About a year before the push for Obamacare began, progressive activists met at a conference to decide what healthcare plan to push next. Deciding that single-payer was a bridge too far, they formulated a plan that would make insurers ‘wither on the vine’, easing the transition to single-payer. The plan became Obamacare and it’s succeeding; insurers are sick and getting sicker.
UnitedHealth to exit Georgia and Arkansas exchanges after losing $1 billion on #Obamacare plans
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/275660-unitedhealth-to-exit-obamacare-exchanges-in-two-states-report
Exchange competition declining – fewer insurers this year. (Another #ACA promise goes up in smoke)
http://dailysignal.com/2016/03/31/competition-in-obamacare-exchanges-declined-in-2016/
“Highmark lost half its Pennsylvania Obamacare members this year” #ItsNotWorking
http://lancasteronline.com/news/local/highmark-lost-half-its-pennsylvania-obamacare-members-this-year/article_49c64f9e-fa98-11e5-9a02-fb9c24fb50ac.html
Premium spikes, higher deductibles, shrinking networks loom after MN insurers lose $351.8 million
http://www.startribune.com/losses-widen-for-health-insurers-in-minnesota-s-individual-market/374277201/
#CarefulWhatYouWishFor – Tenet removed from S&P 500; dwindling #Obamacare payout a factor
http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20160407/NEWS/160409902/tenet-falls-out-of-sp-500
Insurer subsidy phase-out means premiums will spike again. #ObamacareDelusionalSyndrome
http://fortune.com/2016/04/01/obamacare-premiums-may-rise/
#ACA Success! U pay more, have fewer choices, forced against your will, must take morally repugnant mandates
http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2016/04/06/report-obamacare-fails-meet-obamas-2009-promises
#TBT: Pres. Obama 2013: “insurance companies are … putting money on the line because they think it will work.“
http://www.redstate.com/california_yankee/2016/03/18/rise-obamacares-surprise-medical-bills/
#Obamacare explained: uninsure the insured to insure the uninsured. Got it?
h/t @bronxhoops2033
The construction of a humane healthcare system lies in the direction of less government intervention, not more. -OCTS Mission Statement