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More Obamacare price hikes coming – Virginia up to 64%, Maryland average 30%, rest of the country can expect the same.
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/386294-obamacare-insurers-in-virginia-propose-major-premium-hikes-for-2019
+ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/05/07/marylands-obamacare-insurers-request-30-percent-premium-hike-for-2019/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.790267d15e2b
+ http://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/article210686554.html
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
What happened to all the brave talk about ACA premiums not going up and the market stabilizing next year? Ha ha ha ha ha! #ItsStillNotWorking
Consensus reached: “ACA’s cost-containment mechanisms are failing, and the net effect of the law has been to make our national healthcare affordability problem worse than it was.”
https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/charles-blahous/obamacare-making-natl-healthcare-affordability-worse-it-was
Blahous red pill: “the ACA is pushing our health costs upward.” So much for ‘bending the cost curve down.’ #FoolMeWithDazzlingRhetoric
https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/charles-blahous/obamacare-making-natl-healthcare-affordability-worse-it-was
Short-term non-ACA plans can reduce number of uninsured by 1.7M, reduce premiums by 68%, and save federal taxpayers $686M.
https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20180503.17505/full/
Price advantage of short-term over ACA plans widens; “30-year-olds could pay 80 percent less for short-term plans than for bronze plans”
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/agilehealthinsurance-report-price-advantage-of-short-term-health-insurance-over-obamacare-widens-in-2018-300645021.html
Burdensome Obamacare calorie count rule goes into effect; pizza shops hope for reprieve.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/07/health/restaurant-calorie-count-partner/index.html
Trump rescission seeks to cut $800M from Obamacare innovation center
http://theweek.com/speedreads/771994/trump-asking-congress-claw-back-15-billion-from-childrens-health-obamacare
Obamacare’s fatal flaw: “trying to shoehorn people who are almost by definition uninsurable into the traditional insurance markets”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/obamacare-still-here-getting-worse-declaration-of-victory-premature/
Expanded association health plans could cut Obamacare enrollment 10%. Brick by brick, let’s tear Obamacare down.
http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20180511/NEWS/180519975
Farm bill seeks to boost agriculture-related association health plans, escape hatch from Obamacare.
https://khn.org/news/how-the-farm-bill-could-erode-part-of-the-aca/
Trump admin rejects lifetime limits on Medicaid in Kansas. #HotelCalifornia
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/386497-trump-officials-reject-medicaid-lifetime-limits-in-kansas
Medicaid expansion goeth before the fall: Louisiana to close hospitals, cut Medicaid programs to the elderly and disabled to cope with billion-dollar budget disaster
https://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2018/05/louisiana_nursing_home_notices.html?__vfz=rtw_top_pages_mini%3D5043200015129
Another Medicaid expansion #ConJob – only 42,000 thought eligible in Alaska, but enrollment has soared past 200,000.
http://mustreadalaska.com/people-are-starving-because-of-medicaid-expansion/
California Dems seek to expand Medi-Cal to illegal alien adults. Enrolling quadruple the number of people expected under Medicaid expansion wasn’t enough, apparently.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article210645664.html
650,000 seriously injured and disabled languish on waiting lists because money getting diverted to childless able-bodied adults under Medicaid expansion. #GiantSuckingSound
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/05/10/obamacare-medicaid-expansion-hurts-people-with-disabilities-and-seriously-ill.html
Medicaid expansion depresses hospital operating margins. The problem: low reimbursement rates. Whodathunkit? #ToldYouSo
http://tucson.com/news/local/arizona-hospitals-see-operating-losses/article_2a7fb856-3ec7-5356-9388-583c72057d48.html
Medicaid expansion through state referendum? Sure, let the people vote themselves the treasury plus what we’re borrowing from the Chinese. What could possibly go wrong? #BreadAndCircuses
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!