Obamacare Heading for Life Support: Humana drops 100,000 patients, citing unexpectedly higher costs.

PJ Media ^ | 11/06/2015 | by Michael Walsh

[PROCON]

Unexpectedly

Here we go again...

DRINK!

[Diogenesis]

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[Major Matt Mason]

It won't collapse as long as it is in place. Not a peep out of the GOP, though.

[butlerweave]

Will Obama hand out some white Lab coats and make a speech in the Rose Garden ?

[stanne]

Cruz gets no credit for trying to stop the funding of obamacare.

[sparklite2]

Humana’s a pretty big deal. This could be hugh and series.

[Norm Lenhart]

Oops. Sorry Humana. Had Obamacare’s regs not damn near killed me earlier this year with idiocy, you’d be a couple mill richer today. Blame Barry’s insistence on interfering with doctor’s orders.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

the Patient Deflection and Unaffordable Care Act is really starting to collapse:

Really? Really, really? Or really, really, really?

It won't be dead until the legislation is repealed.

[JoSixChip]

Cruz gets no credit for trying to stop the funding of obamacare.

I know how he feels. I tried to earn a billion dollars, but the banks will not let me withdraw any of it. Something about actually needing to succeed before I can get credit for it. Go figure.

[TomGuy]

higher-than expected medical costs from sick newly insured patients covered under the health law

Who didn't see that coming?

Those who are sick signed up. The younger, healthy people were supposed to pay the exorbitant premiums, but not really use the insurance for decades, so the premiums could pay for the sick who sign up.

It didn't work. The Yutes are paying the fine and are going without health insurance.

Another Lib idea -- Obamacare -- that looked good on paper is crashing and burning.

[MtnClimber]

0bamacare must fail before the government can take over the whole healthcare system under single payer.

[TomGuy]

Humana just merged with Aetna.

One can bet this is house-cleaning to make their financial picture look better to stockholders.

[Jane Long]

It won’t collapse as long as it is in place. Not a peep out of the GOP, though.

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Exactly. Crickets from GOPee.

[ziravan]

Not crickets. The GOP proved its overwhelming opposition to Obamacare last week........by funding it for the next two years.

[stanne]

What?

He spent twenty plus hours on the senate floor telling them and the world to stop funding obamacare or this would happen

And people say the GOP is silent. The GOP is silent but Cruz is not

[rbg81]

It is all part of the Plan. They will claim that Single Payer is the only way to salvage this mess.

Ultimately, they will up everyone on some Medicaid like system. Doctors will be virtual slaves.

[Menehune56]

Not a peep out of the GOP, though.

It's pretty clear the donor base (i.e. chamber of cronies) has instructed the GOP leadership to allow single payer to take over health care.

[ziravan]

Asking the GOP to be an actual opposition party is simply a case of unreasonably high expectations.

As a party, the GOP must temper such expectations.

[rbg81]

Obamacare must fail before the government can take over the whole healthcare system under single payer.

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Yup. Because the people who designed Obamacare were sooo smart, that only THEY can save us by designing an even bigger Single Payer System.

And the Press will eat it up.