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Anthem, Aetna Exit Obamacare Exchanges
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| 08/03/2017
| John Sexton
Posted on 08/03/2017 2:12:28 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Not pursuing the Medicaid contract? Wow!
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posted on
08/03/2017 2:15:50 PM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
To: SeekAndFind
Single-Payer here we come.
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posted on
08/03/2017 2:17:30 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
If the insurance companies think they can beat Trump at a game of chicken, they need their heads examined.
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posted on
08/03/2017 2:19:13 PM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
To: mewzilla
At this point, you have a lot more faith in Trump than I do. Trump can’t even get his own house in order.
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posted on
08/03/2017 2:21:56 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: SeekAndFind
This will be blamed on Trump.
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posted on
08/03/2017 2:25:00 PM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(If free speech is taken away, dumb and silent we are led, like sheep to the slaughter: G Washington)
To: dfwgator
I’m clutching onto my mustard seed with all I’ve got. :-)
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posted on
08/03/2017 2:28:30 PM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
To: dfwgator
For not bailing out the insurance companies?
I think that the republicans will get the blame... and if they are smart the democrats... as in Obama...care.
Trump and the republicans should play this one aggressively.
Democrats sat back and watched (and are watching) the Godzilla that they created destroy the city while the republicans are running around in circles and getting squashed one by one under the big green foot.
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posted on
08/03/2017 2:29:11 PM PDT
by
dhs12345
To: I want the USA back
They can try. But they’ll need to defend insurance company bailouts at the same time.
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posted on
08/03/2017 2:29:35 PM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
To: mewzilla
The MSM will always spin whatever happens in favor of the Rats.
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posted on
08/03/2017 2:30:45 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
Have you seen the ratings and circulation figs for the enemedia? I’m not worried about them. You can only blow smoke up people’s behinds for so long.
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posted on
08/03/2017 2:32:53 PM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
08/03/2017 2:34:57 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
To: SeekAndFind
Only idiots and the evil voted for Obama, or ANY of the Democrats.
AND NOW, WE CAN ADD
"Establishment Republicans" TO THAT LIST, ALSO!
They've lied to us, constantly, and really are
"Collapsing the System". And now, these "Useful IDIOTS" who voted for them,
are buying the LIES that "Obamacare was designed to work." ? It was designed to fail from the start.
THEN ... THEY GO TO THE
"SINGLE-PAYER SYSTEM".

They've been sucking our wallets dry for over four years now on the "Obamacare" LIE.
AND NOW THEY WANT MORE TAXES ?
Our Founding Fathers would have hung them already!
Lets review:
Who was it that cut future funding for Medicare by $575 billion?
...the president and the Democratic Party successfully bamboozle voters... The 2012 election could turn on this falsehood.
The truth is that the Obama health law reduces future funding for Medicare by $575 billion over the next 10 years ...
Mr. Obama and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius frequently make that false claim.
Indeed, even Medicare's mailings to seniors repeat the claim
that reducing spending on Medicare will make it more financially secure for future years.
The fact is that Mr. Obama's law raids Medicare.
"In early 1968 President Lyndon Johnson [DEMOCRAT] made a change in the budget presentation by including Social Security and all other trust funds in a"unified budget." "
Who was it that expanded Medicare and Medicaid to cover many, many more people than it was originally designed to cover?
The History of Medicare
In 1965, the Social Security Act established both Medicare and Medicaid. Medicare was a responsibility of the Social Security Administration (SSA), while Federal assistance to the State Medicaid programs was administered by the Social and Rehabilitation Service (SRS). SSA and SRS were agencies in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW). In 1977, the Health Care Financing Administration was created under HEW to effectively coordinate Medicare and Medicaid. In 1980 HEW was divided into the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The first U.S. President to propose a prepaid health insurance plan was Harry S. Truman [DEMOCRAT]. On November 19, 1945, in a special message to Congress, President Truman outlined a comprehensive, prepaid medical insurance plan for all people through the Social Security system.
The plan included doctors and hospitals, and nursing, laboratory, and dental services; it was dubbed "National Health Insurance." Furthermore, medical insurance benefits for needy people were to be financed from Federal revenues.
Over the years, lawmakers narrowed the field of health insurance recipients largely to social security beneficiaries. A national survey found that only 56 percent of those 65 years of age or older had health insurance. President John F. Kennedy [DEMOCRAT] pressed legislators for health insurance for the aged. However, it wasn't until 1965 that President Lyndon B. Johnson signed H.R. 6675 (The Social Security Act of 1965; PL 89-97) to provide health insurance for the elderly and the poor.
On July 30, 1965, President Johnson signed the Medicare and Medicaid Bill (Title XVIII and Title XIX of the Social Security Act) in Independence, Missouri in the presence of former President Truman, who received the first Medicare card at the ceremony; Lady Bird Johnson, Vice-President Hubert Humphrey, and Mrs. Truman also were present. President Johnson remarked: "We marvel not simply at the passage of this Bill but that it took so many years to pass it."
Medicare extended health coverage to almost all Americans aged 65 or older. About 19 million beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare in the first year of the program. Medicaid provided access to health care services for certain low-income persons and expanded the existing Federal-State welfare structure that assisted the poor.
The 1972 Social Security Amendments expanded Medicare to provide coverage to two additional high risk groups disabled persons receiving cash benefits for 24 months under the social security program and persons suffering from end-stage renal disease. 
...(continued at link)
So Democrats,
Sen Mark Kirk's
statement Thursday, Dec 1, 2011 ...
"There are 55 million Social Security beneficiaries that will see little or no extra cash from this 2012 tax holiday;
instead, the dedicated payroll contributions meant to pay for future benefits are being diverted from the Trust Fund
and replaced with Treasury debt that does not even have a AAA credit rating.
Social Security was designed to be independent and free from the danger of Congressional manipulation,
and maintaining the firewall between the Social Security Trust Fund and general government funding is the best way to maintain the solvency of this important program.
Neither bill protects the Social Security Trust Fund
so I voted no. "
It's not our fault that
DEMOCRATS raided the Social Security Trust Fund. Let's remember ...

Not ALL are to blame for the empty lock box.
It's the Democrats Communists.
Let's take a deeper look.
Okay, then the DEMOCRATS, AND the "ESTABLISHMENT REPUBLICANS",
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posted on
08/03/2017 3:00:23 PM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
To: mewzilla
Not pursuing the Medicaid Contract? Wow!It depends.
We looked at a Medicaid contract some years ago. The requirements (apart from taking care of the patents) were so amazingly onerous - one I remember was that the on-call doctor had to log all calls with a narrative and submit the logs weekly to the State for review - we decided we couldn't take the losses if we won the contract.
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posted on
08/03/2017 3:04:01 PM PDT
by
Jim Noble
(Single payer is coming. Which kind do you like?)
To: Jim Noble
Wow. Wonder if that’s the case in every state....
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posted on
08/03/2017 3:08:31 PM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
To: Jim Noble
Yep, Govt healthcare laws are just a jobs program for deep state Govt workers, paper pushing. The patient is harmed because deep state Govt are NOT Doctors nor Nurses.
LMAO
SINGLE PAYER DEATH PANELS is a Govt jobs program for state workers.
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posted on
08/03/2017 3:31:27 PM PDT
by
TheNext
(Deep State are Lunatics)
To: mewzilla
That isn’t what they said. They said they were opting out of Obamacare despite the state giving a preference to companies that participate in both. What that means is that they are more afraid of Obamacare losses than possible lost revenue from not getting the Medicaid contract.
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posted on
08/03/2017 4:19:53 PM PDT
by
USNBandit
(Sarcasm engaged at all times)
To: SeekAndFind
Crushing the insurance cabal would be a huge achievement. Let them wither and die.
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posted on
08/03/2017 5:03:14 PM PDT
by
Caipirabob
(Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
To: I want the USA back
I don’t care who gets the blame. Obscene profits are being made in pharmaceutical, caregiver, medical, and insurance companies. The insurance companies will pull out because the plans always involved huge government payouts to subsidize them. If the gov is subsidizing them, isn’t that single-payer with fascism added to the mix? We need to demand of ALL politicians that they start talking about those costs and to divulge anyone that profits from ObamaCare or expanded Medicare who contributes to their campaigns.
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posted on
08/03/2017 5:09:02 PM PDT
by
grania
(Deplorable and Proud of It!)
To: Yosemitest
Re: The political parties. We’re seeing them for what they really are, now that there’s an outsider in the WH. Both parties are criminal organizations.
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posted on
08/03/2017 5:10:44 PM PDT
by
grania
(Deplorable and Proud of It!)
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