels, either...

[Red Badger]

There can’t be a ‘Healthcare Exchange’ if no companies are in it...............

[Liz]

Only the deranged twisted mind of a progressive could have dreamed up the h'care mess.

As FReeper Lou L wrote: Shows the mess Ohaha created, and why the WH apparatchiks cannot make it work more than three years after its passage.

Each "box" represents huge organizational beauracracies with people stumbling over themselves; each "arrow" represents hundreds and thousands of information requests and transfers. Those interfaces will have some common calls, but they'll have to be customized to fit each carrier's system and customizations. It seems as though a lot is being left off the "health plan" -- all the costs, all the restrictions, have to be passed along as well.

The thousands of "Navigators"---govt-issue clerks--will offer you "guidance/" And that online calculator...does it tell you how much you're being soaked now, rather than before the saving grace of O'care?=======================================================

Amazingly the lower Rube Goldberg chart is supposed to "simplify and explain" O'care......designed by a consultant group paid to assist in the process of getting states to create exchanges (the ones that interface with 60,000 IRS agents, the strong-arm HHS, and an assortment of know-nothing snoopy federal agencies).

[Red Badger]

Even one of the Dune Guild Navigators couldn't find a safe path thru that monstrosity.............

[Sequoyah101]

Who is left?

This is the biggest pork barrel in the history of the country. It will be a disaster and the pubbies know it. It is going to make people so angry that if it can get pinned on the rats it will go badly for them.

Never mind that it will permanently ratchet premiums up that will never be adjusted down even if the mess is repealed. It will wreck the already corrupted health care system for decades to come.

[Diogenesis]

[Liz]

Heh-—love it.

[RitaOK]

Chief Justice Roberts was no help. What a jinx to early derailment efforts. The democrats have got to jump ship. They have families too don’t they?

[TomGuy]

Sort of like the Medicare Advantage. When it was first offered, there were a dozen companies with a half-dozen plans each.

Each new year, the number of companies dropped by 2 or 3. Now, in my state, there are 3 local providers and 2 national name providers. Humana offers some policies, for my doctor’s clinic doesn’t accept them.

[GeronL]

All the big public-employed Democrats will get exempted, the welfare class will get it free - whatever IT is - if the unions get an exemption, then there is no reason for most Democrats to care I guess

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

The progressives approach to domestic policy is the same as it is to foreign policy:

CHAOS.

[Old Sarge]

Ah, but Leftist families are covered and cared for.

The producers, not so much...

[cld51860]

And how many of them helped push this crap on us?!

[Standing Wolf]

Fortunately for America, the courageous Republicans in Washington, D.C. are standing up against this monstrosity... aren’t they?

[43north]

The owebamabots (and the rest of us too unfortunately) are about to learn the lesson that you might have health insurance but that doesn’t mean you will have any health care.

[Jack Hammer]

And ALL the rest have raised their premiums, thank you king hussein.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

It’s DESIGNED to fail, so Obama and the communists can scream for single-payer health-care. I don’t know why conservatives don’t understand this.

[Gay State Conservative]

IT'S ALL GOING EXACTLY AS PLANNED!