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Parents of disabled adult child: Medicaid expansion diluted funds for severely disabled
https://www.wsj.com/articles/aca-diluted-funds-for-the-severely-disabled-1502831064
NH Medicaid expansion population costs more per capita than expected. #GroundhogDay
http://nhpr.org/post/report-nh-medicaid-expansion-patients-younger-costlier-rest-individual-market
Cost shifting by Medicaid expansion patients to ACA exchange customers becoming unsustainable
http://www.unionleader.com/editorial/Shell-games-The-cost-of-Medicaid-expansion-08302017
Louisiana Medicaid expansion enrollment blew past projections in first year; now at 433,412
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/07/louisiana_medicaid_expansion_n.html
Partial victory Maine ballot fight: Medicaid expansion now ‘coverage’ instead of ‘insurance’. It’s still welfare.
http://www.pressherald.com/2017/09/07/secretary-of-state-releases-referendum-wording-substitutes-coverage-for-insurance-in-medicaid-question/
Unsubsidized ACA customers getting whacked; that end of the market in ‘classic early stages of a death spiral’
http://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2017/05/how-obamacare-could-become-zombiecare.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+HealthCarePolicyAndMarketplaceBlog+%28Health+Care+Policy+and+Marketplace+Blog%29
Cigna hiking Missouri ACA premiums average 42%
http://www.kansascity.com/news/business/health-care/article170835182.html
* * Democratic Governor of Colorado admits anger justified at Obamacare’s spiking premiums and fleeing insurers
http://freebeacon.com/issues/democratic-governor-says-americans-right-angry-obamacare/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=2fca701200-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_09_07&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-2fca701200-45628225
Colorado: “Obamacare health insurance rates average 26.7 percent increase statewide”
http://www.vaildaily.com/news/obamacare-health-insurance-rates-average-26-7-percent-increase-statewide/
“Ohioans face sharp premium hikes, fewer insurers on Obamacare exchanges”
http://www.dispatch.com/news/20170907/ohioans-face-sharp-premium-hikes-fewer-insurers-on-obamacare-exchanges
Anthem cuts Kentucky footprint in half for 2018
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/06/big-insurer-anthem-slashes-obamacare-footprint-in-kentucky-in-half.html
“Optima’s exit may leave many Virginia counties with no ObamaCare insurer”
http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/349544-optimas-exit-may-leave-virginia-counties-with-no-obamacare-insurer
“ObamaCare is making the middle class the new uninsured”
http://nypost.com/2017/09/06/obamacare-is-making-the-middle-class-the-new-uninsured/
Small business victim of Obamacare – plan canceled, new plan inferior but costs $26,000 more. Sorry, no raises.
http://lancasteronline.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/small-business-is-victim-of-obamacare/article_6940910c-8f3b-11e7-be2f-fb9f27fcdc13.html
Delaware woman is irked gov’t telling her to work less to get bigger Obamacare subsidy
http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/medical/article/Frustration-mounts-over-premiums-for-individual-12170263.php
Massachusetts ACA co-op flop placed in receivership
http://freebeacon.com/issues/obamacare-co-op-now-state-receivership-exiting-obamacare-exchanges/
ACA co-op flop leaves Utah taxpayers on the hook for $10 million for unpaid claims
https://www.wsj.com/articles/utah-to-pay-10-million-to-cover-failed-obamacare-insurers-debts-1504491742
“Sticker shock: Obamacare’s specialty drug customers faced big price hikes in 2017”. #ItsNotWorking
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/05/obamacares-specialty-drug-customers-faced-big-price-hikes-in-2017.html
ACA premiums will continue to skyrocket as long as guaranteed issue & community rating are the law of the land
http://www.realclearhealth.com/articles/2017/09/05/the_inconvenient_truth_about_obamacares_premium_spiral_110721.html
Rep. DeSantis offers amendment to defund Congressional exemption to Obamacare.
http://dailysignal.com/2017/09/06/lawmakers-live-obamacare/
Congressional exemption: false statements to D.C. small business exchange violated criminal laws
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-can-end-congress-illegal-obamacare-exemption-with-the-stroke-of-a-pen/article/2633384
Deconstructing the Single Payer Narrative (tweets & analysis) –
http://www.liberato.us/single-payer.html
REPEAL OBAMACARE NOW!
– end the individual mandate
– return Medicaid to a poverty program (100% FPL)
– legalize true catastrophic insurance
END THE OBAMACARE CONGRESSIONAL EXEMPTION!