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Obamacare blew up long before Trump took office – individual market premiums doubled 2013-2017
https://nypost.com/2018/05/16/dems-in-denial-on-whats-driving-obamacare-premiums-through-the-roof/
ACA carriers in Oregon request price hikes up to 16%, 8 times the rate of inflation
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/oregon-insurers-propose-modest-obamacare-rate-increases
Vermont Obamacare insurers ask for rate increases averaging up to 10.9%
http://ratereview.vermont.gov/sites/dfr/files/2018/2019%20Proposed%20VHC%20Insure%20Rates.pdf
Drop-off in number of Obamacare enrollees worse than previously thought.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/05/17/obamacare-is-shrinking-the-individual-health-insurance-market/
Healthy young people leaving Obamacare, leaving older sicker risk pool. None dare call it a death spiral.
http://www.newser.com/story/259268/obamacare-may-be-entering-a-death-spiral.html
The Left suddenly loves the term ‘death spiral’ now that they think they can blame Obamacare price hikes on Trump
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/article/This-is-what-an-Obamacare-death-spiral-looks-like-12916830.php
Beware attempts to re-brand and resuscitate hated Obamacare individual mandate as a reduction in tax form standard deduction
http://thefederalist.com/2018/05/17/democrats-consider-reinstate-individual-mandate-different-name/
Separation of Powers – dismissal of appeal in Obamacare subsidy case leaves intact principle the executive can’t spend money Congress hasn’t appropriated
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/16/court-saga-over-obamacare-payments-reaches-end/
Obamacare was wrong to cut PSA tests and mammograms; cutting tests has led to later diagnoses and worse outcomes for breast and prostate cancer patients. #TheyWereWrongAboutEverything
https://www.westernjournal.com/dick-morris-more-breast-and-prostate-cancer-deaths-under-obamacare/
Nutritional labeling has actually led consumers to increase the calorie content of their meals in some instances. Way to go, Obamacare! #TheyWereWrongAboutEverything
https://therepublicanstandard.com/obamacares-nutritional-information/
Obamacare may be driving some self-employed back to jobs with employer coverage. So much for playing the violin, Nancy. #TheyWereWrongAboutEverything
https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/05/17/obamacare-is-shrinking-the-individual-health-insurance-market/
ACA in a nutshell: “Our politicians did such a great job of taking care of the 10 percent that didn’t have medical insurance and ruining it for the other 90 percent.”
https://www.echopress.com/opinion/letters/4444130-letter-medical-insurance-gone-amuck
Massachusetts insurers blame Obamacare tax for big losses
https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2018/05/15/states-biggest-health-insurance-firms-blame.html
Obamacare contraceptive mandate shot down by yet another court; can’t be enforced against 4 Christian universities in Oklahoma
http://www.lifenews.com/2018/05/16/obama-hhs-abortion-mandate-suffers-another-defeat-cant-force-christian-universities-to-fund-abortions/
CMS warns states it will not approve lifetime limits on Medicaid. #HotelCalifornia
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/medicaid/387760-trump-administration-wont-approve-lifetime-limits-on-medicaid
Maine’s Governor defends against lawsuit by asking: how can we implement voter-approved Medicaid expansion if the legislature won’t appropriate the money for it?
https://www.pressherald.com/2018/05/17/gov-lepage-responds-to-medicaid-expansion-lawsuit-says-maine-doesnt-have-the-money/
Medicaid expansion will blow up in Virginia like it has everywhere else – cost overruns, attempts to cut back benefits, shoving the truly needy to the back of the line, etc.
http://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/387647-virginia-should-think-twice-about-joining-the-medicaid-expansion-mess
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!