Bad News: Fiddling While Rome Burns

Magical thinking: CBO score once again relies on individual mandate to herd people into Obamacare.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/448003/american-health-care-act-cbo-scoring-alarmist

Fake news: ‘CBO: 23M to lose coverage under GOP bill’. No, large bulk not currently covered. http://bwcentral.org/2017/05/fact-check-no-the-republican-healthcare-bill-would-not-cause-23-million-people-to-lose-insurance/

HHS: cost of individual health insurance has doubled on average since 2013
http://dailysignal.com/2017/05/24/3-charts-biggest-revelations-new-obamacare-study/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CapitolBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTnpjeE5UYzVPVFU1WW1ObSIsInQiOiJ3NkpxSVBkanNMMHZKYUxFcDVHRkZqejVkT2FGSWJXQ240Q01kNUFWdENvXC9YK1Q2T240OW1pYlFSTVVIaXFtV3N6ZHE4UjdtWXNkNWdOOURKbUtsN3JCRXdMRm9SQzdaSzlOZGlZSnEzd1wvUVNBNHhXR09FbXA4T2tFNFhoQkM3In0%3D

Alabama hardest hit by ACA price increases – up 223% 2013-2017, more than twice national average
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/05/are_obamacare_premiums_increas.html

‘The average family will save $2,500’. Remember that one? That was a good one.  #StrategicLying #WheresMy2500

Price increases in New Hampshire: ACA ‘obviously failing working people, doing far more harm than good.’
http://www.unionleader.com/state-government/NH-conservative-groups-critical-of-possible-Obamacare-rate-increases-05232017

BCBS-Kansas City flees ACA exchanges after losing $110M; 25 Missouri counties have no ACA insurer.
https://www.vox.com/health-care/2017/5/24/15686072/obamacare-exit-missouri-blue-cross

Insurer leaves Idaho exchange
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/idaho-loses-obamacare-insurer/article/2623805

Consumers can buy ACA plans directly from brokers and insurers w/o having to go to Train Wreck Central
http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20170517/NEWS/170519869/trump-administration-lets-consumers-skip-healthcare-gov

What if they gave a train wreck and nobody came? How many billions of dollars have been wasted on Obamacare catastrophe?

Rand Paul: “big-hearted, small-brain syndrome” – worse off if destroy country by helping people
http://www.unionleader.com/Obamacare-rate-could-see-big-spike-in-NH-next-year

Oregon Medicaid pays out millions to people it has no idea whether they’re eligible.
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2017/05/oregons_failure_to_justify_all.html

Louisiana train wreck coming; Medicaid expansion population now 428,000, blew past 375,000 projection.
http://theind.com/article-25100-spending-on-la-medicaid-expansion-boosted-$368m.html

 

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