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Ohio town drops employee health insurance because Obamacare made it UNAFFORDABLE
http://www.mchnews.com/news/malta-village-cannot-offer-insurance-because-of-obamacare/article_833c23ac-271e-11e8-b945-bfc3cd6964e3.html
Stupidity of the Obamacare Genius Masterminds – didn’t foresee narrow networks problem they were creating, but it’s a real problem
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-22/centene-hasn-t-fixed-obamacare-plan-doctor-shortage-state-says
“ObamaCare’s reinsurance program did not reduce premiums by a single penny”; good thing fight over abortion killed ACA subsidies in the budget bill
https://www.cato.org/blog/obamacares-failed-reinsurance-program-shows-government-subsidies-do-not-reduce-premiums
Insurers: we don’t want cost sharing subsidies because they will reduce our other subsidies. Huh? What a stupid law.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/irony-insurers-now-saying-restoring-obamacare-payments-will-disrupt-market-cause-sticker-shock
Effort to reimpose individual mandate fails in Connecticut. Ha ha ha ha ha!
https://reclaimct.com/effort-to-re-impose-obamacare-mandate-on-ct-residents-appears-dead-for-now/
“It was inevitable from the beginning that Obamacare would, thanks to its design, devolve into what it is has now become: a heavily subsidized high-risk pool for low-income enrollees.”
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/why-obamacare-bailouts-will-ruin-the-country-24961
Max Baucus told us the purpose of Obamacare is radical leftist income redistribution – not healthcare – and that’s exactly what it is.
https://www.axios.com/aca-affordable-care-act-income-inequality-8b0844d9-6f4c-400d-87e5-6a4b0c0e398a.html
Diverting people to primary care instead of the ER does NOT reduce healthcare costs; in fact it INCREASES them. #TheyWereWrongAboutEverything
https://ktrh.iheart.com/content/2018-03-19-research-refutes-obamacare-myths/
Another piece of Obamacare bites the dust – “health insurance providers fee” imposed on states as condition to receive Medicaid funds
https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/03/16/states-win-another-major-case-obamacare/
It’s getting sillier. Let’s expand Medicaid and keep everybody off of it. (“Medicaid Expansion’s Troubled Future”)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/03/the-future-of-the-medicaid-expansion/555080/
New Hampshire Medicaid expansion spirals out of control; legislation introduced to cut back eligibility
https://www.heartland.org/publications-resources/publications/new-hampshire-considers-rolling-back-medicaid-expansion
Louisiana Medicaid expansion continues to blow past estimates: > 460K enrolled v. estimated 300K; costs to state more than double hi-end projection ($2.91B v. $1.4B)
https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/opinion/2018/03/16/making-case-against-louisianas-medicaid-expansion/432372002/
“Michigan Medicaid expansion ‘out of control’” – 680,000 signed up, far exceeding original estimate of 470,000
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2018/03/21/michigan-medicaid-work-requirements/33144587/
Medicaid cheerleader calls it a ‘health insurance program’. Let’s be real clear about this: Medicaid is WELFARE, not health insurance.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2018/03/21/michigan-medicaid-work-requirements/33144587/
Deconstructing the Single Payer Narrative (tweets & analysis) –
http://www.liberato.us/single-payer.html
REPEAL OBAMACARE NOW!
– legalize true catastrophic insurance
– return Medicaid to a poverty program
END THE OBAMACARE CONGRESSIONAL EXEMPTION!