Posted on 03/27/2015 5:10:40 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Republicans are facing a 16 million person problem.
With the Obama administration announcing this month that some 16 million people have obtained health insurance since the passage of the Affordable Care Act, the Republicans' intense focus on completely repealing the law is increasingly looking unrealistic.
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What about the 80 million people that had their insurances canceled? Like I said, these “SPINELESS WHORES” will think of every reason why they can’t go against OBAMA, mainly because they want the same thing, with them running the show, instead of the democrats. When OBAMA CARE collapses on it’s own weight, they’ll turn around and say; “SEE I WAS AGAINST IT FROM THE BEGINNING”.
There in lies the rub.
Because a new law would be passed to allow the subsidies. The existing law does not, but Obama is handing them out anyway.
They are complete sh** policies.
400 bucks a month, 4-6 grand deductibles and 50% copay on everything. Useless.
I want my old catastrophic plan back at about 250 a month with a 5K deductible. The doctors visits I’ll pay for myself.
Full eye exam self pay 50 bucks
Colonoscopy self pay 750.00
And how many of those 16M want out? Probably everyone not being heavily subsidized.
Nah! There were a lot more people not in the plan before it existed. Go with the flow.
If a tax increase can be passed retroactively can’t a repeal be passed retroactively?
Th Ministry Of Propaganda on behalf of the CPUSA/DNC would like the debate about Obamacare to be over. And the debate about the CO2 theory. And homosexuality. And abortion. And.......
Shut up, pay your taxes and do what you’re told.
When the dollar and the economy crash in the very near future...it will all be a moot point. And when our new best friend (Death to America) Iran blows 20 EMPs off over the homeland, it won’t make a darn (I wrote the water wall word) bit of difference.
I guess I’m part of the so called 16 Million. Cancelled and had to re-up, but not through the Obamacare Website.
My perfectly fine Health Insurance through my Wife’s former Employer got Cancelled because of Obamacare. It didn’t meet the “requirements”. I found out the second week of December 2013.
Luckily, I contacted the Company I Retired from to utilize my Retirement Health Care Benefits which I hadn’t used up to that point because of the Cost.
We had to Pay an additional $400 a Month through 2014 for Coverage, and now we are paying another $300 a Month through 2015.
There is no “subsidy” from my former Company for Retiree Healthcare Coverage. You pretty much pay the going COBRA Rate.
We shipped them back a couple of times.
Last time was in the late 40s, I think...
RPEAL NOW!
Didn’t “log on” so to speak. Just did a hypothetical without the REAL pertinent info like name rank and serial number. My former employer is dumping the retiree medical so I really only need a supplement to mediscare. The real issue is the one and only med I take. Currently I have a $40.00 copay for a 90 day supply. Once we found a plan that will partially pay for it, my costs go over $1,000/mth. Uh, needless to say that is way beyond my ability to pay. The maker can’t help me until I get a new policy then they’ll research it. Kinda sucks. No, it really sucks.
In Texas, the primary result has been to improve access to health care, across the state:
Ten Years of Tort Reform in Texas: A Review There is some dispute about that. But there is no dispute that it lowered malpractice insurance premiums.
In a competitive marketplace, lowered costs results in lower prices.
Don’t be late paying your Obamacare premium. Friend was late and they were canceled. She was a big supporter of Obamacare. Not so much now.
I suspect there is a huge political bonus for repeal. Comparatively few people will object to repeal, and many of them will not vote. In contrast, many conservatives and responsible Americans will celebrate the repeal, and some who do not vote will decide that government can be on our side and voting can pay off.
Exactly. When I was growing up in the 60s-70s, my father, a union autoworker, did NOT have so-called “health-care insurance.” It was called “hospitalization insurance.” It covered broken bones, surgeries, and child birth, etc. It did not cover doctor visits, prescription drugs, and other routine
procedures. Insurance of any kind is only supposed to cover low-incidence, high-cost events. Homeowner’s insurance doesn’t cover burned out light bulbs; auto insurance doesn’t cover dead batteries. Neither covers so-called pre-existing conditions. You can’t buy fire insurance after your house burns down and you can’t buy auto insurance the day after you total your car, expecting the new insurance company to pick up the tabs for your pre-existing conditions.
Health care insurance should only cover catastophic, major medical expenses—high-cost, unexpected events. Routine medical expenses, prescriptions should be paid out-of-pocket.
And no insurance policy should be made to cover so-called pre-existing conditions. That’s insane.
We were told at the start, that this 0bamacare law would immediately take care of the approximately 40 million people who didn’t have health insurance.. and they are bragging now that 16 million people now have it.....
Assuming very generously that most of the 16 million people who now are on it are those who did not have other plans... (not the reality that most of them were forced off of plans that they had chosen or were provided with by their employers)..
Still they tout, that at best, a 40% compliance rate of just the previously uninsured is a great success?
And how many of them are actually making the payments?
mmmm....no
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