Top Tweets – After Obamacare
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Allowing flexibility in plan design would bring premiums down 30-40%, ameliorate preexisting conditions problem
http://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2017/01/fixing-health-insurance-reform-is-zero.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+HealthCarePolicyAndMarketplaceBlog+%28Health+Care+Policy+and+Marketplace+Blog%29
Alaska’s new hi risk pool for preexisting conditions cut 40% premium increases to single digits
http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-many-obamacare-patients-have-pre-existing-conditions-1484784577
Bernie Sanders’ ’36,000 people a year will die if ACA repealed’ claim gets 4 Pinocchios from liberal WaPo
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/01/14/bernie-sanderss-claim-that-36000-people-will-die-yearly-if-obamacare-is-repealed/?utm_term=.cea4fe919638
’36K deaths under repeal’ based on phony numbers from left-wing advocacy group. Bernard Goldberg, call your office.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/01/14/bernie-sanderss-claim-that-36000-people-will-die-yearly-if-obamacare-is-repealed/?utm_term=.cea4fe919638
UnitedHealth continues to thrive since leaving Obamacare exchanges
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/unitedhealths-revenue-profit-tops-forecasts-2017-01-17-6485382
Hospital execs tell investors repeal not the end of the world; damaging ACA Medicare cuts would be reversed
http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20170114/MAGAZINE/301149972
Virginia hospitals thriving w/o Medicaid expansion: profits, net worth up & number running deficit down since 2012
http://www.thomasjeffersoninst.org/files/3/2017%20Hospital%20Study.pdf
Negotiator-in-Chief to inject more market forces in healthcare– haggle on drug prices, sell ins across state lines
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/01/16/trump-spokesman-says-obamacare-replacement-will-harness-marketplace-competition/?utm_term=.defcbab67efb
Repealing Obamacare will get rid of the idiotic and overreaching calorie counting rules at restaurants.
Legalize Catastrophic Insurance! (spread the word and help us make this happen!)