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– #SinglePayer most Mondays
– All the Bad News About Obamacare most Saturdays
Obamacare has increased risky drinking. We knew Obamacare was good for something, we just didn’t know what.
http://www.nber.org/papers/w24511
Obamacare prices to jump 34% for benchmark plans, sparking $10 billion jump in cost of subsidies. #ItsNotWorking
https://www.axios.com/cbo-expects-aca-premiums-to-jump-34-percent-46b819a2-cce2-437f-bc16-4936dc5ddee0.html
15 states had increases exceeding 40% for the lowest cost silver ACA plan. #ThankYouObamacareGeniusMasterminds
http://www.businessinsider.com/obamacare-premiums-2018-increase-by-state-2018-3
Cost of Coverage: The #ObamacareInflectionPoint – “a huge discontinuity between 2013 and 2014, when ObamaCare went into effect. The total leapt from less than $10,000 to more than $15,000”
tinyurl.com/y7h87g6q
+ https://aapsonline.org/aaps-news-april-2018-safe-kickbacks/
Obamacare enrollment dropped 400,000 from last year. #DeathSpiral
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-healthcare-enrollment/u-s-obamacare-2018-exchange-enrollment-drops-3-percent-cms-idUSKCN1HA2JS
Latest budget bill applies Hyde Amendment to Obamacare; blocks federal ACA dollars from paying for abortions
http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/in-latest-clash-obamacare-blocked-from-further-funding-of-abortions
CMS doesn’t know how many people try to re-enroll in Obamacare outside of enrollment period after failing to pay their premiums
https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-18-269
Ohio seeks waiver to end ACA individual mandate, not just zero out the penalty
http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20180403/TRANSFORMATION02/180409979/ohio-seeks-first-ever-individual-mandate-waiver
Iowa threads the needle with grand-fathered farm bureau plans, takes another brick out of Obamacare
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/381338-iowa-law-seen-as-breakthrough-for-obamacare-foes
Labor Department rule will expand association health plans – escape hatch from Obamacare for small businesses
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/04/04/small-businesses-more-choices-association-health-plans-column/464059002/
New rules allow states to pick insurance plan essential benefits, expand ACA hardship exemption. More bricks torn out of Obamacare, hurray!
http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20180409/NEWS/180409913
New rules facilitate sale of ACA-noncompliant short-term plans, allow exemptions for counties down to one insurer or abortion-covering insurers
https://www.healthline.com/health-news/new-rules-will-limit-obamacare-enrollment#2
30 conservative leaders say replace Obamacare with block grants to states
http://galen.org/americans-need-health-reform-to-be-a-priority-issue-in-2018/
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!